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Headlines for Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Business

EE says Apple design patents invalid

Who’s gaming who at Apple vs. Samsung?

Bondholders say Elpida is grossly undervalued

Sparks fly as Intel shows up at Apple case

Apple grows iPad share as court case rages

Yoshida in China: Vendors caught napping on smartphones

China Li-ion battery market growth exploding

London Calling: Leading in LEDs

Product

Freescale MEMS sensors target mobile

44 TByte flash array debuts at $3/GByte

Technology

Tritium nanobattery lasts in smaller spaces

Memory-cube group issues initial draft specs

GaN is good for wireless charging

Headlines for Monday, August 13, 2012

Business

Seeing the light on optoelectronics manufacturing

Foxconn outfoxes Sharp’s sharpest

Cloud computing to boost global memory IC market, says GBI Research

Yoshida in China: Spreadtrum sees lower profits

Tokyo Electron buys FSI

Google cutting 20% of jobs at Motorola Mobility

Samsung, Osram settle LED patent battle

Technology

Philips and Daintree highlight ZigBee for wireless lighting controls

Fraunhofer develops smart wireless power outlets

Bluetooth and ZigBee on collision course in the connected home

Report urges U.S. effort to recapture optics lead

Curiosity rover gets 'brain transplant'

ARM, GlobalFoundries agree FinFET path

Design

NI rocks in graphics language applications

Headlines for Sunday, August 12, 2012

Technology

IBM observes spintronic 'waltz'

Headlines for Saturday, August 11, 2012

Business

Slideshow: Inside Apple, Samsung patent talks

Survey: Apple patents worth $100 per device

Headlines for Friday, August 10, 2012

Business

Expert: Samsung infringed ‘915 patent 24 times

Expert: Samsung infringes Apple patent 21 ways

Tower shortlisted to run Indian fab

Consumers: Samsung, Apple devices look alike

Apple-Samsung trial coverage

Yoshida in China: Taiwan-China superpower?

No medals at Olympics for 3-D TV

Freescale closes French fab

Semi market growth seen as doubling

TSMC's July sales soar

London Calling: Deutsche does M2M

Design

Teardown: Inside RIM Blackberry Playbook LTE

ARM continues Synopsys EDA support

Technology

New algorithm said to scrub nets for threats

Report: Intel preps wireless charging

Headlines for Thursday, August 9, 2012

Business

Nvidia says Android tablets have arrived

Apple vs. Samsung: Reading Steve Jobs' emails

Molex banks on acquisitions, new product wins for growth

Massacre at IBM, a case study

Yoshida in China: Rare earths rarer

LED industry enters third growth cycle

Technology

MIT develops multicore programming language

Aviation safety to benefit heart patients

London Calling: MEMS the word

Product

Inside TI's ADS1298 analog front end for health monitoring

ARM, Cadence tune support for processor design

Career

Microelectronics Olympiad backed by Synopsys, IEEE

Financial

Foundry Tower sees slower Q3

Headlines for Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Business

Semico cuts 2012 chip market growth forecast

Slideshow: Apple's best evidence on Samsung

Yoshida in China: Rainstorm, restrictions on license plates affect automakers

Replace Cirrus’ design slots in Apple? Fuhgeddaboudit!

SMIC hits new quarterly revenue high

UMC's July sales bounce 9%

AMD names new sales chief

Technology

Beware technology bearing gifts; turn off the light

Data Science Automation wins LabVIEW FPGA innovation award

Startup works with NASA to develop low mass lighting

Design

Synopsys launches verification IP community website

National Instruments debuts integrated RF testing

Financial

Loss-making Peregrine prices IPO to raise $77 million