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Manufacturing

Xilinx expands UltraScale portfolio

Fairchild buys sensor fusion specialist

Industrial power tester simulates lifetime performance

Freescale opens industrial teaching lab

Sony claims areal density record for magnetic tape storage

Transparent films are cheaper to make, more environmentally friendly

Agilent pushes oscilloscope price/performance standards

Future World Symposium 2014

Highest resolution, fastest sampling, lowest power

Module is ‘power supply in a package’

Altera gets 14nm FPGA test chips back from Intel

Altera builds hardened DSP blocks into Arria and Stratix at 20nm