Semiconductors
Texas Instruments in talks to buy rival chipmaker Maxim Integrated Products
29 Oct 2015
Texas Instruments is the world’s third-largest manufacturer of semiconductors AND the second-largest supplier of chips for cellular handsets
Chipmaker Microsemi offers $2.4-bn rival bid for PMC-Sierra
20 Oct 2015
Igniting a bidding war, US semiconductor solutions provider Microsemi Corp has tabled a superior $2.4-billion offer over rival Skyworks Solutions Inc to acquire PMC-Sierra Inc
Intel pulling all stops to be iPhone’s next partner
19 Oct 2015
Slow on the uptake where the mobile market goes, chipmaker Intel has now reportedly put over a thousand employees to work on chips for the next Apple iPhone as it seeks to displace Qualcom
SanDisk working with bank over sale: Report
14 Oct 2015
Dialog Semiconductor to buy US peer Atmel for $4.6 bn
21 Sep 2015
The Atmel acquisition will enabled london-based Dialog to emerge as a global leader in both power management and embedded processing
Xiaomi to use own mobile chipsets in handsets
29 Aug 2015
Intel looks beyond chips at IDF
24 Aug 2015
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
Featured articles
Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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