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Analog Devices Gives Tepid Outlook After Strong Q4
Mixed-signal chip supplier is not "off to the races" yet but could be in 2014. The company reported strong financial results in its fourth fiscal quarter and predicted 2014 would be a year of growth after a sequential decline in the first fiscal quarter.
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Bluetooth, Wi-Fi Module Aims at IoT
OWL355 module offers multiradio capability across Classic Bluetooth, Bluetooth low-energy and WLAN with full dual-band support for the 2.4-GHz and 5-GHz radio bands.
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China Launches Antitrust Investigation Against Qualcomm
Chinese authorities start antitrust inquiry into Qualcomm, a market leader that has large patent portfolio and extensive market share in application processors and advanced modem ICs.
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CVD Process Used to 'Solder' Carbon Nanotube Arrays
Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a simple and self-regulating chemical reaction process for applying to hot spots in carbon nanotube arrays to "solder" the gaps in its nanowires.
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Electrode Heals Itself for Longer Battery Life
Researchers have created the first battery electrode that heals itself by using a stretchy polymer that coats the electrode, binds it together and spontaneously heals tiny cracks that develop during battery operation.
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Applied-TEL Merger Faces Regulatory Scrutiny, Other Hurdles
Is the proposed merger between Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron Ltd. is it a corporate marriage made in heaven or a blockbuster deal bound for the hell of antitrust litigation?
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Fairchild Commits to Longer Product Lifetimes
Fairchild Semiconductor says it has adopted a new policy under which the company will not obsolete any of its parts except in very rare instances.
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Intel CEO Pledges Renewed Innovation, Pragmatism
Intel talks up shift in strategy as manufacturing and design start to part ways. Chip maker to allow external manufacturing and broaden foundry activity.
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Microchip Buys Fabless Chip Vendor Eqcologic
In an effort to expand its analog building blocks for high speed data transmission, Microchip Technology Inc. has acquired European fabless semiconductor provider EqcoLogic for an undisclosed amount.
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U.S., Japanese Companies Reportedly Form Alliance Around STT-MRAM
More than 20 Japanese and U.S. companies are forming an alliance to develop technology for mass production of non-volatile magnetoresistive random access memory chips, according to a Nikkei report.
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Chipmakers, OEMs Poised for Strong Finish to 2013
Thanks to tight inventory management throughout 2013, both the semiconductor industry and OEMs are poised for a big finish to 2013.
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Fab Tool Orders, Shipments Up in October
The ratio of bookings to billings for North American semiconductor equipment manufacturers moved passed parity in October for the first time in fourth months.
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Magnetic Nanoparticles Could Prevent Hotspots in Systems and Electronics
Experiments show that magnetite nanofluid-filled cooling tubes manipulated by external magnets can enhance local heat transfer by up to 300 percent over water alone.
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Qualcomm Offers 3G/LTE Modem on 20-nm Process
Latest modem plus RF support chip offers global 4G LTE-Advanced 40-MHz Carrier Aggregation with download speeds of up to 300 Mbps.
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MediaTek Deploys Cortex-A7 in Octa Chip
The MT6592 is the world's first heterogeneous computing SoC with scalable eight-core processing, designed for multi-tasking, multimedia and performance-per-watt.
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Micron Revenue Climbs in its Fiscal Fourth Thanks to DRAM—But Not So Much from NAND
Micron Technology is enjoying continuing positive momentum for its dynamic random access memory (DRAM) line even as the company’s NAND flash portfolio slows down, based on...
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SK Hynix Pushes 16-nm NAND to 128-Gbit
South Korean memory vendor has commenced mass production of a 64-Gbit multi-level cell NAND flash memory implemented in a 16-nm manufacturing process and designed another chip at twice the memory capacity.
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Troubled Soitec Waits for Solar
Soitec made a net loss larger than sales in the first half of its fiscal year, as silicon-on-insulator wafer business contracted. The company is hoping to add to sales through the generation of electricity at a solar power farm in South Africa.
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IBM, Nvidia to Pair Power CPUs, Tesla GPUs
Two stalwarts of high-performance computing are putting their CPUs and GPUs together to try to repel the threat from the likes of Intel and ARM.
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Microchip Rolls New Family of MIPS-Based 32-bit MCUs
Fourth-ranked microcontroller vendor launches a new family of MIPS-based 32-bit microcontrollers for embedded applications, claiming best-in-class performance and code density.
