Woodstock Wire: Semiconductor News

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Electronics -- Intel - By Rick Echevarria - The future of a trusted and secure computing environment hinges on our collective ability to deliver solutions that...

Electronics -- TI - ConnecTIng Wirelessly - I'm sure you've been guilty of this at some point. You walk onto an airplane and try to jam your luggage into the...

Tech -- The Verge - Intel has announced that CEO Brian Krzanich has resigned from the company effective immediately. CFO Robert Swan is now Intel's interim...

Tech -- TechCrunch - In a press release touting "another record year," Intel dropped a a bombshell, announcing that CEO Brian Krzanich is resigning,...

Electronics -- TI - Behind the Wheel - You order a taxi through an app on your phone, and it arrives within minutes. There's no one in the car and the doors...

Electronics -- EPC - LIDAR is presently a subject of great interest, primarily due to its widespread adoption in autonomous navigation systems for vehicles,...

Electronics -- SEMI - North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $2.70 billion in billings worldwide...

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Electronics -- Intel - Craig Barrett holds up a Time magazine Man of the Year frame in front of Andy Grove. It carries the headline, "It's Me, Andy Grove."...

Electronics -- Intel - By Brian Krzanich - A year ago, I recognized that Intel's end-to-end platform for autonomous driving wasn't complete.

Large gaps existed....

Electronics -- TI - Think. Innovate - Basmah Sawalhi - a rising high-school senior, aspiring architect and self-professed math geek - says problem-solving sparks...

Business Wire -- Analog Devices Enhanced A2B Transceivers Deliver Unparalleled Flexibility for Emerging Applications

Electronics -- SEMI - FlexTech, a SEMI Strategic Association Partner, is now soliciting proposals for projects that advance flexible...

Electronics -- Texas Instruments - Designers can optimize system performance with industry-leading speed, precision and power consumption

BGR -- If you already know which company is developing its own graphics processing unit for mobile devices, then you also know that where Apple leads,...

Enterprise -- The Register - Revenue will fall, but gigabytes shipped will rise as NAND soars

Analyst firm IDC has predicted revenue for the flash storage...

Electronics -- Allegro MicroSystems - Allegro MicroSystems, LLC is celebrating a milestone for its popular line of Gear Tooth Sensor (GTS) ICs, which surpassed...

Electronics -- Altair Semi - In February, Murata Electronics, a global leader in enabling embedded modules, announced it was teaming with Altair to develop...

Electronics -- NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI), the world's largest supplier of automotive semiconductors1, has announced a new family of high-performance...

WebWire - Semiconductors -- STMicroelectronics' AlgoBuilder tool takes the coding out of firmware development by letting users build sensor-control...

Reuters: Technology News -- Toshiba Corp announced a planned share buyback of around 700 billion yen ($6.33 billion), following up on a pledge to share...

Global Purchasing -- NXP Semiconductors, catering to customers building industrial and other embedded applications, said that it would guarantee the supply of its...

CNBC-Top Business -- China remains the only one of nine global regulators needed to sign off on Qualcomm's proposed $44 billion takeover of NXP Semiconductors.

DigiTimes -- Rising raw materials costs have prompted Mosel Vitelic and other 6-inch foundries to raise their quotes, according to Rebecca Tang, chairperson...

DigiTimes -- When Texas Instruments' new engineer Jack Kilby invented the world's first IC in 1958, no one could imagine that 60 years later, ICs have deeply...

DigiTimes -- Driven by the colossal Internet of Things (IoT) opportunity, wireless technologies - including wireless local area network (WLAN), Bluetooth,...

DigiTimes -- If applied to the healthcare industry, 5G technologies should start with outside-the-body applications rather than invasive ones, as accreditations...

DigiTimes -- Pure-play foundry United Microelectronics (UMC) expects its fab operation in Xiamen, China to remain unprofitable in 2018 due to insufficient...

DigiTimes -- Globalfoundries has disclosed plans to cut 5% of its global workforce, or about 900 employees, with the layoff to take place mainly in Europe...

DigiTimes -- NAND flash prices will continue to drop in the third quarter of 2018 as suppliers scale up their 3D NAND chip output, according to industry sources.

DigiTimes -- DRAM and flash memory maker Winbond Electronics will start constructing a new fab in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan in September followed by equipment...

DigiTimes -- LED packaging service provider Everlight Electronics and LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar have reported consolidated revenues of NT$1.985...

U.S. News -- Qualcomm Inc has extended by a week its cash tender offer to buy all shares of NXP Semiconductors NV for $44 billion, the chipmaker...

U.S. News -- A Vermont semiconductor company says it will cut jobs at its plant in Essex Junction as part of a 5 percent global reduction of its workforce.

U.S. News -- Qualcomm Inc has no plans to abandon its efforts to create processors for data centers, the company's president,...

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PR Newswire: Nanotechnology -- In IMS Booth #1349, pSemiTM Corporation (formerly known as Peregrine Semiconductor), a Murata company...

PR Newswire: Networks -- CalAmp (Nasdaq: CAMP), a technology solutions pioneer transforming the global connected economy, announced today that it will release its fiscal...

PR Newswire: Networks -- Microsemi Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Microchip Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: MCHP), today announced it has enabled cable TV and internet...

Business Wire -- Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) today announced the completion of its exchange offer to exchange up to $1,966,590,000 aggregate principal amount...

Business Wire -- Renesas Electronics Corporation today announced an update to its "Embedded Target for RH850 Multicore" model-based development environment.

Business Wire -- Intel's Asha Keddy writes that the new 3GPP Release 15 Standalone 5G NR standard will speed up the arrival of 5G communications.

Business Wire -- MaxLinear announced it is collaborating with Hitron Technologies America on a range of new multi-gigabit client devices for MoCA 2.5 access networks.

Business Wire -- Award-winning CMV50000 from ams provides superior camera performance and higher throughput in Automated Optical Inspection applications

Infosec -- Dark Reading - Moderate severity Lazy FP restore flaw affects Intel Core-based microprocessors.

Enterprise -- CRN - Following US$5.5 billion acquisition of network gear maker Brocade.

Enterprise -- SiliconANGLE - Chinese regulators have approved Qualcomm Technologies Inc.'s acquisition of NXP Semiconductors N.V., the last hurdle of nine...

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - Staff numbers will be cut, but the business unit will keep pushing into the US and China.

Enterprise -- ZDNet News - Intel is aiming to compete with Nvidia and AMD in the AI-driven, discrete graphics card market by 2020.