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AMS opens Singapore site under $200 million plan
AMS opens Singapore site under $200 million plan
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Mixed-signal IC and sensor company AMS AG (Premstaetten, Austria) has said it will open a clean room for the R&D…
E Ink renews agreement with Plastic Logic
E Ink renews agreement with Plastic Logic
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E Ink Holdings (Hsinchu, Taiwan), maker of passive black-and-white displays, is renewing a sourcing agreement with Plastic Logic GmbH (Dresden…
AMS shifts east, to sensors
AMS shifts east, to sensors
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AMS AG (Premstaetten, Austria) has gone from 2,200 employees in 2016 to more than 8,000 employees in the fourth quarter…
TUV Rheinland expands wireless test with 4ffCom AG acquisition
TUV Rheinland expands wireless test with 4ffCom AG acquisition
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TUV Rheinland is expanding its global involvement in the field of wireless communication technologies by acquiring 4ffCom, a telecommunications company…

Chinese home-made and designed commercial NB-IoT chip
Chinese home-made and designed commercial NB-IoT chip
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Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation ("SMIC"), the largest and most advanced foundry in mainland China, and Sanechips Technology Co., Ltd. (previously named ZTE Microelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.), have launched RoseFinch7100, which…
US MEMS foundry for sale
US MEMS foundry for sale
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A US-based MEMS foundry business is for sale at a price of $11.4 million.
Toshiba sells flash memory business to consortium, Apple takes a bite
Toshiba sells flash memory business to consortium, Apple takes a bite
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After lengthy speculation as to whom would get to benefit from Toshiba's flash memory chip business, as well as litigation and last minute bidders jumping on the bandwagon, Toshiba finally…
Toshiba sells flash memory business to consortium, Apple gets its share
Toshiba sells flash memory business to consortium, Apple gets its share
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After lengthy speculations as to whom would get to benefit from Toshiba's flash memory chip business, as well as litigations and last minute bidders jumping in the bandwagon, Toshiba finally…
Royole raises USD 800 Million in series D funding, invests in flexible display production
Royole raises USD 800 Million in series D funding, invests in flexible display production
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Co-founded in Silicon Valley, Shenzhen and Hong Kong in 2012 by three Stanford and Tsinghua engineering graduates, five-year old startup Royole Corporation announced it has raised a total of USD…
Samsung, SK Hynix back Reno Sub-Systems
Samsung, SK Hynix back Reno Sub-Systems
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Leading chip and equipment companies have joined in Series C round to finance Reno Sub-Systems Inc. (Sparks, Nevada), a developer of RF power generators and gas flow management systems for…
Autoliv buys expertise for Lidar, Time-of-Flight cameras
Autoliv buys expertise for Lidar, Time-of-Flight cameras
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Swedish automotive supplier Autoliv has signed an agreement to acquire certain assets of Fotonic i Norden AB. Located in Stockholm and Skellefteå, Sweden, Fotonic i Norden is a Lidar and…
Delphi’s mobility business will bear the name Aptiv PLC
Delphi’s mobility business will bear the name Aptiv PLC
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Delphi Automotive has announced the names Aptiv and Delphi Technologies for the two highly specialized companies that will result from the spin-off of Delphi's Powertrain business. Delphi announced this news…
Ford, Lyft partner to bring self-driving cars to the masses
Ford, Lyft partner to bring self-driving cars to the masses
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Automaker Ford (Dearborn, MI) has announced that it is partnering with ride services company Lyft (San Francisco, CA) to develop and test self-driving cars, and "to progress toward a more…
Intel partners with SecureRF for future-proof FPGA security
Intel partners with SecureRF for future-proof FPGA security
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SecureRF and Intel announced their collaboration to provide engineers with quantum-resistant authentication and data protection solutions for Intel FPGA-based Internet of Things (IoT) projects.
