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Future Electronics opens Munich regional headquarters
Future Electronics opens Munich regional headquarters
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Electronics components distributor Future Electronics has opened new headquarters for its Central Europe region, in Muenchen, Germany. The move to…
E2V buys ADC specialist
E2V buys ADC specialist
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E2V Technologies Ltd. (Chelmsford) has agreed to pay $18 million to acquire Signal Processing (SP) Devices Sweden AB (Linkoping, Sweden),…
Next-generation silicon solar cells: Imec extends collaboration with Total
Next-generation silicon solar cells: Imec extends collaboration with Total
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Nanoelectronics research centre imec has extended the organization's collaboration with global energy company Total to increase the energy output of…
European graphene ultracapacitor company receives 4m euros investment
European graphene ultracapacitor company receives 4m euros investment
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European ultracapacitor manufacturer, Skeleton Technologies, has received a €4 million investment from KIC InnoEnergy, an investment company dedicated to promoting…

LG Display claims world’s first OLED lighting convergence with furniture
LG Display claims world’s first OLED lighting convergence with furniture
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LG Display has agreed to supply OLED panels to iloom, a specialized home furniture brand of the Fursys Group, a leading office furniture company in Korea. The deal is claimed…
Quantum Materials plans quantum dot production in China
Quantum Materials plans quantum dot production in China
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Quantum dot manufacturer Quantum Materials Corp has entered into a joint venture with Guanghui Technology Group (GTG) in which GTG will invest $20 million to build Quantum Materials QDX quantum…
ST exits STB chip business, plans lay-offs
ST exits STB chip business, plans lay-offs
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STMicroelectronics NV has said it will stop developing products for the set-top box and home gateway markets and plans to lay off up to 1,400 workers out of its total…
Bosch business fires on – almost – all cylinders
Bosch business fires on – almost – all cylinders
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With overall sales exceeding €70 billion (about $ 76 billion), the Bosch group achieved a growth of about 10 percent in 2015. Accounting for 60 % of sales, the automotive…
Southeast Asia starts to see the benefits of IoT deployments
Southeast Asia starts to see the benefits of IoT deployments
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Exibition and conference organiser, Industry Platform Pte Ltd, a Singapore incorporated firm, contends that governments and telecommunication operators in the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia are actively exploring opportunities offered…
FDSOI carries on despite ST re-org, says COO
FDSOI carries on despite ST re-org, says COO
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STMicroelectronics' withdrawal from he set-top-box business and the transfer of engineers to microcontroller and digital automotive work will not stop the adoption of fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FDSOI) manufacturing process, according to…
ST shifts focus to automotive, IoT
ST shifts focus to automotive, IoT
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STMicroelectronics NV has said it will stop developing products for the set-top box and home gateway markets and plans to lay off up to 1,400 workers out of its total…
Bosch’s business fires on – almost – all cylinders
Bosch’s business fires on – almost – all cylinders
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With overall sales exceeding €70 billion (about $ 76 billion), the Bosch group achieved a growth of about 10 percent in 2015. Accounting for 60 % of sales, the automotive…
NXT-ID rolls out NFC enabled Wocket smart wallets
NXT-ID rolls out NFC enabled Wocket smart wallets
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NXT-ID, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of 3D-ID LLC, has announced that effective January 2016, all Wockets sold will be enabled with NFC (Near Field Communication) payment technology.
Sony buys Altair to get LTE for IoT
Sony buys Altair to get LTE for IoT
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Japan's Sony Corp. has agreed to buy Isreali LTE modem chip company, Altair Semiconductor Ltd. for $212 million.
SMIC to benefit from $3 billion investment
SMIC to benefit from $3 billion investment
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The Shanghai Integrated Circuit Investment Fund (SICIF) has announced a plan to invest 20 billion yuan (about $3 billion) in foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) and two other Shanghai-based…
Will Xilinx join the M&A party?
Will Xilinx join the M&A party?
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Could market-leading programmable logic vendor Xilinx Inc. be positioning itself as an acquisition target?…
Toshiba to gut chip biz sans NAND
Toshiba to gut chip biz sans NAND
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Toshiba Corp. has decided to gut the company’s semiconductor business—except for its NAND flash memory products, Japan’s economic newspaper Nikkei reported Saturday morning.
Apical wins in Korean smartphones, notebook PCs
Apical wins in Korean smartphones, notebook PCs
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Apical Ltd. (London), a developer of image signal processing for cameras and displays, has announced that the LG V10 smartphone and a couple of Samsung notebook computers uses its Assertive…
Lumitech licenses Seoul Semiconductor for PI-LED technology applications
Lumitech licenses Seoul Semiconductor for PI-LED technology applications
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Seoul Semiconductor has signed a licensing agreement for PI-LED technology patents with the Austrian company Lumitech, a leading manufacturer of components for Human Centric Lighting.
Qualcomm, TDK prep $3bn RF joint venture
Qualcomm, TDK prep $3bn RF joint venture
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Qualcomm Inc. (San Diego, Calif.) and TDK Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) have agreed to form a joint venture – RF360 Holdings Singapore Pte. Ltd. – to deliver radio frequency modules and…
Philips’ $3 billion Lumileds deal blocked by US
Philips’ $3 billion Lumileds deal blocked by US
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Royal Philips (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) has announced that a deal to sell an 80.1 percent interest in Lumileds, a vendor of LED based lighting, has been terminated, because of concerns…
Comba Telecom a top-three global tier one leader in base station antennas
Comba Telecom a top-three global tier one leader in base station antennas
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Comba Telecom Systems Holdings Limited has announced it has again been named one of the top 3 suppliers of base station antennas since 2012 by market share according to the…
Bosch tests automated driving in Japan
Bosch tests automated driving in Japan
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Automotive supplier Bosch has started tests of automated driving in Japan, with the first intermediate goal being the development of a motorway autopilot. This motorway pilot will enable vehicles and…
Fujitsu Electronics Europe re-invents itself as a distributor
Fujitsu Electronics Europe re-invents itself as a distributor
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Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe – with a name change to “Fujitsu Electronics Europe” - is seeking a new role in which it aims to act as a, “gateway to high-quality solutions…
Osram reveals three-pillar strategy plans for lighting sector
Osram reveals three-pillar strategy plans for lighting sector
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Osram has revealed further details of the company's three-pillar strategy in which the lighting company is seeking to benefit more from the potential of semiconductor-based technologies and will make appropriate…
Regulators quash Lumileds purchase agreement plans
Regulators quash Lumileds purchase agreement plans
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Royal Philips and GO Scale Capital have terminated their March 2015 agreement for GO Scale Capital to acquire 80.1% of Royal Philips' LED lighting components and automotive lighting business, Lumileds.
Ford opts for Analog Devices’ UTP-based Automotive Audio Bus for infotainment
Ford opts for Analog Devices’ UTP-based Automotive Audio Bus for infotainment
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Analog Devices has announced today that the Ford Motor Company has selected the Automotive Audio Bus (A2B) as its primary infotainment network technology with in-vehicle deployments starting in 2016.
Report: Analog, TI both pass on Maxim purchase
Report: Analog, TI both pass on Maxim purchase
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Both Texas Instruments Inc. and Analog Devices Inc. have decided not to pursue an acquisition of Maxim Integrated Products Inc. according to a Bloomberg report that referenced unnamed sources.


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