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LCD Panels Fall Again in July—Portent of Ill Times to Come?
The market for large-sized liquid-crystal displays (LCD) contracted in July, an ominous indicator not only because it shank for the second straight month in a row but also...
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Rambus, Freescale to Collaborate on Non-Volatile Memory
Firms to jointly develop embedded resistive RAM technology. Deal also extends Freescale's license to Rambus IP.
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Mobile DRAM Posts Improved Revenue in Q2 from Dismal First Quarter
The market for mobile dynamic random access memory (DRAM) grew in the second quarter in light of anticipated demand for the upcoming hot selling season, but mobile...
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Hon Hai Cornered by Own Success
After years of double-digit growth, the Taiwanese EMS provider is casting a wide net in search of new revenue.
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MEMS and Sensors: Big Bucks From Little Devices
An IHS Electronics360 webinar highlights the opportunities for MEMS, the market for which is expected to grow twice as fast as the overall semiconductor market over the next four years.
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Tight-lipped Hon Hai Plays it Close to the Vest
EMS provider Hon Hai is unusually secretive for a Taiwanese public company, a fact analysts say doesn't help its stock price.
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New Manufacturing Method Could Boost Phase Change Memory
A new technique developed by Chinese researchers could reduce the costs associated with manufacturing phase-change memory, potentially increasing its prospects as a future replacement for flash memory
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Microsemi Licenses Security IP from Cryptography Research
Chip vendor to use CRI's secure semiconductor intellectual property tools to create tamper-resistant semiconductors for government applications.
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NXP Teams with TTTech on Automotive Ethernet Switches
Chip vendor to work with networking solutions provider on Ethernet switch that will support OPEN Alliance BroadR-Reach Ethernet PHY technology.
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Senate Votes to Ensure Helium Supply
Bill would enable Federal Helium Reserve to continue selling helium—a gas used critical to semiconductor manufacturing—to private entities.
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Ams-Taos is Top Supplier of Light and Proximity Sensors
The Austrian-American firm Ams-Taos in 2012 was the No. 1 maker by a wide stretch of light and proximity sensors used primarily in mobile handsets to respond to changing light and...
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Entegris, Sematech Team on Next-Gen Process Development
Process materials vendor, industry consortium to jointly develop advanced nanoscale particle removal processes and cleaning technologies.
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India Green Lights Two 300-mm Chip Fabs
India's long-running endeavor to establish a domestic semiconductor industry gets a boost from the government's approval of two chip fabs, one involving IBM and one involving STMicroelectronics.
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Spansion Licenses ARM Processor Cores
Move is part of a broader strategy by Spansion to expand from memory chip supplier to SoC vendor.
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Qualcomm Riding High With Buybacks, Diverse Deals
Fabless chip giant recently announced $5 billion stock repurchase program among other deals made in the past several months.
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Intel Launches Low-Power Processors for Wearables, IoT
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, delivering his first Intel Developer Forum keynote, announced a family of SoCs that are small, energy efficient.
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Notebook PC Panel Shipments Declined Sharply This Summer
With nearly all top mobile PC brands reducing orders, shipments of PC LCDs declined 23 percent year-over-year in July, according to IHS.
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Koch Industries Scoops Up Molex for $7.2 Billion
Molex, a supplier of fiber-optic interconnect components, agrees to be acquired by one of the largest private companies in the U.S.
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Record Fab Equipment Spending Expected in 2014
Trade group expects fab equipment spending to decline again in 2013, but rebound strongly next year.
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US Closing Gap on Solar Cell Manufacturing Costs, Study Finds
Researchers at MIT and the U.S. Department of Energy concluded that China's cost of labor advantage is not the biggest factor in determining photovoltaics production.
