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Chip sales reached $335.8bn last year says the SIA, up from $305.6bn in 2013.

SanDisk is sampling two automotive NAND products – an SD card and an iNAND embedded flash drive (EFD). They come in densities up to 64GB.

Four years after buying Infineon’s wireless business for $1.4 billion, Intel has bought Infineon’s former wired broadband business called Lantiq which was sold for $250 million, five years ago, by Infineon to US private equity company Golden Gate Capital.

Sony is to invest $900 million to boost CMOS imaging sensor production.

Global smartphone shipments grew 30% annually from 1.0 billion units in 2013 to a record 1.3 billion in 2014 with Android accounting for 81% of shipments, reports Strategy Analytics.

Tabula, the 3D FPGA company with an Intel fab deal, is to close, reports SemiWiki.

STMicroelectronics is pulling out of the IBM Alliance for semiconductor process technology and is now, apparently, without a source of core CMOS technology.

Infineon’s calendar Q4 profit was up 46% y-o-y at at €169 million on revenues of €1,128 million up 15% y-o-y.

STMicroelectronics reported 2014 sales of $7.4 billion for a net profit of $128 million and Q4 sales of $1.83 billion for a Q4 net profit of $43 million. It expects a 5% drop in revenues in Q1.

Dyson is expanding its electronics design capabilities to support current and future product developments. A new robotics development centre at the consumer manufacturer’s facility at Malmesbury in Wiltshire is planned to open this year. The level of electronics and software design necessary for products such as the Dyson 360 Eye robotic cleaner, which was unveiled in Japan last year, is ...