Semiconductors
Qualcomm to restructure with 15% lower workforce
23 Jul 2015
China’s Tsinghua Unigroup preparing bid $23-bn bid for US chip maker Micron Technolgy: reports
14 Jul 2015
Toward tiny, solar-powered sensors
By By Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office | 24 Jun 2015
A new ultralow-power circuit doubles the efficiency of energy harvesting to more than 80 per cent, whereas previous ultralow-power converters that used the same approach had efficiencies of only 40 or 50 per cent
Intel acquires Altera for $17 bn
02 Jun 2015
Intel, the world’s largest computer chip maker, hopes to offset slowing demand from the PC industry by expanding its line-up of higher-margin chips used in data centres