Cree, Inc. announces the release of its second generation SiC MOSFET, enabling systems to have higher efficiency and smaller size at cost parity with silicon-based solutions. These new 1200V MOSFETs deliver power density and switching ...
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Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has introduced highly integrated front-end modules enabling 802.11ac connectivity in smartphones and tablets. IEEE ...
Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) says that several OEMs and smartphone providers are leveraging its SkyOne front-end solution. The SkyOne platform, ...
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For full-year 2012, GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has reported revenue of $112.6m, down 26.3% on 2011’s $152.8m. However, although down 16.5% on $36.5m a ...
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RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has introduced two new high-performance Multi-band, Multi-mode Power Amplifiers (MMPAs). The highly integrated MMPAs support more ...
For its fiscal third-quarter 2013 (ended 29 December 2012), radio-frequency component and compound semiconductor firm RF Micro Devices, of Greensboro, NC, USA has reported significantly improved financial results.Revenue was $271.2m, up ...
Silicon Motion Technology, the Taiwan-based supplier of NAND flash controllers for solid state storage devices, is offering its first, and possibly the market's first, single-channel, USB3.0 flash drive controller which supports Windows To ...
With a tough 2012 behind it, Advanced Micro Devices hopes to return to profitability this year through cost-cutting, new chips and other measures, executives said Tuesday. The moves include releasing new chips this year for laptops and ...
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Guillaume d’Eyssautier, formely CEO of picoChip, has been appointed CEO of RF MEMS specialist start-up DelfMEMS. DelfMEMS has just attracted $10.5m in ‘B’ Series financing from CDC Entreprises, Iris Capital, Capitalaria, ...
Tags: picoChip, DelfMEMS, mobile devices, smart phones, tablets
It's been a year since the introduction of the first Intel Inside handset,but the company's struggles to break into the smartphone market continue as rivals Nvidia and Qualcomm improved speed and power efficiency of dominant ARM chips. ...
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It's been a year since the introduction of the first Intel Inside handset, but the company's struggles to break into the smartphone market continue as rivals Nvidia and Qualcomm improved speed and power efficiency of ARM chips, which ...
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Pop into your local supermarket and pick up a packet of own label chocolate digestive biscuits. Now carefully inspect the packaging. Across the front and back of the pack you’ll find a raft of information that goes beyond brand ...
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IDG News Service - ARM showed strong growth in an otherwise weak semiconductor market, with robust demand for smartphone and tablet processors driving profit and revenue growth in the second quarter, the company said on Wednesday. The ...
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IDG News Service - MIPS, continuing its push to make a mark in low-cost tablets, is quickly trying to bring Android 4.1, also called Jellybean, to its processors. "We are working aggressively on bringing Jelly Bean to MIPS, and expect ...
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For second-quarter 2012, GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has reported net sales of $25.1m, down 11.7% on $28.4m last quarter and 29.5% on $35.6m a year ago. ...
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