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Semiconductors

Microsemi emerges as latest Intel foundry customer

iPhone and iPad sales drive growth in MEMS microphone market

Spansion to acquire Fujitsu’s mcu and analogue business

Infineon, Globalfoundries collaborate on 40nm embedded flash development

MCU market moves to 32bit

Microchip brings integrated op amps to 8bit PIC mcus

XMOS unveils industrial multicore mcus

SiLabs unveils first single chip digital radio receiver

Power consumption is a primary consideration in smart transmitter design

Plug and play front end deals with high and wide ranging voltages

The days of 8bit microcontrollers are numbered as the Cortex-M0 and M0+ wagon gains momentum

AMD launches quad core x86 SoC, targets high growth markets