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| ST Micro to make offer for Fairchild Semiconductor |
10/29/2015 |
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The Geneva-based company has conducted analysis as it explores an offer for the U.S. chipmaker Fairchild Semiconductor, said the people, asking not to be identified discussing internal deliberations.
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| Qualcomm to put LTE with cameras |
10/28/2015 |
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Qualcomm has created a reference design for new home monitoring cameras, and at the core of them is its Snapdragon 618 processor.
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| Oracle rolls out new M7 Sparc processor |
10/28/2015 |
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A query accelerator engine performs specific lookup functions that are part of the data query process, which the company said can improve performance by up to 10 times.
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| Dell set up engineering team to help IoT customers |
10/27/2015 |
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Michael Dell said during a keynote speech. “[Machine-to-machine] communications, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, drones, [and] enormous amounts of sensors are the next trillion dollar opportunity for growth in connectivity. The ability of business to compete will be its ability to process and analyze that application.”
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| Insight - IC market dropped 1% |
10/27/2015 |
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The rare occurrence of significant strengthening of the US dollar versus most of the major currencies this year is expected to deflate the 2015 worldwide IC market growth rate by at least three full percentage points, IC Insights said.
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| Sony to acquire sensor business from Toshiba |
10/27/2015 |
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The Sony-Toshiba talks are at an advanced stage and the decision is likely to be announced soon, people familiar with the matter said. The deal amount is expected to be several tens of billions of yen, or several hundred million dollars.
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| What is WD getting by acquiring SanDisk? |
10/26/2015 |
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Share of the SSD application in the total NAND Flash demand worldwide is projected to expand from 30% in 2015 to 35% in 2016, becoming the most rapidly growing and highly contested end market for this memory technology
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| Microsoft to trim additional 1,000 |
10/23/2015 |
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The cuts are in addition to earlier moves to shed about 7,800 jobs in connection with plans to scale back the former Nokia Corp. handset business.
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| Texas Instruments to gain on automobile electronics |
10/23/2015 |
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TI is benefiting not only from the growth in U.S. car sales, but also because cars are getting smarter. The company’s chips are in automobile navigation systems, and brake safety and lane changing systems.
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| Rail safety rules to delay |
10/23/2015 |
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Rail companies currently face a Dec. 31 deadline to implement positive train control, a GPS-based system that can track train movements and automatically slow or stop them from entering dangerous situations.
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| WD reached agreement to acquire SanDisk |
10/22/2015 |
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The transaction is subject to shareholder and regulatory approval and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2016. It has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies.
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