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Seagate, Micron Team for Fast Storage Devices
Companies will team up initially for next-generation SSD and strategic NAND supply but it could morph into a relationship involving enterprise storage products as well.
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U.S. Chip Firm Pledges $1 Billion for Analog Fab in India
Cricket Semiconductor aims to build first analog fab in India and establish strategic partnership with specialty foundry.
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Applied Materials' Revenue, Orders Up in Fiscal Q1
Thanks to technology inflections happening in the chip and display markets, chip gear vendor Applied Materials saw growth for the quarter in all of its business groups and expects future growth in the following quarter.
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Samsung Investing $3.6 Billion in OLED Line
South Korean electronics company will use the production line to differentiate its smartphone and tablet devices as well as a way to garner external customer wins.
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Consolidation Heats Up In Chip Industry
A rash of acquisitions in the semiconductor industry has been driven by the slow down in consumer electronics and wireless growth and more deals are likely to happen in 2015
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Crystal Oscillator Vendor Taps America II
Under newly-formed deal with CEC Panda Crystal Technology, the distributor will gain global rights to the company's entire quartz-based timing devices.
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Nvidia Rides Gaming Market to Big Boost in Sales
Success from its global GPU platforms including its DRIVE, GRID, SHIELD and GeForce line led to record revenues for the year for the graphics processor company.
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ARM Makes IoT Security Acquisition
Intellectual property vendor will add the security IP from Offspark to its mbed Internet of Things software OS for use with ARM’s Cortex cores for future devices.
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IoT Components Vendor Inks Distribution Deal with Avnet
The deal will allow Avnet to offer Taoglas' lineof machine-to-machine and Internet of Things products throughout its distribution chain.
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Lattice, Helion to Demo new FPGA-based Camera Design
During the SPIE Photonics West show, the companies will show how programmable devices can enable a new high definition quality camera.
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Nanotube Memory Startup Snags $30M in Funding
Massachusetts-based firm will use the funds to support its customers, hire new staff and to enable new products for next-generation memory using carbon nanotubes.
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Report: Qualcomm Close to Settling China Dispute
Qualcomm has been under investigation by Chinese anti-trust authorities for over a year but it may be close to settling the dispute at a cost of a $1 billion fine and a reduction in royalty rates, according to Reuters.
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Rohm Rolls Color Sensor for Smartphones
Japanese company’s color sensor allows for accurate detection of infrared interference with dark windows that are becoming a popular feature in smartphones, tablets and other display devices because of style.
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Arrow's Sales Grew 6% in 2014
Solid growth driven by enterprise computing solutions business in the Americas and higher component sales in Asia and the Americas.
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MaxLinear to Acquire Entropic for $287 Million
Deal will allow MaxLinear to expand its presence in its existing markets for radio frequency receiver products and mixed-signal devices.
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Spansion Teams with Chinese Foundry on 3D NAND
Agreement with up-and-coming XMC calls for the flash memory vendor to jointly develop 3D NAND targeted at the Internet of Things as well as automotive systems that need greater storage demands.
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Researchers Create Graphene-based Transparent Displays
Latest breakthrough with graphene could result in thinner phones, tablets and TVs.
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Toyota Begins Silicon Carbide Chip Trial
Toyota is testing SiC power semiconductors in hybrid and EVs with a planned trial run in Japan hoping for better performance that could then be used in future vehicle models.
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ARM Launches Mobile IP Core Suite for 2016
ARM has more than ten licensees for a set of IP cores that form the guts of a next-generation smartphone application SoCs. The IP cores are suitable for 16nm FinFET manufacturing process technology and are expected to appear in mobile devices in 2016.
