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Former Apple, Google, Facebook engineers launch IoT startup

One-year old startup Electric Imp has developed a Wi-Fi node in a memory card physical format that it hopes will become a standard way for things to be given an IP address and linked to the Internet to form a Wi-Fi mediated Internet of Things.

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Q&A: Nvidia’s Dally on 3-D ICs, China, cloud computing

Bill Dally (shown), Nvidia’s chief scientist calls for a 3-D memory champion, more U.S. spending on computer research and an Ethernet alternative for data centers.

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GSA spies venture capital investment uptick in April

Investment in semiconductor industry startup and private companies jumped up in April to $194.2 million, according to the Global Semiconductor Alliance industry body.

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OIF to define three 56 Gbits/s serial interfaces

The Optical Internetworking Forum launched projects to define 50-56 Gbits/s serial interfaces for future Fibre Channel, Ethernet and other links.

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Cadence tips faster Spice coming soon

EDA software vendor Cadence is working "feverishly" on producing a faster version of the Spice analog electronics simulator, according to Tom Beckley, senior vice president of R&D for custom ICs and signoff in the silicon realization group there.

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Altis foundry updates 130-nm specialty design kits

Altis Semiconductor SA, the specialty foundry bought by French entrepreneur Yazid Sabeg from IBM and Infineon in 2010, has announced the release of updated process design kits for 130-nm specialty technologies.

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Cadence extends verification and storage IP offerings

EDA software vendor Cadence announced a couple of extensions in its offering of intellectual property at the Cadence Live European user conference on May 15.

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NSF's I-Corps targets 'innovation ecosystem'

The National Science Foundation's Innovation Corps is designed to create an agile technology ecosystem that can transform basic research into value-added products.

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IHS: Apple iOS to reassert tablet dominance in 2012

Apple's iOS operating system is expected to reassert commanding leadership of the worldwide tablet space in 2012, following a temporary dip in market share in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to market research firm IHS iSuppli.

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IMEC to detail memristor progress at VLSI Symposia

The Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC) will report next month on progress to make its memristor variation, called resistive-RAMs (RRAM), the dominate memory technology in four papers at the VLSI Symposia in Honolulu.

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