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16 May 2008

• Pace secures BT set-top box contract after Philips buy
• Field emission boosts Samsung LCD contrast to 300,000
• Atmel ARM9 microcontroller dissipates 80mW at 400MHz
• IET/GSA Semiconductor Forum: NFC to be in 50 per cent of mobiles by 2010

9 May 2008

• NXP reports continuing "softness" in semiconductor market
• DMASS sees fall in distributor sales
• ZigBee holding back short-range wireless
• UK, Ireland technology investment going strong

2 May 2008

• Graphene to replace ITO in LCDs
• Government skills policy damaging electronics, says Lord Leitch
• DRAM musical chairs
• Apple 3G iPhone build expect to drive NAND

25 April 2008

• Rambus case sent for re-trial
• Micron and Nanya form Meiya
• ST, NXP deal to trigger consolidation
• Apple joins IC market with $278m PA Semi buy

18 April 2008

• XMOS samples its first 400MIPS four core chip
• ARM cuts power of Cortex-M3 processor
• Freescale, Xilinx amongst early movers at Embedded Systems Conference
• Oxford University makes digital radio breakthrough

27March 2008

• Motorola spins off mobile phone business
• Xilinx claims faster FPGA development times
• Intel cuts processor power by 30 per cent
• TSMC lines up first chips on 40 nm process

20 March 2008

• Credit crunch could fuel electronics acquisitions
• Canadian, German researchers discover superconductors
• Nokia slips in Greenpeace ranking
• Toumaz signs agreement with Texas Instruments