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Headlines for Friday, September 21, 2012

Design

Teardown: Inside Apple's iPhone 5

Technology

Apple A6 processor has landed, sort of

A peek inside Apple's A6 processor

Slideshow: Vision, medtech in focus at DESIGN East

Could Apple's A6 be a 'big-little' processor?

Analyst says Apple designed core for iPhone 5 processor

ARM TechCon to tip 'big-little' processors

DESIGN East: Vision guru calls for helping hand with ARM

Business

Japan Inc. reportedly moves to block KKR’s Renesas takeover

Fab tool book-to-bill declines again

Headlines for Thursday, September 20, 2012

Technology

SpaceX booked for October return to space station

Rohm makes smartphone fuel cell

Researchers develop printable lasers

Globalfoundries looks to leapfrog fab rivals

DESIGN East: XPrize calls for Star Trek tricorder

Business

Yoshida in China: Whither the neglected 6 billion?

Students go Googly for top engineering employers

Motorola asks ITC to ban Apple products

Headlines for Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Business

Intel's Embedded Framework Gains Traction at DESIGN East

Cypress grabs Ramtron, at last

China Fabless: Going it alone, GigaDevice targets 'no-growth' NOR flash market

Fab lite, fewer startups could fuel IC growth rate

Cowan tips chip market growth for 2013

Global chips sales slipped in August, says Diesen

Career

Intel exec Maloney to retire

Technology

SK Hynix joins EUV metrology research effort

DESIGN East: Sensors needed for medtech devices

London Calling: Lego computer, Arduino phone

Product

TI extends its Miracast offerings

Design

Teardown: Inside the Kindle Fire HD

Headlines for Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Business

DESIGN East: IoT will be huge--maybe sooner than later

Slideshow: Sights, sounds of an IndyCar race

DESIGN East: Futurist tells engineers to embrace change

Think electronics manufacturing is on life support? Think again

Yoshida in China: Spreadtrum CFO shows company's 'soft' skills

Technology

Kilopass details smaller footprint memory bit cell

Design

DESIGN East: Snapdragon S4 processor goes embedded

Headlines for Monday, September 17, 2012

Technology

PLX preps PCI Express fabric amid server debate

Group takes shortcut in quest for electronic brain

Slideshow: Ten things to see in the rise of LTE

Business

Fab tool vendor Brooks cuts 10% of workforce

AMD CFO Seifert steps down

Week in automotive electronics (Sept. 17, 2012)

Whether F1 or IndyCar, clever engineering is key

Xilinx acquires wireless backhaul IP provider

China Fabless: Resurgent Spreadtrum looks to expand

Slideshow: Intel on Ultrabooks, Haswell and more

Microchip unveils new 8-bit microcontroller at DESIGN East

LFoundry to invest $33M in R&D

Design

Predictable semiconductor cycle ahead?

Conferences & Shows

ARM TechCon probes road to 14-nm ICs

Product

Startup samples 60 GHz transceiver

Kalray claims 25 customers for 256-core processor