| IR outlines initiatives after CEO's resignation
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2007-10-05 |
| Amid an accounting snafu, IR announced the resignation of its CEO and is taking steps to implement meaningful changes to their internal controls and governance policies |
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| Solar cell start-up taps IR light
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2009-01-29 |
| Solexant has licensed materials tech that can harvest energy from IR light, boosting the efficiency of solar cells |
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| Vishay's bid for IR to make new power discretes leader
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2008-08-20 |
| Vishay's bid for IR could make it the world's largest supplier of discrete power semiconductors |
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| IR says Vishay's board candidates defeated
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2008-10-10 |
| IR's shareholders re-elected three board members over candidates pushed by Vishay |
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| Vishay-IR deal could end or get ugly
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2008-09-03 |
| How will Vishay respond to IR's rejection of its Rs.6,857.35 crore ($1.6 billion) acquisition offer |
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| Vishay increases bid to acquire IR
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2008-09-12 |
| Vishay is not giving up. The company has increased its bid to buy IR for Rs.7,285.94 crore ($1.7 billion |
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| Vishay may increase offer to acquire IR
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2008-10-08 |
| Vishay Intertechnology is mulling over plans to boost the price of its Rs.7,311.80 crore ($1.7 billion) offer to acquire IR |
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| IR opens 35,000ft² facility at San Jose
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2010-04-20 |
| IR opens a facility at San Jose, California for space, aerospace, military and heavy duty industrial application high reliability products |
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| Infineon, IR ink DirectFET licensing deal
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2007-10-03 |
| Infineon will combine IR's DirectFET power package tech with its OptiMOS chip tech to enable power supply designers achieve energy and cost-efficient solutions for a given application |
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| IR rejects Vishay takeover bid
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2008-09-02 |
| International Rectifier Corp. has rejected a takeover bid by rival Vishay Intertechnology Inc. |
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| IR to buy CHiL, add digital power tech
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2011-03-03 |
| International Rectifier Corp. is set to buy CHiL Semiconductor Corp. (CHiL) for Rs.344 crore ($75 million) in cash in a bid to strengthen its market position in digital power management. |
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| Wireless rivals vie to replace IR remotes
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2009-05-04 |
| Bluetooth 3.0 spec defines a new function called Unicast Connectionless Data, putting it in direct competition with RF4CE. |
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| IR remotes move to RF
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2009-02-03 |
| If some major CE manufacturers have their way, the next generation of remotes will be based on RF technology. |
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| IR files suit against former CEO
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2009-01-21 |
| The court case alleges Alex Lidow has stolen intellectual property related to gallium nitride power devices. |
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| IPG buys IR laser developer
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2010-02-08 |
| IPG Photonics has bought outstanding shares of Photonics Innovations Inc. to enhance it's product portfolio in middle-infrared spectral range. |
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| Vishay terminates bid to acquire IR
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2008-10-15 |
| Vishay has terminated its offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of International Rectifier. |
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| Raytheon's GBU-53/B to fly on U.S. fighters
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2010-08-13 |
| U.S. Air Force has tapped Raytheon's GBU-53/B, an air-launched, precision-strike standoff weapons which integrates millimetre-wave radar, uncooled imaging IR and semiactive laser |
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| Tech enables integration of silicon LSIs with optical devices
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2007-04-04 |
| The Tokyo Institute of Technology and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd today have jointly developed a technology that enables the propagation of IR light through an optical crystal film on a silicon substrate |
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| Zigbee remote promises flexible control
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2009-12-23 |
| Zigbee replaces the 30 year-old IR technology with RF in remote controls |
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| Vishay bid unlikely to win, says analyst
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2008-10-03 |
| Vishay's Rs.989.24 ($23)-per-share tender offer to acquire IR is too low, said an analyst |
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| Altera stakes 45nm success on relationship with TSMC
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2007-10-23 |
| Altera's foray into FPGAs produced at the 45nm node will leverage a collaborative relationship with foundry TSMC that both partners say grows more important as geometries shrink. |
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| Cadence announces timing system for 65nm, 45nm designs
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2006-10-16 |
| Cadence Design Systems Inc. has introduced the Encounter Timing System, described as a "signoff-quality" timing product for nanometer SoC design. |
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| Price hikes, shortages dog IC market
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2010-03-29 |
| Amid the upturn, there are widespread reports of component shortages in the supply chain and many chipmakers have raised select product prices. |
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| GoogleTV engineer: No cable-TV partner, no problem
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2010-05-31 |
| GoogleTV engineer Vincent Dureau shares the genesis and outlook of the project and why it isn't a problem that GoogleTV does not have any cable-TV partners yet. |
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| LG Electronics adopts Synopsys' CustomSim
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2011-10-19 |
| LG Electronics adopts Synopsys' CustomSim FastSPICE for mixed-signal SoC verification to accelerate verification of its analogue IP and SoCs by an average of 10x over previous solutions. |
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| Intel, Carnegie Mellon work on chip packaging
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2010-01-25 |
| They have devised an RF heating technique for solder magnetic nanoparticle (MNP) composites that can sufficiently heat solders to cause reflow without placing computer chips in conventional ovens. |
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| Samsung Electro-Mechanics receives RF4CE certification
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2009-09-17 |
| Samsung Electro-Mechanics announced that it has attained Zigbee RF4CE certification in Korea. |
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| Nanolasers aid integrated optical photonics
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2011-02-09 |
| University of California Berkeley research team has devised a technique to grow indium-GaAs nano-lasers directly on silicon substrates that they say can aid integrated optical photonics. |
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| Temperature not an immediate concern for TI
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2006-07-28 |
| Impact of high temperature on a chip design is not among the most immediate concerns for advanced IC design, according to Texas Instruments' Robert Pitts. |
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| Touchscreen revenues to exceed Rs. 15,919.56 crore by 2014
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2010-01-22 |
| By 2014, NanoMarkets projects that revenues from in-pixel technologies are expected to reach almost Rs.2341.11 crore ($500 million) in revenues. |
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