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SunEdison Rolls ZWS-based Solar Module
Solar company aims to increase power output by 15 percent while reducing the overall cost of system installations in neighborhoods where the area may be constrained.
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North American PCB Market to Post Modest Growth
It's a good news/bad news situation when it comes to the PCB market in the next few years as slumping sales is replaced with a small modicum of growth.
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Sharp's MEMS-IGZO Display Due in 2015
Sharp preps MEMS-IGZO display for 7-inch tablet computer to go on sale in the first half of 2015. However, the thickness of the display indicates more engineering is required.
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Microchip Launches High-Voltage Touchscreen Line Driver
Chip allows for high performance in noisy environments for the white goods, automotive, PC peripherals and industrial controls markets.
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SIA Honors Altera CEO
John Daane set to receive 2014 Robert N. Noyce Award in recognition of contributions to the semiconductor industry.
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UMC to Spend $1.4 Billion on China Fab
Pure-play foundry to be part of three-way joint venture in the facility that will initially offer 55nm and 40nm technologies in an effort to help propel UMC’s next round of foundry business.
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Lisa Su Takes Helm at AMD
Rising semiconductor star Lisa Su has taken the top job at AMD, replacing Rory Read, and states she wants AMD to be simpler and faster.
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Magnetic RAM Startup Raises $70 Million
Investors are doubling down on Spin Transfer Technologies by putting up the relatively large sum of $70 million to help it bring OST magnetic RAM technology to market.
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News from Semicon Europa 2014
The first day of Semicon Europa 2014 saw the Silicon Innovation Forum host more than 25 start-up companies.
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EDA Sales Show Modest Growth
Sales of Electronic Design Automation software posted a modest year-over-year increase in the second quarter, according to a trade group.
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France's Cortus Offers Minimal RISC For IoT
Processor specialist releases the APS23 – the first in a family of new processors that delivers increased code density to meet power, size requirements of IoT devices.
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Samsung To Build $15 Billion Wafer Fab
Samsung is looking to consolidate its position as number two in the semiconductor industry with a $14.6 billion wafer fab to be built in South Korea.
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Arrow to Distribute Lenovo’s System X
Deal will keep the distribution giant an authorized vendor for all System X and associated devices after the transition of the server business from IBM.
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Chip Sales Rise Again
Worldwide semiconductor sales in August were up 9 percent from July and 1 percent from August 2013.
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Freescale Plunges into IoT with Gateway Reference Design
Using the company's QorIQ communications processor, the gateway will help enable new IoT services for building/home management, smart cities, networked industrial services and other performance-heavy applications.
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Maxim Preps Asynchronous MCU Core
Mixed-signal chip vendor Maxim turns to clockless logic as way to reduce power consumption in microcontrollers – but uses its own 16bit MaxQ RISC rather than an ARM core.
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Bel Signs Licensing Deal with Cosel
Multi-year agreement will allow for use of DPT patents in an array of board mounted power supply products.
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Wearable Display Revenue to Hit Stratospheric Levels
Revenue for display panels will reach $22.7 billion by 2013, up from just $300 million in 2014 as future innovation in flexible displays opens new opportunities for growth.
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Applied Micro Rolls 64-bit Embedded ARM-based CPUs
Chip vendor claims first 64-bit embedded ARM-based microprocessors targeted at wired and wireless networking, networked storage, office automation and industrial controls.
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Atmel Bridges MCU-MPU Divide With ARM-based Chips
Atmel is striving to be classed as a leading exponent of ARM architecture chips for embedded applications and the Internet of Things. It has announced chip families based on the Cortex-A5 and the Cortex-M7 cores.
