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Chip Fabrication and Packaging Materials Market Grew 3% in 2014
Sales of semiconductor and packaging materials increased in revenue for the first time since 2011, reaching $44.3 billion.
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TSMC Certifies Mentor, Synopsys for 10nm FinFET Design
EDA vendors tout tool certifications for foundry giant’s 16nm and 10nm FINFet manufacturing processes.
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Altera, TSMC Team on New Packaging for FPGAs
Wafer-level chip scale package for Altera’s MAX 10 FPGAs allows for a smaller size for small industrial equipment and portable electronics.
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February Chip Sales Show Annual Increase, but Sequential Dip
Despite macroeconomic headwinds, February marked the 22nd straight month of year-over-year growth, SIA says.
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Lumileds Well Positioned in Lighting Market
Lumileds, formerly known as Philips Lighting, finished the 2014 year strong gaining market share over its competitors and rising to the fourth overall LED company worldwide.
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Silicon Labs Introduces Wireless Smart Meter Platform
Wireless M-Bus platform works with European electricity, gas, water and heat resources markets.
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Cadence Tools Certified for TSMC’s 10nm FinFET Process
Certification said to provide customers with the fastest path to design closure on the 10nm FinFET process.
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Security Group Pledges Support for Multiple Processor Architectures
With support from Broadcom and Qualcomm Atheros—amongst others—Prpl Foundation sets up working group to make a unifying contribution to hardware-assisted security.
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Actions Semi Targets Smart Consumer Devices with SoC
Chinese fabless company unveils open source system-on-chip and reference design platform for smart connected products.
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PCB Book-To-Bill Rises
Printed circuit board shipments increased in February, but new orders for the month declined, according to a trade group.
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Could This Be Graphene's Lightbulb Moment?
A UK startup claims the graphene-LED lightbulb could be the first mass market application for the 2D-form of carbon. However, the claimed benefits of superior efficiency and longevity are unlikely to matter as much as the quality of the light output.
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Broadcom Rolls Secures MCUs With Integrated NFC
Devices said to be first secure microcontrollers to integrate NFC.
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Novatel Wireless Makes IoT Grab
Wireless machine-to-machine technology vendor finalizes acquisition of end-to-end Internet of Things supplier in deal worth up to $50 million.
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Philips to Sell Lighting Business
Deal, worth $3.3 billion, will result in Philips LED and lighting business being spun off into a new company called Lumileds.
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Avago Looks to Acquire Emulex
Analog/mixed-signal chip supplier Avago offers $606 million in cash to acquire I/O connectivity provider.
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How Automotive Chipmakers Will Compete Against NXP-Freescale
Combined company will be a powerhouse in the automotive semiconductor market, but moves already made by other chipmakers and OEMs' desire for a second source will allow other companies to compete.
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UK Government Awards Cardiff University $26M for Semi Research
Funding will create research foundation billed as the first of its kind in the UK.
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Alpha and Omega Semi’s CTO Steps Down
Co-founder to resume role as head of technology development at power supply management chip vendor.
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Synopsys Takes ‘Best of Both Worlds’ Approach to Embedded Vision Processing
EDA and IP vendor rolls embedded vision processor that combines fully programmable processor with an object detection engine implemented in dedicated hardware.
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SanDisk Warning May Signal Larger Weakness in Enterprise Storage Market
SanDisk says it will have lower-than-expected revenues in the first quarter as a result of lower sales in its enterprise products but it isn’t only SanDisk seeing a decline in the traditional enterprise market.
