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Five lessons from Lenovo’s Motorola deal
Five lessons from Lenovo’s Motorola deal
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Lenovo’s $2.9bn acquisition of Motorola Mobility from Google highlights some key lessons in the industry…
More funds for SiC-on-silicon power technology
More funds for SiC-on-silicon power technology
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Martin Lamb has been appointed as the Chairman of Coventry-based Anvil Semiconductors Ltd, to lead the company's commercialization program of…
SiC-on-silicon technology targets disruptive breakthrough
SiC-on-silicon technology targets disruptive breakthrough
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Martin Lamb has been appointed as the Chairman of Coventry-based Anvil Semiconductors Ltd, to lead the company's commercialization program of…
Kaneka inks OLED technology license deal
Kaneka inks OLED technology license deal
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Leading Japaness chemical manufacturing conglomerate, Kaneka Corporation, has signed a new OLED Technology License Agreement with Universal Display Corporation with…

JM Energy invests $60m in high-volume LIC production
JM Energy invests $60m in high-volume LIC production
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JM Energy Corporation, a JSR Corporation subsidiary focusing on lithium ion capacitors technology (LIC), has revealed plans to invest $60 million to add a 8400m2 high-volume production plant with a…
European buses steer towards zero emission fuel cells
European buses steer towards zero emission fuel cells
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The drive for cleaner, greener public transport in Europe through switching buses to zero emission fuel cell technologies continues to advance.
Severance pay figures in Micron Italian job cut talks
Severance pay figures in Micron Italian job cut talks
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Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho) has said it is in discussions with the Italian government and trade unions over job cuts, however, those discussion also appear to focus on whether…
Automotive, security products drive Infineon’s expectations
Automotive, security products drive Infineon’s expectations
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Not a bad start into the year for Infineon: Despite revenues and profit were in line with the lowered expectations, under the bottom line the chipmaker achieved a better margin…
Vicor partners Firefly to boost Northern European sales
Vicor partners Firefly to boost Northern European sales
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Vicor Corporation is expanding the company's sales and support network in Northern Europe by partnering with Firefly Technology which will represent Vicor in the UK, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and…
Motorola goes to Lenovo for $2.9B but patents stay with Google
Motorola goes to Lenovo for $2.9B but patents stay with Google
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Google will sell Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.9 billion less than two-and-a-half years after it bought the smartphone and tablet maker for $12.5 billion.
Micron preps Italian job cuts
Micron preps Italian job cuts
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Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho) is set to cut about 420 jobs out of more than 1,000 in its Italian operation, according to local reports.
Vicor boosts Northern European sales together with Firefly
Vicor boosts Northern European sales together with Firefly
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Vicor Corporation is expanding the company's sales and support network in Northern Europe by partnering with Firefly Technology which will represent Vicor in the UK, Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and…
Lenovo snags motorola for $2.9B: Google keeps a grip on patents
Lenovo snags motorola for $2.9B: Google keeps a grip on patents
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Google has agreed to sell Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.9 billion less than two-and-a-half years after it bought the smartphone and tablet maker for $12.5 billion.
Sony agrees $73 million for Renesas fab
Sony agrees $73 million for Renesas fab
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As expected Sony Corp. has agreed to buy the Tsuruoka 300mm wafer fab of Renesas Electronics Corp. to expand its production of CMOS image sensors. The price agreed for the…
Osram Opto Semiconductors boosts capacity for InGaAlP LEDs
Osram Opto Semiconductors boosts capacity for InGaAlP LEDs
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Osram Opto Semiconductors is expanding the company's production capacity by extending the fabrication of all large-wafer LEDs to indium-gallium-aluminum-phosphide (InGaAlP) and is switching its fabrication of red, orange and yellow…
Altium and Nimbic partners on power integrity tool
Altium and Nimbic partners on power integrity tool
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EDA vendor Altium Limited and embedded software development Tasking along with Nimbic, a provider of electromagnetic simulation solutions, join their efforts to bring to market a new power integrity solution,…
LED-based sales surge helps drive Q4 2013 growth for Philips
LED-based sales surge helps drive Q4 2013 growth for Philips
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Dutch electronics giant Philips saw its Q4 2013 earnings before interest, tax and amortisation (EBITA) reach EUR 884 million, or 13.0% of sales, compared to a loss of EUR 50…
Skyworks gets multiple design wins in aerospace and defense
Skyworks gets multiple design wins in aerospace and defense
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Skyworks Solutions says that it has captured high-reliability and commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) sockets with several aerospace and defense suppliers such as Cobham, EADS, Herley and Teledyne.
UK tech sector records best growth performance for almost a decade
UK tech sector records best growth performance for almost a decade
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The UK tech sector has seen its best performance in almost a decade according to a new report from KPMG/Markit Tech Monitor.
ZigBee Alliance to develop standards for smart grid neighborhood area networks
ZigBee Alliance to develop standards for smart grid neighborhood area networks
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The ZigBee Alliance has announced that a group of leading smart metering and smart grid member companies are developing a communication profile aimed at achieving true plug-and-play interoperability between the…
Is Nokia’s 2007 decline a lesson for Samsung today?
Is Nokia’s 2007 decline a lesson for Samsung today?
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In the results posted Friday for the fourth quarter of 2013, Samsung Electronics reported an operating profit of 8.31 trillion won ($7.7 billion), which missed analyst expectations by a whopping…
Saft lands multi-million euro contract to supply backup power to UK main line trains
Saft lands multi-million euro contract to supply backup power to UK main line trains
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Hitachi Rail Europe has awarded Saft a multi-million Euro, five-year, framework contract to supply turnkey, fully integrated battery systems to provide backup power for passenger safety and comfort systems on…
Bosch, X-Fab execs to keynote MEMS congress
Bosch, X-Fab execs to keynote MEMS congress
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Rudi de Winter, CEO of X-Fab Silicon Foundries AG, and Klaus Meder, president of automotive electronics at Robert Bosch, will provide keynote speeches at the MEMS Executive Congress Europe to…
Acal BFi renews European distribution agreement with Delkin Devices
Acal BFi renews European distribution agreement with Delkin Devices
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Acal BFi has signed a new European distribution agreement with Delkin Devices, a USA-based manufacturer of industrial flash storage solutions.
Next-generation encrypted smartphone receives EU approval
Next-generation encrypted smartphone receives EU approval
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A smartphone app for secure voice communication and text messaging, Sectra Panthon 3, has been granted EU approval for the protection of EU classified information at the EU RESTRICTED level.
congatec expands into Russia
congatec expands into Russia
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German board designer congatec is expanding into the Russian Federation and CIS countries such as Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan in a move it sees as key for future growth.
Infineon hopes to increase tenfold sales to e-cars
Infineon hopes to increase tenfold sales to e-cars
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Chipmaker Infineon places lots of hopes to the breakthrough of electric mobility. The company expects an increase of its sales into this industry segment by a factor of up to…
Webinars on High Voltage DC distribution trends and design considerations
Webinars on High Voltage DC distribution trends and design considerations
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Vicor is to extend its HVDC webinar series with new sessions addressing HVDC for real-world HVDC scenarios; datacentre applications, commercial facilities, avionics, heavy machinery, military vehicles, and hybrid vehicles and…


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