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| Broadcom to sell off wireless division to MaxiLinear |
5/11/2016 |
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Broadcom has slashed more than 700 employees at its Irvine campus since Broadcom Corp. was sold for $37 billion to Avago Technologies Inc. in February, creating the world’s third largest chipmaker, with annual sales of about $15 billion.
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| Virtium brings on ultra low profile DRAM DIMM |
5/11/2016 |
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Although Virtium is touting its smaller form factor as a differentiator, Handy said it's not all that significant. What's more advantageous is selling into harsh environments that require high reliability such as telecom and automotive.
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| Samsung to use UEV lithograph for 7nm process |
5/11/2016 |
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announced today that they’ve purchased the NXE3400 tool from ASML, Netherlands-based semiconductor equipment manufacturer. NXE3400 is an EUV lithography tool, enabling Samsung Electronics to start manufacturing seven nano-meter (7nm) chips in the fourth quarter of 2017.
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| NXP, the new leader on automotive chips |
5/10/2016 |
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Following its takeover of Freescale, NXP Semiconductor has been declared the leading automotive chip vendor for 2015 by market research firm Strategy Analytics.
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| Qualcomm to take LTE-U into trial with T-Mobile |
5/10/2016 |
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Qualcomm is trying to establish that LTE and cable Wi-Fi can coexist, something cable operators have argued needs more verifying before trusting. The new authority is for 24/7 tests in Washington, California, Texas and Nevada.
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| Gartner ranks global foundries by revenue |
5/10/2016 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) retained its number one position in the worlds semiconductor foundry ranking in 2015, followed by the U.S.’ Globalfoundries, Taiwan’s UMC, Samsung Electronics, China’s SMIC, Taiwan’s Powerchip Technology, Israel’s Tower Jazz, Japan’s Fujitsu, Taiwan’s Vanguard and China’s Hua Hong Semi.
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| Companies racing to put AI onto System-on-a-chip |
5/10/2016 |
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Companies are starting to embed deep learning software into their chips, particularly for mobile vision applications. In fairly short order, that’s likely to lead to much smarter phones, drones, robots, cameras, wearables and more.
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| Canadian government denies entry visa to two Huawei employees on reason of spying |
5/9/2016 |
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"There are reasonable grounds to believe that you are a member of the inadmissible class of persons described in section 34(1)(f) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act." That part of the immigration code applies to people the government suspects may belong to an organization engaged in espionage, government subversion or terrorism.
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| 4th generation flash hinges on software |
5/9/2016 |
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The real change to fourth-generation flash does not come from hardware. It comes with the realisation that flash storage systems now allow IT to do things that simply were not possible before. That is because these new storage systems are more capable.
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| Rumour suggested that Apple to drop 3.5mm audio jack |
5/6/2016 |
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The Lightning port is already capable of bidirectionally passing digital audio, along with power. Couple this with D/A conversion and class D amplification built into the headphones. Folks using Bluetooth headphones and headsets are already set, as well. And for existing analogue headphone owners, an external Lightning-to-3.5mm adapter circuitry can provide a legacy bridge.
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| Apple supplier feels hurt in soft iPhone market |
5/6/2016 |
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Dialog Semiconductor (DLGS.DE), the maker of chips used in Apple (AAPL.O) and Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) smartphones, cut its revenue outlook and first-quarter earnings dropped as a result of ongoing softness in the smartphone market.
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| Microchip logged increased revenue |
5/6/2016 |
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Microchip Chairman and CEO Steve Sanghi said its latest quarterly results were “very strong” amidst a “weak semiconductor industry.”
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| EMC declares "Year of All-Flash" in data storage |
5/5/2016 |
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EMC designs to help customers make an affordable and simple transition from hard disk drive to flash memory and supports file and block access in a 2U footprint. The EMC Unity family allows all-flash performance and cloud-like interfaces.
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| Power supply growth continue with LED lighting |
5/4/2016 |
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While LED lighting shipments are only responsible for only 7.7% of the total lighting market last year, they are expected to climb to 27.2% in 2020. This is good news for vendors of power supplies and power semiconductors.
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| Linear has triple output regulator to support DDR/QDR SRAM |
5/4/2016 |
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Operating from an input voltage of 3.6V to 15V, the LTM4632 furnishes two ±3A output rails, both sink and source capable, for VDDQ and VTT, plus a 10mA low-noise reference VTTR output. Both VTT and VTTR track and are equal to VDDQ/2.
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| Marvell name Rich Hill new CEO |
5/4/2016 |
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Hill was recently appointed to Yahoo!’s (YHOO) board along with three other nominees of activist firm Starboard Value LP, and served as the interim CEO at Tessera Technologies (TSRA) as that company was turned around.
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| Qualcomm push idea on deep-learning processor |
5/4/2016 |
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Qualcomm has talked about putting "silicon brains" in mobile devices and is now providing tools to train smartphones to recognize people, objects, gestures, and even emotions.
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| Latest on memory prices |
5/3/2016 |
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Prices continue to edge down for both types of memory chips. But NAND will likely stage a price recovery sooner than DRAM.
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| Fairchild/ON merger to delay |
5/3/2016 |
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According to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the parties on Friday requested an extension of the offer to May 12.
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