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Italy to sell stake in STMicroelectronics
Europe's leading chip company is about to be set free from its Italian government controlled roots.
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ISSCC: Toshiba Reduces SRAM Leakage
Toshiba has reported at the ISSCC in San Francisco on a low-leakage SRAM that is suitable as an off-chip battery-backed alternative to on-chip non-volatile memory.
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Startup Offers Compact Speech Recognition Core
Indian design team has come up with a compact IP core that can provide a hands-free, always-on speech recognizing user interface for consumer electronics equipment.
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Synopsys Buys Application Processor Pioneer
Target Compiler Technologies, a privately-held, pioneer of EDA tools to create application-specific instruction processor (ASIP) cores, has been acquired by Synopsys.
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Consolidator Microchip Makes Supertex Power Play
Microchip agrees to buy power chip vendor Supertex for $33 per share
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IBM Chip Unit Sale Would Send Tremor Through Industry
IBM’s reported plans to sell its chip unit serve as a negative indicator for chip manufacturers that have come to depend on IBM’s R&D; including Globalfoundries, UMC, STMicroelectronics and Samsung.
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January Sales Rise for Foundry Pair
Leading foundries TSMC and UMC were able to raise year-on-year sales despite the impact of the Chinese New Year in 2014.
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Sticky Electrolyte Makes for Safer Li-Ion Battery
A newly developed gum-like electrolyte material could be useful in future flexible electronics.
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U.S. R&D Remains Healthy Despite Competition from Asia
Asian economies, as a whole, now perform a larger share of global R&D than the U.S.
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Metatronic Circuits Achieve Technologically Significant Wavelength Range
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are employing metamaterials to create "lumped" nanocircuits that use light instead of electricity.
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Apple Extends Imagination Graphics License Deal
Consumer electronics giant Apple has renewed its multi-year, multi-core licensing deal with Imagination.
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The Math Backs Cadence's Forte Acquisition
Forte's run as an independent EDA company is ending with acquisition by Cadence. This has come after analyst Gary Smith ranked Forte the top high-level design software vendor in 2013.
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Altera SoCs Gain Wind River Software Support
FPGA maker Altera and Intel subsidiary Wind River have worked together to provide operating system and development tool support for Altera's ARM-based system-on-chip families.
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Lawyer Activity Follows Entegris Bid for ATMI
An agreed take over in the semiconductor manufacturing supply chain has prompted several legal firms to postulate class-action lawsuits on the grounds that the Entegris' valuation of ATMI Inc. is too low.
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Q4 PC Shipments Disappoint as Anticipated Uptick Proves a No-show
Despite expectations of an uptick in PC sales in the fourth quarter of 2013, consumers' fondness for tablets and other forms of less-expensive mobile computing continued to take their toll.
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Semiconductor Sales Up 4.8 Percent in 2013
Record December helps boost global semiconductor sales past $300 billion for the first time ever in 2013.
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ARM Swings to Loss on IP Write Down
Fall-out from acquisition of MIPS patent portfolio hits the 4Q13 bottom line but ARM’s top line penetration into multiple markets continues.
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As One ARM Pioneer Closes Another One Opens
A comparison of the situations of Calxeda Inc. and Rex Computing shows that relying on startup silicon to attack new markets could be a weakness.
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XMOS Replaces Founding CTO with Icera Alumnus
Chip designer and entrepreneur replaces parallel processing academic as chief technology officer at event-driven microcontroller company in preparation for next phase of development.
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ARM Support Claimed for Non-filamentary ReRAM
An innovative non-volatile resistive memory called CeRAM, for correlated-electron random access memory, has attracted the interest of processor company ARM, according to the developer, a professor at the University of Colorado.