Dyson invests £2bn in electric car and battery development
Dyson invests £2bn in electric car and battery development
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Vacuum cleaner maker Dyson is investing over £2bn ($2.4bn, €2.5bn) to develop a new generation of battery technology in its own electric car.
Small form factor ECP5 FPGA enables Ximmerse VR/AR tracking platform
Small form factor ECP5 FPGA enables Ximmerse VR/AR tracking platform
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Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has announced that Guangdong Virtual Reality Technology Co., Ltd. (Ximmerse), a provider of interaction systems for mobile AR/VR applications, has selected its ECP5™ FPGA to perform stereo…
Idemitsu and Toray to partner on OLED R&D and production
Idemitsu and Toray to partner on OLED R&D and production
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Japanese chemical companies Idemitsu Kosan and Toray Industries announced their intention to cooperate on the development and production of OLED materials, which they expect to significantly grow their businesses.
Dyson invests £2bn in electric car and battery development
Dyson invests £2bn in electric car and battery development
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Vacuum cleaner maker Dyson is investing over £2bn ($2.4bn, €2.5bn) to develop a new generation of battery technology in its own electric car.
Siemens grows EDA portfolio, adds Infolytica EM simulation with buy-out
Siemens grows EDA portfolio, adds Infolytica EM simulation with buy-out
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Siemens is to acquire Montreal, Canada-based Infolytica Corporation, expanding its simulation suite into electromagnetics (EM), alongside the thermal simulation it already has (FloTherm) as a result of its 2008 purchase…
Dyson invests £2bn in electric car and battery development
Dyson invests £2bn in electric car and battery development
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Vacuum cleaner maker Dyson is investing over £2bn ($2.4bn, €2.5bn) to develop a new generation of battery technology in its own electric car.
Training course tackles EMI in field busses
Training course tackles EMI in field busses
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Electromagnetic compatibility specialist EMC Standards is inviting bookings to a one-day training course about maintaining PROFIBUS and PROFINET reliability in modern industrial environments.
India will get chip industry, says Tower CEO
India will get chip industry, says Tower CEO
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India, which has been trying for several years without success to get a wafer fab built in the country, will get a chip industry eventually, according to Russell Ellwanger, CEO…
Nvidia smart city platform adds Alibaba, Huawei as partners
Nvidia smart city platform adds Alibaba, Huawei as partners
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Chipmaker Nvidia (Santa Clara, CA) has announced that Alibaba (Hangzhou, China) and Huawei (Shenzhen, China) have joined as new partners in the company's Metropolis AI smart cities platform.
Philips Lighting to step up services with Indian Global Customer Remote Operations Center
Philips Lighting to step up services with Indian Global Customer Remote Operations Center
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Philips Lighting has just opened its Global Customer Remote Operations Center (ROC) in Bengaluru, India. Equipped with the latest network monitoring technology and data analytics software, the new center will…
EnOcean demonstrates self-powered wireless systems
EnOcean demonstrates self-powered wireless systems
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At IoT Solutions World Congress 2017 in Barcelona, EnOcean will demonstrate how maintenance-free wireless systems for building automation and the IoT add new dimensions to services and business models and…
FPGA startup wins funds from Xilinx, Samsung
FPGA startup wins funds from Xilinx, Samsung
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Efinix Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.), an FPGA startup founded in 2012 by a couple of veteran engineers, has raised $9.5 million in a funding round led by FPGA vendor Xilinx…
ETSI and OpenFog Consortium to develop fog-enabled mobile edge applications and technologies
ETSI and OpenFog Consortium to develop fog-enabled mobile edge applications and technologies
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ETSI and the OpenFog Consortium have recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with intent to benefit organizations working to develop 5G, mission-critical and data-dense applications through fog computing and…
Toyota, NTT develop AI robots for the home
Toyota, NTT develop AI robots for the home
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In cooperation with the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Toyota, the Japanese automaker, is researching new areas of application for assistance robots. They are supposed to help with artificial…


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