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Philips partners Desso to develop LED-based light transmissive carpets
Philips partners Desso to develop LED-based light transmissive carpets
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Philips has signed a partnership agreement with Desso to develop solutions that combine LED lighting with light transmissive carpet.
Analog foundry put up for sale
Analog foundry put up for sale
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South Korean Dongbu Group is offering to sell analog and mixed-signal foundry Dongbu HiTek Co. Ltd. as part of a…
Apple moves to buy Kinect sensor firm
Apple moves to buy Kinect sensor firm
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Consumer electronics giant Apple has agreed to buy fabless chip company PrimeSense Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel) for $345 million, according…
Start Trading is appointed Trojan Battery’s master distributor for Bulgaria
Start Trading is appointed Trojan Battery’s master distributor for Bulgaria
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Trojan Battery Co., has appointed Start Trading Ltd. as the authorized master distributor for Bulgaria. Start Trading will be responsible…

NEC picks Altera’s 28 nm FPGAs to compete in LTE basestation market
NEC picks Altera’s 28 nm FPGAs to compete in LTE basestation market
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Altera Corporation has announced that NEC will use its 28 nm FPGAs to bring new levels of performance to its Long-Term Evolution (LTE) base stations and enable wireless service providers…
Tektronix receives further NABL certification for services in India
Tektronix receives further NABL certification for services in India
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India's National Accreditation Board for testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) has received an accreditation for its Bangalore-based service lab. The paper enables the company to offer additional electronics and RF…
Harvard Engineering offer extended LED driver warranties for Xicato LED modules
Harvard Engineering offer extended LED driver warranties for Xicato LED modules
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Harvard Engineering is now offering extended 5-year warranties on LED drivers used with Xicato based luminaries that are thermally validated by Xicato.
Dialog Semiconductor and Richtek Technology partners in china
Dialog Semiconductor and Richtek Technology partners in china
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A provider of power management, audio, AC/DC, solid state lighting and short-range wireless technologies, Dialog Semiconductor announced its partnership with Richtek Technology Corporation, a provider of power management, analog and…
Dialog partners Sengled Lighting to develop Ledotron-compliant smart lighting solutions
Dialog partners Sengled Lighting to develop Ledotron-compliant smart lighting solutions
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Dialog Semiconductor plc has entered into a strategic collaboration with Sengled, a global leading provider of LED lighting solutions and Dialog’s first partner for the commercialisation of Dialog’s smarteXite programmable…
BASF to set up an Electronic Materials R&D Center in South Korea
BASF to set up an Electronic Materials R&D Center in South Korea
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Chemical company BASF announced plans to set up its new Electronic Materials Research and Development (R&D) Center Asia Pacific in partnership with Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) in Suwon, South Korea.
Should Abu Dhabi build a MEMS fab?
Should Abu Dhabi build a MEMS fab?
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The Abu Dhabi plan to work with the chip company it owns, Globalfoundries, to build a wafer fab on the Persian Gulf, appears to have been on hold for a…
Europe’s chip industry in expectation of manna from (EU) heaven
Europe’s chip industry in expectation of manna from (EU) heaven
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At the SEMICON Europa industry congress which took place in Dresden from October 8 to 10, the reiterated announcements from EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes to foster the European semiconductor industry…
Containerized data center lands in Manchester
Containerized data center lands in Manchester
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Data center equipment distributor Utopia Technology has taken delivery of the first Huawei containerized data center in the UK.
Spreadtrum licenses CEVA-TeakLite-4 audio/voice DSP for next generation smartphone SoC
Spreadtrum licenses CEVA-TeakLite-4 audio/voice DSP for next generation smartphone SoC
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CEVA has announced that Spreadtrum Communications has licensed the CEVA-TeakLite-4 DSP to support advanced audio and voice capabilities in its next-generation smartphone platform System-on-Chip (SoCs).
BMZ launches Service Center for e-bike batteries and drive systems
BMZ launches Service Center for e-bike batteries and drive systems
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Electric bikes and pedelecs are in high demand across Europe, and so are batteries and drive control electronics for these vehicles. Battery technology company BMZ GmbH now has responded to…
Must manufacturing leave Europe?
