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LG Innotek adopts CSR chip in module for in-vehicle connectivity and audio
LG Innotek adopts CSR chip in module for in-vehicle connectivity and audio
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CSR has announced that LG Innotek has adopted the CSRC9300™ – a chip for advanced infotainment and connectivity features in…
Lithium polymer battery maker targets 400-Wh/kg energy density
Lithium polymer battery maker targets 400-Wh/kg energy density
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Advanced lithium polymer battery developer, Seeo, has closed the company's largest funding round to date, and added Samsung Ventures Investment…
UK collaboration aims to develop graphene-enhanced photovoltaic devices
UK collaboration aims to develop graphene-enhanced photovoltaic devices
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University of Manchester spin-out company 2-DTech is linking up with solar technology specialist Dyesol in a project to research how…
Fairchild transfers discrete production to Tower in Japan
Fairchild transfers discrete production to Tower in Japan
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Fairchild Semiconductor has started mass production of discrete devices at the wafer fabrication facility in Tonami, Japan, controlled by Tower…

Electric sports car startup approaches series production
Electric sports car startup approaches series production
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Carmaker startup company nanoFlowcell - yes, there are still startups in the automotive industry - has taken first steps to establish a series production of its electric sports sedan. At…
Arqiva, SIGFOX rollout UK IoT network
Arqiva, SIGFOX rollout UK IoT network
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Making it simple and affordable to connect millions of “things”, Arqiva and SIGFOX have launched the first sites in the rollout of their IoT network across ten of the UK’s…
BMW sees major changes at its C-level
BMW sees major changes at its C-level
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Carmaker BMW's management board currently sees departures and arrivals. Besides CEO Norbert Reithofer, head of development Herbert Diess is leaving the company. While in the case of Reithofer the company…
BMW sees major changes in its C-level
BMW sees major changes in its C-level
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Carmaker BMW's management board currently sees departures and arrivals. Besides CEO Norbert Reithofer, head of development Herbert Diess is leaving the company. While in the case of Reithofer the company…
Visible-to-IR venture gets Korean backing
Visible-to-IR venture gets Korean backing
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Visible-to-IR image sensor startup Dual Aperture Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.) has formed a joint venture with Korea's Center for Integrated Smart Sensors (CISS) called Dual Aperture International (DAI), which has…
Enmetric partners DECO to develop enterprise IoT-enabled LED luminaires
Enmetric partners DECO to develop enterprise IoT-enabled LED luminaires
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Enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) company, Enmetric Systems, Inc., is partnering with DECO Lighting to enable commercial LED luminaires to communicate real-time data wirelessly to the cloud at a performance…
AMS acquires sensor company
AMS acquires sensor company
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Extending its commitment to the sensor market, analog chipmaker ams (Unterpremstaetten, Austria) now has announced the acquisition of acam-messelectronic, a vendor of highly accurate time-based measurement technology and related sensor…
AMS acquires acam-messelectronic
AMS acquires acam-messelectronic
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Extending its commitment to the sensor market, analog chipmaker ams (Unterpremstaetten, Austria) now has announced the acquisition of acam-messelectronic, a vendor of highly accurate time-based measurement technology and related sensor…
Bourns to acquire Komatsulite Mfg. Co.
Bourns to acquire Komatsulite Mfg. Co.
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Passives and protection electronic components manufacturer Bourns Inc. announced it has acquired all of the outstanding shares of Komatsulite Mfg. Co., Ltd and its subsidiaries.
U-blox buys into automotive, acquires modules business from Lesswire
U-blox buys into automotive, acquires modules business from Lesswire
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Targeting the rapidly growing Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communication systems market, Swiss based u-blox has announced the acquisition of the automotive-grade Bluetooth and Wi-Fi module products and a team of key engineers…
Freescale snaps up Zenverge to boost IoT security
Freescale snaps up Zenverge to boost IoT security
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Enhancing its capabilities with respect to the emerging IoT, Freescale Semiconductor has gobbled up Zenverge for its market-leading transcoding technology.
Imec and Huawei team up on high-bandwidth optical data link technology
Imec and Huawei team up on high-bandwidth optical data link technology
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Huawei has joined imec’s research programme as a further step in a strategic partnership focusing on optical data link technology. The joint research on silicon-based optical interconnects is expected to…
Chip market forecast raised for 2014, 2015
Chip market forecast raised for 2014, 2015
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The global chip market is doing better than previously thought and so WSTS has raised its forecast for the market this year and next but has had to reduce its…
Koren MagnaChip introduces SOI RF CMOS technology
Koren MagnaChip introduces SOI RF CMOS technology
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Jumping on the RF SOI bandwagon, MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation based in Korea is now offering a 0.18 µm silicon on insulator (SOI) RF CMOS technology for the emerging RF front-end…
Yorkshire low-power SRAM IP company attracts investment funding
Yorkshire low-power SRAM IP company attracts investment funding
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Sheffield-based low-power SRAM IP company sureCore Ltd. has received £1 million in Series A funding from Capital-E, Antwerp, Belgium, bringing total start-up funding to £2.1 million.
Daimler invests 100m euros in German battery expansion
Daimler invests 100m euros in German battery expansion
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Daimler has revealed plans to spend about 100 million euros in coming years to increase production of lithium-ion batteries in eastern Germany.
MPUs and memory sales boost 2014 semiconductor European market
MPUs and memory sales boost 2014 semiconductor European market
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European semiconductor sales kept growing in October, reaching USD 3.208 billion, a 5.2% growth compared the same month one year ago, according to the European Semiconductor Industry Association (ESIA).
MEMS maker creates jobs in Finland
MEMS maker creates jobs in Finland
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MEMS manufacturer Kionix Inc. (Ithaca, New York), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Japan's Rohm Semiconductor, has opened a software development center in Oulu, Finland.
Autonomous driving creates billion-dollar market
Autonomous driving creates billion-dollar market
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Sensors, electronic control units and software required to make cars drive autonomously will create an additional market volume of up to $60 billion by 2030. This is one of the…
Daimler invests € 100 million in battery expansion
Daimler invests € 100 million in battery expansion
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Daimler has revealed plans to spend about 100 million euros in coming years to increase production of lithium-ion battery systems in eastern Germany.
Nanoimprint lithography: try before you buy
Nanoimprint lithography: try before you buy
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A supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, EV Group (EVG) has opened the Nanoimprint Lithography NILPhotonics™ Competence Center to assist its customers…
Bosch equips InnoLab with instruments from Keysight
Bosch equips InnoLab with instruments from Keysight
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When Robert Bosch GmbH celebrated the grand opening of its new Automotive Electronics InnoLab in Reutlingen (Germany), engineers found their future workplaces equipped with instruments from Keysight Technologies, bringing together…
TÜV SÜD opens another test lab in Shenzhen
TÜV SÜD opens another test lab in Shenzhen
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Test and certification services provider TUEV SUED (Munich, Germany) has opened a new test laboratory in Shenzhen (China). The centre comprises four test labs for electric and electronic products and…
Korea, France join forces on driverless cars R&D
Korea, France join forces on driverless cars R&D
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The governments of Korea and France decided to conduct jointly funded R&D projects to develop software and parts for driverless cars, reports newspaper Korea Joongang Daily. Other topics for the…


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