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Fujitsu Begins Mass Production of GaN in Foundry Fab
Japanese firm to produce power devices aimed at power conversion systems for Japan-based Transphorm.
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STMicroelectronics Goes Back to Black as Revenues Shrink
Full year 2014 financial results show struggling ST getting back on to its feet with a profit. The company claims it has a broad set of design wins for its FDSOI process including more than one at the 14nm node.
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Globalfoundries, Western Digital Invest in MRAM Supplier
MRAM supplier Everspin has raised a substantial series B round of funding with the help of its upstream supplier of wafers and a potential downstream customer.
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Fairchild Revenues up 2% in 2014
Fairchild Semiconductor ended the year with strong growth in several end-use markets.
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Tezzaron Agrees to License Rambus’ ReRAM IP
Tezzaron will use Rambus IP to create 3D memories for the military, aerospace and commercial segments.
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Wipro and Software AG Develop IoT Analytics Platform
Wipro and Software AG have developed a platform to help businesses respond to events in real-time
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SanDisk Revenues up 7% in 2014
SanDisk reported revenues of $6.63 billion in 2014, a record for the company, after shifting its product portfolio toward higher end products. However, the fourth quarter for the company disappointed falling 1 percent sequentially.
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Vishay MOSFETs Target High Performance Consumer Products
The company has introduced 11 new devices that feature low conduction and switching losses similar to Vishay’s 600 V and 650 V E series of MOSFETs.
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Scots Startup Turns Lighting into Wi-Fi Alternative
PureLiFi, a 2012 startup, has moved quickly to market with a product that allows LED lighting to be used as an alternative to a Wi-Fi router.
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UMC Takes Cypress Embedded Flash Down to 40nm
Foundry UMC is working with long-standing partner Cypress to take SONOS embedded flash to 40nm and 28nm appears to be on the roadmap.
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AMD Revenues up 4% in 2014
On the back of strong performances in the enterprise, embedded and semi-custom business, AMD was able to overcome a poor PC performance in 2014 to rise to $5.51 billion for the year.
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Cadence, UMC Partner to Deliver ARM SoC Reference Design
Using the EDA vendor’s tools, the pure-play foundry was able to achieve a reduced time to tapout by 33 percent from its previous offerings for a 28nm ARM Cortex MPCore-based SoC.
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Amkor, Tessera Settle Litigation
Amkor to pay Tessera $155 million over four years in exchange for dismissal of the outstanding litigation between the two companies.
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Intel Posts Revenue Growth of 6% for 2014
Despite an initial forecast that PC sales would be down for the year, Intel gained revenue for the year in the PC market over 2013 as well as made strong in-roads in tablets, the Internet of Things and wearables markets.
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Soitec CEO Steps Down Amid Refocus Plan
The expectation of demand for SOI wafers for RF circuits in smartphones and for FDSOI circuits from foundries has prompted wafer maker Soitec to change management and restructure the company.
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Sub-Threshold Microcontrollers Arrive, Cut Power
Startup Ambiq has announced it has started sampling its Apollo series of sub-threshold voltage operation microcontrollers and that they can reduce energy consumption to between 20 and 10 percent of competitors' comparable MCUs.
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Digi-Key’s Sales Grew 13% in 2014
Distributor posted sales of $1.17 billion for the year due to greater demand for Digi-Key's engineer-centric product distribution model and emerging technologies.
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TSMC’s 20nm, 28nm Technology Accounts for 50% of Sales
Pure-play foundry posts increased earnings, profit for fourth quarter.
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Allwinner to Address Linux, Open-Source Issues
Chinese tablet processor company Allwinner has said it will act to become fully compliant with open-source requirements and particularly with respect to its back-catalog of 32bit application processors.
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Linear’s 4Q Shows Strong Industrial Growth
The linear IC maker’s revenues decline 5 percent sequentially, but was up year-over-year and expects to grow between 4 percent and 7 percent in the first quarter of 2015.
