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FTDI Chip and MCCI Corporation have developed TrueTask USB – an embedded USB host stack designed for use with FTDI Chip’s FT900 product family.

Infineon Technologies’ decision to pay $3bn for International Rectifier may have surprised the semiconductor industry, but the deal is all about acquiring a process technology. That process technology is gallium nitride-on-silicon. GaN-on-silicon, as it is called, is a hot commodity in the power electronics industry and IR has one of the few working GaN-on-silicon processes in production. Why is the ...

GCSE school exam grades announced this week provide some encouragement for an industry such as electronics which is dependent on skills in mathematics and science. But it is a confused picture which really does not do much to allay fears that a shortage of science and maths skills continues to be a problem for high technology industries. While GCSE Mathematics saw a significant ...

Infineon is to buy the world’s oldest independent semiconductor company, International Rectifier, for $3 billion. The deal is 50% above IR’s market cap yesterday.

Gigateq of Manchester, the smart LED specialist, seeks to raise $1000 on crowd-funding site Indiegogo by September 10 to begin production of its EasyBulb Plus which can be controlled from a smartphone or tablet app.

Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC) has completed its first investments from a £50 million fund, backing three companies that address cloud-based video archiving, grid-scale energy management and generative music composition.

TSMC’s July revenues of $2.17 billion were 7.6% up on June’s revenues of $2.01 billion and 24.6% up on the $1.73 billion of July 2013.

SEMATECH and the newly merged SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) / SUNY Institute of Technology (SUNYIT) have launched their joint Patterning Centre of Excellence.

It was a good first half for the semiconductor industry, reports IC Insights, some companies recorded big gains.

Taiwan is forecast by SEMI to be the largest spending region for both 2014 and 2015, marking five out of the past six years as the number one equipment market.