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3 hrs ago | KVOA-TV Tucson

SRS Labs Wins 2009 SINOCES Awards for 'Best Audio Technology' and...

SRS Chief Technology Officer, Alan Kraemer to Present Keynote Speech at the SINOCES Consumer Electronics Forum - Industry Summit SANTA ANA, Calif., July 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SRS Labs , the industry leader in surround sound, audio, and voice technologies, announced today that it has been honored with two awards at the 2009 China ...

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7 hrs ago | PowerPulse

Maxim Announces Tiny, 1A/500mA LDO Linear Regulators

Maxim Integrated Products introduced the MAX15027-MAX15030 low-dropout linear regulators that operate from a 1.425 to 3.6V input voltage and deliver up to 1A or 500mA of output current.

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12 hrs ago | My ESM

Microtune buys Auvitek for $9 million

Microtune Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Auvitek International Ltd.

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16 hrs ago | Earth Times

Intel Corporation Accepts Shares in Tender Offer for Wind River...

Intel Corporation today announced that the initial offer period for its tender offer through its subsidiary, APC II Acquisition Corporation , for all outstanding shares of common stock, including rights to purchase shares of Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock, of Wind River Systems Inc.

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20 hrs ago | EETimes.eu

Infineon plans to take financial investor on board

Only a few days after Infineon has announced the sale of its wireline business to a financial investor, Infineon has announced another coup, and a bigger one: By means of a capital increase, the ailing chip vendor hopes to receive a massive capital injection from investor Apollo Global Management LLC.

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Yesterday | Design And Reuse

SMSC Announces Agreement to Acquire Tallika

SMSC today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Tallika Corporation , a team of approximately 50 highly skilled engineers located in design centers in Chennai, India and Phoenix, Arizona.

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Related Topix: Electronics, Standard Microsystems, World News, India, Phoenix, AZ, Phoenix Metro

Thu Jul 09, 2009

DesignLines

Flash MCUs promise fine-grained control

NEC Electronics today announced the availability of 15 new 32-bit All Flash V850 microcontrollers for inverter control and motor control applications such as air conditioners, washing machines, dryers, factory automation equipment, and photovoltaic power systems.

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Related Topix: Electronics, CPU, Science / Technology, Science, Computer Science

DigiTimes

MIPS and EE Solutions team for China and Taiwan markets

Press release; Meiling Chen, DIGITIMES [Thursday 9 July 2009] MIPS Technologies and EE Solutions, an ASIC and SoC design solution provider in Taiwan, have announced they are teaming to provide semiconductor companies in China and Taiwan with access to MIPS' industry-standard technology.

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UPI

Aehr to deliver ABTS

U.S. company Aehr Test Systems has received a contract to support complex logic reliability testing for military and aerospace applications.

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MarketWatch

Broadcom drops $909 million Emulex buyout bid

Broadcom Corp. said Thursday morning that it has withdrawn its unsolicited takeover offer for Emulex Corp., which had earlier rejected the $909 million offer as inadequate.

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EETimes

Photronics to close China plant, cuts 75 jobs

In a move to cut costs, Photronics Inc. is closing its photomask manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China.

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Related Topix: Photronics, Electronics, World News, China, Brookfield, CT

PR-inside.com

Samsung Introduces High-Capacity 250 Gigabyte 1.8a Hard Drives

Strengthening its line up of portable 1.8a hard drives for external storage markets, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

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Wed Jul 08, 2009

Earth Times

OKI Data Corporation to Acquire Production Line from Renesas Technology for LED Production

OKI Data Corporation and Renesas Technology Corp . today announced the conclusion of a basic agreement under which OKI Digital Imaging Corporation will acquire the land, buildings, and utilities of the former semiconductor front-end process line of the Gunma Development Design and Device Division of Renesas Eastern Japan Semiconductor, Inc.

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Contactless News

Reusable contactless single-journey tickets debut in South Korea

Recyclable single-journey contactless tickets based on technology from RFID chip developer STMicroelectronics is expected to save Seoul, South Korea about $2.4 million a year because it won't have to print 450 million paper tickets.

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Related Topix: Electronics, STMicroelectronics NV, South Korea, World News

The Post Chronicle

Intel-Nokia Tie Takes Few Years To Succeed: Barrett

Intel Corp's former chief executive and chairman, Craig Barrett, said on Thursday it would take "a few years" to see whether Intel's technology partnership with Nokia succeeds.

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ComputerWorld

Google to launch open-source Chrome OS this year

Google is developing an open-source operating system targeted at Internet-centric computers such as netbooks and will release it later this year, the company said Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Computers, Advanced Micro Devices, Open Source Software, Science / Technology, Linux, Science, Computer Science

DesignLines

Linear device gets designed into Mitsubishi all-electric car

Despite -- or, more accurately, because of -- the auto industry's current dismal condition, innovations in the automotive sector are a high priority for technology suppliers like Linear Technology, an analog semiconductor company.

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Related Topix: Electric Vehicle, Hybrid Vehicles, Electronics, Linear Technology, Startups

Tue Jul 07, 2009

The South Mississippi Sun Herald

MKS Instruments Announces Second Quarter 2009 Earnings Conference Call

MKS Instruments, Inc. , a global provider of technologies that enable advanced processes and improve productivity, today announced that it will release second quarter 2009 financial results prior to market opening on Wednesday, July 22, 2009.

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PR-inside.com

Infineon sells Wireline Communications business

Computer chip maker Infineon Technologies AG said Tuesday that it is selling its wirelines communications unit to an affiliate of U.S. investor Golden Gate Capital in a A 250 million deal that will allow it to focus on core businesses.

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Related Topix: Infineon Technologies AG, Science / Technology, VoIP

EETimes.com

UMC denies 65-nm yield issues

United Microelectronics Corp. Tuesday denied a report that it experienced yield problems on its 65-nm process and said some isolated problems in meeting customer requirements were the result of tight capacity due to customer rush orders.

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Related Topix: Electronics, United Microelectronics, Xilinx, Startups, San Francisco Metro, San Jose Metro

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