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ITRI and Anritsu collaborate on 400GE testing platform
ITRI and Anritsu collaborate on 400GE testing platform
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Anritsu Corporation and Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) are building a high-speed test lab to provide a bit error rate…
ABB buys GE’s industrial division for $2.6bn
ABB buys GE’s industrial division for $2.6bn
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Swedish engineering conglomerate ABB is to buy the industrial power division of GE for $2.6bn.
Imagination, MIPS to be sold to China-, California-connected VCs
Imagination, MIPS to be sold to China-, California-connected VCs
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Processor intellectual property licensor Imagination Technologies Group plc (Kings Langley, England) has agreed to sell off its MIPS processor business…
Soitec launches FDSOI pilot line in Singapore
Soitec launches FDSOI pilot line in Singapore
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Wafer supplier Soitec SA (Bernin, France) is launching a pilot line to make fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FDSOI) wafers in its…

Daimler invests $1 billion in the expansion of electromobility in the USA
Daimler invests $1 billion in the expansion of electromobility in the USA
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Daimler has announced a battery production facility in the USA to supply its future EQ models with batteries. It is the world's 5th battery factory of the Mercedes-Benz brand. In…
Growing Moortec opens new UK Headquarters
Growing Moortec opens new UK Headquarters
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A provider of embedded PVT monitoring IP, Moortec is moving to a new UK Headquarters in the Plymouth Science Park, the largest Science & Technology centre in the South West…
HTC Pixel engineering team acquired by Google for USD1.1 Billion
HTC Pixel engineering team acquired by Google for USD1.1 Billion
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In an effort to gather more pace at building its own phones, Google is to acquire the very HTC engineering team that built the Pixel smartphone for the search engine…
Google to acquire HTC’s Pixel team for USD1.1 Billion
Google to acquire HTC’s Pixel team for USD1.1 Billion
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In an effort to gather more pace at building its own phones, Google it to acquire the very HTC engineering team that built the Pixel smartphone for the search engine…
Gogoro raises $300m for its smart scooter technology
Gogoro raises $300m for its smart scooter technology
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Taiwanese smartscooter designer Gogoro has raised $300m to expand and develop its battery swapping technology.
Welsh councils sign to own chip foundry
Welsh councils sign to own chip foundry
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A signing ceremony has taken place between Welsh local authorities, the UK government and compound semiconductor wafer supplier IQE plc (Cardiff, Wales) to agree to the building of compound semiconductor…
TSMC sales down, again
TSMC sales down, again
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Sales at foundry chip supplier TSMC were down year-on-year in both August and July. In contrast, fellow Taiwan foundry UMC managed to post sales with annual increases for both months.
Infineon sells Newport, Wales wafer fab to independent foundry enterprise
Infineon sells Newport, Wales wafer fab to independent foundry enterprise
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When it acquired International Rectifier in 2015, one of the restructuring measures that Infineon Technologies announced was that its Newport, Wales manufacturing site would either be closed or sold in…
Report: GlobalFoundries accuses TSMC of unfair selling
Report: GlobalFoundries accuses TSMC of unfair selling
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GlobalFoundries has asked the European Union's antitrust regulators to investigate TSMC, accusing the rival foundry of competing unfairly, according to a Reuters report.
Acal BFi signs exclusive pan-European agreement with SightLine Applications
Acal BFi signs exclusive pan-European agreement with SightLine Applications
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Acal BFi has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement to provide advanced video processing products from Sightline Applications across Europe.
Tesla, AMD partner on AI chip for self-driving cars
Tesla, AMD partner on AI chip for self-driving cars
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Electric car maker Tesla (Palo Alto, CA) is reportedly working with chipmaker AMD (Sunnyvale, CA) to develop a chip for a self-driving car.
Infineon sells Newport fab to power foundry startup
Infineon sells Newport fab to power foundry startup
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When it acquired International Rectifier in 2015, one of the restructuring measures that Infineon Technologies announced was that its Newport, Wales manufacturing site would either be closed or sold in…
Automotive supplier Valeo joins the ISELED Alliance
Automotive supplier Valeo joins the ISELED Alliance
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A partner to all automakers worldwide, Valeo has just joined ISELED, an open alliance formed to develop and market Inova Semiconductors' innovative in-vehicle LED lighting concept, "digital LED".
Infineon sells Newport, Wales wafer fab to independent foundry enterprise
Infineon sells Newport, Wales wafer fab to independent foundry enterprise
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When it acquired International Rectifier in 2015, one of the restructuring measures that Infineon Technologies announced was that its Newport, Wales manufacturing site would either be closed or sold in…
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 and production of vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) and micro-optic…
Omron opens Nordic Automation Center in Malmö, Sweden
Omron opens Nordic Automation Center in Malmö, Sweden
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As part of its i-Automation strategy in the Nordic region, Omron announced it has invested in a brand-new Nordic Automation Center (NAC) in Malmö, Sweden, to be officially inaugurated next…
EPC to demonstrate wireless charging table based on GaN
EPC to demonstrate wireless charging table based on GaN
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Efficient Power (EPC) has developed a wireless charging table for the AirFuel standard that can provide up to 165 W through the gallium nitride (GaN) power devices.
EPC to show wireless charging table based on GaN
EPC to show wireless charging table based on GaN
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Efficient Power (EPC) has developed a wireless charging table for the AirFuel standard that can provide up to 165W through the gallium nitride (GaN) power devices.
EPC to show wireless charging table based on GaN
EPC to show wireless charging table based on GaN
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Efficient Power (EPC) has developed a wireless charging table for the AirFuel standard that can provide up to 165W through the gallium nitride (GaN) power devices.
Proterra and LG Chem team on new heavy duty battery cell
Proterra and LG Chem team on new heavy duty battery cell
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Electric bus maker Proterra has teamed with LG Chem to develop a new lithium ion battery cell for heavy-duty vehicles.
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 Germany), developer of thin-film transistor (TFT) backplane addressing arrays based…
Smart lamp embeds Amazon’s Alexa voice control
Smart lamp embeds Amazon’s Alexa voice control
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A smart lamp from General Electric (Stamford, CT) that integrates Amazon's virtual personal assistant, Alexa, has hit the stores.
MIT spin out demonstrates wireless charging at a distance
MIT spin out demonstrates wireless charging at a distance
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A spin out from MIT has demonstrated a wireless charging technology that can handle multiple devices at a distance of half a meter.
Korea to spend $46 billion on electronics factories
Korea to spend $46 billion on electronics factories
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South Korea's leading chip and display makers, led by Samsung, SK Hynix and LG Display, have pledged to spend 52 trillion won (about $46 billion or €38.5 billion) building factories…


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