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Silver Lake, Broadcom bid $18bn for Toshiba Memory
Silver Lake, Broadcom bid $18bn for Toshiba Memory
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Toshiba has closed an initial round of bidding for its memory business unit with about 10 interested parties that include…
ST supplies Autoroad with 77GHz and 79GHz front-end radar ICs
ST supplies Autoroad with 77GHz and 79GHz front-end radar ICs
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Beijing Autoroad Technology, China’s leading supplier of millimeter wave (MMW) radar, and STMicroelectronics jointly showcased automotive radar solutions at the…
Organic Response’s IP goes to Fagerhult
Organic Response’s IP goes to Fagerhult
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Swedish group Fagerhult announced it has acquired the Intellectual Property rights and certain of the assets of Organic Response Pty…
Global SIM shipments grow by 5 percent in 2016
Global SIM shipments grow by 5 percent in 2016
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The SIMalliance, whose membership represents approximately 90% of the global SIM market, has reported a 5% year-on-year growth in its…

Mouser expands open source lineup with DFRobot
Mouser expands open source lineup with DFRobot
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Mouser Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with DFRobot, a leading robotics and open source hardware provider. The DFRobot product line available from Mouser Electronics focuses on the Gravity…
Seven patent licensors labelled as threat
Seven patent licensors labelled as threat
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Patent and technical analysis firm KnowMade Co. (Sophia Antipolis, France) has prepared a report that covers seven patent licensing companies (PLCs) that it asserts pose a threat to companies working…
Micron ramps sales, profits on memory prices
Micron ramps sales, profits on memory prices
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Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho) increased its sales by 58 percent on its second fiscal quarter ended March 2, 2017, compared with the same quarter a year before.
Kaiam buys UK wafer fab to make photonic ICs
Kaiam buys UK wafer fab to make photonic ICs
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Kaiam Corp. (Newark, Calif.), a manufacturer of lightwave circuits, optical subassemblies, modules, and transceivers, has said it intends to acquire the manufacturing facilities at Newton Aycliffe near Durham, England, from…
ABB buys automation tech firm in industrial IoT push
ABB buys automation tech firm in industrial IoT push
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Automation engineering firm ABB (Zürich, Switzerland) has bought Bernecker + Rainer Industrie-Elektronik (B&R), a major Austrian supplier of industrial automation and robotics equipment in a bid to catch up with…
Skyworks devices leveraged in IoT, M2M wireless connectivity modules
Skyworks devices leveraged in IoT, M2M wireless connectivity modules
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Skyworks Solutions (Woburn, MA) has announced that Sierra Wireless (Richmond, Canada) is leveraging a broad suite of Skyworks' 3G/4G connectivity products to power their AirPrime HL Series wireless modules targeting…
ABB buys B&R to boost industrial automation and the IoT
ABB buys B&R to boost industrial automation and the IoT
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Swedish engineering firm ABB has bought a major Austrian supplier of industrial automation and robotics equipment in a bid to catch up with rival Siemens.
Bosch, Daimler speed autonomous driving development
Bosch, Daimler speed autonomous driving development
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Luxury car maker Daimler and automotive supplier have established an R&D partnership aiming at faster introduction of Level 4 (fully autonomous) and Level 5 (driverless) vehicles. The development aims at…
LimeNET crowd-funding campaign to enable SDR-based wireless networks
LimeNET crowd-funding campaign to enable SDR-based wireless networks
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Lime Microsystems today announced its LimeNET crowd-funding campaign, to take its software defined radio small-cell and carrier-class base-stations to mass market, which will launch on the 27th April.
