MENU

Business news Page 498

Business news Page 498
Micro speaker startup USound secures funding for market entry
Micro speaker startup USound secures funding for market entry
Business news |
Austrian micro speaker pioneer USound has secured a growth investment of 12 million Euro. The lead investor is eQventure, an…
Honeywell, Intel team up on IoT for retail and logistics
Honeywell, Intel team up on IoT for retail and logistics
Business news |
Honeywell says it will collaborate with Intel to develop the Internet of Things (IoT) for the retail industry to enhance…
National Instruments opens collaborative lab for industrial IoT
National Instruments opens collaborative lab for industrial IoT
Business news |
National Instruments (NI) has commissioned a laboratory for exploratory work on IIoT concepts, at its Austin, Texas headquarters. The facility…
Microsoft acquires deep learning startup
Microsoft acquires deep learning startup
Business news |
Microsoft's (Redmond, WA) acquisition of AI startup Maluuba (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) is focused on the use of deep learning for…

Dual-lens camera startup gets funding from top-tier investors
Dual-lens camera startup gets funding from top-tier investors
Business news |
CorePhotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel) has raised $15 million in a funding round that included Samsung Ventures, MediaTek, electronic equipment manufacturer Foxconn and an unnamed smartphone OEM described as "tier-one."…
GaN Systems joins AirFuel Alliance wireless charging consortium
GaN Systems joins AirFuel Alliance wireless charging consortium
Business news |
GaN Systems (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), a leading enabler of high voltage, high current, and high frequency wireless charging, has joined the AirFuel Alliance, a global, nonprofit consortium of industry leaders…
Microsoft deepens AI assets with Maluuba acquisition
Microsoft deepens AI assets with Maluuba acquisition
Business news |
Last Friday, Microsoft's the acquisition of Canadian AI startup Maluuba focused on the use of deep learning for natural language understanding.
Samsung, MediaTek invest in dual-lens camera startup
Samsung, MediaTek invest in dual-lens camera startup
Business news |
CorePhotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel) has raised $15 million in a funding round that included Samsung Ventures, MediaTek, electronic equipment manufacturer Foxconn and an unnamed smartphone OEM described as "tier-one."…
GaN Systems joins AirFuel Alliance
GaN Systems joins AirFuel Alliance
Business news |
GaN Systems, a leading enabler of high voltage, high current, and high frequency wireless charging, has joined the AirFuel Alliance, a global, nonprofit consortium of industry leaders responsible for developing…
China deal with Powertech canceled
China deal with Powertech canceled
Business news |
Powertech Technology Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) a provider of IC test, assembly and packaging services, has cancelled an agreement to receive a significant investment from China's Tsinghua Unigroup Ltd.
TSMC reports strong finish to 2016
TSMC reports strong finish to 2016
Business news |
The world's leading chip foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd (Hsinchu, Taiwan) reported December 2016 sales that helped push fourth quarter and full year sales ahead of previous expectations.
AMS pulls out of $2 billion wafer fab project
AMS pulls out of $2 billion wafer fab project
Business news |
Austria's AMS AG (Premstaetten, Austria) has withdrawn from a wafer fab project located in New York that was budgeted with a spend of $2 billion over twenty years.
Analog firm qualifies IP with On Semi
Analog firm qualifies IP with On Semi
Business news |
Hexius Semiconductor Inc. (Tempe, Arizona) has qualified several analog circuit blocks of its design on the ONC18 0.18-micron CMOS process of On Semiconductor.
AES, Mitsubishi to build India’s first grid-scale storage system
AES, Mitsubishi to build India’s first grid-scale storage system
Business news |
Energy generation and distribution company AES (Arlington County, VA) and Mitsubishi (Tokyo, Japan) are to build a 10MW energy storage array near Delhi, the first such system to be connected…
AES and Mitsubishi to build first grid-scale storage system in India
AES and Mitsubishi to build first grid-scale storage system in India
Business news |
AES and Mitsubishi are to build a 10MW energy storage array near Delhi, the first such system to be connected to the grid in India.
Power focus as Stadium Group acquires Cable Power
Power focus as Stadium Group acquires Cable Power
Business news |
Stadium Group has acquired the assets of Cable Power, a UK provider of power, custom electronics and single board computers.
ETSI launches smart city information management group
ETSI launches smart city information management group
Business news |
ETSI (Sophia Antipolis, France) has announced the creation of a new Industry Specification Group on cross-sector Context Information Management (ISG CIM) for smart cities applications and beyond.
Mentor Graphics expands ISO 26262 Qualification Program
Mentor Graphics expands ISO 26262 Qualification Program
Business news |
Mentor Safe is what EDA company Mentor Graphics claims to be one of the industry’s broadest and most comprehensive ISO 26262 qualification programs.
Hundreds of thousands of product datasheets at a Mouser click
Hundreds of thousands of product datasheets at a Mouser click
Business news |
In addition to browsing and searching parts by product category, customers can now click the Datasheets tab on Mouser.com to review the distributor’s extensive library containing hundreds of thousands of…
Link Microtek to supply high-power microwave circulator for STFC particle accelerator
Link Microtek to supply high-power microwave circulator for STFC particle accelerator
Business news |
Link Microtek has been awarded a contract by the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to supply a high-power microwave circulator assembly for a new particle accelerator project that is…
Aptilo enables Wi-Fi for the London Underground
Aptilo enables Wi-Fi for the London Underground
Business news |
3UK, One of the top mobile operators in the UK, 3UK is using using Wi-Fi service management systems from Aptilo Networks to provide half a million subscribers with Wi-Fi in…
ETSI launches smart city interoperability group
ETSI launches smart city interoperability group
Business news |
ETSI has announced the creation of a new Industry Specification Group on cross-sector Context Information Management (ISG CIM) for smart cities applications and beyond.
Continental teams up with Nexteer for motion control systems
Continental teams up with Nexteer for motion control systems
Business news |
Automated driving, the current mega-topic of the automotive industry, will require more or less all systems in the cars to be reshaped. Against this background, two major automotive suppliers have…
U-blox expects strong growth for 2017
U-blox expects strong growth for 2017
Business news |
Swiss compnay, u-blox forecasts for FY 2016 revenues come in at CHF 360 million, and EBIT between CHF 56 and 58 million.
Everlight infringed Nichia‘s YAG patent, rules Düsseldorf’s Court of Appeal
Everlight infringed Nichia‘s YAG patent, rules Düsseldorf’s Court of Appeal
Business news |
Last December, the Düsseldorf Court of Appeal in Germany has confirmed the infringement of YAG Patent EP 0 936 682 (DE 697 02 929) of Japanese materials and chemicals provider…
AI ethics is focus of new fund
AI ethics is focus of new fund
Business news |
The newly launched Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Fund (Miami, FL) aims to foster global research that advances AI for the public interest, a focus that in itself will…
Energy harvest startup appoints Ubisense founder to chair
Energy harvest startup appoints Ubisense founder to chair
Business news |
Energy harvesting and sensor startup 8power Ltd. (Cambridge, England) has appointed Richard Green as its chairman.
Continental, Nexteer team up on automotive motion control
Continental, Nexteer team up on automotive motion control
Business news |
Automated driving, the current mega-topic of the automotive industry, will require more or less all systems in the cars to be reshaped. Against this background, two major automotive suppliers have…


10s