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Japanese LED industry shakeout reflects shifting fortunes
Japanese LED industry shakeout reflects shifting fortunes
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The Japanese LED industry is going through a period of turbulence which has fuelled major shifts in fortune for some…
Samsung acquires YESCO to strengthen LED display expertise
Samsung acquires YESCO to strengthen LED display expertise
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has acquired YESCO Electronics LLC, a leading LED sign and display manufacturer with more than 2,000…
Sony switches to OLEDs to upgrade VR helmet
Sony switches to OLEDs to upgrade VR helmet
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Sony has turned to OLED technology to upgrade the company's Morpheus virtual reality helmet to make PlayStation 4 gameplay more…
IKEA and Samsung back Qi wireless charging advance
IKEA and Samsung back Qi wireless charging advance
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Global home furnishings retailer IKEA has breathed new life into the wireless charging market with the launch of Qi-powered bedside…

Industry’s first multi-mode charging chipset enters mass production
Industry’s first multi-mode charging chipset enters mass production
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MediaTek is making the company's MT3188, the industry-first multi-mode wireless charging integrated circuit (IC) commercially available to customers.
Opinion: The NXP/Freescale takeover and automotive electronics
Opinion: The NXP/Freescale takeover and automotive electronics
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Will the planned acquisition of Freescale through NXP change the automotive semiconductor landscape? Obviously yes, since both companies are already massively involved in this market, and united they will certainly…
Opinion: What the NXP/Freescale takeover means for automotive electronics
Opinion: What the NXP/Freescale takeover means for automotive electronics
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Will the planned acquisition of Freescale through NXP change the automotive semiconductor landscape? Obviously yes, since both companies are already massively involved in this market, and united they will certainly…
Cisco, Deutsche Telekom and Intel to help IoT startups
Cisco, Deutsche Telekom and Intel to help IoT startups
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Challenge Up! is a joint Internet of Things (IoT) accelerator program announced by Cisco, Deutsche Telekom and Intel for startups from the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.
Qi app pinpoints 3000 wireless charging locations worldwide
Qi app pinpoints 3000 wireless charging locations worldwide
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Aircharge has launched a new mobile application to allow consumers to easily locate a public location or venue that provides wireless charging compatible with the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) Qi…
Solar plane passes new test ahead of planned world tour
Solar plane passes new test ahead of planned world tour
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The Solar Impulse 2 solar-powered plane has completed a third successful test flight in the United Arab Emirates ahead of the first round-the-world solar flight planned to promote alternative energy…
Tronics offers to license MEMS processes to foundries
Tronics offers to license MEMS processes to foundries
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MEMS foundry Tronics Microsystems AS (Grenoble, France) wants to expand its business model by offering MEMS manufacturing processes to higher volume foundry manufacturers.
Avnet Abacus inks distribution deal with RRC
Avnet Abacus inks distribution deal with RRC
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Avnet Abacus has signed a franchised distribution agreement with RRC, a global leader in power supplies, batteries and battery charging technology.
NXP and Freescale to merge in $40 billion deal
NXP and Freescale to merge in $40 billion deal
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Providing $500 million in annual cost synergies, and accretive to non-GAAP EPS in first full year, NXP Semiconductors and Freescale Semiconductor have announced that they have entered into a definitive…
Laird partners with LoRa Alliance to advance enterprise IoT
Laird partners with LoRa Alliance to advance enterprise IoT
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Laird has announced a partnership with the LoRa Alliance at Mobile World Congress to advance standards for the Internet-of-Things (IoT) with a focus on the Enterprise IoT (EIoT).
Stadium Power opens East of England R&D centre
Stadium Power opens East of England R&D centre
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Stadium Power has opened an R&D centre in Norwich as a stand-alone facility for the development of power products.  The facility features a 1000 square foot laboratory aimed at supporting…
Switch to LED lighting cuts cruising energy costs by 60 percent
Switch to LED lighting cuts cruising energy costs by 60 percent
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Europe’s leading holiday cruise company, Costa Cruises has upgraded ten of the company's fleet of cruise liners with more than 300,000 Philips LED lights to achieve a 60% reduction in…
World’s first full LiFi networking system goes on show
World’s first full LiFi networking system goes on show
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pureLiFi, the Edinburgh-based light communications technology company, plans to demonstrate the world's first full LiFi networking system at Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona from 2-5 March, 2015.
LED lighting value chain links with IoT Smart platform
LED lighting value chain links with IoT Smart platform
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EVRYTHNG, the Internet of Things (IoT) Smart Products Platform that manages real-time data to drive applications, has formed a strategic partnership with GOOEE, a Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and IoT technology company…
Geo selects S3 DAC IP for video processor
Geo selects S3 DAC IP for video processor
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Geo Semiconductor Inc. has selected a video DAC from mixed-signal IP provider S3 Group Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland) for use in a next-generation video processing IC.
Who will partner LG to stimulate OLED TV sector?
Who will partner LG to stimulate OLED TV sector?
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South Korean-based LG Electronics Inc has revealed that the TV manufacturer is planning to partner with Chinese and Japanese companies with the aim of making organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display…
Guerrilla RF completes funding for mass production, new products
Guerrilla RF completes funding for mass production, new products
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Guerrilla RF Inc., has announced the closing of a $500,000 funding round led by Charlotte Angel Fund to enable the company to start mass production in support of recent design…
Axell Wireless joins Aeroflex to form Cobham Wireless
Axell Wireless joins Aeroflex to form Cobham Wireless
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A leader in indoor wireless cellular and public safety solutions, Axell Wireless has announced that its integration into Cobham will be fully completed by July 2015 — following the acquisition…
Tessera buys Smart Sensors for iris recognition
Tessera buys Smart Sensors for iris recognition
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FotoNation Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of chip packaging company Tessera Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) has acquired Smart Sensors Ltd. (Bath, England), a developer of iris recognition biometric technology.
Plastic Logic splits, forms FlexEnable
Plastic Logic splits, forms FlexEnable
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Plastic Logic Ltd., a spin-off company from the Cavendish Laboratory, founded in 2000 that has specialized in polymer transistors for use in active-matrix display backplanes, has decided to split its…
Keysight EXF wireless test set supports high-volume manufacturing of Broadcom-based femtocells
Keysight EXF wireless test set supports high-volume manufacturing of Broadcom-based femtocells
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Keysight Technologies has announced that its E6650A EXF wireless test set for femtocell now supports high-volume manufacturing test for designs using the BCM617xx series small cell chipsets from Broadcom Corporation.
Apple and Ericsson fight over LTE patents as IEEE looks to change wireless IP rules
Apple and Ericsson fight over LTE patents as IEEE looks to change wireless IP rules
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What, exactly, is "Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory" in the world of patents related to semiconductors and consumer electronics?…
Industrial production of li-ion cells in Germany comes closer
Industrial production of li-ion cells in Germany comes closer
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The Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW) in Ulm (Germany) has made a large step towards the series production of automotive-grade lithium-ion cells: On a production line for…
Freescale and Bell Labs explore wireline and wireless virtualization on the road to 5G
Freescale and Bell Labs explore wireline and wireless virtualization on the road to 5G
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Freescale Semiconductor and Bell Labs, the industrial research arm of Alcatel-Lucent have announced they are expanding a long-term partnership in both commercial and research endeavors, which includes a range of…


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