Apple wants Imagination’s graphics IP out of its picture
Apple wants Imagination’s graphics IP out of its picture
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Processor IP licensor Imagination Technologies Group plc has said that it has been notified by Apple, its largest customer, that Apple will stop using Imagination's intellectual property within the next…
Sierra Wireless leverages Skyworks connectivity products for IoT
Sierra Wireless leverages Skyworks connectivity products for IoT
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Skyworks Solutions has announced that Sierra Wireless is leveraging a broad suite of Skyworks' 3G/4G connectivity products to power their AirPrime® HL Series wireless modules targeting machine-to-machine (M2M) and device-to-cloud…
Qualcomm, ASE to build packaging plant in Brazil
Qualcomm, ASE to build packaging plant in Brazil
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A consortium comprising Qualcomm, ASE Group and several Brazilian government agencies have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that they will invest $200 million in a semiconductor assembly and packing…
SkyWater foundry granted trusted fab status
SkyWater foundry granted trusted fab status
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SkyWater Technology Foundry Inc. (Bloomington, Minnesota), the chip foundry formed out of the sale of a Cypress Semiconductor 200mm wafer fab, has been accredited as Category 1A Trusted Foundry by…
Apple to quit GPU licensing deal with Imagination Tech
Apple to quit GPU licensing deal with Imagination Tech
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Processor IP licensor Imagination Technologies Group plc (Kings Langley, UK) has said that it has been notified by Apple (Cupertino, CA), its largest customer, that Apple will stop using the…
Green energy provider connects 19 solar projects across UK
Green energy provider connects 19 solar projects across UK
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WIRSOL Energy (Waghäusel, Germany), a subsidiary of the German WIRCON Group, has connected 19 solar parks across the UK providing over 105MW of power.
Acoustic wave filter firm buys NY MEMS wafer fab
Acoustic wave filter firm buys NY MEMS wafer fab
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Bulk acoustic wave (BAW) component maker Akoustis Technologies Inc. (Charlotte, NC) has agreed to acquire a fab for processing 150mm-diameter wafers at Albany, New York, for $2.75 million.
BAW firm buys New York MEMS wafer fab
BAW firm buys New York MEMS wafer fab
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Bulk acoustic wave (BAW) component maker Akoustis Technologies Inc. (Charlotte, North Carolina) has agreed to acquire a fab for processing 150mm-diameter wafers at Albany, New York, for $2.75 million.
WIRSOL Energy connects 19 solar projects across the UK
WIRSOL Energy connects 19 solar projects across the UK
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WIRSOL Energy, a subsidiary of the German WIRCON Group, has connected 19 solar parks across the UK providing over 105MW of power.
Apple dumping GPUs: Imagination in discussions
Apple dumping GPUs: Imagination in discussions
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Processor IP licensor Imagination Technologies Group plc has said that it has been notified by Apple, its largest customer, that Apple will stop using Imagination's intellectual property within the next…
ZF acquires stake in radar sensor company
ZF acquires stake in radar sensor company
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ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany) has acquired approximately 45 percent of the shares of Astyx Communication & Sensors GmbH (Ottobrunn, Germany) from the Hanover Finance Group and founding companies for…
Analog Devices acquires GaAs / GaN chip maker OneTree
Analog Devices acquires GaAs / GaN chip maker OneTree
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Analog Devices has acquired fabless device maker OneTree Microdevices, based in Santa Rosa, California, a specialist in GaAs and GaN amplifiers for fibre-to-the-home networks, cable (CATV) networks, digital video distribution…
ZF invests in radar sensor company
ZF invests in radar sensor company
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ZF Friedrichshafen AG has acquired approximately 45 percent of the shares of Astyx Communication & Sensors GmbH (Ottobrunn, Germany) from the Hanover Finance Group and founding companies for its automotive…
Quantum computing startup targets cloud platform, raises $64M
Quantum computing startup targets cloud platform, raises $64M
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Rigetti Computing Inc., (Berkeley, CA), a company founded by Chad Rigetti in 2013, has announced it has raised $64 million in Series A and B funding rounds, bringing the amount…
Analog Devices acquires GaAs & GaN cable chip maker OneTree
Analog Devices acquires GaAs & GaN cable chip maker OneTree
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Analog Devices has acquired fabless device maker OneTree Microdevices, based in Santa Rosa, California, a specialist in GaAs and GaN amplifiers for fibre-to-the-home networks, cable (CATV) networks, digital video distribution…


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