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Researchers Prep Green Electronic Circuits
University of Illinois team developing electronic circuits that dissolve in water without leaving behind any harmful substances.
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Samsung Begins 20nm DDR4 Production
Addition of 8Gb chip completes the Korean memory giant's portfolio of DDR4 products using 20nm process technology.
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ARM Sees Royalty Rebound In Q3 Results
Processor licensor ARM turned in another satisfactory financial report card and says things will get better in Q4 and 2015. Smartphone and microcontroller success still dominate its results.
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Chip Equipment Orders Dip in September
Three-month average of new orders for semiconductor equipment from North American vendors slips below parity for first time in 12 months.
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Intel, IBM Offer Alternative FinFETs At IEDM
At IEDM Intel is set to report on a 14nm FinFET process technology that has been in the commercial market for months. Meanwhile an IBM team will discuss a more complex 14nm FinFET-on-SOI process.
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MIT Researchers Develop Chip with Built-in Superconducting Circuits
Circuits said to be 100 times more energy-efficient than today’s semiconductors.
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Sensors in Wearables Set for Substantial Growth
Wearable electronic devices are due for an ample increase in the next five years with the sensor market expanding along with it by sevenfold.
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Avnet to Distribute Lenovo Products Worldwide
Distributor to offer Lenovo’s System x servers and related products in the wake of the transition of IBM’s System x server business to Lenovo.
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Freescale Unveils Small Scale Tire Pressure Sensor
With many countries mandating tire inflation monitoring in new vehicles to help avoid accidents, Freescale aims to lower the BOM to adding these devices in new cars.
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IBM To Pay Globalfoundries $1.5 Billion to Take Chip Business
IBM retains its semiconductor R&D but has agreed to pay Globalfoundries $1.5 billion to take East Fishkill and Essex Junction chip manufacturing sites off its hands.
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Spansion Targets Industrial IoT with MCU Expansion
Chip firms expands FM4 family of products with 96 new devices featuring support for more than a dozen peripherals for multiple applications.
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AMD to Cut Jobs
After weak third quarter results and bigger losses expected in the fourth quarter, AMD will reduce its workforce by 7 percent and shutter some locations.
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Phoenics to Carry Vitesse ICs
Phoenics Electronics has signed a distribution agreement with Vitesse Semiconductor and will carry the company’s line of integrated circuits used in enterprise and Internet of Things networks.
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SanDisk Revenue Grows 7% in Q3
Storage company sees revenues of $1.75 billion for the quarter as enterprise SSD revenue continued to grow.
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Micron-Sony ReRAM Gets Second Outing
Sony's collaboration with Micron on resistive RAM continues and a forthcoming presentation of the non-volatile 16Gbit memory at IEDM could show whether the companies are on schedule for a 2015 product launch.
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TSMC Reports Record Sales
Taiwanese pure-play foundry reported $6.88 billion in revenue on the strength of its volume shipments of 20nm wafers and amounted to 9 percent of total revenues in the quarter.
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Apple, Samsung to Drive Fingerprint Sensor Market
Smartphones and tablets will push the annual fingerprint sensor market to more than $1.7 billion by 2020.
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Intel Posts Record Sales
No. 1 chip vendor shipped more than 100 million microprocessors for the first time in Q3.
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Chip Revenue Set to Decline
Lower revenue is expected in the fourth quarter as well as a further decline in the first quarter of next year but there is no indication that the industry is about to crash.
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Samsung Takes V-NAND to 3-bits Per Cell
Samsung keeps pushing its vertical NAND hard this time taking it to 3-bit MLC memory cells linked in 32 layers. But it appears the memory is restricted to internal use for Samsung solid-state disk drives.
