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Headlines for Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Technology

Next-gen video codec hits milestone

Business

UMC to boost 2012 capex to $2 billion

Rebuilding America: Silicon Valley is back

APEC: Linear Tech's perspective

SEMI Europe symposium to review IC industry goals

Nokia: No "Plan B" should Windows Phone fail

Nvidia takes Rambus license

Nokia shifts assembly to Asia, plans to lay off 4,000

Product

Conexant has 32-bit processor for hi-performance audio

ST adds 32-bit MCU to 9-axis inertial sensor

Cavium, Freescale roll embedded processors


Headlines for Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Technology

SIA makes public technology roadmap

Cree claims LED price-performance breakthrough

User interface firm offers OpenCL benchmarking tool

Researchers develop novel form of hafnium oxide

Business

India wafer fab decision expected by end of 2012

Commentary: Japan Inc. faces choppy seas

VC Kleiner Perkins launches engineering student fellowship

Intel’s Romley poised to roil data center

FujiPanaRene: clinging to the wreckage

Nikkei: Japanese firms look to merge system IC units

LTE femtocells ready to take off as API ecosystem expands

Mindspeed completes acquisition of Picochip

Mindspeed completes Picochip acquisition

Plessey buys Cambridge spin-off for HB LEDs

Design

Kilopass NVM IP qualified at 130-nm at TowerJazz

Product

Transphorm announces GaN products at 600-V


Headlines for Monday, February 6, 2012

Extra!

Questions Cloud Outlook at 'New' AMD Paid

Business

Veeco sees no near-term uptick in LED market

Google poaches Apple exec

BlackBerry PlayBook sees further price cuts

Rambus buys memory startup for $35 million

Global chip sales squeeze 0.4% annual growth

Intel terahertz supplier secures $5.5 million funds

Technology

Book review: CHIPS 2020

Product

Broadcom RFIC shrinks microwave backhaul nets

Career

Reports: trace carcinogens found in Korean wafer fabs


Headlines for Sunday, February 5, 2012

Technology

Big Switch releases open source controller for OpenFlow


Headlines for Saturday, February 4, 2012

Business

Appleton's death could delay DRAM consolidation

Micron appoints Durcan CEO


Headlines for Friday, February 3, 2012

Business

New IBM CEO sees her salary doubled

IBM SmartCamp startups attempt to solve world problems

Steve Appleton in retrospect

Micron's Steve Appleton dies in plane crash

Panasonic predicts loss of $10 billion for fiscal year

Sonics, Tensilica team to improve IP efficiency

Microchip posts weak fiscal Q3, outlook brighter

Extra!

ARM Mulls Non-Volatile Memory IP acquisition Paid

Product

STMicro extends appliance control offerings


Headlines for Thursday, February 2, 2012

Business

NXP gives sneak peek at new engineering workbench app

Video: HP's Prith Banerjee discusses HP labs, ARM servers and optical interconnects

AMD: New faces, new road maps, new focus

Elpida posts big loss, denies Micron deal

ASPs weigh as Hynix' losses reduced in Q4

CMOS timing startup raises $2.3 million

Infineon profits trimmed by lower sales

TSMC plans 3-D IC assembly launch early in 2013

Cadence a billion dollar company once again

U.S. probes Qualcomm's foreign business practices

Conferences & Shows

Rick Merritt DesignCon wrap up; 3D stacking, optical interconnects

Technology

HP rolls OpenFlow code for its switches

U.K. to spend $120 million on graphene institute

CNSE receives federal grants for nanotechnologies

Qualcomm, Ericsson demo LTE-to-3G handover


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