Google's Motorola Mobility unit unveiled the highly anticipated Moto X smartphone on Thursday at an event themed around innovation, but many of the handset's highlighted features were similar to those on the recently announced Droid ...
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Xinyi Glass (0868) said yesterday interim net profit surged 110 percent to HK$1 billion from a year earlier due to robust demand for float glass and energy-saving construction glass in the mainland. Turnover increased 18.4 percent to a ...
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For its fiscal first-quarter 2014 (ended 29 June 2013), RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has reported record revenue of $293m, up 4.4% on $280.6m on last quarter and up 44.5% on $202.7m a-year ago. Fiscal Q1/2013 Q2/2013 ...
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The world’s love affair with smartphones continues to blaze. Between April and June, worldwide smartphone shipments grew by 52.3 percent compared to the same period in 2012, according to a new report by market research firm IDC. ...
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With the efficiency and total lumen output for LEDs on the rise, lighting in 2013 will surpass handsets as the biggest application for LED driver ICs, with revenue rising by more than 50% annually, and then more than doubling by 2018, ...
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RF Micro Devices, Inc. , a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency solutions, reported financial results for the Company's fiscal 2014 first quarter, ended June 29, 2013. Quarterly revenue increased ...
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China's Internet populace grew to 591 million by the end of June, as more new users in the country relied on handsets to go online, according to a non-profit research group. The growth raises China's Internet penetration by two percentage ...
A court's decision not to prevent multiple Samsung handsets from being sold in the U.S. despite their being found to infringe Apple patents will go before an appeal's court in early August. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal ...
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Apple's iPhone sales are sputtering as rival smartphone makers ramp up their offerings, a market research firm says. The survey by IHS iSuppli said smartphones are still going strong around the world, but that Apple is lagging. "Apple's ...
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At the SEMICON West trade show in San Francisco (9-11 July), Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates - including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and III-V epiwafers - as well as concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar ...
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Fabless envelope tracking (ET) semiconductor firm Nujira Ltd of Cambridge, UK and specialty foundry TowerJazz (which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek, Israel, and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc ...
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According to a new report from IMS Research, now part of IHS Inc, the market for LED driver ICs in LED lighting increase from $214 million in 2012 to $323 million this year. This will allow the LED market for lighting to exceed that of cell ...
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Nokia is to acquire Siemens' 50% stake in joint venture Nokia Siemens Networks, which will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Finnish company after the transaction is completed. The handset maker is paying $2.2 billion to acquire the ...
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Verizon Wireless has completed the initial rollout of its 4G LTE network, covering 95% of the U.S. population, and is now looking to reuse other spectrum for LTE and deploy small cells using the technology. On Thursday, in Parkersburg, W. ...
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South Korean operator SK Telecom said it launched an LTE-Advanced network on Wednesday, offering speeds of up to 150Mbps on an upgraded version of Samsung's Galaxy S4 handset. The operator said the service is the first in the world and ...
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