Every twelve to eighteen months, the amount of computing power on a semiconductor doubles, even as price holds constant.
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Wireless power demos abound at CEATEC, and Rohm Semiconductor had their own variant on hand with a complete mix of direct-draw gadgets, along with the omnipresent charging iPhone 4 (or was it a 4S?).
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Our analog stars are National Semiconductor, Anadigics, Synaptics, and power interface innovator Power-One.
They're made possible by semiconductor chips that can handle megawatts of power, rather than the microwatts that move the bits through a laptop.
All of which starts with the need at the semiconductor level to reduce the silicon cost and power, at the same time increasing the performance per dollar.
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Linaro's outputs will accelerate the abundance of new consumer products that use Linux-based distributions such as Android, LiMo, MeeGo, Ubuntu and webOS in conjunction with advanced semiconductor SoCs to provide the new features consumers desire at the lowest possible power consumption.
Elpida Memory said its semiconductor assembly facility in Yamagata has been damaged and that it also is having power issues.
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The LED light is a semiconductor chip that requires another chip, called an LED driver, to supply stable power to LEDs, improve electrical efficiency and regulate performance.
Kicking things off this morning: Volterra Semiconductor (VLTR), which sells high-performance analog and mixed-signal power management chips.
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First Solar is engaged in the manufacturing and sale of solar modules with an advanced thin film semiconductor technology, and it competes with other solar industry players like SunPower , Suntech Power and Yingli Green Energy.
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