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Friday, May 7, 2010



ISuppli Revises 2010 IC Forecast, Sees 31% Growth

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SAN FRANCISCO—After declining in 2008 and 2009, semiconductor industry revenue is set to grow nearly 31 percent in 2010, reaching a record $300.3 billion, according to a revised forecast issued Thursday (May 6) by market research firm iSuppli Corp. The last time semiconductor industry growth topped 30 percent was 2000, when the dot com craze was driving massive infrastructure build out and the ...

HP To Buy Palm For $1.2B

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Hewlett Packard Co. Inc. said it reached an agreement to pay $1.2 billion for Palm Inc. to secure a stronger competitive position in the lucrative but increasingly tough smartphone market where Apple Inc. has gained a huge following at the expense of early starters, including HP, Motorola, Nokia, Palm and Sony-Ericsson. The transaction would mark the end of Palm's long fight to remain relevant ...

Magma Launches Education Program For Analog Designers

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EDA vendor Magma Design Automation Inc. has launched an interactive education program to introduce the latest analog and mixed-signal design capabilities to analog designers. The "Titan Up" program, Magma specified, includes a series on online quizzes and a free trial of the Titan software. The Titan family of analog/mixed-signal design solutions is claimed to deliver analog design ...

Xilinx Again Posts Record Quarterly Sales

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SAN JOSE, Calif.—Programmable logic vendor Xilinx Inc. posted a net income of $148.5 million on record revenue of $529 million for the quarter ended April 3, beating consensus analyst expectations. It was the second consecutive quarter in which Xilinx recorded record quarterly sales. Sales improved by 3 percent sequentially and by 34 percent year-to-year, Xilinx (San Jose) said. Net income, ...

Top 3 Job Search Strategies To Set Yourself Apart

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The job market may be improving slightly, but it's still ridiculously tough out there.

I often hear candidate frustration over hiring managers' extremely exacting criteria - criteria that seems impossible for any candidate to fulfill. It's not the employer's fault - there's an over supply of labor, so why not be picky from their point of view?

Today's article describes 3 ...