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Headlines for Friday, April 20, 2012

Technology

Monnit launches OEMSensors.com with new, brandable wireless sensors

As Discovery is retired, an icon mulls America's spacefaring future

VLSI confab brings technology, circuits to the fore

Business

Eeeek! Microchip Technology acquires roving networks

Next up for EMS providers: Expanding beyond manufacturing services

Time for a return to the customer-backed joint venture foundry?

No fab for Qualcomm but firm mulls business evolution

Three things are clear in Oracle vs. Google

Arms race in app processors drives mobile chip market

SanDisk expects big Q2 revenue decline

AMD financials down, future looks flat

Altera's sales slump on inventory glut, comms weakness

Freescale's Q1 points to upswing, says CEO

Headlines for Thursday, April 19, 2012

Business

Freescale CEO Beyer to retire

Intel smartphone launched in India

Intel grabs 15% of cellular baseband market

Microchip buys wireless module maker

Source problems cause EUV revenue delay, says ASML

Soon to merge Lam, Novellus report sequential growth

Technology

ASML: Push is on for 20-nm chip production in 2013

DRAM, foundry logic in race to use EUV, says ASML

Product

Startup tips self-healing secure CPU built on Cortus

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