SMIC Boosts 2016 Capex by a Third to $2.1 Billion

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC), China's largest foundry, said it will increase capital expenditures for 2016 by a third to $2.1 billion as it aims to capture strong growth in the world's fastest growing chip market.

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Friday Quiz: Turn of the Century Test Equipment

Name these five test products advertised in January 2000.

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Android, iOS Own 98% Of Smartphone Market, Gartner Finds

Apple's iOS and Google's Android leave little more than a pittance for Windows and BlackBerry, according to new estimates from Gartner.

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Cycle-Accurate 8088/8086 Soft Processor Core Consumes Only 308 FPGA LUTs

Using a micro-sequencer-based implementation, the designer achieves a cycle-accurate core that's less than one tenth the size of comparable x86 soft cores.

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Photonics: 3 Pilot Lines Launch in Europe

The Photonics Public Private Partnership has launched the result of euro 35 million (about $39 million) of European Union investment: three pilot lines for the production of optoelectronic devices and circuits.

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Keysight Debuts HMC Compliance Test

As Hybrid Memory Cube begins to an uptick adoption, there are enough vendors looking for quick and easy testing options to get devices out the door.

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Compact coloured stage and architectural lighting twice as bright

LED Engin has doubles the flux density from its LZ4 four-die red-green-blue-white emitters. The firm is well know for extreme intensity LEDs. In this case, the LZ4-04MDPB‘s individually addressable green, blue and white die can be driven at up to 3A, and the red die 2.5A – all from within a 2.15 x 2.15mm light ...

Compact coloured stage and architectural lighting twice as bright

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