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Headlines for Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Business

Muddy mobile graphics waters dead ahead

Qualcomm engages other foundries amid 28-nm capacity shortage

Analyst: Linear Tech's outlook signals IC recovery

Otellini: Ultrabooks to hit 'mainstream' price points

Sequans, Nationz team up on LTE chipsets

Huawei recognizes Lattice as 'core partner'

Intel says 25% of shipments will be on 22-nm in Q2

Profit decline at ASML clouds outlook

Semi funding decreased in March, says GSA

Technology

Intel, Micron on sub 20-nm and insatiable thirst for memory

Research finds semiconductor derivative of graphene

Design

Flicker and dimming challenge LED lamp design

Headlines for Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Business

TSMC's Chang: 'The worst is behind us' on 28-nm

First Solar to slash 2,000 jobs

Intel's Q1 beats estimates despite annual declines

Google describes its OpenFlow network

Rusnano helps close $79 million Quantenna deal

Semi Europe exec appointed Epic director general

Technology

TSMC to offer only one process at 20-nm

Slideshow: Discovery takes victory lap before landing at Smithsonian

IBM awards fellowship for cloud research work

Product

ARM tips availability of 'Seahawk' A15 hard macro

Headlines for Monday, April 16, 2012

Business

Google may bundle MIPS support with Android

Sunovia secures financing for 10k LED fixtures a month

Indian tablet for education project in fresh controversy

SunPower to take charge of more than $50M for plant closure

Satya Gupta elected chair of India Semiconductor Assoc.

Murata buys RF Monolithics for $22 million

Design

Mentor to open-source UML editor

Technology

TriQuint and U.S. military team up on gallium nitride ICs

The intangible assets of the Internet of Things

Silicon-on-insulator at ST and IBM closing gap with Intel

Research consortium claims solution for multi-core scaling

Open source platform offered for photonics IC design

Product

Imagination adds ray-tracing to PowerVR graphics

Ceva rolls next-generation audio cores

ARM launches processor pack for big-little on TSMC 28-nm

Headlines for Friday, April 13, 2012

Technology

Severe vibrations likely brought down N. Korean rocket

Micron, Samsung back JEDEC plan for wireless memory

Abu Dhabi, Saxony invest in 'twin labs' 3-D IC project

Business

Chinese VCs back U.S. materials startup

Nokia faces long, painful, uncertain recovery

MIPS said to be up for sale

Headlines for Thursday, April 12, 2012

Business

Nvidia calls for move to 450mm wafers

Pure-play foundry market to grow 12% in 2012, says IHS

Spreadtrum, Dialog, MegaChips shine in fabless rankings

Conferences & Shows

Altera to showcase productivity and cost reduction solutions for multichannel systems at 2012 NAB

Product

Amlogic offers dual-core Cortex-A9 for consumer SoCs