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In this issue: • Freescale and NXP agree to $40 Billion merger • Insights from the Leading Edge: SEMI 3D Summit: The Future of Assembly and Test • MicroWatt Chips shown at ISSCC • Time to "shift left" in chip design and verification, Synopsys founder says • UT Dallas technology could make night vision, thermal imaging affordable • IRT Nanoelec and CMP team up to offer world's first service for post-process 3D technologies on multi-project-wafer • Imec demonstrates compact wavelength-division multiplexing CMOS silicon photonics transceiver • Mentor Graphics joins the Center for Power Electronics Systems • Intel honors 21 companies with Preferred Quality Supplier and Achievement Awards • TowerJazz begins mass production of advanced IR sensor • Global semiconductor industry posts highest-ever January sales	Share:
Top News Freescale and NXP agree to $40 Billion mergerChipmaker NXP Semiconductors NV announced Sunday night that it has agreed to buy Freescale Semiconductor Ltd for $11.8 billion and merge business operations. Share:    Insights from the Leading Edge: SEMI 3D Summit: The Future of Assembly and TestContinuing our look at presentations from the Grenoble SEMI 3D Summit, which took place in January, let's look at an interesting presentation by ATREG consultants on the future of Assembly & Test.Share:    MicroWatt Chips shown at ISSCCWith much of future demand for silicon ICs forecasted to be for mobile devices that must conserve battery power, it was natural for much of the focus at the just concluded 2015 International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco to be on ultra-low-power circuits that run on mere microWatts (From SemiMD)Share:    Time to "shift left" in chip design and verification, Synopsys founder saysThe world is moving toward "Smart Everything," according to Aart de Geus, founder, chairman, and co-CEO of Synopsys. (From SemiMD)Share:
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Tech News UT Dallas technology could make night vision, thermal imaging affordableSemiconductors made in CMOS technology reach nearly 10 terahertz.Share:    IRT Nanoelec and CMP team up to offer world's first service for post-process 3D technologies on multi-project-waferIRT Nanoelec, an R&D consortium focused on ICT using micro- and nanoelectronics, and CMP, which provides prototyping and low-volume production of ICs and MEMS, are launching a platform for multi-project-wafer, post-process 3D integration (3D-MPW). Share:    Imec demonstrates compact wavelength-division multiplexing CMOS silicon photonics transceiverAt the 2015 International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), imec, in collaboration with Tyndall National Institute, the University of Leuven (KULeuven) and the Ghent University, demonstrated a 4x20Gb/s wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) hybrid CMOS silicon photonics transceiveShare:

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Business News Mentor Graphics joins the Center for Power Electronics Systems Mentor Graphics Corporation announced that it has joined the Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES) at Virginia Tech, the industry consortium dedicated to improving electrical power processing and distribution across various systems.Share:    Intel honors 21 companies with Preferred Quality Supplier and Achievement AwardsIntel Corporation announced that 19 companies will receive the 2014 Intel Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) award that recognizes commitment to performance excellence and continuous improvement. Share:    TowerJazz begins mass production of advanced IR sensorTowerJazz, a specialty foundry, announced it has begun mass production of an IR sensor used by Intel in one of its new 3D sensing solutions.Share:    Global semiconductor industry posts highest-ever January salesGlobal sales from January 2015 were 2 percent lower than the December 2014 total of $29.1 billion, reflecting normal seasonal trends.Share:

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