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Motorola Solutions, the other part of the old Motorola to Motorola Mobility – the phone business – is looking for a buyer, it is reported.

TSMC says it will invest $15.9 billion building a fab in the central Taiwan science park at Taichung.

RFEL is developing the US market for high performance signal and video processing systems by opening its first US office, together with its American partner Vingtech LLC. The UK-based specialist in real-time high specification signal, image and video processing products won the Elektra 2014 European Electronics Industry Award for design team of year award and company of the year in ...

Silicon Labs has paid $61 million to buy 14 year-old Finnish short-range radio specialist Bluegiga Technologies.

Net neutrality, the principle that no one should be allowed to pay for faster broadband access than anyone else, or to put it another way, that all Internet traffic must be treated the same, is about to be affirmed in the USA, says the Wall Street Journal.

Chip sales reached $335.8bn last year says the SIA, up from $305.6bn in 2013.

SanDisk is sampling two automotive NAND products – an SD card and an iNAND embedded flash drive (EFD). They come in densities up to 64GB.

Four years after buying Infineon’s wireless business for $1.4 billion, Intel has bought Infineon’s former wired broadband business called Lantiq which was sold for $250 million, five years ago, by Infineon to US private equity company Golden Gate Capital.

Sony is to invest $900 million to boost CMOS imaging sensor production.

Global smartphone shipments grew 30% annually from 1.0 billion units in 2013 to a record 1.3 billion in 2014 with Android accounting for 81% of shipments, reports Strategy Analytics.