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The Lament of 1994

Back in August 1994, the UK was looking a sad and sorry place, lamented Electronics Weekly.

Qualcomm, GloFo, TSMC the big 2012 gainers.

The top 25 semiconductor companies’ sales declined by 1% in 2012, two points less than the total worldwide semiconductor market decline of 3%. Intel              49       -1 Samsung       32      -4 TSMC          17    +18 Qualcomm    13    +34 TI                  12       -6 Toshiba         11      -12 Renesas           9      -13 Hynix               9       -4 ST                   8     -13 Micron            8       -7 Broadcom       7.8    +9 Sony                5.7     -6 AMD              ...

Google takes translations offline for Android

Available for Android 2.3 and above, Google has released an offline-friendly equivalent of its Translate service - Google Translate on Android. You don't have to have a network connection to work with some of the language packages available, from Afrikaans to Yiddish.