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Slow Demand Led to Oversupply of Large LCD Panels in the First Half of 2013
There’s a glut of large-sized liquid-crystal display panels as a result of sluggish demand in the IT and TV sectors driven in large part by low demand in China.
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GlobalFoundries to Build $15B Fab in Upstate New York: Could it be for Apple?
Earlier this week, the Malta NY Town Board approved the request by GlobalFoundries to build a second, much larger semiconductor fabrication facility that some speculate could be for Apple products.
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EDA Leader Synopsys Posts Solid Quarterly Growth
Synopsys reported third quarter FY 2013 revenue of $482.9 million, an increase of 8.8 percent from the same quarter a year ago.
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GainSpan Samples Wi-Fi/ZigBee Combo Chips for Internet of Things Market
GainSpan is sampling its new GS2000 chips and modules, claimed to be the industry’s first single chip solution that is bringing together two IEEE low-power standard wireless technologies.
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Li-ion Battery Growth is Boon for Chip Makers, "Authentication" ICs
The surging Li-ion battery market offers a growth opportunity for a subset of chip companies that provide battery charge management components that includes protection against counterfeit batteries.
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Environment and Health Sensors in Smartphones Set for Mighty Growth
First came microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensors that automatically adjusted the orientation of a cellphone’s display no matter how it was held. Then arrived optical...
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EMS Provider Nistec Takes Ownership Stake in PCB Maker Eltek
Nistec Ltd., an Israeli provider of electronic manufacturing and design services is taking a majority stake in Eltek Ltd., an Israeli manufacturer of advanced flex-rigid printed circuit boards, in a deal valued at $4.2 million.
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Egyptian Crisis Could Inflate Prices for Countless Products, Hindering US Economic Recovery
The escalating unrest in Egypt could potentially impact the cost of countless everyday consumer products that are made from crude oil—potentially impeding the U.S. economic recovery.
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Despite Challenges, Industrial Semiconductor Market Has Positive Q1
Worldwide industrial electronics chip revenue in the first quarter reached $7.71 billion, up 1 percent from $7.63 billion in the final quarter of 2012.
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Maxim buys Volterra to expand power management offerings
Maxim is buying power management chip maker Volterra Semiconductor in a deal valued at $605 million.
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Low-Cost Chinese Suppliers Threaten Shakeup in Pneumatic Components Market
The global market for pneumatic valves and actuators, worth nearly $8 billion in 2012, is undergoing a competitive shakeup as low-cost Chinese suppliers continue to expand into the U.S. and Europe.
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Researchers build a simpler resistive memory
A UC Riverside team of researchers has developed a next-generation memory device that is smaller, operates at a higher speed and offers more storage capacity than flash memory.
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LED Oversupply Likely to Continue as Suppliers Add Production Capacity
Despite a major surplus in the LED market, suppliers are increasing their capital spending and production to cash in on an expected boom in the lighting business.
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Peregrine and LG Team Up on Antenna Tuning Design for LG Optimus G Pro
Peregrine’s UltraCMOS and DuNE technologies will help LG to optimize handset efficiency, data rate, call integrity and battery life.
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Demand for Key Raw Material Set to Double as LED Market Booms
The market for precursor used in the metal-organic chemical vapor deposition manufacturing process for making LEDs will rise to 69 tons in 2016, up a notable 114 percent from 2012.
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Industrial Semiconductors Report Positive Q1 Despite Challenges
The semiconductor market for industrial electronics relished a better-than-expected first quarter as macroeconomic headwinds turned out to be less severe than initially feared...
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IPC Downgrades PCB Forecast for 2013, Book-to-Bill Remains Positive
The IPC forecasts North American printed circuit board sales will grow 0.9 percent in 2013, down from 3 percent, because of slower than expected demand in the first half of the year.
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Nearly Half of Wi-Fi Chipsets in Consumer Electronic Devices to Support Next-Gen 802.11ac Standard by 2017
Growing demand for mobile device bandwidth will spur the rapid adoption of next-gen Wi-Fi technology, with shipments of chipsets for the 802.11ac standard set to account for 47% of chipsets by 2017.
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Power Supply Market to Post Modest Growth in 2013 After Disappointing 2012
After declining in 2012, the global market for merchant power supplies is forecast to grow by 2.4 percent in 2013, driven by rising demand for tablets, smartphones, LED lighting and servers.
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Microsemi Provices Rugged Self-Encrypted Solid State Drive for High Capacity Apps
Microsemi announced the world's first secure, half-terabyte SSD for mobile video surveillance operations other high-capacity storage applications requiring superior real-time data protection.
