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LCD Panel Makers Shift Production to Larger Sizes
As 32-inch panels fall in price, display manufacturers are looking to 48-, 49- and 55-inch displays.
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1.8 Billion Gesture Sensing Control Interfaces to Ship in 2015
Thanks to an uptick in wearables, smart TV and virtual reality gaming.
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Aricent Acquires Bengaluru Firm SmartPlay for $180 Million
U.S. product engineering services firm, Aricent has acquired Bengaluru-based design services company, SmartPlay Technologies for $180 million.
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SMIC’s 28nm Process Puts the Pressure on UMC
Chinese government’s demand to increase domestic content could push the foundry past UMC in one year’s time.
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Cypress HyperFlash Delivers Low Pin Count, 333 MBps of Read Bandwidth
HyperFlash line of NOR Flash memories addresses broad range of highest-performance systems.
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Intel Bringing Xeon Processors to Notebooks
Based on the company’s Skylake architecture, the processors will be available in the fall.
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Self-Powered, 2-Pin Serial EEPROM Targets IoT, Battery, Consumable and Cable ID Markets
Atmel EEPROM solution eliminates the need for power source/Vcc and features plug-and-play 64-bit serial number ID.
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TSMC and Dolphin Team for Internet of Things Subsystems
The goal is to reduce design methodology complexity while decreasing time-to-market
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Viking and Sony Collaborate on Delivering ReRAM Storage Memory to NVDIMM
Viking Technology and Sony to develop next-gen Non-Volatile Dual in-Line Memory Module products leveraging ReRam Storage Class Memory from Sony.
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Xilinx Adds Error Correction IP to Its Portfolio
The low-density parity check IP is used to enable next-generation flash-based applications in storage and cloud systems.
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Pixar Licenses Nvidia’s Image Rendering Technology
The animation studio hopes the technology will accelerate production of feature films and short film content.
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Toshiba Launches Tablet and Smartphone Image Sensors
The 16 megapixel CMOS sensors offer a high performance and low power consumption.
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Microchip Completes Acquisition of Rival Micrel
The $839 million deal will see Micrel’s analog and mixed-signal semiconductors added to Microchip’s portfolio.
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Apple Drives Demand for LTPS FTF LCD Smartphone Displays
Apple accounted for 52% of all LTPS TFT LCD shipments in the first half of 2015.
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LEDs Address Concerns of Efficient Street Lighting
Currently, street lighting using high-intensity discharge lamps provide the greatest amount of photopic illumination for the least consumption of electricity.
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Hua Hong Teams With QST for 3-Axis Gyroscope SoC
The integrated device is targeted at smart devices such as tablets, wearables and smartphones.
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Multi-Core MCUs: Are There More Attractive Alternatives?
Multi-core MCUs may continue to find a home in the highest performance applications, but do not overlook some of the other approaches.
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Decline in Flat Panel Display Revenue Expected in 2015
However, TFT LCD market revenue will grow in 2016.
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Advancements in Oscilloscope Automation Enabled by .NET Technology
.NET technology implemented by an oscilloscope vendor in their digital transmitter compliance test product offering adds valuable measurement science that is easily accessible by their customers’ automation code.
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Arrow Launches IoT Boot Camp
Arrow and Skookum Digital Works are offering a 5-day boot camp on IoT innovation.
