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Autonomous driving not a question of technology, managers say
Autonomous driving not a question of technology, managers say
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Drivers who summon their vehicles out of the underground garage with their smartphone and then continue their ride in a…
Intersil buys Great Wall Semiconductor to boost power MOSFET expertise
Intersil buys Great Wall Semiconductor to boost power MOSFET expertise
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Intersil, based in Milpitas, California, is to acquire Great Wall Semiconductor (GWS, Tempe, Arizona), a private technology company developing state-of-the-art…
Autonomous driving will not depend on technology according to survey
Autonomous driving will not depend on technology according to survey
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Drivers who summon their vehicles out of the underground garage with their smartphone and then allow the silicon chauffeur to…
TSMC reports August sales drop
TSMC reports August sales drop
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TSMC has reported that its net revenues for August 2015 were down both sequentially and on a year-on-year basis.

Freescale grabs CogniVue for its image cognition IP
Freescale grabs CogniVue for its image cognition IP
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Increasingly, driver assistance systems are using machine vision techniques to identify safety-relevant situations in dense traffic. To further solidify its position in the market of vision-processing automotive systems, chipmaker Freescale…
Intersil acquires Great Wall Semiconductor, extends power MOSFET expertise
Intersil acquires Great Wall Semiconductor, extends power MOSFET expertise
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Intersil Corporation has acquired Great Wall Semiconductor (GWS), a private technology company developing state-of-the-art power metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) technology for cloud computing, space and consumer applications.
IP hot spot forms in Egypt
IP hot spot forms in Egypt
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The formation of a set of semiconductor companies in and around Cairo, Egypt, provides hints that a possible clustering effect may be taking place there.
Intersil buys Great Wall Semiconductor
Intersil buys Great Wall Semiconductor
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Intersil Corp. (Milpitas, Calif.), a power management and analog IC company, has announced the acquisition of Great Wall Semiconductor Inc. (Tempe, Arizona), a specialist supplier of low-voltage power chips.
GaN soon on 8-inch silicon wafers, hopes MACOM
GaN soon on 8-inch silicon wafers, hopes MACOM
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As M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc. (MACOM) announced its 4th generation 100W GaN on Silicon wideband transistor at the European Microwave show in Paris, the company is confident it will play…
Osram to sells stake in Felco for 350m euros
Osram to sells stake in Felco for 350m euros
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Osram has agreed to sell the company's 13.5 percent stake in the Chinese company Foshan Electrical and Lighting Co., Ltd. (Felco) to a subsidiary of Guangdong Rising Assets Management Co.,…
Toyota, Stanford partner on AI-assisted driving
Toyota, Stanford partner on AI-assisted driving
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Stanford University (Stanford, CA) has announced that it is partnering with Toyota in an artificial intelligence (AI) research effort that will focus on the development of AI technologies used in…
MACOM launches 100-W GaN on Silicon wideband transistor, looks to 8-inch wafers
MACOM launches 100-W GaN on Silicon wideband transistor, looks to 8-inch wafers
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As M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc. (MACOM) announced its 4th generation 100-W GaN on Silicon wideband transistor at the European Microwave show in Paris, the company is confident it will play…
Suspected suicide of former Realtek chairman reported
Suspected suicide of former Realtek chairman reported
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The former chairman of fabless analog IC vendor Realtek Technology Corp. (Hsinchu, Tawian), Lee Chao-cheng, was found dead on Friday Sept. 4 in a suspected suicide, according to reports.
5m euros injected in Finnish hyperspectral imaging instrumentation business
5m euros injected in Finnish hyperspectral imaging instrumentation business
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SPECIM, Spectral Imaging Oy Ltd., a pioneer in hyperspectral imaging instruments and systems, has received 5.3 million euros of financing to ensure the company's growth.
Diodes offers $400 million to buy Pericom
Diodes offers $400 million to buy Pericom
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Diodes Inc., a supplier and manufacturer of discrete semiconductors and logic and analog ICs has offered $400 million to acquire Pericom Semiconductor Corp. a vendor of analog, digital and mixed-signal…
Anite agrees to license Nokia OSS interfaces
Anite agrees to license Nokia OSS interfaces
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Anite has signed an agreement with Nokia Networks under the Operations Support Systems interoperability initiative (OSSii) for access to Nokia's OSS interfaces. Integration with Nokia product interfaces ensures that Anite's…
MediaTek pursues PMIC market with Richtek buy
MediaTek pursues PMIC market with Richtek buy
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Taiwanese fabless chip company MediaTek has announced it plans to bid to buy Richtek Technology Corp., a fabless vendor of analog ICs and power management ICs also based in Hsinchu,…
RayVio expands UV LED manufacturing capacity to meet global growth
RayVio expands UV LED manufacturing capacity to meet global growth
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RayVio Corporation, a world leader in the development of deep ultraviolet (UV) LEDs and integrated solutions, is expanding the company's international sales force, and manufacturing capacity to support increased customer…
Wide range of organisations form IoT Security Foundation
Wide range of organisations form IoT Security Foundation
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The Internet of Things Security Foundation has been formed with a large list of associate members having sprung out of discussions held at the UK's National Microelectronics Institute.
IoT Security Foundation formed
IoT Security Foundation formed
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The Internet of Things Security Foundation has been formed with a large list of associate members having sprung out of discussions held at the UK's National Microelectronics Institute.
Chinese processor builder discloses MIPS64-IP-based 4-core designs
Chinese processor builder discloses MIPS64-IP-based 4-core designs
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Imagination Technologies has posted a blog entry outlining the appearance of a “new and innovative” family of chips from Chinese chipmaker Loongson Technology that target the ultra-high performance consumer and…
Cree’s power and RF business morphs into Wolfspeed
Cree’s power and RF business morphs into Wolfspeed
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Cree, Inc. has re-badged the company's Power and RF division of Cree and separated the business into a standalone company.
Google backer offers $50 million quantum computer investment
Google backer offers $50 million quantum computer investment
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One of the original investors in Google plans to invest up to $50 million in Cambridge Quantum Computing Ltd. (Cambridge, England), a developer of tools and software for the commercialization…
Serdes startup Credo raises $8 million
Serdes startup Credo raises $8 million
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Credo Semiconductor Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.), a developer of serializer-deserializer circuits, technology and IP cores, has raised $8 million in a Series A round of funding led by Walden International.
DecaWave preps for expansion, next location chip.
DecaWave preps for expansion, next location chip.
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Even though ultrawideband fabless chip company DecaWave Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland) has only recently raised funding of $4.5 million the company is planning for another substantial round as it looks to…
Tektronix Communications agreement with Ericsson extends TrueCall Geoanalytics capabilities
Tektronix Communications agreement with Ericsson extends TrueCall Geoanalytics capabilities
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Tektronix Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary of NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, is extending the availability, reliability and capability of its TrueCall® geoanalytics platform by signing with Ericsson an Operations Support Systems Interoperability…
Intel funds, adopts Almalence imaging
Intel funds, adopts Almalence imaging
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Computational imaging company Almalence Inc. (Austin, Texas) has received a round of investment from Intel Capital. The amount invested was not disclosed.
Plessey clinches GBP6.7m grant for LED production expansion
Plessey clinches GBP6.7m grant for LED production expansion
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Plessey has received a grant of £6.7 million the Regional Growth Fund (RGF) in the UK to help fund the expansion of the company's LED manufacturing facility in Plymouth, England.


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