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University of Bristol selects Propsim F8 channel emulator for 5G research
University of Bristol selects Propsim F8 channel emulator for 5G research
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Anite, now part of Keysight Technologies, has announced that the University of Bristol has selected its Propsim F8 channel emulator…
Startup goes multi-die to customize MCUs
Startup goes multi-die to customize MCUs
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A startup company from Southern California has made use of the increased availability and lower cost of multi-die packaging to…
Egypt’s semiconductor cluster stronger than reported
Egypt’s semiconductor cluster stronger than reported
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The semiconductor cluster in Egypt runs to more than half-a-dozen startups that are operating as fabless chips companies, as IP…
AWR software helps Micran design a complex space-qualified X-Band MMIC
AWR software helps Micran design a complex space-qualified X-Band MMIC
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NI (formerly AWR Corporation) has announced that Micran Research & Production Company designed an 8 to 11.5 GHz X-band amplitude/phase…

Fujitsu Semiconductor forms wafer test joint venture with Tera Probe
Fujitsu Semiconductor forms wafer test joint venture with Tera Probe
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Fujitsu Semiconductor's subsidiary Aizu Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd. has signed a joint venture contract with Tera Probe to establish a wafer test business to be named Aizu Fujitsu Semiconductor Probe Ltd.
Dialog snaps up Atmel
Dialog snaps up Atmel
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Dialog has agreed to acquire Atmel in a cash and stock transaction for total consideration of approximately $4.6 billion. The combined company is expected to address an attractive, fast growing…
Dialog to acquire Atmel for $4.6 billion
Dialog to acquire Atmel for $4.6 billion
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Dialog Semiconductor plc is to buy Atmel Corp. in a $4.6 billion cash-and-stock deal in a move to try and capture a larger slice of the Internet of Things (IOT)…
Dialog to acquire Atmel for USD4.6bn in IoT push
Dialog to acquire Atmel for USD4.6bn in IoT push
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U.K.-based Dialog Semiconductor PLC is to buy Atmel Corp. in a $4.6 billion cash-and-stock deal in a move to try and capture a larger slice of the Internet of Things…
Merck signs silicate phosphor white LED deal with Tridonic
Merck signs silicate phosphor white LED deal with Tridonic
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German drug manufacturer Merck KGaA has entered into a license agreement with Tridonic Jennersdorf GmbH covering silicate phosphors for use in white light LEDs.
Apple to split 14/16nm orders among foundries into 2016
Apple to split 14/16nm orders among foundries into 2016
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Apple, the world’s largest buyer of chips made with leading process technology, is likely to divvy up its orders for 14/16nm products this year and next as part of a…
Watching out for new sensing technologies: ams AG
Watching out for new sensing technologies: ams AG
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During the annual press day that ams AG organized at its headquarters earlier this week, in Graz, Austria, CEO Kirk Laney was upbeat about the company's future. The fab lite…
LED lighting technology encourages sustainable cannabis growth
LED lighting technology encourages sustainable cannabis growth
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Green Life Productions (GLP) based in Nevada, USA, which is a pioneer in the organic cannabis cultivation industry, has selected Illumitex's LED lighting technology to enable the medical cannabis producer…
Q&A with GloFo CEO: ‘IoT is no mystical animal’
Q&A with GloFo CEO: ‘IoT is no mystical animal’
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PC shipments are going down all over the world. The smartphone market is losing steam. The chip industry is expecting a down year in 2016. Practically every chip vendor in…
New York investor offers to buy Korea’s MagnaChip
New York investor offers to buy Korea’s MagnaChip
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New York based investment firm Pleasant Lake Partners LLC has made an offer to acquire MagnaChip Semiconductor Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) a designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal ICs…
Smart battery startup raises $5.5 million
Smart battery startup raises $5.5 million
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Roost Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.), a startup that is trying to retrofit IoT functions and connectivity into consumer electronics by including them in a battery form factor, has raised $5.5 million…
University of Surrey officially opens 5G Innovation Centre
University of Surrey officially opens 5G Innovation Centre
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Housing over 170 researchers and attracting over £70 million of investment, including £12 million from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the 5GIC is the world's largest academic…
SoC FPGA Developers Forums: worlwide
SoC FPGA Developers Forums: worlwide
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The Altera SoC Developers Forum (ASDF) launched by the FPGA vendor are inaugural events in Silicon Valley; Frankfurt, Germany; and Shenzhen, China.
Airbus gives Tronics an RF MEMS boost
Airbus gives Tronics an RF MEMS boost
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MEMS foundry and component maker Tronics Microsystems SA (Grenoble, France) has entered into a partnership with European aircraft maker Airbus Group, for the development of capacitive MEMS-based RF switches and…
Porsche reveals prototype battery-driven sports car
Porsche reveals prototype battery-driven sports car
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German sports car maker, Porsche has unveiled a prototype battery-driven sports car at Frankfurt Motor Show which is aiming to challenge Tesla Motors Inc's Model S in the electric sports…
Crossbar raises $35 million for ReRAM roll out
Crossbar raises $35 million for ReRAM roll out
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Resistive RAM startup Crossbar Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has announced it has completed a $35 million Series D funding round. This brings the money raised by the company since its…
Partnership enables field-deployable private cellular 4G ‘bubbles’
Partnership enables field-deployable private cellular 4G ‘bubbles’
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Quortus and Horsebridge Networks Ltd have announced that they are partnering to deliver 4G cellular communications systems to the military and public safety sectors.
Startup raises $5.5 million for smart IoT batteries
Startup raises $5.5 million for smart IoT batteries
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Roost Inc., (Sunnyvale, CA), a startup that is trying to retrofit IoT functions and connectivity into consumer electronics by including them in a battery form factor, has raised $5.5 million…
Viavi (JDSU) network test products, now from Microlease
Viavi (JDSU) network test products, now from Microlease
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Microlease has been appointed a premier solutions partner by Viavi Solutions, formerly JDSU. Under this arrangement, Microlease will sell test solutions from Viavi, complementing the rental and used equipment services…
Report: TSMC wins all Apple’s A10 chip business
Report: TSMC wins all Apple’s A10 chip business
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TSMC will make all of the microprocessors for the iPhone 7 that is due to debut in 2016 using its 16nm FinFET manufacturing process, according to a Chinese language report.
Dresden memory startup to debut at Semicon Europa
Dresden memory startup to debut at Semicon Europa
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A startup company that is working on a ferroelectric non-volatile memory technology based on hafnium oxide is set to make its debut at the Semicon Europa exhibition taking place in…
Autonomous driving not blocked by technology, says survey
Autonomous driving not blocked by technology, says survey
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Drivers summon their vehicles out of the underground garage with their smartphone and then continue their ride in a laid-back manner while the silicon chauffeur direct the car through the…
Violeds deal capitalizes on NASA’s International Space Station application
Violeds deal capitalizes on NASA’s International Space Station application
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UV LED solution company, Seoul Viosys and US-based short-wavelength UV LED pioneer and manufacturer Sensor Electronics Technology Inc have signed an agreement to joint-commercialize and expand related sales of the…
Zumtobel snaps up majority stake in UK’s acdc
Zumtobel snaps up majority stake in UK’s acdc
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The international lighting corporation Zumtobel Group has acquired a majority holding in UK lighting company AC/DC LED Holdings Ltd (acdc).


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