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| Cypress: "Our final bid for ISSI is $22.60" |
6/26/2015 |
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the latest bid fell short of Chinese consortium Uphill Investment Co's increased offer of $23 per share. Cypress said late on Wednesday its fresh offer will be its "best and final" for Integrated Silicon.
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| Cree to restructure LED business unit |
6/26/2015 |
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The Durham, North Carolina-based company recalled about 700,000 lamps this month due to potential burn hazards after it received four reports of lamps overheating and melting.
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| U.S. learning to embrace rather than confront with China |
6/26/2015 |
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Secretary Kerry said there are acceptable international norms of behavior. "We need to work together in order to define those, and then live by them. I think that message was clearly delivered and received and hopefully that work will begin in earnest very, very quickly," he told reporters.
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| Rumor Qualcomm to buy AMD |
6/25/2015 |
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Buying AMD would give Qualcomm not only access to an impressive portfolio of customers and some of the best engineers in the world, but also the foothold it wants in servers.
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| Flight attendants sue Boeing for toxic fumes on board |
6/25/2015 |
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The women were working for Alaska Airlines when they say that all four became sick and two passed out during a Boston-to-San Diego flight. The one-year-old Boeing 737 jet made an emergency landing in Chicago, and all four were taken to hospitals, according to the lawsuit.
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| DOD to invest in "Hoverbike" |
6/25/2015 |
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The DoD announced a deal with Malloy to develop and build the Hoverbike in the States for the U.S. military. The DoD is interested in the vehicle due to its ability to carry out many of the jobs a helicopter can, but without the problems associated with helicopter design.
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| Nvidia to show chip with 2.5D stack |
6/24/2015 |
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At GTC this year and the co-located IBM Open Power Summit, Nvidia said Volta is now a 2017 chip and another entry to the road map, Pascal, would be the first of its chips to use a 2.5-D approach in 2016.
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| Semi product Book-To-Build retreats to 0.99 |
6/24/2015 |
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The book-to-bill ratio in the North American semiconductor industry last month fell to 0.99 from April’s 1.04, dropping for the second consecutive month and shrinking below 1 for the first time this year.
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| Researcher found way to reduce current on PRAM |
6/23/2015 |
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BCP is the mixture of two different polymer materials, which can easily create self-ordered arrays of sub-20nm features through simple spin-coating and plasma treatments. BCP silica nanostructures successfully lowered the contact area by localising the volume change of phase-change materials and thus resulted in significant power reduction.
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| Teardown on AMD game machine found Intel i7 processor |
6/23/2015 |
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A teardown of the Project Quantum system reveals that the AMD-endorsed machine is built around Intel's Z97 Express platform, an ASRock Z97E-ITX/ac motherboard, to be precise, and the Intel Core i7-4790K 'Devil's Canyon' part.
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| Upjill bids $22 on ISSI in the latest round |
6/23/2015 |
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ISSI announced that its special meeting of stockholders to consider approval of the Uphill acquisition and related matters will be adjourned to be held on June 25, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. local time,
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| TI is out shopping for companies |
6/23/2015 |
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Driving TI's appetite for M&A, according to the sources, is a desire to improve on its profitability and increase its share in the fragmented market for analog chips, which process signals such as sound, light and temperature and convert them into digital signals, and are central to smart phones and devices connected to the Internet
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| Google Sidewalk Labs to make better urban living |
6/22/2015 |
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"Sidewalk [Labs] will focus on improving city life for everyone by developing and incubating urban technologies to address issues like cost of living, efficient transportation, and energy usage," said Google CEO Larry Page.
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| JEDEC updates SSD standard to include 3D NAND |
6/22/2015 |
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In March, Micron and Intel said they would be second to Samsung with ultra-dense 3-D NAND flash chips that will sell as chips and in SSDs; Micron will pack 256 Gbits into vertical NAND chips using two-bit per MLC technology and 384 Gbits in TLC versions.
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| Cypress tops bid again on battle for ISSI |
6/22/2015 |
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Cypress increased its bid to $21.25 a share from $20.25, saying it was superior to an offer from Uphill Investment, according to a Cypress statement issued Thursday. The San Jose-based company's $707 million offer also includes a "ticking" fee that would add 10 cents a share for each additional quarter required to obtain regulatory approval for the deal.
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| Planar NAND will be scaled down to 10nm |
6/19/2015 |
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There is a consensus that planar NAND will end near the 10 nm node, that is, one or two generations into the future from the 15/16 nm NAND flash that we are now.
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| AMD put HBM memory on new Radeon card |
6/19/2015 |
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Radeon Fury X uses 4GB of HBM memory, delivering up to 512Gb/s of memory bandwidth, an increase of around 63 per cent over the previous generation Radeon R9 290X, principal analyst Patrick Moorhead of Moor Insights & Strategy wrote, to reach a 1.5x improvement in performance per watt.
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