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U.S.-based memory chip vendor
Micron Technology has reached a deal to acquire bankrupt Japanese DRAM
vendor Elpida Memory for roughly $2.5 billion, according to an English
language report by Japan's Nikkei newspaper. » View the full story
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Curiosity, the Mars rover
scheduled to land in August, will rely on a rocket-powered sky crane to
slow its velocity from 13,000 mph to zero in seven minutes. A NASA video
explains the unprecedented landing sequence.
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Multinational chip companies
who've consigned some of their design work to China tend to do so quietly;
but a few leading companies are clearly making deeper inroads in China, and
they're not especially shy about it.
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U.S. and European EMS providers
are beginning to join forces as one way to compete with China's electronics
manufacturing juggernaut.
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Gunning for a growing market in
mid- and entry-level smartphones, MediaTek is rolling out a new dual-core
mobile phone platform, offering advanced multimedia features similar to
those available on high-end smartphones such as Apple's iPhones 4. »
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Snapshots from the hundreds of
cool exhibits at the Freescale Technology Forum 2012 Tech Lab. »
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As expected, Google used the
occasion of its Google I/O developer event to launch a 7-inch media tablet,
made by Taiwan's Asustek, which will be available in mid-July starting at
$199. » View the full story
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Facebook could be running at
least in part on so-called wimpy server CPU cores by the second half of
2013 and long term wants to buy CPUs on a subscription model. »
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No, Marvell Technology is not
moving to China. However, the U.S. fabless chip company wants to become
"the largest semiconductor company in China," according to a
Marvell executive. » View the full story
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Paul Jacobs, CEO of Qualcomm,
the world's largest fabless chip company, has not ruled out owning a wafer
fab or putting large amounts of cash down to ensure the firm's supply of
semiconductor chips, according to a Bloomberg report. »
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The upcoming H.265 EVC video
codec promises big gains in video compression, but chip makers are afraid
to design products using it due to the lack of a patent pool. »
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Engineers with experience in the
consumer electronics and semiconductor sectors and who are prepared to
continue their careers in Singapore could benefit from the first ever
online recruitment event being organized by Contact Singapore. »
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