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ARM is finding mobile OEMs “bemused” by Intel’s contra-revenues scheme by which mobile OEMs are paid to take Intel chips.

ARM had Q4 revenues of $357 million up 18% on Q4 2013 for full year revenues in 2014 of $1.292.6 million up 16% on 2013. The profit before tax for Q4 was $118 million, up,25% on Q4 2013 and full year profit was $411 million up 13% on 2013. “In Q4 and throughout 2014 ARM has seen strong licence revenue ...

The deal struck between Qualcomm and China may have other companies in other countries pushing for similar terms.

Silicon wafer area shipments increased 11% in 2014 on 2013, reports SEMI, though silicon wafer revenues increased by only 1%. Silicon wafer area shipments in 2014 totalled 10,098 million square inches (MSI), up from the 9,067 million square inches shipped during 2013. The previous market high for silicon area shipments was 9,370 MSI in 2010. Revenues totalled $7.6 billion slightly ...

Qualcomm is reported by Reuters as being likely to settle its China anti-trust dispute by paying $1 billion and reducing its royalties by a third.

Motorola Solutions, the other part of the old Motorola to Motorola Mobility – the phone business – is looking for a buyer, it is reported.

TSMC says it will invest $15.9 billion building a fab in the central Taiwan science park at Taichung.

RFEL is developing the US market for high performance signal and video processing systems by opening its first US office, together with its American partner Vingtech LLC. The UK-based specialist in real-time high specification signal, image and video processing products won the Elektra 2014 European Electronics Industry Award for design team of year award and company of the year in ...

Silicon Labs has paid $61 million to buy 14 year-old Finnish short-range radio specialist Bluegiga Technologies.

Net neutrality, the principle that no one should be allowed to pay for faster broadband access than anyone else, or to put it another way, that all Internet traffic must be treated the same, is about to be affirmed in the USA, says the Wall Street Journal.