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Elektrobit becomes Bittium as automotive part sold
Elektrobit becomes Bittium as automotive part sold
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The sale of Elektrobit’s automotive business to supplier Continental is completed. At the same time, the remaining (non-automotive) part of…
Startup’s tech is Intel’s Quark neural network
Startup’s tech is Intel’s Quark neural network
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The pattern-classification technology inside the Quark SE system chip from Intel is the same as that being offered for license…
Sony to raise $3.6bn to speed reinvention as component company
Sony to raise $3.6bn to speed reinvention as component company
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Sony is going to spend $3.6 billion that it plans to raise through a rights issue exclusively to beef up…
PowerChip plans Chinese fab for display, sensor ICs
PowerChip plans Chinese fab for display, sensor ICs
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A former DRAM vendor, now foundry, is joining a trend towards supporting manufacturing in China, according to local reports.

Elektrobit is now Bittium
Elektrobit is now Bittium
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The sale of Elektrobit’s automotive business to supplier Continental is completed. At the same time, the remaining (non-automotive) part of the Finnish company has been renamed to Bittium.
Ambiq director takes on interim CEO role
Ambiq director takes on interim CEO role
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Mike Noonen, a board director at Ambiq Micro Inc. (Austin, Texas) has taken over as interim CEO at the company. No reason has been given as to why previous CEO…
Consumer electronics manufacturer iHome selects Marvell’s IoT Platform
Consumer electronics manufacturer iHome selects Marvell’s IoT Platform
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SDI Technologies, a 60 year CE giant and parent company of iHome, a major consumer electronics manufacturer, has selected Marvell's EZ-Connect™ IoT platform and SDK to power its iHome iSP5…
ZF sets course to driver assistance
ZF sets course to driver assistance
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Having just completed the takeover of TRW Automotive, mechatronics giant ZF Friedrichshafen, is now steering more seriously into the automotive electronics business. With the acquisition of a software developers team…
Merck buys display quantum dot company
Merck buys display quantum dot company
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Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany) has announced it is acquiring Qlight Nanotech Ltd. (Jerusalem, Israel), a developer of nanocrystalline materils for lighting and display applications.
Could India’s analog wafer fab be moving south?
Could India’s analog wafer fab be moving south?
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Cricket Semiconductor, a company set up with the purpose of building and operating $1 billion analog and power semiconductor wafer fab in India has been in talks with state government…
Scottish bacteria-killing light fixture targets US healthcare market
Scottish bacteria-killing light fixture targets US healthcare market
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Kenall Manufacturing has introduced a light fixture developed by Scotland's University of Strathclyde that uses Continuous Environmental Disinfection technology to continuously kill harmful bacteria linked to hospital acquired infections (HAIs).
Apple Watch tear down reveals European chips
Apple Watch tear down reveals European chips
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The Apple Watch, is the trailblazer of a wearables equipment market set to boom by 2020, according to market research organization Yole Developpement. And several leading European chipmakers are set…
Metrawatt acquires UK safety testing specialist Seaward Group
Metrawatt acquires UK safety testing specialist Seaward Group
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Seaward will become part of the GMC Instrumentation Division, a group of separate specialist T&M manufacturing businesses based in Germany, Switzerland and the USA and with a global international sales…
UK CEM boosts equipment investment to match LED assembly growth
UK CEM boosts equipment investment to match LED assembly growth
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Leicester-based contract electronics manufacturer (CEM) LCL Electronics has invested in new equipment and technology to specialize in LED assembly for a range of customers in signaling, fire safety, audio, medical…
Quantum Materials quadruples high-heat tolerant qdot manufacturing capacity
Quantum Materials quadruples high-heat tolerant qdot manufacturing capacity
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Quantum Materials Corp has completed target expansion plans of the company's lab and manufacturing operations in response to the increased demand for the company's line of heat-resistant QDX Quantum Dots.
Bosch graphene-based sensor: 100x more sensitive than silicon equivalent
Bosch graphene-based sensor: 100x more sensitive than silicon equivalent
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Researchers at the Stuttgart-based engineering company Bosch have worked with scientists at the Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research to create a graphene-based magnetic sensor which is 100 times more…
QNX, Certicom to immunise car systems against attacks
QNX, Certicom to immunise car systems against attacks
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Automated driving and other safety-relevant electronic car functions have sparked a discussion. To prevent intrusion attempts, software vendor QNX has entered an alliance with security expert company Certicom. With the…
UK start-up gears up to capture UK home energy storage market
UK start-up gears up to capture UK home energy storage market
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A British technology start-up has raised £700,000 on investment crowdfunding platform Crowdcube in a bid to take on Tesla to become the leading UK player in the emerging home energy…
Keysight sign 5G technology development pact with Korea’s KT
Keysight sign 5G technology development pact with Korea’s KT
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Keysight Technologies, Inc. has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Korea's KT Corporation which will see the two organizations collaborate on 5G wireless communications and other related areas of…
€5.7 Million for Exagan to go ahead with GaN-on-Si 200mm wafers
€5.7 Million for Exagan to go ahead with GaN-on-Si 200mm wafers
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Focused on developing GaN devices for solar, automotive and telecoms, startup Exagan has raised €5.7 million in first-round financing that it will use to produce high-speed power switching devices on…
Samplify founder forms next compression startup
Samplify founder forms next compression startup
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Al Wegener, an expert in signal compression, has founded a startup company called Anacode Labs Inc. (Aptos, Calif.) to provide compression hardware and software under an IP licensing business model.
Merck starts building 30m euro German OLED production plant
Merck starts building 30m euro German OLED production plant
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Merck has begun construction of a new OLED materials production plant in Darmstadt, Germany. The plant will produce high-purity OLED materials for state-of-the-art displays and lighting systems is scheduled to…
Force-sensitive touch sensor startup gains CEO
Force-sensitive touch sensor startup gains CEO
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NextInput Inc., a startup developing force-sensitive touch technology, has appointed Ali Foughi as its CEO. The company is also relocating its headquarters from Georgia, Atlanta, to Silicon Valley.
Semisolid innovation trims lithium-ion battery costs by 50 percent
Semisolid innovation trims lithium-ion battery costs by 50 percent
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Start-up 24M is emerging from stealth mode to introduce the semisolid lithium-ion cell, a technology that claims to solve the challenge of energy storage by enabling a class of the…
Exagan raises 5.7m euros to produce GaN-on-Si power-switches on 200-mm wafers
Exagan raises 5.7m euros to produce GaN-on-Si power-switches on 200-mm wafers
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Exagan, a French start-up innovator of gallium-nitride (GaN) semiconductor technology, has raised €5.7 million in first-round financing that will be used to produce high-speed power switching devices on 200 mm…
Sofradir lands infrared detector contract for ESA Sentinel-2 mission
Sofradir lands infrared detector contract for ESA Sentinel-2 mission
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Sofradir, the global leader of advanced infrared (IR) detectors for military, space and industrial applications, has delivered 24 shortwave IR detectors (SWIR) to Airbus Defence and Space (ADS) for the…
Astute Electronics to distribute Excelsys’ power
Astute Electronics to distribute Excelsys’ power
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Designer of high efficiency power supplies Excelsys Technologies has added Astute Electronics to its distribution network. Astute will distribute solutions from Excelsys Technologies to customers in the Military, Security, Communication…
Excelsys signs UK distribution deal with Astute Electronics
Excelsys signs UK distribution deal with Astute Electronics
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Excelsys Technologies has added Astute Electronics to the company's distribution network. Astute will distribute solutions from Excelsys Technologies to customers in the military, security, communication and defence industries throughout the…


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