Exar CEO DiNardo Steps Down

Analog and mixed-signal chip company Exar Corp. (Fremont, Calif.) has announced that Louis DiNardo will step down as president, CEO and as a member of the board of directors.

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Western Digital to Buy SanDisk for $19 Billion

Deal gives hard disk drive leader larger footprint in solid state drives.

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AMD processor brings 4K graphics into industrial designs

AMD processor brings 4K graphics into industrial designs

AMD’s latest embedded processor combines a 64-bit x86 CPU core with a high-end Radeon graphics core. This allows it to carry out hardware-accelerated decode of 4K video playback. The R-series processor SoCs are designed to support the new Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA) 1.0 certification for full 4K decode and DirectX 12. This represents a 22% improved graphics performance ...

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Bluetooth Developer Studio targets smart wireless connectivity

Bluetooth Developer Studio targets smart wireless connectivity

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has announced the general availability of its Bluetooth Developer Studio. This a free development environment for developers get to grips with Bluetooth technology, aiming to cut developer learning time for Bluetooth technology and speed product development. It makes building for the IoT simple for developers, from the novice to ...

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Toshiba gives NAND a serial interface for NOR replacement

Toshiba gives NAND a serial interface for NOR replacement

Toshiba’s latest range of NAND flash memory chips  have a serial interface. The advantage of the serial interface is that  the devices can be controlled with just 6-pins, and this means they can be used as low-pin count SLC NAND flash memory. SLC NAND flash memory is now being used as  a higher capacity alternative to NOR ...

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SanDisk, Toshiba to jointly make 3D flash memory

SanDisk and Toshiba have announced the start of equipment installation in the New Fab 2 facility at Yokkaichi Operations and their entry into definitive agreements for joint manufacturing of 3D NAND and investment in the fab.

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Cisco turns to place server orders with Wistron

The fourth-largest server brand vendor worldwide Cisco reportedly has recently switched its manufacturing partner to Wistron from Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) because of Foxconn's joint venture partnership with Hewlett-Packard (HP), according to sources from the upstream supply chain.

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