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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.
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Digital Signage Lighting Up LED-Driver Opportunities
The ubiquitous flat displays are the visible indication of the growth in digital signage; for IC vendors, the opportunity is the "behind the screen" providing LED drivers.
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Imagination Offers 'Raptor' ISP Cores
Based on its acquisition of Nethra Imaging in 2012, Imagination is extending its family of purpose-designed image signal processing (ISP) cores with the introduction of Raptor.
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Micron Preps Memory-Based Automata Processor
Memory maker has developed a processor that implements a computer architecture known as automata processing that addresses problems associated with large data sets such as security, image and video analytics and bio-informatics.
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Spansion Launches Family of MCUs for Internet of Things
Spansion, a chip vendor that formerly focused exclusively on flash memory, launched a family of ARM-based microcontrollers targeting machine-to-machine communications and the so-called Internet of Things.
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Applied Materials' 4Q Results Show Uptick in Revenue, Orders
After down year in 2013, chip gear maker looks forward to strong growth in silicon systems orders, net sales in the first quarter of 2014.
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High-Power ARM Spin-Off Adds Engineering Support
Adapter box offered to help proliferate the Amantys digital control of high-voltage, high-power systems.
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Microsoft Will Up Semiconductor Spending Next Year, While Dell Continues Flat
Two giants in the computing space are showing divergent spending patterns on semiconductor chips this year as they retool strategies in a once-flourishing PC industry humbled...
