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ST-Ericsson cuts 1,700 jobs in turnaround attempt

...and hiving off its application processor business to its co-owner STMicroelectronics. Semiconductor maker ST-Ericsson has announced job cuts and restructuring in a bid... Read more

24 April, 2012 by David Meyer

Broadcom pays $3.7bn for NetLogic's mobile know-how

Wireless semiconductor maker Broadcom has snapped up NetLogic Microsystems to round out its portfolio... Read more

12 September, 2011 by Ben Woods

LSI buys Nand flash maker SandForce

...processor provider SandForce. The $322m (£230m) acquisition gives the Milpitas, California-based-semiconductor maker — previously known as LSI Logic — an expanded presence in the fast... Read more

27 October, 2011 by Steven Musil

Samsung sells disk drive unit to Seagate for $1.4bn

...drive division. Photo credit: Seagate Under the deal, Samsung, the second-largest semiconductor maker by revenue, will merge its hard-disk drive (HDD) wing with... Read more

19 April, 2011 by Jack Clark

ARM and TSMC plan 20nm system-on-a-chip production

...down to the 20nm scale. TSMC is the world's largest dedicated semiconductor maker with 2009 sales around three times its nearest rival, fellow Taiwanese... Read more

21 July, 2010 by David Meyer

TSMC breaks ground on $9.3bn 'Gigafab'

...at the 28-nanometre scale. TSMC is the world's largest dedicated semiconductor maker with 2009 sales around three times its nearest rival, fellow Taiwanese... Read more

20 July, 2010 by Jack Clark

Carbon nanotubes rise up food chain

A large semiconductor maker has signed a deal with Nantero to use its technology for... Read more

2 July, 2004 by Michael Kanellos

Samsung bets on controversial memory standard

...more advanced memory types has been less than earth-shattering. The Korean semiconductor maker said late last week that it had released DDR400 samples to... Read more

19 March, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

Via readies Hammer chipsets

The Taiwan semiconductor maker is getting ready for AMD's next-generation processor, to launch... Read more

21 May, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

News Burst: Intel sued by small company

Intel, the world's largest semiconductor maker, said on Monday that it has been sued by a tiny... Read more

4 August, 1998 by ZDNet

Chipmaker TSMC sees drop in quarterly profits

...results showed a decrease of 59.3 percent in net income. The semiconductor maker did not give any hope of a better situation ahead. "The... Read more

23 January, 2009 by Colin Barker

AMD sets new mobile beasts on Centrino

...t eclipse Intel's Centrino marketing machine anytime soon, the number two semiconductor maker is counting on its overall portfolio to put pressure on its... Read more

22 August, 2005 by Michael Singer

RFID gets manufacturing push from IBM

...which has been working on a radio tag system since November. The semiconductor maker is affixing RFID tags to all of its cases and carton... Read more

14 September, 2004 by Matt Hines

Smart jacket handles mobile calls and MP3s

Semiconductor maker Infineon continued its adventures in wearable computing on Monday by showing... Read more

26 July, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

Digital cameras to incorporate image sensors

Foveon, a relatively unknown semiconductor maker run by fairly prominent industry figures, has released a new image... Read more

22 June, 2004 by Michael Kanellos

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