Toshiba is now considering a total sell off of its chip business according to the company’s president Satoshi Tsunakawa

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Microsemi has come out with a family of flash-based FPGAs with densities up to 500k LUTs with low power and low cost.

Read full article: Microsemi brings out flash-based FPGAs with 12.7Gbps transceivers

Check out the MeArm, a kit that brings robotic arm control to the Raspberry Pi, and it’s aimed at kids.

Read full article: MeArm grabs robotic arm control for the Raspberry Pi

The Chinese must be salivating at the thought – in one swift move they can pick up the world’s finest non-volatile memory company for a song. If the best bid for 30% of Toshiba’s chip business is $3.6 billion – and it is said that Toshiba has received such a bid – then the price …

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MIT researchers build a low-power chip for automatic speech recognition, requiring 200μW to 10mW depending on the number of words it has to recognise.

Read full article: MIT recognises speech for <10mW

Adding a liquid metal to a silicone elastomer can create a rubbery heatsink, which has been nicknamed ‘thubber’.

Read full article: Liquid metal turns elastomer into a heatsink

A new report says it is possible that plastic electronics technology is set to revolutionise the consumer electronics industry, with lower costs.

Read full article: Consumers will see a plastic revolution

Anritsu introduces an ultra-portable millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum analyser range.

Read full article: Ultra-portable spectrum analyser works with a tablet

SoftBank, which paid $32 billion for ARM last year, has paid $3.3 billion for a US private equity company called Fortress Investment Group.

Read full article: SoftBank diversifies into private equity

The DRAM market grew 18.2% Q4 on Q3 with contract prices for supply-squeezed PC DRAM growing 30% in Q4 and expected to grow another 40% in Q1

Read full article: DRAM price going through the roof