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Imagination technologies to see big royalty uptick
Exponential mobile computing growth and major upgrades to graphics chips are aligning to give Imagination Technologies’ royalties a huge boost, according to Arete Research Services.

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Chip stocks have room to grow, says analyst
Semiconductor stocks should continue to appreciate until at least early summer, now that business is picking up and the chip market upturn has entered a new phase, according to Christopher Danely, an analyst with JP Morgan.

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European research project to boost solar cell efficiency
A three-year European research project aims to push solar-cell efficiency towards 25 percent and reduce power conversion losses by 20 percent.

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TSMC sales jump in January, still down on 2010
Sales at foundry wafer processor TSMC were up 11.4 percent over December 2011 but down by 1.1 percent over the strong month of January 2011.

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NXP swings to loss in Q4, optimistic on Q1
Chip company NXP Semiconductors NV has reported a $182 million net loss on revenues of $931 million in the fourth quarter of 2011. The loss contrasted with a net profit of $301 million in 3Q11 and was larger than the net loss of $118 million reported for 4Q10.

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Intel pays $6.5 million to settle N.Y. antitrust suit
Intel said it agreed to pay $6.5 million in exchange for New York's attorney general to drop an antitrust lawsuit brought against the world's biggest chip maker a little more than two years ago.

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Application list for Windows 8 beta released
With the “consumer preview” of Microsoft’s Windows 8 beta due to emerge over the next couple of weeks, a list of pre-installed applications available for the software has emerged.

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Analyst: Apple took 80% of handset profits in Q4
Apple's iPhone captured 19.1 percent of the global smartphone market share in 2011, up from 16 percent in 2010, according to Canacorrd Genuity analyst Michael Walkley. Walkley expects Apple to gain more market share in the first quarter of this year, when be projects iPhone's market share to be about 23.8 percent.

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Updated: UMC 28-nm roll out beating expectations
Foundry chipmaker United Microelectronics Corp. is sampling a customer with a 28-nm application processor amid indications that its roll out of the leading-edge process technology is going better than expected, according to analysts at financial services firm Nomura Equities Research.

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Report: CMOS in, CCD out of image focus
Charge coupled device sensors, long a bastion of image equipment, are losing their luster as CMOS image sensors have become dominant.

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