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Headlines for Friday, May 25, 2012

Business

Renesas cuts 14,000 jobs; fab sale to TSMC

'Berthing' a commercial space industry

Former Conexant CEO tapped to lead Lantiq

Murata completes takeover of VTI with name change

Sharp to transfer LCD technology to Hon Hai’s China plant

ST's priorities: Sustain analog, expand into digital

SIA holds yearly council and drafts global chip tariff policy

Technology

Update: Dragon docked to space station

Headlines for Thursday, May 24, 2012

Technology

Intel to spend $40 million on international university research

High-G MEMS help detect concussions

IMU integrates accelerometer, gyro

Dragon cargo ship, space station fly in formation

SRC clears path to 14-nm with directed self-assembly

High Voltage CMOS process tackles power

ARM CTO looks at architecture scaling for 2020 solutions

Business

Renesas still struggling with restructuring plan

Reports: Renesas to tie up with TSMC, cut jobs

Slideshow: Sun shines on UMC's new fab

UMC breaks ground for $8-billion fab expansion

Product

Spansion sampling single-level cell NAND for embedded apps

Headlines for Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Business

Intersil to cut 11% of workforce

Synopsys names co-CEO to join de Geus

Dell's results seen as bad news for Intel

TCL to launch motion-controlled Android TV first in China

Report reveals fake chips in U.S. military hardware

Silicon Valley’s latest product—diamonds

HTC dials in to Taiwan’s 4G battle

Design

Teardown slideshow: The anatomy of the LED light bulb

TI rolls high data rate CAN transceivers

NI tips LabVIEW Electrical Power Suite for power monitoring

Technology

IndyCar safety harnesses MEMS

TI says copper wire bonding momentum growing

Memristor is 200 years old, say academics

Headlines for Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Technology

Video and audio storage requirements drive doubling of maximum hard drive densities by 2016

Next stop for SpaceX is space station

ST works with startup on 'permanent' in-ear audio

Indy electronics drive cars to be lighter, faster

Microsoft and Skolkovo Foundation cooperate on cloud

UK researchers follow silicon-oxide ReRAM route

Startup opens GaN-on-Si wafer production facility

Electronic components travel well on Space missions

Product

Agilent Technologies develops voice-over-LTE test system with Brüel & Kjær

MaxLinear tips front-end receivers for video gateways, STBs

Business

Jha out as Google closes Moto Mobility buy

Will Japan Inc. say sayonara to TV manufacturing?

Qualcomm offers $250,000 funding for best startup

China Mobile taps Mindspeed for femtocells

HDD densities expected to double by 2016

Headlines for Monday, May 21, 2012

Business

Handset shipments projected to rise 11% in 2012

SMSC investors sue to stop takeover by Microchip

Packaging materials firm snags $10.5M in funding

Foxconn to spend $210M on new Apple production plant

JEDEC publishes LPDDR3 standard for low-power memory devices

Report: Hynix, Globalfoundries in talks to buy Elpida

Silicon Labs to buy wireless mesh networking firm

Russia drives into U.S. fabless funding

ARM signs HiSilicon to use Mali GPU cores

Design

ON Semi expands Czech design center

Technology

Small basestations will be big

DO-178 software reuse in the ISO 26262 domain reduces cost for automotive suppliers

Inexact processor is more power efficient

IEEE group defines body area network

Extra!

Cadence CEO: EDA firms must innovate beyond software

Financial

Aquantia closes $35 million Series F funding round

Product

AMD plugs Trinity into embedded systems

Headlines for Sunday, May 20, 2012

Business

Facebook founder marries in secret ceremony