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Philips lighting JV focuses on Middle East expansion
Philips lighting JV focuses on Middle East expansion
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Philips has entered into agreements to acquire 51% of General Lighting Company (GLC), a major lighting company in the Kingdom…
Nissan, Renault combine engineering activities
Nissan, Renault combine engineering activities
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Accounting for the huge investments for automotive R&D, Japanese carmaker Nissan and its French alliance partner Renault will combine a…
Plessey expands GaN-on-Si LED distribution network into Iberia
Plessey expands GaN-on-Si LED distribution network into Iberia
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Plessey Semiconductors has entered into a distribution agreement with Matrix Electrónica S.L. for the Iberian market for Plessey's GaN on…
Huawei shows high-speed Wi-Fi for football stadium
Huawei shows high-speed Wi-Fi for football stadium
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Huawei recently held a co-event with soccer club Borussia Dortmund GmbH & Co. KGaA (BVB) at the Huawei booth in…

Europe to cut on e-Waste with common phone charger
Europe to cut on e-Waste with common phone charger
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By voting on an update to EU radio equipment laws, Members of the European Parliament rallied in favour of one standard charger to be used for all mobile phones sold…
Zhaga Consortium appoints Musa Unmehopa as Secretary General
Zhaga Consortium appoints Musa Unmehopa as Secretary General
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Musa Unmehopa has been appointed the new Secretary General of the Zhaga Consortium - an organization that develops interface specifications which enable the interchange of LED light engines manufactured by…
MEMS panel outlines opportunity and threat
MEMS panel outlines opportunity and threat
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A panel on MEMS components in consumer products held at the MEMS Executive Congress Europe in Munich, Germany, this week discussed the growth opportunities for but also outlined some of…
ADlink snaps up German medical systems house
ADlink snaps up German medical systems house
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Taiwanese embedded board supplier ADLINK Technology has bought German medical system developer PENTA in a E5.4m deal.
RS expands 3D printers in bid to dominate the market
RS expands 3D printers in bid to dominate the market
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RS Components has added new 3D printers and print technologies as it aims to be the top distributor of printers alongside its free 3D design software.
Saft lands multi-million euro commercial space battery contract
Saft lands multi-million euro commercial space battery contract
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Saft has landed a multi-million euro repeat contract from the Space Systems division of Airbus Defence & Space to supply the onboard battery systems for the next 18 Ariane 5…
Digi-Key adds XP Power product line
Digi-Key adds XP Power product line
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Distributor Digi-Key now has a global distribution agreement with XP Power.
Pay rise agreed at NXP
Pay rise agreed at NXP
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Mixed-signal and application-specific chip company NXP Semiconductors NV (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) has announced that agreement has been reached with trade unions representing workers in The Netherlands on an immediate pay…
QMC gears up inorganic quantum dot volume production
QMC gears up inorganic quantum dot volume production
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Quantum Materials Corp. (QMC), which is the manufacturer of Tetrapod Quantum Dots, has placed purchase orders for the proprietary equipment necessary to commence increased production of inorganic quantum dots.
Hughes Europe and AirTight Networks to offer secure Wi-Fi to retail
Hughes Europe and AirTight Networks to offer secure Wi-Fi to retail
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Hughes Europe has teamed with AirTight Networks to offer retailers a secure managed Wi-Fi service that combines PCI wireless scanning and social analytics.
The EFM32 Zero Gecko starter kit in stock at RS Components
The EFM32 Zero Gecko starter kit in stock at RS Components
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RS Components has announced availability of Silicon Labs' EFM32 Zero Gecko Starter Kit, an excellent tool for engineers to get familiar with the EFM32 32-bit microcontrollers based on the ARM…
Certification program clears market path for LED luminaires
Certification program clears market path for LED luminaires
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Global safety science organization, UL, has introduced its Type TL Program, which offers a set of certification guidelines designed to create a more efficient path for manufacturers in developing new…
XP Power inks global distribution deal with Digi-Key
XP Power inks global distribution deal with Digi-Key
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Global electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation has signed a global distribution agreement with XP Power, a power-solution company which claims to offer the widest range of power products available from…
Freescale employees mourned on missing Malaysian flight
Freescale employees mourned on missing Malaysian flight
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Nearly three days after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished from radar screens and as the mystery remains about what actually happened on-board, Freescale Semiconductor mourns 20 of its employees who…
Arrow Electronics signs EMEA distribution for Variscite
Arrow Electronics signs EMEA distribution for Variscite
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Arrow Electronics will now distribute all products offered by Variscite in the EMEA region, a leading manufacturer of embedded solutions and system-on-modules (SOM).
Freescale mourns employees on missing Malaysian flight
Freescale mourns employees on missing Malaysian flight
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Nearly three days after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 vanished from radar screens and as the mystery remains about what actually happened on-board, Freescale Semiconductor mourns 20 of its employees who…
Paper-thin ultracapacitor aims to boost Li-ion battery performance
Paper-thin ultracapacitor aims to boost Li-ion battery performance
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New York-based start-up Paper Battery Company is partnering with one of the world's largest specialized battery pack manufacturers TWS Industrial to commercialize the company's breakthrough ultrathin ultracapacitor technology for consumer…
Conspiracy alleged over Rousset wafer fab closure
Conspiracy alleged over Rousset wafer fab closure
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A class action lawsuit has been filed in Federal Court in New York alleging that Atmel Corp. (San Jose, Calif.) conspired to sell its wafer fab in Rousset, France, fraudulently…
Fairchild acquires body motion capture firm Xsens
Fairchild acquires body motion capture firm Xsens
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Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) has acquired Xsens Technologies BV (Eschede, The Netherlands), a private company that has specialized in 3D motion tracking products based on MEMS inertial…
AMD taps UK tool for video verification
AMD taps UK tool for video verification
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AMD is using a verification tool from the UK to test its latest video processors.
Fairchild faces $315 million charge for patent infringement
Fairchild faces $315 million charge for patent infringement
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Fairchild Semiconductor (San Jose, Calif.) must pay $105 million in damages, a possibly three times that, having been found guilty of infringing two patents on power supply ICs held by…
Why Japan leads in electromobility – and why this could change soon
Why Japan leads in electromobility – and why this could change soon
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Is electromobility a strategic issue for Europe's automotive industry or just a propaganda slogan? A study from management consulting service Roland Berger shows where the real technology leaders are.
Newswatch: Tesla sketches out roadmap for the future?
Newswatch: Tesla sketches out roadmap for the future?
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Last week, Tesla Motors revealed in a blog entry some future statistics about the company's proposed Gigafactory which is expected to feature 6500 employees in a plant that will take…
Why Japan leads in electromobility – and why this could change
Why Japan leads in electromobility – and why this could change
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Is electromobility a strategic issue for Europe's automotive industry or just a propaganda slogan? A study from management consulting service Roland Berger shows where the real technology leaders are.


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