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LG announces new brand for AI smart home appliances
LG announces new brand for AI smart home appliances
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Consumer electronics company LG Electronics (Seoul, South Korea) has announced a new brand to identify its artificial intelligence (AI)-based home…
Amazon acquires smart home security startup
Amazon acquires smart home security startup
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Amazon (Seattle, WA) has acquired smart-home security startup Blink (Andover, MA).
This was 2017 in automotive electronics
This was 2017 in automotive electronics
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These were the ten news pieces and background articles that you, our readers, found the most interesting ones across the…
AT&T launches large 5G fixed wireless trial
AT&T launches large 5G fixed wireless trial
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AT&T has launched its largest 5G fixed wireless trial with Magnolia in Waco, Texas, at the Silos that will use…

Waymo robo-taxi service to include rider insurance
Waymo robo-taxi service to include rider insurance
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Waymo (Mountain View, CA), formerly Google's self-driving car project, has teamed up with on-demand insurance technology startup Trov (San Francisco, CA) to deliver trip insurance for its planned robo-taxi service.
BMW teams with Solid Power on battery technology
BMW teams with Solid Power on battery technology
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BMW is working with a spin off from the University of Colorado on new solid state battery technology for its electric cars.
Osram secures multiple LED offering in Snap autonomous concept vehicle
Osram secures multiple LED offering in Snap autonomous concept vehicle
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LED solutions provider Osram Opto Semiconductors is the exclusive lighting partner for Swiss-based concept car designer Rinspeed who will be launching its Snap autonomous concept vehicle at the 2018 CES…
Qorvo design win in Zigbee-based smart voice assistant
Qorvo design win in Zigbee-based smart voice assistant
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Qorvo has announced that its multi-stack, multi-protocol GP712 System-on-Chip is in the latest Zigbee-based HUMAX Chorus Voice Assistant. The pairing is advancing the Internet of Things (IoT) by creating a…
IBM quantum computing initiative boasts leading companies, organizations
IBM quantum computing initiative boasts leading companies, organizations
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IBM (Armonk, NY) has announced a collaboration with leading companies, academic institutions, and national research labs to accelerate quantum computing.
China raises stake in Dialog, share price jumps
China raises stake in Dialog, share price jumps
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China's Tsinghua University has raised its holding in Europe's mixed-signal, RF and power chip company Dialog Semiconductor plc to 9.01 percent, according to a regulatory filing.
Intersil to be absorbed into Renesas in January
Intersil to be absorbed into Renesas in January
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Intersil is to be fully absorbed into Renesas Electronics following the takeover last February.
Holographic beamforming startup is backed by Bill Gates
Holographic beamforming startup is backed by Bill Gates
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Pivotal Commware Inc. (Bellevue, Washington), has secured $17 million in a Series A round of investment to bring Holographic beamforming (HBF) to market. HBF is a communications technique that is…
Airborne Wireless Network teams with GE Aviation to drive hybrid radio and free optics comms
Airborne Wireless Network teams with GE Aviation to drive hybrid radio and free optics comms
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Airborne Wireless Network has entered into a support agreement with GE Aviation with the aim of significantly accelerating the development of its proprietary hybrid radio and free-optics communications system to…
Verizon opens 5G incubator
Verizon opens 5G incubator
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To drive its pre-commercial 5G technology, Verizon has opened a 5G-enabled Open Innovation lab in New York's Silicon Alley to work with startups and academics to unlock new use cases…
Bill Gates backs startup to bring holographic beamforming
Bill Gates backs startup to bring holographic beamforming
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Holographic beamforming (HBF), a communications technique that is claimed to be superior to MIMO and digital beamforming, is being brought to market by Pivotal Commware Inc. (Bellevue, Washington), a company…
Deals that shaped the analog, MEMS and sensors world in 2017
Deals that shaped the analog, MEMS and sensors world in 2017
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Consolidation in the electronics and semiconductor sectors decreased in 2017 but nonetheless we have come up with a top 10 list of deals, in roughly chronological order that impacted the…
Denso buys smart automotive access company InfiniKey
Denso buys smart automotive access company InfiniKey
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Today’s remote car keys don’t meet the increased needs for flexible, automotive comfortable access control solutions anymore. Many observers believe that smartphone-based software / hardware combinations can offer much more…
Thales to acquire Gemalto for €4.8 billion and lead digital security
Thales to acquire Gemalto for €4.8 billion and lead digital security
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Thales and Gemalto announced they have reached a merger agreement on a recommended all-cash offer from Thales.
Williams, Airbus team for high altitude drone power systems
Williams, Airbus team for high altitude drone power systems
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Airbus and Formula One engineering team Williams are teaming up to develop new power and materials technologies for high altitude, long endurance unmanned aircraft.
Mouser adds Keysight instruments to distribution offering
Mouser adds Keysight instruments to distribution offering
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Distributor Mouser Electronics has signed a global agreement with Keysight Technologies and will offer the T&M manufacturer’s distribution products, spanning oscilloscopes, benchtop power supplies, waveform generators and digital multimeters.
UWB imaging startup raises $45 million
UWB imaging startup raises $45 million
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3D imaging RF sensor company Vayyar Imaging Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel) has raised $45 million in a Series C round of financing.
Alchemy IoT gets seed funding to simplify industrial IoT using AI
Alchemy IoT gets seed funding to simplify industrial IoT using AI
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Startup, Alchemy IoT has launched with $4 million seed funding from Aweida Venture Partners and several angel investors. Its cloud-based application, Clarity, helps customers achieve a greater return on their…
Startup launches industrial IoT security platform protected by blockchain
Startup launches industrial IoT security platform protected by blockchain
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Information technology startup Xage Security (Palo Alto, CA) has emerged from stealth mode to launch what it says is the first and only blockchain-protected security platform for the Industrial Internet…
Blockchain-protected industrial IoT security platform launched
Blockchain-protected industrial IoT security platform launched
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Information technology startup Xage Security (Palo Alto, CA) has emerged from stealth mode to launch what it says is the first and only blockchain-protected security platform for the Industrial Internet…
Panasonic, Toyota team on new automotive batteries
Panasonic, Toyota team on new automotive batteries
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Panasonic and Toyota have started looking at a joint venture for automotive prismatic batteries.
Panasonic teams with Toyota for new automotive batteries
Panasonic teams with Toyota for new automotive batteries
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Panasonic and Toyota have started looking at a joint venture for automotive prismatic batteries.
TSMC’s sales go flat in November
TSMC’s sales go flat in November
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November revenues at foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) were approximately NT$93.15 billion (about $3.1 billion), up 0.1 percent from November 2016.
Apple investing in Finisar to drive VCSEL technology
Apple investing in Finisar to drive VCSEL technology
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Apple (Cupertino, CA) has announced that it is investing $390 million in optical communications products maker Finisar (Sunnyvale, CA) for a new advanced manufacturing plant.


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