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Imagination stock rises on report of Apple talks
Imagination stock rises on report of Apple talks
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The share price of troubled processor intellectual property licensor Imagination Technologies Group plc (Kings Langley, England) jumped on Tuesday (March…
ETSI updates IoT standards from oneM2M; specifies interconnection across devices & applications 
ETSI updates IoT standards from oneM2M; specifies interconnection across devices & applications 
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ETSI has announced that it has published the complete set of updated oneM2M Release 1 specifications. oneM2M, the global standards…
Dyson to pump £1bn into developing better batteries
Dyson to pump £1bn into developing better batteries
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Dyson, the UK-based pioneer of vacuum cleaner technology, is planning to become a key player in the battery business, if…
BBC micro:bit roll out starting now
BBC micro:bit roll out starting now
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Built using an ARM Cortex-M0 based Nordic nRF51822 MCU, with integrated Bluetooth 4.0 for wireless connectivity, and an ARM Cortex-M0+…

Dyson plans to pump £1bn into developing better batteries
Dyson plans to pump £1bn into developing better batteries
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Dyson, the UK-based pioneer of vacuum cleaner technology, is planning to invest £1bn in developing new battery technology by 2020.
Dialog Semiconductor’s Qualcomm QC3.0 chipset enters volume production
Dialog Semiconductor’s Qualcomm QC3.0 chipset enters volume production
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Dialog Semiconductor plc's Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 (QC3.0) chipset, which claims to offer almost 40% more efficiency and easy pin compatible upgrade from prior version 2.0, and refuels mobile devices…
InVisage to share quantum dot image sensor technology
InVisage to share quantum dot image sensor technology
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InVisage Technologies (Menlo Park, CA) is prepared to provide its quantum-dot based image sensor technology to other image sensor vendors, according to Jess Lee, the company's CEO.
ReRAM startup in reverse takeover for funds
ReRAM startup in reverse takeover for funds
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Australian firm Radar Iron Ltd. is set to acquire Weebit Nano Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel), a company founded in 2014 to commercialize silicon dioxide resistive RAM technology.
InVisage ready to share image sensor technology
InVisage ready to share image sensor technology
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InVisage Technologies Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.) is prepared to provide its quantum-dot based image sensor technology to other image sensor vendors, according to Jess Lee, the company's CEO.
China’s Telink gains GE Lighting design win
China’s Telink gains GE Lighting design win
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Fabless RF and mixed-signal chip company Telink Semiconductor Co. Ltd. (Shanghai, China) has announced that its Bluetooth mesh technology is being used in connected LED light bulbs from GE Lighting.
Analog Devices buys Swiss vision sensing firm in IoT move
Analog Devices buys Swiss vision sensing firm in IoT move
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Analog Devices (Norwood, MA) has acquired Snap Sensor SA, a privately held company based in Switzerland that specializes in innovative vision sensing technologies.
ADI snaps up Swiss vision specialist Snap Sensor
ADI snaps up Swiss vision specialist Snap Sensor
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Analog Devices has acquired Snap Sensor SA, a privately held company based in Switzerland that specialises in innovative vision sensing technologies. (images from Snap Sensor’s website)…
Samsung teams with Daintree Networks to optimize smart building IoT
Samsung teams with Daintree Networks to optimize smart building IoT
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., is collaborating with Daintree Networks (Los Altos, CA) to develop joint solutions involving Samsung’s smart lighting module (SLM).
ADI buys Swiss image sensor vendor
ADI buys Swiss image sensor vendor
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Analog Devices Inc. (Norwood, Mass.) has acquired Snap Sensor SA (Neuchatel, Switzerland), a vendor of high dynamic range image and other specialized sensors.
Graphene growth; analysts forecast production of 3.8 ktonnes/yr by 2026
Graphene growth; analysts forecast production of 3.8 ktonnes/yr by 2026
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A report by IDTechEx Research projects that the graphene market will grow to $220m in 2026. This forecast is at the material level and does not count the value of…
Ex-Elpida CEO forms memory startup
Ex-Elpida CEO forms memory startup
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Yukio Sakamoto, the former CEO of Elpida Memory Inc. up until its acquisition by Micron Technology Inc. in 2013, has formed a fabless company to design and license out non-JEDEC…
Samsung partners Daintree Networks to optimize smart building IoT
Samsung partners Daintree Networks to optimize smart building IoT
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., is collaborating with Daintree Networks to develop joint solutions involving Samsung’s smart lighting module (SLM).
LG Display invests in 5th generation OLED light panel plant
LG Display invests in 5th generation OLED light panel plant
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LG Display is investing in a new OLED light panel manufacturing facility which the comany claims will be the first 5th generation (1000 x 1200 mm) OLED light panel manufacturing…
Samsung, Silver Spring Networks partner on smart LED street lights
Samsung, Silver Spring Networks partner on smart LED street lights
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Suwon, South Korea) is partnering with Silver Spring Networks, Inc. (Redwood City, CA) to develop a networked LED street lights solution that aims to cut costs…
TSMC, MediaTek partner on ultra-low power for IoT
TSMC, MediaTek partner on ultra-low power for IoT
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TSMC (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and MediaTek (Hsinchu, Taiwan) have commited to a long-term partnership to continue developing innovative products for Internet of Things (IoT) and wearable products with TSMC's industry-leading and…
Roll-to-roll printer/coater targets commercialization of printable power sources
Roll-to-roll printer/coater targets commercialization of printable power sources
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The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) has installed a specialist roll-to-roll line for the printing, coating and patterning of a range organic and inorganic solution based coatings.
Panel ponders MEMS roadmaps, a Moore’s Law of MEMS
Panel ponders MEMS roadmaps, a Moore’s Law of MEMS
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Could oversupply be coming to MEMS? A panel at the MEMS & Sensors Technical Congress held in Munich, Germany, this month was asked to find solutions to challenges to the…
TSMC and MediaTek continue collaboration on ultra-low power for IoT
TSMC and MediaTek continue collaboration on ultra-low power for IoT
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TSMC and MediaTek have commited to a long-term partnership to continue developing innovative products for Internet of Things (IoT) and wearable products with TSMC's industry-leading and most comprehensive ultra-low power…
Smart LED street lights partnership targets smart city roll-out
Smart LED street lights partnership targets smart city roll-out
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is partnering Silver Spring Networks, Inc. to develop a networked LED street lights solution which aims to cut costs and simplify connected lighting componentry for luminaire…
TSMC, ARM aim 7nm at data centers
TSMC, ARM aim 7nm at data centers
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TSMC and ARM announced the next phase of their collaboration on leading-edge semiconductor process technology. Interestingly, they suggest data center and networking chips will be drivers of their work on…
Bluetooth SIG issues Transport Discovery Service for IoT products
Bluetooth SIG issues Transport Discovery Service for IoT products
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The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced the availability of its Transport Discovery Service, TDS, which the SIG presents as an elabler for collaborative IoT devices. TDS offers a common…
2-year MEMS design contest for a free tape-out
2-year MEMS design contest for a free tape-out
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Jointly sponsored by Cadence Design Systems, Coventor, X-FAB and Reutlingen University, a new MEMS Design Contest is being launched at DATE 2016.
Bluetooth SIG issues Transport Discovery Service for IoT products
Bluetooth SIG issues Transport Discovery Service for IoT products
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The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced the availability of its Transport Discovery Service, TDS, which the SIG presents as an elabler for collaborative IoT devices. TDS offers a common…


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