| Cypress eyes IoT market domination with Broadcom deal
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2016-04-29 |
| Cypress has acquired Broadcom's Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Zigbee IoT product lines and intellectual property in a bid to strengthen its position in embedded and consumer IoT markets. |
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| Severance benefits cause friction in Microchip/Atmel merger
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2016-04-12 |
| Microchip's CEO blames Atmel's board for failing to communicate about a severance package that left at least one employee charging Microchip is reneging on a promise. |
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| Microchip-Atmel deal to overhaul top 3 MCU vendors
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2016-01-22 |
| Microchip Technology Inc.'s pending $3.8-billion acquisition of Atmel Corp. would move Microchip into the No. 3 position among microcontroller vendors. |
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| Chinese company offers to buy Fairchild
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2016-01-05 |
| Fairchild said it has acknowledged receipt of an unsolicited proposal to acquire all of the outstanding shares of common stock of Fairchild for $21.70 per share from a group representing CR Micro. |
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| Top 15 deals that influenced analogue, sensors in 2015
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2016-01-04 |
| Here are some of the biggest and most important business deals and synergies in 2015 that had a huge impact on analogue, MEMS, sensors and the semiconductor industry as a whole. |
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| Microchip identified as unsolicited Atmel bidder
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2015-12-18 |
| Microchip is the company that has made a $3.8 billion unsolicited offer for Atmel Corp., which has previously agreed to be acquired by Dialog but Atmel said it would look at the counter offer. |
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| Top 5 semiconductor M&As of 2015
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2015-12-14 |
| EE Times Asia reviewed the M&A deals that were either announced or completed this year, and came up with the top five synergies in terms of dollar value. |
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| China's chip acquisitions send ripples across industry
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2015-11-20 |
| The technologies and IP targeted by China include disk drives, CMOS image sensors, servers, memory chips and advanced semiconductor packaging and test services. |
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| Mergers in tech industry sees no sign of stopping
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2015-10-28 |
| The tech industry has sent out tens of thousands of pink slips in the past year related to a mix of mergers, market slowdowns and corporate woes. |
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| USB Type-C: Amid the promises and confusion
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2015-08-20 |
| The latest iteration of the USB truly affords a wealth of benefits, especially with its power delivery feature, but analysts may bring potential confusion to consumers. |
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| How PC slump affects memory chipmakers
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2015-07-29 |
| Semiconductor sales are in a two-year slump due to weak demand for PCs and smartphones, according to Gartner. The research firm said chip growth will return to 4-5 per cent from 2017-2019. |
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| PLC teardown: Allen-Bradley Micro850 for industrial apps
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2015-07-14 |
| The PLC is symbolic of the high level of ruggedness configurability, isolation performance and ease of use that keeps PLCs strong in factory automation despite the encroachment of embedded computing. |
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| ISSI endorses Uphill over Cypress
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2015-06-29 |
| The ISSI Board of Directors has recommended to its stockholders to vote for the adoption of the Uphill Agreement after Cypress failed to beat Uphill's offer of $23 per share. |
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| What is the key to "instant on" electronics?
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2015-06-15 |
| Memory is critical in instant-on operation. Using compressed root-file system images to save NV memory space and unpacking it into RAM for execution will add additional seconds to the boot process. |
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| Will the ISSI-Cypress deal be completed?
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2015-06-15 |
| While Cypress and ISSI briefly reunited on the dance floor on Wednesday, Thursday the latter released a statement announcing it had entered into a further amendment with Uphill Investment Co. |
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| Why is China bullish on chip industry?
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2015-06-03 |
| Unlike in the West, China considers the semiconductor sector a big investment. It is the financial play and quick ROI that lures Chinese investment funds into the chip industry. |
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| Is the Intel-Altera merger a good deal?
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2015-06-02 |
| With the merger, Intel plans to hit a 7 per cent CAGR while Altera will become an Intel business unit that will facilitate continuity of existing and new customer sales and support. |
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| Avago, Broadcom merger excites market
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2015-05-29 |
| A combined company would have nearly $13 billion in revenues, edging it up to about seventh place, ahead of Texas Instruments and below Qualcomm at $19 billion. |
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| 1,600 lose jobs in Cypress-Spansion merger
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2015-03-16 |
| The merger of Cypress Semiconductor and Spansion will result in layoffs of 1,600 employees worldwide, or 20 per cent of their combined workforces, according to an internal memo. |
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| Spansion, Cypress close $5B merger
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2015-03-16 |
| The merger is expected to achieve more than $135 million in cost synergies on an annualised basis within three years and to be accretive to non-GAAP earnings within the first year after the transaction. |
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| NXP, Freescale merger seen to shake industry
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2015-03-03 |
| The move would make the two companies the world's ninth largest chip maker, which would surpass ST and Renesas at $7 billion each and approach TI at $12 billion, stated IC Insights. |
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| Report: CMOSIS mulls IPO
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2015-01-22 |
| CMOSIS is a fabless CMOS image sensor vendor and has developed IP related to high-end CMOS image sensors such as global shutter pixels, fast and low-noise ADCs, BSI and increased dynamic range. |
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| Cypress-Spansion merger seeks to advance IoT
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2014-12-16 |
| Cypress CEO T.J. Rodgers disclosed in an interview the company's roadmap following its merger with Spansion. The new company plans to drive the growth of the Internet of Things. |
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| M&As that pushed the Internet of Things
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2014-12-12 |
| Beyond the usual reasons for consolidation, many companies scrambled to make deals specifically to get IoT technologies and products that were missing from their portfolios. |
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| Cypress seeks to acquire Spansion for $4B
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2014-12-02 |
| Cypress Semiconductor Corp. hopes to merge with Spansion in an all-stock deal valued at $4 billion. The deal would create an expanded embedded chip vendor with $2 billion in annual revenues. |
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| SONOS returns, finds use in IoT
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2014-09-02 |
| Cypress Semiconductor sees that the 1960s-developed silicon oxide nitride oxide silicon technology has what it takes to address the scaling and power challenges in connected devices. |
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| S5 Mini packs Cypress' touchscreen controller
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2014-08-18 |
| Gen5's hover feature enables the S5 Mini to anticipate the touch of a finger and enlarge content such as points on a map or the font of tiny website links to make them easier to find and select. |
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| Oculus Rift DK2 teardown: Weight, repairability matter
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2014-08-04 |
| The iFixit teardown revealed that the beta version of DK2 has thinner cables, which contributes to make the device lighter. The improved cable management feature, plus the standard Phillips screws, also makes the kit repair-friendly. |
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| Raytrix 3D camera packs Cypress' CX3 controller
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2014-07-30 |
| The R42 supports up to 40Mpx resolution and 4,000 images, leveraging the CX3 solution's throughput to provide 3D images with extended depth-of-field. |
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| Cypress' 55nm SONOS embedded NVM process gets UMC nod
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2014-07-15 |
| SONOS does not alter standard device characteristics or models when added to baseline CMOS process, preserving existing design IP. |
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