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Silicon Labs pays $1.5 million for Touchstone
Silicon Labs pays $1.5 million for Touchstone
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Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas) has bought the entire product portfolio and intellectual property of analog and mixed-signal startup Touchstone…
Building an army of accredited engineers
Building an army of accredited engineers
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Future Electronics is planning to train 300 staff around the world as ARM microcontroller accredited engineers.
NXP staff strike for more pay
NXP staff strike for more pay
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More than 450 employees at NXP Semiconductors wafer fab in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, have held a two-hour strike in protest…
Suntech targets UK PV market to fuel growth
Suntech targets UK PV market to fuel growth
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Completely independent of its former parent company - Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. - Wuxi Suntech is now fully operational…

Plessey appoints former Cree executive to drive LED sales growth
Plessey appoints former Cree executive to drive LED sales growth
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Plessey Semiconductors, has appointed Dr Jose (Joe) Lopez to be the company's Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) with the brief to gear up the UK electronics manufacturer to grow global sales…
How IoT is changing M2M economics
How IoT is changing M2M economics
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Most of the money from the Internet of Things is going to come from additional services rather than connection fees within the next few years.
Tesla reveals USD5bn lithium-ion battery ‘Gigafactory’ manufacturing plans
Tesla reveals USD5bn lithium-ion battery ‘Gigafactory’ manufacturing plans
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Tesla Motors Inc and its partners are planning to invest $4-5 billion in a lithium-ion battery factory which the company claims would be able to make more lithium-ion batteries in…
Aptilo orders reveal trends in carrier WiFi deployments
Aptilo orders reveal trends in carrier WiFi deployments
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Operators appear to be urgently deploying Wi-Fi in ways that expand service areas quickly, lower operating costs and leverage non-traditional partnerships to generate new revenue and business opportunities, as evidenced…
Panasonic ponders Tesla lithium battery ‘Gigafactory’ investment
Panasonic ponders Tesla lithium battery ‘Gigafactory’ investment
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Panasonic Corp is the company being tipped to be leading the way to develop a lithium battery 'Gigafactory' for leading EV car maker Tesla Motors in its drive to reduce…
SMA Solar takes over Danfoss solar inverter business
SMA Solar takes over Danfoss solar inverter business
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Danish energy company Danfoss A/S has agreed to sell the company's complete solar inverter business to Germany's SMA Solar Technology AG as after entering into a close strategic partnership that…
Custom power system design/manufacturing service supports European markets
Custom power system design/manufacturing service supports European markets
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Vicor Corporation is extending the company’s custom power system design and manufacturing capabilities to the European market with the launch of Vicor Custom Europe.
Tesla targets battery innovation to reduce EV costs
Tesla targets battery innovation to reduce EV costs
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Leading EV car maker Tesla Motors Inc is preparing to release details about a proposed 'Gigafactory' which Tesla's billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk says will be key to the company’s goal…
Brüel & Kjær licences smart fiber technology to UK firm
Brüel & Kjær licences smart fiber technology to UK firm
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Danish test house Brüel and Kjær is licensing its fiber-optic acceleration sensor technology exclusively to Smart Fibres in the UK.
Alcatel Lucent and Intel to focus on cloud and IoT
Alcatel Lucent and Intel to focus on cloud and IoT
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Alcatel-Lucent and Intel Corporation are to expand a long-standing effort in the virtualization space to help operators improve their time to market and operational efficiency and to drive the creative…
Bosch Engineering co-develops electric sports vehicle
Bosch Engineering co-develops electric sports vehicle
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The engineering of the Quant electric sports car to be introduced at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show comes from a Bosch subsidiary - Bosch Engineering GmbH has designed the powertrain…
Saft lands USD20m Boeing battery contract for satellites
Saft lands USD20m Boeing battery contract for satellites
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Boeing has awarded battery manufacturer Saft with five new contracts to build Li-ion batteries for four of Boeing’s current GEO communication satellite programs.
Micronas sells more Hall sensors, earns less
Micronas sells more Hall sensors, earns less
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In 2013, sales and earnings of chipmaker Micronas declined despite stronger demand in terms of units. The company sells mostly Hall sensors and related devices into the automotive industry. Micronas…
Lauterbach teams with Symtavision for timing analysis
Lauterbach teams with Symtavision for timing analysis
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Symtavision and Lauterbach have created a joint workflow for the development of electronic control units (ECUs).
Simplified manufacturing organization to boost Renesas’ profits
Simplified manufacturing organization to boost Renesas’ profits
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In a complex cascading chain of absorption-type separations and absorption-type mergers across Renesas’ manufacturing-related group companies, Renesas Electronics Corporation aims to reform its Japanese manufacturing operations in pursuit of profitability.
Opening up the cloud for IoT
Opening up the cloud for IoT
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Kontron is opening up its cloud infrastructure technology by supporting the OpenStack technology.
Covidien to swallow pill camera firm
Covidien to swallow pill camera firm
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Covidien plc (Dublin, Ireland), a medical device manufacturer and spin-off from Tyco International, is set to buy Given Imaging Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel), the developer of the PillCam, an endoscope image…
Telecoms and transportation drives sales growth at Saft
Telecoms and transportation drives sales growth at Saft
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Battery manufacturer Saft, has a posted full year sales of €624.2 million which represents a growth in 2013 of 7.5%. The company forecasts that 2014 sales will be in the…
Big blues at IBM India
Big blues at IBM India
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In one of the largest-ever lay-off drive among global technology companies, IBM is said to have started cutting jobs globally on Wednesday, with first casualties in India.
China Mobile and CSS deploy first self-organising small cell microwave backhaul system
China Mobile and CSS deploy first self-organising small cell microwave backhaul system
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Cambridge Communication Systems Limited (CSS) has announced that its self-organising small cell microwave backhaul system for mobile networks is in live deployment with China Mobile.
MIMOtech and CSG Science and Technology partner on last-mile backhaul technology
MIMOtech and CSG Science and Technology partner on last-mile backhaul technology
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MIMOtech has announced a strategic partnership with CSG Science & Technology Co., Ltd., (CSG Hefei), under which CSG Hefei has acquired an undisclosed amount of MIMOtech’s share capital. CSG Hefei…
enModus raises £1.5m for smart home
enModus raises £1.5m for smart home
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UK smart home startup enModus has raised £1.5m to commercialize its WattWave powerline technology…
Green light for European C2X standard
Green light for European C2X standard
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Cars that can automatically transmit hazard warnings are one step closer to reality. At the opportunity of a workshop in Berlin, standard bodies ETSI and CEN announced that they agreed…
ETSI and CEN give the go-ahead for European C2X standard
ETSI and CEN give the go-ahead for European C2X standard
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Cars that can automatically transmit hazard warnings are one step closer to reality. During a workshop in Berlin, standard bodies ETSI and CEN announced that they agreed upon a basic…


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