Cadence Design Systems has agreed to acquire configurable processor IP company Tensilica for around $380m in cash. The acquisition will add processor IP used in mobile, infrastructure, in-car entertainment and consumer applications, ...
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AMD is planning to sell and lease-back its Austin, Texas-based "Lone Star Campus" to 7171 Southwest Parkway Holdings, an affiliate entity of real estate investment company Spear Street Capital. Upon closing, net of all fees, the sale ...
Now that federal regulators have given their stamp of approval, a new Canadian furniture, mattress and major appliance retailing powerhouse will be created on March 28 when Leon's Furniture closes its bid to acquire arch-rival The Brick in ...
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A Moroni leather Chesterfield sofa marries traditional and modern looks in the casual contemporary area of the new Larrabee’s Furniture & Design. The sofa sits under a display of art glass from Cyan Designs. DENVER — ...
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Art Van Furniture is getting into the floor cleaning business. In a release, the Top 100 company said it has teamed with Floor Savers Maintenance & Restoration to start a new metro Detroit home cleaning service called Clean Team by Art ...
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How did you sleep last night? That's a good opening question when a retail sales associate welcomes a customer into his or her mattress department or mattress shop. It gets right at the key issue of quality of sleep, and providing a good ...
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Montezuma’s Chocolates, a UK-based chocolate maker, has recalled a variety of sweets as they contain sulphites that are not declared on the label. The products subject to the recall include 160g packs of Mango chutney sweets, ...
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CoorsTek, one of the largest technical ceramics manufacturers, today announced introduction of aluminum nitride substrates. Ideal for the rapidly growing LED market and other markets where high heat dissipation is useful, these ceramic ...
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Osram Opto Semiconductors developed a concept for uniform solder pads based on the Oslon light-emitting diode (LED) component family. This enables second sourcing by Osram’s LED customers without an additional soldering board, ...
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Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, part of Avnet Inc. (NYSE:AVT) opened a lighting lab in Chandler, AZ, to measure light-emitting diode (LED) properties for various applications. Avnet LightLab’s 900sq.ft. facility is equipped ...
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Canon U.S.A., Inc. recently launched the FPA-3030i5+ i-line stepper, designed for the manufacturing of LEDs, MEMS and power semiconductors. The FPA-3030 platform is an upgrade to earlier Canon “FPA-3000 platform” steppers. The ...
Taiwan-based tier-two LED chipmaker Tyntek has confirmed that its upstream blue epitaxial wafer firm Alpha Plus Epi has suspended production. Rumors regarding the production suspension of Alpha Plus Epi have been circulating in the market ...
In conjunction with the 2013 Government Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology conference (GOMACTech 13) in Las Vegas (11-14 March), RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of ...
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Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA says that the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (Fraunhofer-IAF) of Freiburg, Germany, which develops electrical and optical ...
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Specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach, CA, USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd) has received the 2012 Foundry ...
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