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Philips has announced that its $3.3bn sale of Lumileds could be blocked by US authorities.
BBC News
Toshiba is in talks to sell its image sensor business to Sony for about Y20bn ($165m) in the latest effort by the lossmaking nuclear-to-semiconductor conglomerate to raise cash after a $1.9bn accounting scandal.
The Financial Times
In what may be another sign that Apple is getting serious about cars, the company has hired Jonathan Cohen, the director of deep learning for chip-maker Nvidia. Nvidia is best-known for its graphics products used for computer games, but it has recently been pushing into the world of autonomous vehicles.
Recode
It's now being rumored that Keller has joined Samsung, where he'll begin work in the mobile processor division.
TweakTown
New York Times
Texas Instruments' chief financial officer said Wednesday (Oct. 21) that the company doesn't have immediate plans to join the consolidation frenzy currently taking place in the semiconductor industry.
EE Times
SK Hynix has returned to the consumer solid state drives market again, three years after the company disappeared in the market in 2012.
BusinessKorea
Apple is cleaning up its manufacturing operations in China to reduce the air pollution caused by the factories that have assembled hundreds of millions of iPhones and iPads during the past eight years.
ABC News
3M unveiled a restructuring plan that includes an expected workforce reduction of roughly 1,500 positions globally as the diversified manufacturer reported that its third-quarter earnings were nearly flat and currency impacts weighed on revenue.
Marketwatch.com (Dow Jones)
Business Insider
Intel's move comes as the chip industry undergoes a wave of consolidation and China steps up efforts to build local technology manufacturing capacity.
Marketwatch.com (Dow Jones)
The two companies could reach a deal as soon as this week.
Reuters
Motley Fool
Intel now has a thousand people or more working to outfit a 2016 iPhone with its lauded 7360 LTE modem chip, sources say. If all goes well, Intel may end up providing both the modem and the fabrication for a new Apple system on a chip.
Venturebeat
The investment firm has lowered its estimates for the component suppliers to Apple, in the wake of disappointing feedback regarding iPhone 6s sales from carrier surveys.
TechNewsDaily
Apple appears to be facing a fight over up to $400 million now that a jury has ruled it infringed on a patent owned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Fortune
A report about the blockbuster Dell and EMC deal found that customers of the two companies view the deal in a different light.
Fortune
Nvidia's pushing out a new beta version of its slick GeForce Experience software Thursday, building atop the awesome update from last month that lets you play local co-op games with your faraway friends-even if they don't have gaming machines.
PC World
Intel and Microsoft are teaming with three leading PC makers on a new ad campaign designed to make potential computer buyers more aware of all the things a modern PC can do.
Recode
Environmental regulations on America's energy sector may face a rebuke from the Supreme Court. It heard oral arguments Wednesday regarding encroachment on state's rights to regulate the retail energy market.
Daily Caller
Chinese tycoons Liang Wengen and Nan Cunhui plan to pour $5 billion into India's renewable power sector as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a major expansion of clean energy in one of the world's biggest polluters.
Finacial Times
Country is on a path to achieving the hard task in renewables while flunking the simple one in coal.
Finacial Times
Well it seems that Apple likes to buck the trend, at least when it comes to the UHD 4K-level Retina desktop PCs it finally gets around to releasing here and there.
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