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Semiconductors

Low capacitance, low clamping voltage ESD suppression devices

Power analogue controllers with integrated MCU

Wolfson sold to US rival in £278m deal

Highest resolution, fastest sampling, lowest power

TI brings Bluetooth Smart tech to automotive applications

Altera gets 14nm FPGA test chips back from Intel

Altera builds hardened DSP blocks into Arria and Stratix at 20nm

Imagination looks to rival the Cortex family with cores supporting virtualisation and security

Analogue designers continue to push the boundaries

Altera uses fine pitch copper bumps in 20nm Arria 10 devices

Lattice has programmable pal for ASICs

Freescale has chip for cheaper head-up displays