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Microchip Debuts First LoRa Alliance Wireless Module
At Mobile World Congress, Microchip Technology rolled out the first in a series of modules that support the LoRa standard designed to enable a wireless networking interface for IoT and M2M applications.
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Fujitsu-Panasonic Chip Spinoff Socionext Opens Doors
Joint venture that took over system LSI divisions of Fujitsu and Panasonic now open for business.
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MediaTek Forms Venture Capital Unit
Taiwan's rising star fabless chip company sets aside $300 million for strategic investments in startups around the world; launches two more processors to power mobile devices.
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JDSU to Split Into Two Public Companies
One firm to focus on optical components and another to specialize in network enablement, service enablement, optical security and performance products.
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Startup Offers FPGA Fabric, Software For License
The chance to refine and adapt 28nm system chips is being opened up by FPGA fabric available as an IP core, and associated design software, courtesy of one-year-old startup Flex Logix.
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Intel Rolls First Integrated Communications SoC
At Mobile World Congress, chip maker launches its first integrated communications system-on-chip for tablets, phablets and smartphones as well as a new LTE modem and cloud based partnerships.
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Broadcom Inks Deals with SK Telecom, KT
Chip maker signs up two of the largest telecommunications companies in Korea for its small cell system-on-chip offering in order to expand capacity and increase speed of their infrastructure.
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NXP to Buy Freescale for $11.8 Billion
Two semiconductor companies with similar private equity backgrounds have agreed to merge and create a top 10 chip company that can provide "secure connections for a smarter world."
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Samsung, LG, Sony to Dominate Flat Panel Shipments in 2015
Top three TV makers forecast to increase spending on display shipments this year and command greater influence among panel suppliers, especially in the event of a supply shortage.
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SMIC Producing New CMOS Image Sensors
Working with fabless semiconductor vendor Cista System, the foundry is hoping the jointly developed image sensors will open up new opportunities to gain customers in the sensor sector.
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Synopsys Aims to Accelerate Adoption of ARC Embedded Systems
EDA firm creates open-source software platform designed to ease the creation of the Internet of Things and other embedded applications.
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Automotive Display Revenue Soars
While many display sectors experienced declines in 2014, the automotive display market reached new heights by becoming the second overall sector in displays behind mobile handsets.
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Consortium Upgrades CoreMark Processor Benchmark
Benchmark updated to better exercise larger memory requirements, parallelism and floating-point operations.
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Heterogeneous Processing Specification Ready For Launch
The HSA Foundations' charter is to find better ways to let CPUs, GPUs and DSPs of different architectures work together. A key milestone has been reached as the industry body prepares to launch the HSA 1.0 specification.
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Cypress Joins Authentication Interoperability Group
Chip vendor designing fingerprint reader technology to meet Fast IDentity Online standards.
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Ceva IP Core Upgrades Vision Processing
With the XM4 Ceva is introducing a fourth generation of licensable DSP core optimized for image and vision processing.
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Is EUV Lithography Finally Ready?
After years of false starts and push outs, extreme ultraviolet lithography may finally be on the verge of use in volume semiconductor production.
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Twist On Negative Charge Enables IoT Transmitters
Researchers from MIT created a transmitter that significantly reduces off-state leakage but is powerful enough to broadcast to devices dozens of yards away.
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Xilinx Tips 16nm FinFET FPGAs
FPGA vendor puts multiple Cortex-A and Cortex-R processor cores on next-generation UltraScale+ FPGAs being implemented in TSMC's 16FF+ manufacturing process.
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UMC Expands Partnership With SST
Already possessing a license for 55nm embedded Superflash and now bringing that technology to volume, UMC has also taken a license for 40nm embedded flash products from SST.
