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Intel Unveils 5th Gen Core MPU Family, 14nm Tablet Processor
Broadwell microarchitecture core processors will be added into next generation PCs including desktops, notebooks, Ultrabooks, All-in-Ones and mini PCs.
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LCD TV Market Back To Sustainable Growth
Global LCD TV unit shipments are now expected to have grown more than 7 percent in 2014, as average screen size increased by 1.5-inches, according to IHS subsidiary DisplaySearch.
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Silicon Image Re-launches Subsidiary
The SiBEAM subsidiary will focus on future generations of millimeter-wave technologies, products and solutions for wireless communications.
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Vishay Completes Purchase of Opto Chip Firm
Vishay has completed the acquisition of Tawian's Capella Microsystems.
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Euroserver Project Targets 'Green' Datacenters, x86
EU-backed initiative looks at conquering the ability to scale in micro-servers in future generations by offering a lower cost, lower power and smaller footprint to meet the demands of various workloads.
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RF Micro, TriQuint Merger Closing Soon
After the New Year, the two companies will be known as Qorvo and will begin trading on the Nasdaq under “QRVO”.
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Chip Market to Grow 9.4% in 2014
Worldwide semiconductor revenue is set to reach $353.2 billion in 2014 with 22 out of 28 sub-segments expanding leading to the highest level of growth since 2010.
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Lighting Set to Drive LED Demand
The replacement of compact fluorescent and incandescent lighting with LED-based luminaires is set to drive an annual doubling of LED unit demand over the next few years, according to DisplaySearch.
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Micron Extends Magnetic RAM Collaboration in Singapore
Micron is backing STT-MRAM as a potential non-volatile memory by signing up for three more years of collaboration with the Data Storage Institute in Singapore.
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Calxeda Rides Again Courtesy of Taiwan
The intellectual property from an ARM-based server processor startup that collapsed one year ago has been picked up and is set to come to market in 2015, courtesy of a Taiwan cloud service and hardware company called AtGames.
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Chip Equipment, PCB Markets See Increased Book-to-Bill Ratios
Orders for PCBs increased in November, up 12.4 percent from last year, but they dropped as compared to October. Equipment orders increased 10.4 percent in November up from October.
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Toshiba, SK Hynix Settle NAND Flash Theft Dispute
Toshiba and SK Hynix have reached an out-of-court settlement over an allegation of theft of NAND flash memory technology secrets that dates back to 2008.
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Tempo Signs Distribution Agreement with EDOM
Tempo Semiconductor has signed on EDOM to distribute its audio chips to increase its sales in Asia.
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SMIC Joins Group Planning Takeover of Stats ChipPAC
Foundry is joining a Chinese group led by packager JCET that is putting together a proposal to acquire Singaporean test and assembly firm Stats ChipPAC.
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Xilinx Begins Volume Production of 20nm FPGAs
The programmable logic company said its Kintex Ultrascale range is the first FPGA family to move to volume production at the 20nm node.
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"BrainCard" Maker Project Marks Startup's Market Entry
Startup NeuroMem is offering the maker community access to a trainable neural network IC on a board. It is claimed the so-called BrainCard can add cognitive perception to Raspberry Pi, Arduino and Intel Edison processor boards.
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Atmel Enters into Biometric Fingerprint Agreement
The semiconductor company has struck a deal with Fingerprint Cards AB that will combine maXTouch Technologies with fingerprint sensors for new mobile device applications.
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Imagination Launches Series 7 of PowerVR GPUs
Graphics IP licensor Imagination's PowerVR Series 7 GPUs provide up to a 60 percent improvement in rendering performance compared with the previous Series 6 GPUs as well as support for virtualization and hardware tessellation.
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Spansion, Sensoplex Team on Wearables Dev Kit
Platform intended to help customers develop wearable devices combining inertial, bio and environmental sensors along with low-power wireless protocols Bluetooth Low Energy and ANT+.
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Altera Demos High Performance DDR4 FPGAs
Firm claims Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs are the first type of devices to support this data rate and offers significant memory improvements over competing products.
