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Headlines for Saturday, August 4, 2012

Business

Court hears of Jobs’ penchant for secrecy

Headlines for Friday, August 3, 2012

Business

Court scrutinizes email from Steve Jobs

E Ink to buy e-reader tech competitor SiPix

Schiller ‘shocked’ at ‘copycat’ Samsung phones

Judge cracks whip during Apple v. Samsung

Does Samsung deal leave CSR out in the cold?

Microchip closes SMSC deal, discusses integration plans

June global chip sales stay soft on U.S. weakness

Yoshida in China: Windfall orders from smartphones in China?

Synopsys to buy SpringSoft for $406 million

Component prices plunging on economic uncertainty, says IHS

Multicore 'string processor' firm sold to Ericsson

Foundries soar, Japanese IDMs slide in IC sales rankings

Technology

Adam Steltzner, NASA's hipster rocket engineer

Wearable monitoring system for Parkinson's patients

Writing, drawing with eyes

London Calling: Mirror, mirror on the EUV machine

Design

Is Synopsys helping chip making return to its roots?

Headlines for Thursday, August 2, 2012

Business

What's in a name? Plenty, says CEO of former austriamicrosystems

What's in a name? Plenty, says CEO of former austriamicrosystems

What's in a name? Plenty, says CEO of former austriamicrosystems

ON Semi plans more job cuts

Yoshida in China: Is China’s manufacturing sector slowing down?

ON Semi's CFO resigns

Report: Lenovo not interested in buying Nokia

Sharp to slash 5,000 jobs

London Calling: Intel, Delfassy back gesture firm

Taiwan approves MediaTek's MStar buy

Chip stocks hanging tough, says analyst

Venture capitalist named chairman of Cirrus Logic

Technology

From small contributions come big successes

Animated characters brought to life by 3-D printing

Financial

Renesas forecasts flood of red ink

Headlines for Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Product

Fusion-io code makes servers storage appliances

Technology

ARM signs 64-bit deal with Cavium

New sim, testing tools used to design Mars lander

AMD recruits Apple processor guru as chief chip architect

Business

Samsung lays out countersuit against Apple

Startup raises $30 million to bring MRAM to market

Wolfson predicts return to profit in 2H12

Smart energy interoperability group formally incorporated

RF test startup raises funds

Japan revives mobile chip joint venture

China clears Microchip's SMSC acquisition

Headlines for Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Design

A look inside Apple’s kitchen table group

Business

Spansion eyes aggressive road map after strong Q2

London Calling: Infineon's Bauer bows out

Apple v. Samsung kicks off innovation debates

Toshiba to commence volume production of white LEDs

Indian firm launches $125 MIPS-based Android 4.1 tablet

Amy Farrah Fowler helps Texas Instruments teach

Apple captive Cirrus gagged

Career

ARM microcontroller, IoT exam coming early in 2013

Financial

Infineon freezes headcount, mulls 'further measures'

Headlines for Monday, July 30, 2012

Business

7 thoughts on VMWare's $1.26B bid for Nicira

Samsung eating Apple's smartphone iLunch

Analog sector to post modest sales growth, boost 300-mm production

Apple to acquire fingerprint chip firm Authentec

UMC seeks partners, offers 10% share in business

Rohde & Schwarz extends into N.A. EMC market

Wireless is bright sector in slow chip market, says IHS

Design

Synopsys buys EDA vendor Ciranova

Technology

London Calling: CIA partners with UK RF firm

Product

Intel upgrades 3G RF chip with power amplifiers