Microchip to Acquire Supertex for $394M

From EETimes: In an effort to grow its presence in the medical, lighting, and industrial markets and gain high-voltage process technology expertise, Microchip Technology Inc. has agreed to acquire Supertex Inc. for $394 million in cash.

Supertex [Sunnyvale, Calif.] is a niche analog and mixed...

Ads are coming to Firefox

From PC World: Advertising is about to land in the Firefox browser, at least for new users. Upcoming versions of Firefox will include sponsored advertising in the browser's new tab page, according to an announcement by the Mozilla Foundation.

Typically, the new tab page includes a selection of a...

ARM Announces Octacore Cortex-A17, MediaTek Airs Early Design

From DailyTech: ARM Holdings Plc (LON:ARM) is pushing hard for chipmakers to switch to the 64-bit ARMv8-A instruction set to help it with its fledgling server market push. As a result it appeared to temporarily freeze 32-bit releases, funneling useful technology into 64-bit cores -- namely the...

DARPA Contracts IBM to Develop Self-Destructing Chips

From X-bit Labs: The chips are used by warfighters in everything from radios, remote sensors and even phones are of very low cost and are pervasive throughout the battlefield. These electronics have become necessary for operations, but it is almost impossible to track and recover every device. At...

Group Forms to Drive NVDIMM Adoption

From EETimes: The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has created a special interest group to foster the adoption of nonvolatile DIMM (NVDIMM), which it sees as the early days of computing architectures that combine storage and memory as a single entity.

Launched during the SNIA Annual...

Microsoft working on Kindle-like Xbox reading app for Windows 8

From PC World: Microsoft's getting ready to follow Amazon, Apple, and Google into the reading game with an app for Windows to peruse e-books, magazines, and comics. The new app appears be part of Microsoft's cross-platform Xbox entertainment services, which currently include Xbox Music and Video...

Sony Announces Slim PlayStation Vita, Borderlands 2 Bundle for US

From DailyTech: Sony has announced a new bundle that will include the new “slim” PlayStation Vita and Borderlands 2. Sony hasn’t given an exact launch date for the new bundle, but did say that it will be available in the U.S. this spring.

The bundle will include the new PCH-2000 series PS Vita...

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