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Daimler introduces fuel cell drive to commercial vehicles
Daimler introduces fuel cell drive to commercial vehicles
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As part of its electrification strategy for vans, Daimler is positioning the fuel cell as an equivalent drive concept to…
Siemens buys smart building app company
Siemens buys smart building app company
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Siemens' Building Technologies Division has bought a app developer to boost its smart building business.
Siemens grabs smart building app startup
Siemens grabs smart building app startup
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Siemens' Building Technologies Division has bought a app developer to boost its smart building business.
Adesto to acquire networking pioneer Echelon
Adesto to acquire networking pioneer Echelon
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Memory and IoT chip vendor Adesto Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has announced it has agreed to buy Echelon Corp.

Flexible display startup enters mass production
Flexible display startup enters mass production
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Royole Corp. (Fremont, Calif.), a startup that has raised more than a billion dollars to fund its electronic manufacturing ambitions, has announced that its 1.1 million square foot production campus…
Agtech startup looks to accelerate autonomous irrigation
Agtech startup looks to accelerate autonomous irrigation
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Autonomous irrigation solutions provider WaterBit (San Jose, CA) has announced that it has secured $11.4 million in financing, which it says will be used to accelerate delivery of autonomous irrigation…
Startup intends to bring “drones to every job site”
Startup intends to bring “drones to every job site”
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Cloud-based drone mapping and analytics platform provider DroneDeploy (San Francisco, CA) has announced that it has raised $25 million of Series C funding, which it says will help it "bring…
Second life for traction batteries in Amsterdam football arena
Second life for traction batteries in Amsterdam football arena
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Power management system vendor Eaton, carmaker Nissan and electric mobility services provider The Mobility House have implemented an energy storage system consisting of new and used batteries of electric cars…
Siemens buys Building Robotics for smart app
Siemens buys Building Robotics for smart app
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Siemens' Building Technologies Division has bought a app developer to boost its smart building business.
Volkswagen bets $100m on solid state batteries
Volkswagen bets $100m on solid state batteries
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Volkswagen has invested $100m in US solid state battery developer QuantumScape to set up a joint venture.
Volkswagen bets $100m on solid state batteries
Volkswagen bets $100m on solid state batteries
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Volkswagen has invested $100m in US solid state battery developer QuantumScape to set up a joint venture.
Aerial basestation project crashes to the ground
Aerial basestation project crashes to the ground
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Facebook has cancelled its UK-based high altitude unmanned aircraft project, Aquila.
BP buys UK’s largest electric vehicle charging network
BP buys UK’s largest electric vehicle charging network
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BP is to buy the UK’s largest electric vehicle (EV) charging company, Chargemaster, in a deal expected to be worth £130m.
Eaton spins out electric vehicle power technology unit
Eaton spins out electric vehicle power technology unit
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Power management giant Eaton is to spin out its electric vehicle power technologies into a separate business called eMobility.
Nexans to supply 42km of 3kV cabling for Norway project
Nexans to supply 42km of 3kV cabling for Norway project
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French power group Nexans has won a major contract to design and supply complex 3kV umbilicals with power, fibre-optic and hydraulic elements for the next stage of the Snøhvit oil and…
BlueX licenses CEVA Bluetooth Low Energy IP for wearable SoC
BlueX licenses CEVA Bluetooth Low Energy IP for wearable SoC
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CEVA, Inc., has announced that BlueX Microelectronics (China) has licensed and deployed RivieraWaves Bluetooth low energy technology from CEVA in its latest BX2400 Bluetooth® 5 compliant wireless IC.
Marvell gets Chinese regulatory approval for Cavium acquisition
Marvell gets Chinese regulatory approval for Cavium acquisition
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Marvell has announced that China's State Administration for Market Regulation has approved the company's previously announced merger transaction with Cavium, Inc. The merger remains subject to customary closing conditions and…
Eaton in $300m eMobility spinout
Eaton in $300m eMobility spinout
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US power management giant Eaton is to spin out its electric vehicle power technologies into a separate business called eMobility.
Broadcom lays off 1,100 people
Broadcom lays off 1,100 people
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Leading fabless chip company Broadcom Inc., which recently relocated from Singapore to San Jose, California, has announced that it has laid off 1,100 people following its acquisition of Brocade Communication…
Siemens buys expert for Functional Safety IP
Siemens buys expert for Functional Safety IP
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Siemens has signed a takeover agreement with Austemper Design Systems Inc., a startup company focused on functional safety as defined by ISO26262, to enable fault simulation in much less time…
TowerJazz announces RF SOI 65nm ramp
TowerJazz announces RF SOI 65nm ramp
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TowerJazz has announced a ramp for its radio frequency silicon-on-insulator (RF SOI) 65nm process in its 300mm Uozu, Japan fab, and has signed a contract with long-term partner, SOITEC, to…
Broadcom lays off 1,100 people
Broadcom lays off 1,100 people
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Leading fabless chip company Broadcom Inc., which recently relocated from Singapore to San Jose, California, has announced that it has laid off 1,100 people following its acquisition of Brocade Communication…
Valencell raises funds in hearables-biosensor deal with Sonion
Valencell raises funds in hearables-biosensor deal with Sonion
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Sonion a/s (Roskilde, Denmark) a supplier of hearing aids and mobile hearable components has made a strategic investment biosensor developer Valencell Inc. (Rayleigh, North Carolina) as part of a $10.5…
Silicon Microgravity raises $7 million
Silicon Microgravity raises $7 million
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Silicon Microgravity Ltd. (Cambridge, England), a spin-out from both oil company BP and the University of Cambridge, has raised $7 million in equity finance and appointed Jeremy Lofts as CEO.
Bosch lays foundation for Dresden chip factory
Bosch lays foundation for Dresden chip factory
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The Bosch Group has laid the foundation stone for its new semiconductor fab in Dresden (Germany). The fab in Dresden is Bosch’s second semiconductor manufacturing site; the first one is…
Boeing invests in on-demand UAV delivery startup
Boeing invests in on-demand UAV delivery startup
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Aerospace giant Boeing (Chicago, IL) has announced an investment - through its venture arm Boeing HorizonX Ventures - in Matternet (Menlo Park, CA), a startup developing safe, on-demand unmanned aerial…
Cisco to acquire Wi-Fi indoor location analytics startup
Cisco to acquire Wi-Fi indoor location analytics startup
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Networking technology giant Cisco (San Jose, CA) has announced that it plans to acquire cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform provider July Systems (Burlingame, CA).
Rohm, Eta Compute team on ultra-low-power IoT node
Rohm, Eta Compute team on ultra-low-power IoT node
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Eta Compute (Westlake Village, CA) and ROHM (Kyoto, Japan) have teamed up to boost the performance of sensor networks using an ultra-low-power self timed, sub-threshold microcontroller.


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