Finance

Fusion-io, the nine year-old flash I/O acceleration specialist whose chief scientist is Steve Wozniak, has been bought by SanDisk for around $1.1 billion – less than its market cap of $1.23 billion.

Altera has invested in Lime Microsystems and the two companies are to develop programmable products for broadband wireless markets like field programmable radio frequency (FPRF) transceivers, digital RF and baseband ICs.

Toshiba has launched a range of entry-level USB 3.0 flash memory USB drives that are twice as faster than USB 2.0 drives.

UK government’s innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board, has announced the winners that will attend the ‘Robotics and Autonomous Systems Mission 2014’ held from 23-27 June 2014 in California. “The mission is designed to open doors, build networks and showcase British innovation,” said Mike Biddle, deputy director – Innovation Programmes at the Technology Strategy Board. The winning companies are: · Agilic ...

The power GaN market, worth only about $10 million in sales this year, could grow to $600 million in six years led by power supply applications, says Yole Développement.

HP is betting on a mix of memristors and photonics to revolutionise computers.

ADI has brought out a DSP series that delivers 800 MMACS of processing power at less than 100 mW. In 12 × 12 QFN or 12 × 12 BGA packages they starting at under $4.00/1k units.

Intel’s appeal against its 2009 $1.44 billion fine for anti-competitive practices has been dismissed ‘in its entirety’ by the General Court of the EU.

IBM has improved its RF SOI and SiGe processes for foundry customers.