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BMW speeds setting up R&D center for autonomous driving
BMW speeds setting up R&D center for autonomous driving
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To reach its goal of bringing the electric, connected and autonomous vehicles of its iNEXT series to series production, carmaker…
Lidar startup raises funds for autonomous driving, surveillance product development
Lidar startup raises funds for autonomous driving, surveillance product development
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Startup Blackmore Sensors and Analytics Inc. (Bozeman, MO) has raised a Series A round of funding worth $3.5 million to…
US Startup raises funds for lidar development
US Startup raises funds for lidar development
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Startup Blackmore Sensors and Analytics Inc. (Bozeman, Montana) has raised a Series A round of funding worth $3.5 million to…
Modules from u-blox in tiny battery-powered 3G tracking device
Modules from u-blox in tiny battery-powered 3G tracking device
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Swiss conpnay, u-blox has announced that two of its products have been used by Cobilsys to create South Korea’s smallest…

AMS boosts active noise cancelling with Incus buy
AMS boosts active noise cancelling with Incus buy
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AMS AG (Premstaetten, Austria) is buying Incus Laboratories Ltd. (Stokenchurch, England), a developer of intellectual property related to digital active noise cancellation in headphones and earphones.
ARM acquisition bolsters its position in high-performance computing
ARM acquisition bolsters its position in high-performance computing
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ARM (Cambridge, UK) has announced that it has acquired Allinea Software (San Jose, CA), a leading provider of software tools for high performance computing (HPC); ARM says that this extends…
TDK in talks to buy InvenSense
TDK in talks to buy InvenSense
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TDK Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) is in talks to acquire inertial and microphone MEMS company InvenSense Inc. (San Jose, CA) for about $1.1 billion, according to a Reuters report.
Startup raises funds for lidar development
Startup raises funds for lidar development
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Startup Blackmore Sensors and Analytics Inc. (Bozeman, Montana) has raised a Series A round of funding worth $3.5 million to develop its frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) lidar engine.
Startup raises funds for lidar development
Startup raises funds for lidar development
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Startup Blackmore Sensors and Analytics Inc. (Bozeman, Montana) has raised a Series A round of funding worth $3.5 million to develop its frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) lidar engine.
TDK in talks to buy InvenSense
TDK in talks to buy InvenSense
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TDK Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) is in talks to acquire inertial and microphone MEMS company InvenSense Inc. (San Jose, CA) for about $1.1 billion, according to a Reuters report.
TDK in talks to acquire InvenSense
TDK in talks to acquire InvenSense
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Japan's TDK Corp. is in talks to acquire inertial and microphone MEMS company InvenSense Inc. for about $1.1 billion, according to a Reuters report.
ARM acquisition bolsters its position in high-performance computing
ARM acquisition bolsters its position in high-performance computing
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ARM (Cambridge, UK) has announced that it has acquired Allinea Software (San Jose, CA), a leading provider of software tools for high performance computing (HPC); ARM says that this extends…
ams grows noise cancellation expertise with Incus Labs acquisition
ams grows noise cancellation expertise with Incus Labs acquisition
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ams (Premstaetten, Austria) is to acquire UK-based Incus Laboratories, provider of intellectual property for digital active noise cancellation in headphones and earphones. This brings, ams says, further high performance audio…
AMS boosts active noise cancelling with Incus buy
AMS boosts active noise cancelling with Incus buy
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AMS AG (Premstaetten, Austria) is buying Incus Laboratories Ltd. (Stokenchurch, England), a developer of intellectual property related to digital active noise cancellation in headphones and earphones.
Acquisition consolidates ARM’s position in HPC/supercomputing
Acquisition consolidates ARM’s position in HPC/supercomputing
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ARM has announced that it has acquired Allinea Software, a leading provider of software tools for high performance computing (HPC); ARM says that this extends its range of development tools…
Novelda raises $12 million, changes CEO
Novelda raises $12 million, changes CEO
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Novelda AS (Oslo, Norway), a developer of sensors based on CMOS ultra wideband impulse radar, has raised $12 million in a funding round and appointed Cornelia Mender as CEO, replacing…
UK-based robotics startup fund launched
UK-based robotics startup fund launched
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The UK’s first dedicated fund for startups in robotics has been launched.
First UK fund dedicated to robotics
First UK fund dedicated to robotics
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The UK’s first dedicated fund for startups in robotics has been launched.
Europe to rethink 10/100/20 chip project
Europe to rethink 10/100/20 chip project
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The European Commission intends to reconvene a high-level group of European CEOs and executives to exchange views on Europe's 10/100/20 nanoelectronics and chip manufacturing project and make adjustments as necessary…
Qualcomm, Google to collaborate on Android IoT OS
Qualcomm, Google to collaborate on Android IoT OS
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Qualcomm (San Diego, CA) has announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., intends to collaborate with Google (Mountain View, CA) to add support for the Android Things operating system (OS)…
49MW Li-ion battery storage system to be one of the world’s largest
49MW Li-ion battery storage system to be one of the world’s largest
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Energy storage pioneer Younicos (Berlin, Germany and Austin, TX) is designing one of the world’s largest and most sophisticated battery-based energy storage systems for multinational utility company Centrica (Windsor, UK).
European chip project worth ‘billions’ is making progress
European chip project worth ‘billions’ is making progress
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Talks on a funding project valued in the billions of euros and that could include support for European chip manufacturing are making progress, according to a senior executive with ECSEL.
Qualcomm to collaborate with Google on IoT
Qualcomm to collaborate with Google on IoT
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Qualcomm Incorporated has announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., intends to collaborate with Google to add support for the Android Things operating system (OS) in Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ processors.
Report: Samsung foundry split “likely”
Report: Samsung foundry split “likely”
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Samsung Electronics is considering splitting its System LSI semiconductor business division into fabless and foundry parts with the possibility of a spin off, according to a Business Korea report.
McLaren targets IoT energy harvesting with Sharp and Ilika
McLaren targets IoT energy harvesting with Sharp and Ilika
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McLaren Applied Technologies and Sharp Laboratories of Europe are working with UK battery maker Ilika to develop an autonomous energy harvesting power source for the Internet of Things (IoT).
49 MW lithium-ion power station in UK to be one of the world’s largest
49 MW lithium-ion power station in UK to be one of the world’s largest
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German energy storage pioneer Younicos is designing one of the world’s largest and most sophisticated battery-based energy storage systems for Centrica in the UK.
20 deals that shaped analog, MEMS and sensors in 2016
20 deals that shaped analog, MEMS and sensors in 2016
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Consolidation in the electronics and semiconductor sectors increased in pace yet again in 2016, up on the three previous years.
Europe, Japan, Korea will lag in fab building
Europe, Japan, Korea will lag in fab building
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Out of 62 front-end chip manufacturing facilities that will begin operation between 2017 and 2020 Europe, Japan and South Korea will construct just four each, according to data compiled by…


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