Intel Corp. retained its top position in the IC Insight's sales ranking. According to IC Insights' soon-to-be-released May update of its McClean Report, Intel commanded the lead by registering 68 per cent higher sales level than second-ranked Samsung in 1Q12...

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The electronics market is expected to reach Rs 5 lakh crore by this year-end, and Rs 20 lakh crore by 2020, according to the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India. The market was estimated at Rs 3.25 lakh crore in 2010...

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Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a method to generate power using harmless viruses that convert mechanical energy into electricity...

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Gallium Nitride (GaN), a semiconductor material found in bright lights since the 1990s, is used in wireless applications due to its high efficiency and high voltage operation. GaN transistors have been offered commercially since 2006. The problem with them, like all high power operating devices, is significant amount of dissipated heat...

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Applied Materials Inc., a provider of equipment, services and software to the semiconductor, flat panel display and solar photovoltaic industries, is restructuring its energy and environmental solutions (EES) business to cope with challenging conditions in the industry...

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Skyrocketing fuel price has become a big worry nowadays; but the development related to Tata's air-car project is surely going to bring cheer to all Indians. World's most reputed carmaker Tata Motors and Luxemburg based Motor Development International (MDI) have taken a step towards bringing the concept...

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Whatever the intensions may be, "the modernisation and advancement of Chinese military weapons systems over the past decade have consistently developed faster," says a report. "It is much faster than both U.S. officials and analysts outside of government expected...

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Inner workings of brain have always been the subject of human curiosity. But, the researchers at MIT and Georgia Institute of Technology claim to have cracked the mystery and that too with the help of robots. They have developed an automated way to record electrical activity inside neurons in the living brain...

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Google has announced that its e-mail service, Gmail, will soon include an "automatic message translation" feature for all users. "Over the next few days, everyone who uses Gmail will be getting the convenience of translation added to their email. The next time you receive a message in a language other than your own...

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Mippin, the app creation platform, said it will power BlackBerry App Generator—an online tool that enables users to build apps for BlackBerry smartphones and PlayBook tablets. The new online-app creator allows content owners to build apps in less than 10 minutes...

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