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    Broadband show discusses opportunities in Asia
  • TI and MEMS market
    TI holds on to MEMS crown
  • Applied Materials restructures
    Applied Materials restructures, moves solar mfg to Asia
  • Wafer shipments
    SEMI: Q1 wafer shipments show slight improvement
  • Micron-Elpida
    After Elpida-Micron, then what?
  • Micron wins Elpida bid
    Micron wins bid to buy Elpida
  • Chinese MEMS fab
    Chinese firm builds MEMS wafer fab
  • Li-ion batteries with carbon nanoparticles
    Rohde & Schwarz invests $85M in Singapore hub
  • Microchip buys SMSC
    Acquisition signals new direction for Microchip
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Broadband IP&TV
Broadband show discusses opportunities in Asia

The Broadband-IP&TV Asia 2012 event is currently underway in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The two-day conference, sponsored by Informa Telecom & Media, looks into the monetization opportunities of broadband IP&TV and at enabling emerging players to be creative with their ideas. A pre-event day focus was held to kick-start the...

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TI holds on to MEMS crown

Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) is still the top MEMS manufacturer in 2011, according to an IHS iSuppli's MEMS Market Brief report. TI was neck in neck with runner-up Hewlett-Packard Co but still defended its crown, IHS added. With MEMS revenue of $779 million, TI led a competitive field of big-name players in the overall MEMS space, whose sensors and actuators are used in a variety of industries...

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Appied Materials restructures
Applied Materials restructures, moves solar mfg to Asia

Applied Materials Inc., a chip and solar panel equipment vendor, has announced that it will lay-off 250 of its employees. The company is also relocating the manufacturing of its solar wafer systems from Switzerland to Asia as part of it restructuring plans. In a regulatory filing, Applied said its board of directors approved the plan to...

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Wafer shipments
SEMI: Q1 wafer shipments show slight improvement

Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased slightly during the first quarter compared to the fourth quarter of 2011, according to the fab tool vendor trade group SEMI. SEMI's Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG) quarterly analysis of the silicon wafer industry found that total silicon wafer area shipments were 13.10 billion cm2...

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Micron-Elpida
After Elpida-Micron, then what?

Based on several reports, Micron Technology Inc. appears to be the winner in the second round of bidding to buy Elpida Memory Inc. Micron reportedly offered around $3.77 billion for Elpida. Analysts believe that the likely integration of the two companies' DRAM capacity will bring about revolutionary change to the DRAM...

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Micron wins Elpida bid
Micron wins bid to buy Elpida

Quoting a source that claims to have direct knowledge of the deal, Reuters has reported that Micron Technology Inc. has won the exclusive right to negotiate to buy bankrupt Japanese DRAM maker Elpida Memory Inc. The report noted that Micron offered $2.5 billion (¥200 billion) for Elpida. Part of the $2.5 billion bid will go...

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Chinese MEMS fab
Chinese firm builds MEMS wafer fab

A mining and metal processing conglomerate in Northeast China has begun building what could become a major wafer fab for manufacturing microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). The company, known as Hanking Group, is looking to make inertial sensors and silicon membrane microphones, which are all in...

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R&S Singapore hub
Rohde & Schwarz invests $85M in Singapore hub

Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG has revealed its $85-million (€52 million) investment plan in Singapore. The plan includes building a new global hub in the country worth $58 million (€35 million). The facility in Singapore will be Rohde & Schwarz's first outside Germany. The new facility will have an area of 12,747m2 and...

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Microchip buys SMSC
Acquisition signals new direction for Microchip

Microchip Technology Inc. has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Standard Microsystems Corp. (SMSC), a company focused on mixed-signal connectivity solutions. The acquisition deal is for $37 per share in cash, which represents a total equity value of about $939 million. SMSC's balance sheet...

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Indian fab plan
Globalfoundries, ST, IBM join Indian fab plan

Several more companies have been added to the list being linked to the Indian government's plan to build one or more semiconductor wafer fabs. According to the Hindu Business Line report, at least five chip companies are interested in supporting the project. These five companies are: Globalfoundries Inc., Infineon Technologies AG...

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