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MagnaChip selected to make fingerprint sensor for smartcard
MagnaChip selected to make fingerprint sensor for smartcard
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Analog and mixed-signal chip vendor and foundry MagnaChip Semiconductor Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) has been selected to make a fingerprint…
Samsung wants quarter of foundry market
Samsung wants quarter of foundry market
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Samsung Electronics wants to triple its market share and take 25 percent of the foundry market by 2022 a senior…
Battery woes drive ethical phone obsolescence
Battery woes drive ethical phone obsolescence
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Dutch ethical phone developer Fairphone has stopped support for its first model after problems sourcing replacement parts. As a result…
RFMW joins ERA as a distributor member
RFMW joins ERA as a distributor member
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RFMW has joined the Electronics Representatives Association (ERA) as a global distributor member. ERA is the international trade organization for…

UK boosts smart power spending
UK boosts smart power spending
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Alongside £246m for the Faraday battery technology challenge, the UK is also boosting the money it is spending on smart storage systems, large battery plants and electric vehicle charging networks.
UK bets £246 million on batteries
UK bets £246 million on batteries
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The UK government, is due to announce today the first phase of a four-year £246 million investment (about €275 million or $320 million) in the research and scale-up to production…
Visual Communications Company acquires Display Products
Visual Communications Company acquires Display Products
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Visual Communications Company, LLC (VCC), a designer and manufacturer of LED illuminated electronic components, has completed the acquisition of the Display Products, Inc. (DDP), with the backing of Southern California-based…
IoT temperature monitoring system is cloud connected
IoT temperature monitoring system is cloud connected
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Low Power Radio Solutions (LPRS) has launched a new company, LPRS Connected Solutions Ltd (LPRS CS), set up to provide systems integrators with Cloud based end-to-end M2M and IoT monitoring solutions.
ST, Leti CEOs to keynote European MEMS summit
ST, Leti CEOs to keynote European MEMS summit
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Carlo Bozotti, CEO of STMicroelectronics, will provide the first keynote speech for the European MEMS & Sensors Summit 2017, which takes place in Grenoble, France, September 20 to 22.
ABB buys quantum communications supplier for power networks
ABB buys quantum communications supplier for power networks
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ABB in Sweden has bought the mission-critical secure networks business of Keymile in Germany for an undisclosed sum. …
Efabless launches open-source hardware design portal
Efabless launches open-source hardware design portal
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Efabless Corp. (San Jose, Calif.) has opened a website called Chiplicity that offers an online design framework for the design, verification, prototyping and prototyping of mixed-signal ASICs.
Finnish sub-threshold startup raises additional funds
Finnish sub-threshold startup raises additional funds
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Minima Processor Oy (Oulu, Finland) has raised €3.9 million (about $4.5 million) in a second-stage of seed funding for its plan to lower power consumption of sub-threshold voltage processors. This…
Graphcore raises another $30 million
Graphcore raises another $30 million
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Graphcore Ltd. (Bristol, England), a startup developing a processor for machine learning, has raised $30 million in a Series B round of funding that brings the total invested in the…
Schaeffler to launch e-mobility business unit
Schaeffler to launch e-mobility business unit
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During a capital market presentation, automotive supplier Schaeffler announced its intention to create a new division that will be entirely dedicated to electromobility. Being a traditional mechatronics company, Schaeffler also…
Three carmakers invest in self-driving platform startup Nauto
Three carmakers invest in self-driving platform startup Nauto
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With autonomous driving being the holy grail of our days in the automotive industry, it is not one but three carmakers who were eager to participate in the series B…
Three carmakers invest in self-driving platform startup Nauto
Three carmakers invest in self-driving platform startup Nauto
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With autonomous driving being the holy grail of our days in the automotive industry, it is not one but three carmakers who were eager to participate in the series B…
JinkoSolar, Greatcell team to commercialize perovskite solar
JinkoSolar, Greatcell team to commercialize perovskite solar
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Greatcell Solar (Queanbeyan, Australia), formerly Dyesol, has teamed up with a major Chinese solar panel maker to commercialize its perovskite solar cell technology.
NXP spends to ‘reshore’ manufacturing of security chips to US
NXP spends to ‘reshore’ manufacturing of security chips to US
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NXP Semiconductor NV (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) has said it will spend $22 million to expand US operations and provide an end-to-end supply chain for secure identification chips used in US…
UK solar farm developer aims at the US with technology deal
UK solar farm developer aims at the US with technology deal
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A US technology firm has had to turn to a UK developer of solar farms to take on the US market.
Intel eliminates wearables division
Intel eliminates wearables division
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According to reports, Intel (Santa Clara, CA) has shut down its wearables group and plans to focus on other, more advanced, technologies.
ST denies pause in taking MCU orders
ST denies pause in taking MCU orders
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Despite industry lead times for the supply of microcontrollers going up to as much as 9 months STMicroelectronics NV has said that media speculation that it will suspend taking orders…
Murata partners with STMicro to add SigFox connectivity to its LoRaWAN module
Murata partners with STMicro to add SigFox connectivity to its LoRaWAN module
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Murata has announced that its collaboration with both STMicro and SigFox has resulted in porting the SigFox stack to co-exist alongside the LoRa stack on Murata’s small form factor Type…
Greatcell teams with JinkoSolar to commercialise perovskite solar cells
Greatcell teams with JinkoSolar to commercialise perovskite solar cells
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Greatcell Solar, formerly Dyesol, has teamed up with a major Chinese solar panel maker to commercialise its perovskite solar cell technology.
CommAgility participates in 5G COHERENT research project
CommAgility participates in 5G COHERENT research project
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CommAgility, a Wireless Telecom Group company, is participating in the COHERENT research project, which is developing technology for 5G wireless networks.
GaN power device maker gets BMW investment
GaN power device maker gets BMW investment
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GaN Systems Inc. (Ottawa, Ontario), a supplier of power diodes and transistors, has closed a round of investment led by BMW’s investment arm, BMW i Ventures.
ASML prospers as EUV lithography takes off
ASML prospers as EUV lithography takes off
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ASML Holding NV (Veldhoven, The Netherlands) saw second quarter sales rise 21 percent, and its profits climb as took in 8 additional orders for extreme ultraviolet lithography machines in the…
BMW invests in GaN Systems
BMW invests in GaN Systems
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GaN Systems Inc. (Ottawa, Ontario), a supplier of power diodes and transistors, has closed a round of investment led by BMW’s investment arm, BMW i Ventures.
Women are one sixth of Europe’s ICT work force
Women are one sixth of Europe’s ICT work force
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In 2016 there were more than 8 million people in Europe working as information and communications technology specialists and 83.3 percent of them were men and 16.7 percent women, according…


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