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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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| Germany place $1.4 billion subsidy on EV |
5/3/2016 |
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The subsidy program, which kicks off in May with rebates for vehicle buyers and plans for 15,000 battery-charging stations, translates into about $300 million of chips by 2019.
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| Smartphone cuts into digital camera sales |
5/2/2016 |
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During 2010-11, 75 per cent of total camera sales in India was contributed by these point and shoot cameras. But in 2015, this per centage dropped to just 30 per cent, and it is expected fall by 2017, only 10-15 per cent of overall sales would occur from this segment.
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| Startup gets DARPA funding on optical co-processor |
5/2/2016 |
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'The Optalysys technology is built on the well established principals of Fourier and diffractive optics, but we use them in combination with advanced high resolution microdisplays. We are creating a cost-effective solution that can be scaled beyond the levels of traditional electrical computers.'
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| TI profit grew on automotive chips |
5/2/2016 |
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TI said strong demand for its automotive semiconductors in the first quarter was driven by infotainment and hybrid electric vehicle and powertrain systems.
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| Cypress' T J Rogers to step down |
4/29/2016 |
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Rodgers said in a statement that while he is “still passionately interested” in Cypress’ bread-and-butter silicon-based chip products, at 68 years old, it is time to step back from the day-to-day stress of running the semiconductor maker.
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