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Higher resolution, more integrated ICs with higher ASPs will push the driver IC market to $7.3 billion in 2018, up from $6.4 billion in 2012, says DisplaySearch.

For the first time, Toshiba may build a fab overseas.

China has set a target to generate $140 billion in semiconductor output by 2020, reports DigiTimes.

Smith and Nephew, the UK medical instrumentation company, is to be the subject of a takeover bid by the US medical implant company Stryker, reports Bloomberg.

Blackberry’s Q3 revenue of $793 million was down on the $1.19bn of Q3 2013.

The worldwide semiconductor market revenue is on track to achieve a 9.4 percent expansion this year, with broad-based growth across multiple chip segments driving the best industry performance since 2010, says IHS. Global revenue in 2014 is expected to total $353.2 billion, up from $322.8 billion in 2013. The increase follows growth of 6.4 percent in 2013, a decline of ...

A number of big company acquisitions in 2014 look like they will restructure the wireless chipset market. One of the oldest names in semiconductor history lost its independence. While a number of the UK’s most celebrated start-ups of the last two decades were snapped up. Qualcomm agreed a £1.6bn ($2.5bn) takeover of CSR, the Cambridge-based Bluetooth and wireless chip firm. CSR ...

Imec has produced a cheap plastic 8-bit RFID transponder IC which could run for 20 years on an AAA battery.

A positive for the semiconductor industry this year is that it is the industry with the least correlation with the oil industry, says Bank of America Merrill Lynch Bank in its 2015 Semiconductor Playbook.

Every child born in the next 12 months will learn coding as a core subject alongside numeracy and literacy – so predicts Samsung. “Increasingly governments are recognising that computer literacy is a fundamental, basic skill and now incorporate coding into their curriculums. The UK has launched a new ‘computing’ curriculum during this academic year, in which children as young as ...