Must manufacturing leave Europe?
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Europe stands at a crossroads with regard to electronics manufacturing. Some would say it is already too late, at least for some aspects of manufacturing. IC manufacturing at the leading…
BMZ launches Europe’s largest service center for rechargeable e-bike batteries
BMZ launches Europe’s largest service center for rechargeable e-bike batteries
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BMZ GmbH, based in Karlstein near Aschaffenburg, Germany, is launching Europe's biggest service center for rechargeable e-bike batteries and drive systems.
GT Advanced Technologies agrees multi-year sapphire materials supply deal with Apple
GT Advanced Technologies agrees multi-year sapphire materials supply deal with Apple
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GT Advanced Technologies Inc. has entered into a multi-year supply agreement with Apple Inc. to provide sapphire material. GT will own and operate ASF furnaces and related equipment to produce…
Telenor Connexion partners with ARM to address the Internet of Things
Telenor Connexion partners with ARM to address the Internet of Things
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Telenor Connexion has licensed ARM Sensinode software. The agreement makes Telenor Connexion the first connected business solutions provider to offer end-to-end ARM Internet of Things (IoT) technology to its global…
SILICA introduces ROHM Semiconductor high-speed power supply module board to Europe
SILICA introduces ROHM Semiconductor high-speed power supply module board to Europe
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Avnet Electronics Marketing has collaborated with Japanese IC manufacturer ROHM Semiconductor to jointly design and develop a power supply module board optimized for Xilinx 7 series FPGAs and Zynq-7000 all…
Anvil gains GBP1m funding to commercialise low cost SiC power switch devices
Anvil gains GBP1m funding to commercialise low cost SiC power switch devices
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Anvil Semiconductors has secured £1 million funding to help develop and commercialise the company's innovative silicon carbide SiC power switch technology.
Consortia vie for Internet of Things
Consortia vie for Internet of Things
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Two separate consortia have been launched to provide end-to-end support for the Internet of Things.
Panasonic to expand supply of automotive-grade battery cells to Tesla Motors
Panasonic to expand supply of automotive-grade battery cells to Tesla Motors
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Panasonic Corporation has reached an agreement with California-based Tesla Motors which will see Panasonic expand the company's supply of automotive-grade lithium-ion battery cells to Tesla.
Consortium plans to establish open Smart Home standard
Consortium plans to establish open Smart Home standard
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Electrical engineering companies ABB and Bosch, networking giant Cisco and Korean consumer electronics provider LG have plans to develop an open software platform for Smart Home control applications, enabling users…
ARM partners Nordic Semiconductor to develop Bluetooth Low Energy-enabled devices
ARM partners Nordic Semiconductor to develop Bluetooth Low Energy-enabled devices
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ARM has signed an agreement with Nordic Semiconductor, the ultra-low power radio frequency (RF) specialist, to incorporate Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) solutions with the ARM mbed IoT device development platform.
ITL combines forces with IST METZ to gear up for North American market expansion
ITL combines forces with IST METZ to gear up for North American market expansion
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UV solutions developers Integration Technology Ltd (ITL) and strategic partner IST METZ GmbH (IST) are embarking on a resource sharing program to expand market support in North America.
2.5D and 3D glass interposer US manufacturer receives $3.2 Million in funding to fill market gap
2.5D and 3D glass interposer US manufacturer receives $3.2 Million in funding to fill market gap
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A designer and manufacturer of ultra-thin glass interposers, start-up Triton Microtechnologies has met six-month production milestones and received an additional $3.2 million in funding from parent companies Asahi Glass Co.,…
Samsung opts for Dialog Semiconductor PMIC to power new Galaxy smartphone platform
Samsung opts for Dialog Semiconductor PMIC to power new Galaxy smartphone platform
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Samsung has adopted Dialog Semiconductor's combined power management and audio technology in the company's latest Galaxy smartphone model. Dialog’s D2199 power management integrated circuit (PMIC) which features integrated audio functionality…


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