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New IBM CEO sees her salary doubled

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The new CEO of IBM has had her salary doubled from $800,000 to $1.5 million according to a regulatory filing.

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IBM SmartCamp startups attempt to solve world problems

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With tech start-ups taking the world by storm, industry heavyweight IBM is plowing venture capital into seedling companies it believes can best solve the analytical challenges and public infrastructure problems of what it’s calling the “smarter planet”.

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Steve Appleton in retrospect

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A retrospective on the career of Steve Appleton, Chairman and CEO of memory chip vendor Micron Technology, who died Friday in a plane crash.

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ARM Mulls Non-Volatile Memory IP acquisition

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ARM CEO Warren East (shown) says the U.K. processor IP vendor would consider acquiring non-volatile memory IP as a way to bolster its physical IP division.

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Panasonic predicts loss of $10 billion for fiscal year

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Panasonic, one of the Japanese electronics giants, has said that it expects to make a net loss of 780.0 billion yen (about $10.2 billion) in the fiscal year that runs to March 31, 2012.

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Sonics, Tensilica team to improve IP efficiency

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Sonics Inc., a licensor of interconnect IP, has announced its on-chip networks will support the processor interface (PIF) from Tensilica Inc., a licensor of DSP and application-specific processor cores.

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Microchip posts weak fiscal Q3, outlook brighter

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Microcontroller chip company Microchip Technology Inc. has reported that its fiscal third-quarter profit dropped 23.5 percent year-on-year to $77.5 million as net sales slipped back to $329.2 million, down 3.4 percent sequentially and down 10.5 percent year-over-year.

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Video: Are tech jobs returning to the U.S.?

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EE Times hit the exhibition floor at DesignCon 2012 to get engineers' perspectives on whether high-tech jobs are coming back to the U.S.

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NXP gives sneak peek at new engineering workbench app

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Semiconductor company NXP has expanded its mobile app efforts by launching a new iPad app meant to help engineers put together projects, store and easily share them.

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Video: HP's Prith Banerjee discusses HP labs, ARM servers and optical interconnects

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Director of HP Labs Prith Banerjee gave his DesignCon keynote on the future of optical interconnects in the industry, including photonic interconnects and light to communicate instantaneously.

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Rick Merritt DesignCon wrap up; 3D stacking, optical interconnects

Embedded News - Thu, 02/02/2012 - 23:00
EE Times editor Rick Merritt wraps up some of the key trends at DesignCon 2012, including the shifts in design flow from copper to optical interconnects and the cost dynamic challenges involved in the switch.

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ASPs weigh as Hynix' losses reduced in Q4

Embedded News - Thu, 02/02/2012 - 23:00
Hynix Semiconductor Inc. made a smaller loss in the fourth quarter than it did in the third quarter on sequentially increasing sales. The company was hit by declining average selling prices in both the DRAM and NAND flash memory.

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CMOS timing startup raises $2.3 million

Embedded News - Thu, 02/02/2012 - 23:00
EoSemi Ltd. (Congleton, England), a developer of CMOS replacements for quartz oscillators, has announced it has secured a $2.3 million (£1.5milion) second tranche of funding.

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U.K. to spend $120 million on graphene institute

Embedded News - Thu, 02/02/2012 - 23:00
The U.K. government has said it will spend £70 million (about $120 million) to fund a national institute of graphene research and commercialisation activities, in Manchester, England.

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CNSE receives federal grants for nanotechnologies

Embedded News - Thu, 02/02/2012 - 23:00
Federal funding of more than $5 million is being given to the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany for a host of nanotechnology-enabled education and research programs.

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Infineon profits trimmed by lower sales

Embedded News - Thu, 02/02/2012 - 23:00
German chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG has reported a profitable first quarter to its 2012 financial and forecast somewhere between a flat revenue and a slight decline in revenue for its second fiscal quarter.

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TSMC plans 3-D IC assembly launch early in 2013

Embedded News - Thu, 02/02/2012 - 23:00
Leading IC foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. plans to announce 3-D IC assembly service as a general offering at the beginning of 2013, according to Maria Marced, president of TSMC Europe.

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Panel probes T&M’s tech chiefs

Embedded News - Wed, 02/01/2012 - 23:00
A DesignCon panel probed the leaders of the major test and measurement companies on a broad range of issues.

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HP R&D chief shows road to terabyte backplane

Embedded News - Wed, 02/01/2012 - 23:00
Prith Banerjee, director of HP Labs, described in a DesignCon keynote the path to a terabyte/second backplane as one step toward tomorrow’s computer architectures.

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Discipline key to engineering innovation, says Microsoft exec

Embedded News - Wed, 02/01/2012 - 23:00
The convergence of technical trends are creating an environment full of innovative ideas, but delivering great products to market takes flexibility, focus, and discipline, said Microsoft CVP Ilan Spillinger during a DesignCon keynote on Tuesday.

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