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Dialog backs Energous for free space wireless charging
Dialog backs Energous for free space wireless charging
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Dialog Semiconductor is backing a new entrant to wireless charging with a $10m investment.
Dialog backs Energous for free space wireless charging
Dialog backs Energous for free space wireless charging
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Dialog Semiconductor is backing a new entrant to wireless charging with a $10m investment.
Dialog, Energous partner to accelerate free-space wireless charging
Dialog, Energous partner to accelerate free-space wireless charging
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Dialog Semiconductor (Reading, UK) is backing a new entrant to wireless charging with a $10m investment.
Future Electronics expands NXP distribution worldwide
Future Electronics expands NXP distribution worldwide
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Future Electronics announced its expanded engagement with NXP Semiconductors N.V. , enabling the distributor to support the full NXP portfolio…

Dialog backs Energous for free space wireless charging
Dialog backs Energous for free space wireless charging
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Dialog Semiconductor is backing a new entrant to wireless charging with a $10m investment.
Osram invests in outdoor smart lighting specialist
Osram invests in outdoor smart lighting specialist
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Osram (Munich, Germany) has announced that it aims to expand its expertise in smart outdoor lighting systems for cities by acquiring a minority stake (47.5%) in the Dutch software specialist…
Panasonic starts mass production of high speed GaN gate drivers
Panasonic starts mass production of high speed GaN gate drivers
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Marking the move to mainstream adoption of gallium nitride power devices, Panasonic has started mass production of its gate drivers and GaN transistors.
Osram to own 47.5 percent of Tvilight for its expertise in Smart Cities
Osram to own 47.5 percent of Tvilight for its expertise in Smart Cities
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Osram announced it aims to expand its expertise in smart outdoor lighting systems for cities by acquiring a minority stake (47.5 percent) in the Dutch software specialist Tvilight.
Maxim Integrated signs EBV Elektronik for EMEA distribution
Maxim Integrated signs EBV Elektronik for EMEA distribution
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Maxim Integrated Products signed a distribution agreement with EBV Elektronik for the distributor to distribute its product portfolio in the EMEA region, starting January 2017.
Sony revealed as MRAM foundry for Avalanche
Sony revealed as MRAM foundry for Avalanche
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Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. has agreed to make spin-transfer torque (STT) magnetic random access memories (MRAMs) for Avalanche Technology Inc. (Fremont, Calif.)…
Smart lighting provider raises funds in bid to disrupt commercial market
Smart lighting provider raises funds in bid to disrupt commercial market
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Silvair (San Francisco, CA), a provider of Bluetooth-based smart lighting technologies, has announced that it has completed a $12 million Series A round of funding.
Could Sony, ST, Intel or China acquire InvenSense?
Could Sony, ST, Intel or China acquire InvenSense?
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Inertial and microphone MEMS provider InvenSense Inc. (San Jose, Calif.), a startup that emerged to go public in August 2011, could be about to be acquired.
Sony revealed as MRAM foundry for Avalanche
Sony revealed as MRAM foundry for Avalanche
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Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. has agreed to make spin-transfer torque (STT) magnetic random access memories (MRAMs) for Avalanche Technology Inc. (Fremont, Calif.)…
Hearables boom prompts microbattery IPO
Hearables boom prompts microbattery IPO
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Microbattery maker Varta AG (Ellwangen, Germany) is planning an initial public offering of shares on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange to raise €200 million (about $222 million).
Nordic wireless SoC designed into Xiaomi VR headset
Nordic wireless SoC designed into Xiaomi VR headset
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Nordic Semiconductor (Trondheim, Norway) has disclosed that the fourth-largest smartphone manufacturer, Beijing-based Xiaomi, has specified its nRF52832 Bluetooth® low energy System-on-Chip (SoC) in the wireless motion controller bundled with the…
Hearables boom prompts Varta IPO
Hearables boom prompts Varta IPO
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Microbattery maker Varta AG (Ellwangen, Germany) is planning an initial public offering of shares on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange to raise €200 million (about $222 million).
Lattice Semi to be sold to China-backed private equity
Lattice Semi to be sold to China-backed private equity
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FPGA vendor Lattice Semiconductor Corp. (Portland, Ore.) has announced it will be sold to newly-formed private equity company for approximately $1.3 billion inclusive of Lattice’s net debt.
Lattice Semi to be sold to China-backed private equity
Lattice Semi to be sold to China-backed private equity
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FPGA vendor Lattice Semiconductor Corp. (Portland, Ore.) has announced it will be sold to newly-formed private equity company for approximately $1.3 billion inclusive of Lattice’s net debt.
Nordic wireless SoC designed into Xiaomi VR headset
Nordic wireless SoC designed into Xiaomi VR headset
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Nordic Semiconductor has disclosed that the fourth-largest smartphone manufacturer, Beijing-based Xiaomi, has specified its nRF52832 Bluetooth® low energy System-on-Chip (SoC) in the wireless motion controller bundled with the newly-launched mobile…
Broadcom, Brocade deal slices Fibre Channel from Ethernet
Broadcom, Brocade deal slices Fibre Channel from Ethernet
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Broadcom Ltd., chief executive Hock Tan is at it again, carving up an appetizing company with the skill of a private-equity chef embedded in a semiconductor company.
Marvell Technology Group to restructure, cut jobs
Marvell Technology Group to restructure, cut jobs
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Marvell Technology Group Ltd., has announced that it intends to restructure the company to refocus its research and development (R&D), increase operational efficiency and improve profitability. These actions are expected…
Lighting research center expands program with paid externships
Lighting research center expands program with paid externships
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The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY) has recently expanded its M.S. in Lighting degree program to include a paid career externship at a leading lighting…
Rensselaer Lighting Research Center expands Lighting Program with paid externships
Rensselaer Lighting Research Center expands Lighting Program with paid externships
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The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has recently expanded its M.S. in Lighting degree program to include a paid career externship at a leading lighting manufacturer, design…
FTDI to re-focus on USB, spins out MCUs and display controllers
FTDI to re-focus on USB, spins out MCUs and display controllers
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Newly established company, Bridgetek, was spun out by FTDI Chip so it would further drive commercialization of its Embedded Video Engine (EVE) graphic controller ICs and various performance-optimized MCUs.
Panasonic set to benefit from Tesla solar roof, Powerwall
Panasonic set to benefit from Tesla solar roof, Powerwall
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Panasonic (Kadoma, Osaka Prefecture, Japan) is set to benefit from the launch of a new solar cell rooftop tile system developed by Solar City (San Mateo, CA), the sister company…
Qualcomm, NXP marriage no easy task
Qualcomm, NXP marriage no easy task
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With a view to creating a semiconductor engine for the connected world, Qualcomm Inc. (San Diego, CA) and NXP Semiconductors N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands) have announced a definitive agreement, unanimously approved…
Panasonic boost from Tesla solar roof and powerwall
Panasonic boost from Tesla solar roof and powerwall
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Panasonic is set to benefit from the launch of a new solar cell rooftop tile system developed by Solar City, the sister company of electric car maker Tesla.
Machine learning processor startup gets big backing
Machine learning processor startup gets big backing
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Graphcore Ltd. (Bristol, England), a startup developing a processor for machine learning, has completed a $30 million Series-A round of funding led by Robert Bosch Ventures and Samsung Catalyst Fund.


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