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Company release
When he founded Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in 1987, Morris Chang recalls, "Nobody thought we were going anywhere."
Economist
KLA-Tencor forecast current-quarter revenue below expectations as slumping personal computer sales hurt demand for new chip-manufacturing gear, sending its shares lower.
Reuters
Mali graphics IP core shipments are on course to be more than 300 million units in 2013, more than doubling the 150 million units shipped in 2012, according to Simon Segars, CEO of processor IP licensor ARM.
EE Times
Struggling chip-maker Renesas Electronics Corp. is looking to close or shrink its major production base for system LSI chips in Tohoku after failing to sell it to a Taiwanese firm, company sources said Saturday.
The Japan Times
The flow of moving water has been one of humanity's oldest sources of energy. However, water wheels at shoreline mills are hardly sufficient for a modern electrified civilization.
Daily Finance
While LED based solid-state lighting continues to gain ground, and several major challenges have been solved, some still remain.
EDN.com
The U.K. has been bragging about adding tons of wind capacity recently, but are the additions paying off with big increases in clean energy production? They are.
Earth Techling
The USA has tripled its solar-power-generating capacity since 2010 and increased it tenfold since 2007, according to a new report from the non-profit advocacy group Environment America.
USA Today
Accessing your private computer from anywhere could save you the trouble of lugging around your laptop, charger and all those assorted add-ons
Mashable
After making scratchproof glass for smartphones and tablets in past years, Corning is now working on making its famous Gorilla Glass resistant to germs and glare as well, a tech site reported.
GMANews.TV
Google is buying a stake in Himax Technologies, the Taiwanese chip manufacturer that develops display technology for Google Glass.
Computing News
Apple is testing larger screens for its smartphones and tablets as it attempts to answer increasing concerns about its product lineup and competition from Samsung Electronics.
Wall Street Journal
Google on Wednesday made another attempt to embed itself into living rooms, after several false starts.
Wall Street Journal
Qualcomm rose 3% in after-hours trading Wednesday after the company booked US$6.2 billion in its third quarter, its twelfth straight quarter of double-digit gains, and raised its outlook for the full year.
Forbes
Spansion has expanded its serial peripheral interface (SPI) portfolio with the introduction of FL-1K family.
Company release
Among the key features are an HD screen (with 1,920x1,200-pixel resolution); front and rear cameras (1.2- and 5.0-megapixel, respectively); Bluetooth 4.0; a 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor; 2GB of RAM; NFC; and an Adreno 320 GPU (the same graphics chip used in the Samsung Galaxy S4).
CNET
International Bussiness Times
Morning Star
24 Jul 2013
USA Today
Costing just US$25, the Raspberry Pi has astonished its British creators by selling almost 1.5 million units in 18 months. More have been sold to children than expected, but even more to adults. They're using it like Lego to connect things up.
PhysOrg
Hewlett Packard and Japan's NEC will expand their existing partnership to develop high-end x86-based servers for cloud and Web applications.
PC World
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