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February chips sales showed signs of rebound
The global market for semiconductors was $13.47 billion in February, down 27.2 percent from $18.50 billion in February 2008, according to 'actual' data from the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization.
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Infineon plans withdrawal from NYSE
Struggling German chip maker Infineon has announced moves to delist from the New York Stock Exchange. The company said it regards the Frankfurt stock exchange as its principal trading market.
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No recovery yet, Gartner says
Are the electronics and semiconductor markets recovering? Not yet, according to market research firm Gartner, which said recent positive industry events are characteristic of a demand reset.
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Switching on the smart grid
This could be the year the smart grid starts its transformation from an overhyped and ill-defined concept to a set of clearly articulated pieces and working prototypes.
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Edison and innovation: Lessons from the master
Sarah Miller Caldicott believes she has a new model for reinvigorating U.S. technology innovation: the same one developed by her great-granduncle, Thomas Alva Edison.
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Entrepreneurs still key to silicon's progress
A few weeks ago, Moshe Gavrielov, president and chief executive officer of FPGA vendor Xilinx Inc. (San Jose, Calif.), said it was all over: Venture capital would not return to the semiconductor industry--not even after the current recession--because of the heady sums required to launch a chip startup and the more than five-year lag before VC investors see a return.
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U.S. high-tech jobs grew again in 2008, says study
Overall U.S. high-tech employment increased in 2008 for the fourth consecutive year, as net job gains in software services and engineering and tech services offset declines in high-tech manufacturing, particularly within the semiconductor industry, according to a study released last week.
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Video: Where hardware and software collide
A panel of executives at ESC Silicon Valley talked about the clash of cultures between hardware and software engineers as chipmakers take on the responsibility of developing more embedded software and agreed that a system-level approach has become mandatory.
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TI sues banks over $524 million debt
Texas Instruments has sued Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Bank of New York Mellon, accusing the banks of misleading the chipmaker into buying $524 million of auction-rate securities that have become "illiquid" and cannot be easily converted to cash.
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ESC Video: Digi's green design contest
Digi International plans to give more than $20,000 in total prize money to winners in a green design contest to promote the development of sustainable applications announced at ESC Silicon Valley. In this video from the show floor, Joel Young, Digi's chief technology officer and senior vice president of R&D, talks about the contest.
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Four mistakes made by memory vendors
During an event at the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) here, Brian Harrison, president and chief executive of flash-memory specialist Numonyx Inc. (Geneva), said memory makers have made four major mistakes during the current and bad cycle.
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Micron cuts capex, dismisses DRAM venture
Amid ongoing losses and a lowered forecast, Micron Technology Inc. has cut its capital spending and said it has no plans to join the new DRAM venture in Taiwan--for now.
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MagnaChip seeks investment from financial firm
South Korean financial services firm KTB Securities is in negotiations to invest in MagnaChip Semiconductor, the logic spin-off of Hynix Semiconductor, according to a report out of South Korea that was confirmed by a MagnaChip executive.
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Freescale CTO: Stimulus means big opportunities
Huge amounts of money being poured into the economy through stimulus packages by governments worldwide will provide a big opportunity for electronics and particularly embedded systems, according to Lisa Su, Freescale Semiconductor's chief technology officer and senior vice president/general manager for networking and multimedia.
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ESI, Zygo terminate merger deal
As expected, Electro Scientific Industries Inc. and Zygo Corp. announced that they have terminated their merger agreement.
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AMD sees more restructuring costs
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MKS cuts 600 jobs, lowers forecast
MKS Instruments Inc. has reduced its headcount by 600 jobs, or approximately 23 percent of its worldwide headcount.
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