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| Class-action suit on high-tec employment policy |
5/28/2014 |
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Uncovered evidence shows former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and top executives from the other companies in the case had reached "no-poaching" pacts prohibiting each other from trying to lure away each other's top workers with offers of higher-paying jobs.
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| Durable goods poised to grow |
5/28/2014 |
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MAPI expects manufacturers to lead the acceleration in capital goods because capacity utilization is relative high in manufacturing and the supply chains for energy, housing, and transportation are rapidly reviving.”
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| Obama announced second SelectUSA summit |
5/27/2014 |
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U.S. will hold a second SelectUSA summit early next year, where more than 2,000 business executives, mayors and governors will meet to encourage even further investment in the U.S.
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| MEM sensor market continue to grow |
5/27/2014 |
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Within the MEMS category image sensors for biometric recognition are on rapid growth clip. Some 45 million units shipped in 2013 up 221 per cent from 2012 and the category will grow again to 145 million in 2014.
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| Microchip acquires ISSC |
5/27/2014 |
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By gaining ISSC's wireless expertise in providing Bluetooth solutions, Microchip believes it has leverage to be a major chip player in the IoT market.
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| Toshiba aimed at increasing sales |
5/23/2014 |
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Latest multi-year business plan aims to earn 450 billion yen in operating profit and 200 billion yen in net profit in the 2016/17 business year.
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| Guage of economy is rising |
5/23/2014 |
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"Despite a brutal winter which brought the economy to a halt, the overall trend in the leading economic index has remained positive," Stronger spending by consumers and higher business investment should bolster growth in coming months.
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| Sony calls for speedy response to market |
5/23/2014 |
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"We must acknowledge that out steps to take action had come much too slowly," he told reporters at the Japanese entertainment and electronics giant's Tokyo headquarters. "We are going to fully complete our structural reforms."
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| Samsung to produce 3D NAND in Xian |
5/22/2014 |
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3D NAND market is likely to take off in 2H15 or later, which is in line with most predictions. In the meantime, vendors are still working on improving 2D NAND production.
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| Qualcomm to ramp 8 core Snapdragon production |
5/21/2014 |
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Qualcomm has incorporated its 8-core Snapdragon 810-series chips with 64-bit and 4G technologies, apparently setting new hardware specifications for high-end smartphones.
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| Mobile trend drives employee productivity |
5/21/2014 |
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¡°Providing data to a worker in the field or on the factory floor can enable smarter and faster decisions. Additionally, allowing a field worker to acquire data on a connected mobile device can lead to improved accuracy and higher efficiency.¡±
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| Cadence offers DDR4 PHY IP for 16nm design |
5/21/2014 |
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This technology enables server, network switching, storage fabric and other SoCs requiring high-memory bandwidth to design-in Cadence DDR4 PHY IP now and to exploit higher speed DRAMs when they become available.
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| Verizon continue to deploy XLTE |
5/20/2014 |
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More than half of Verizon¡¯s 4G LTE 500-plus markets ¨C including Atlanta, Athens and Columbus ¨C have been enhanced with XLTE, with more scheduled to be completed by the end of the year.
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| China bans Windows 8 on government systems |
5/20/2014 |
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All desktops, laptops, and tablets used by central state agencies must run on an OS other than Windows 8, according to China's Central Government Procurement Center.
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| UL announced global certification for LED luminaires |
5/20/2014 |
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For the first time, a certified testing laboratory has developed a single set of samples and tests that combine the requirements of both North American and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standards.
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| NVMe workgroup to set controller interface standard for future memory |
5/19/2014 |
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The driving force for NVMe acceptance is its ability to move NV memory from the legacy of the rotating disc and serial operation to parallel operation. Standardisation of the register, feature and command sets is a means of moving from proprietary to product interoperability.
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| AT&T to buy DirectTV |
5/19/2014 |
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"This is a unique opportunity that will redefine the video entertainment industry and create a company able to offer new bundles and deliver content to consumers across multiple screens," said Randall Stephenson, AT&T's chairman and CEO.
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| Finally, asynchronous SRAM with ECC |
5/19/2014 |
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Soft errors caused by background radiation can corrupt memory content, resulting in a loss of critical data. A hardware ECC block in Cypress's asynchronous SRAMs performs all error correction functions inline, without user intervention, delivering best-in-class Soft Error Rate (SER) performance.
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| Flash engineer reported in shortage |
5/19/2014 |
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The job candidates most in demand are engineers at all levels who have deep embedded experience in firmware and hardware, along with a working knowledge of flash and non-volatile memory techniques.
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