Total worldwide semiconductor revenue fell 2.6 per cent to $299.9bn in 2012, according to figures released today by analyst group Gartner. Intel remained the runaway market leader for the 21st year in a row with revenues of $49.09bn, but ...
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Renesas will decide whether to sell its mobile chip division during the course of this year, says the company. Selling a mobile chip division is easier said than done. First of all no sane person wants to get into a market where ...
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Reports that STMicroelectronics have failed to find a buyer for ST--Ericsson mean that only one option remains for ST-E and that is closure unless the French government bails it out. Last December ST committed to exiting from the jv by ...
The private equity consortium led by KKR which bought NXP is selling another 25 million shares in the company. Last month it sold 30 million shares. The 30 million shares that were disposed of at around $30 each in February were sold to ...
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NXP has announced a 3.6V loudspeaker driver that can deliver 3.4Wrms into an 8Ω speaker. The voltage headroom required comes from an on-chip dc-dc converter with a 9.5V output. Aimed at mobile phone use, it can deliver a lot of ...
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Micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti of Grenoble, France says that it will coordinate a four-year project aimed at building a European-based supply chain in silicon photonics and speeding industrialization of the technology. The ...
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Dual interface shipments to exceed the 1 billion mark in 2015. The number of dual interface and pure contactless smart cards is expected to make up 30% of all smart card shipments in 2018, rising from 16% of the 8.6 billion smart cards ...
Tags: Contactless smart cards, smart cards, contactless cards
The global gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor device market will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18% over 2012-2016, forecasts a new report from TechNavio (the market research platform of Infiniti Research Ltd). ...
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According to TechNavio, one of the key factors contributing to market growth in semiconductors is the high thermal conductivity of gallium nitride over other non-silicon substrates . The gallium nitride semiconductor devices market has ...
Delphi Automotive is to use NXP tuner chips in car radios. In particular: the SAF775x family of single-chip RF CMOS tuners, NXP´s AM/FM background tuner, and its SAF36xx software defined radio for digital reception. ...
Photovoltaic inverter design is now seen as the crucial element in solar power development, writes James Turner, and he discusses some of the challenges that can shape PV inverter design. Over the last few years the photovoltaic (PV) ...
Edgar Langen, a lighting expert with extensive experience in LED Lighting and associated electronics, has been appointed General Manager of Lumotech, part of the Nualight Group. He will be responsible for all lighting electronics at the ...
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Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Royal Philips Electronics, commonly known as Philips) (Euronext: PHIA, NYSE: PHG) is a Dutch multinational electronics company headquartered in Amsterdam. It was founded in Eindhoven in 1891 by Gerard ...
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NXP Semiconductors has joined the Mobile World Capital Barcelona Foundation in support of the deployment of NFC services. The intention is to support the adoption of NFC technology in public administrations, transport operators and reader ...
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The CEOs of Europe’s Big Three semiconductor companies are optimistic about 2013. Each, at their earnings calls, said they expected a better end to the year than the beginning. There seems to be a commonly shared belief that Q1 will ...
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