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Tridonic appoints Alfred Felder as new CEO
Tridonic appoints Alfred Felder as new CEO
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Effective November 1, Alfred Felder (49) is to become the new Chief Executive Officer of Tridonic. He succeeds Walter Ziegler,…
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited launches exactView-1 satellite
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited launches exactView-1 satellite
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Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has announced the successful launch of exactView-1 at UTC 06:41:39 into a sun synchronous polar…
Automotive application site puts design engineers in the driver’s seat
Automotive application site puts design engineers in the driver’s seat
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Mouser Electronics has just launched a new application and technology site on Mouser.com focused on automotive design.
IDT buys NXP’s data converter assets
IDT buys NXP’s data converter assets
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Analog and mixed-signal chip vendor Integrated Device Technology Inc., has announced the separate acquisitions of NXP Semiconductors NV's high-speed data…

Startups to merge to target mobile infrastructure and consumer ICs
Startups to merge to target mobile infrastructure and consumer ICs
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A pair of privately held chip startups that have taken more than $80 million in venture funding combined to date announced they would merge with a holding company to create…
Samsung acquires CSR’s mobile business
Samsung acquires CSR’s mobile business
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., has agreed to pay CSR plc (Cambridge, England) $310 million for its handset connectivity and location operations and the associated technology. Samsung has also agreed to…
Mouser signs global distribution agreement with Intersil
Mouser signs global distribution agreement with Intersil
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Mouser Electronics, Inc., signs a new worldwide distribution agreement with Intersil Corporation, a world leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance analog, mixed signal and power management semiconductors.
Startups to merge to form new analog chip venture
Startups to merge to form new analog chip venture
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A pair of privately held chip startups that have taken more than $80 million in venture funding combined to date announced they would merge with a holding company to create…
Agilent to acquire AT4 Wireless test business
Agilent to acquire AT4 Wireless test business
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Agilent Technologies is to buy the test systems divison of Spanish test house AT4 Wireless for an undisclosed sum.
Agilent Technologies agrees to acquire the test systems business from AT4 wireless
Agilent Technologies agrees to acquire the test systems business from AT4 wireless
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Agilent Technologies has signed a definitive agreement for Agilent to acquire the assets of AT4 wireless’ Test Systems business. Privately held AT4 wireless, based in Malaga, Spain, is a global…
LG to build large flexible OLED display
LG to build large flexible OLED display
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Korean consumer electronics company LG Display has received an assignment to develop and build a flexible, transparent OLED display with a screen diagonal of 60 inch. According to media reports,…
Zumtobel Group strengthens its presence in the Asian market
Zumtobel Group strengthens its presence in the Asian market
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With the opening of a new factory in Tianjin in northern China, Austrian lighting company Zumtobel Group is strengthening its presence in the Asian market. The new factory is operated…
Bluetooth and ZigBee on collision course in the connected home
Bluetooth and ZigBee on collision course in the connected home
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Bluetooth Smart and ZigBee will compete in a number of new and emerging markets, particularly connected home devices and wireless sensors, says a new report from ABI Research.
ViaSat antennas and modems selected for NATO communications
ViaSat antennas and modems selected for NATO communications
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Selex Elsag Ltd., has selected ViaSat Inc., to provide X-band antennas and the MD-1366 Enhanced Bandwidth Efficient Modem (EBEM) to expand NATO static ground satellite communications in Belgium and Italy,…
Aeroflex donates wireless test equipment to University College London
Aeroflex donates wireless test equipment to University College London
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Aeroflex Limited and University College London (UCL) have announced the official opening of the UCL-Aeroflex Wireless Communications Laboratory in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University.
Study names leading carmakers in technology partnerships
Study names leading carmakers in technology partnerships
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Megatrends like sustainability, urbanization and materials revolution are forcing OEMs to build a web of partnerships that drive innovation – or to risk being left in the dust. Technologies like…
Cryptography Research teams with Discretix on differential power analysis
Cryptography Research teams with Discretix on differential power analysis
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Security R&D and licensing company Cryptography Research Inc., (CRI) has agreed a deal with Discretix Technologies Ltd., allowing Discretix to develop products incorporating differential power analysis (DPA) countermeasures for use…
Bosch introduces “connected city” concept to Monaco Prince
Bosch introduces “connected city” concept to Monaco Prince
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During a visit of Prince Albert II of Monaco to the corporate headquarters of Robert Bosch GmbH, Bosch top manager Volkmar Denner presented the company's “connected city” concept. The concept…
Touch technology innovators receives major investment from Finance Yorkshire
Touch technology innovators receives major investment from Finance Yorkshire
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Peratech, which is headquartered in Brompton on Swale near Richmond, Yorkshire, UK is receiving a £1.2 million investment from Finance Yorkshire's Equity Linked Fund to expand the company’s North Yorkshire…
Seven mobile operators form alliance to cooperate on global M2M business initiatives
Seven mobile operators form alliance to cooperate on global M2M business initiatives
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KPN, NTT Docomo Inc., Rogers Communications, SingTel, Telefónica, through its Telefónica Digital unit, Telstra and Vimpelcom have entered into a memorandum of understanding to form an alliance to support a…
Lenovo and China Mobile smartphone powered by ST-Ericsson
Lenovo and China Mobile smartphone powered by ST-Ericsson
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ST-Ericsson has announced that the Lenovo LePhone S899t smartphone, designed for China Mobile, is powered by the ST-Ericsson Nova™ A9500 application processor.
Altera backs OpenCL and WebCL for growth into the server market
Altera backs OpenCL and WebCL for growth into the server market
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Altera sees significant growth for FPGAs in the server market from the OpenCL family of multi-core programming languages says its head of strategy.
Building efficiency expert is new CEO of Philips Lighting North America
Building efficiency expert is new CEO of Philips Lighting North America
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Philips has appointed Bruno Biasiotta, a building efficiency leader with more than 20 years of experience, to head the company's North American lighting operations. In his new role, Biasiotta will…
Intel buys stake in ASML to boost 450-mm, EUV R&D
Intel buys stake in ASML to boost 450-mm, EUV R&D
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Intel Corp. agreed to acquire a 15 percent stake in leading lithography tool vendor ASML Holding NV as part of a $4.1 billion deal to accelerate the development of extreme…
Energy Micro opens new design center in Poland
Energy Micro opens new design center in Poland
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Energy Micro has opened the company’s new design center in Kraków, Poland. The company's first engineering site outside Norway, the new facility located in Parkowa Kamienica in downtown Kraków, accommodates…
ULIS invests EUR 20 million in new infrared sensor facility
ULIS invests EUR 20 million in new infrared sensor facility
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ULIS, a manufacturer of high quality infrared (IR) imaging sensors for thermography, security and surveillance, automotive and military applications, is investing EUR 20 million in a new state-of-the-art facility to…
Premier Farnell acquires China-based Shenzhen Embest Technology
Premier Farnell acquires China-based Shenzhen Embest Technology
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Premier Farnell has completed its acquisition of Shenzhen Embest Technology Co Ltd (Embest), a leading provider of embedded system development boards and tools. Embest, which is based in China, will…
Apple about to hit the market with reduced-size iPad, according to Wall Street Journal
Apple about to hit the market with reduced-size iPad, according to Wall Street Journal
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According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple is looking at maintaining its dominance in the tablet market with the possible launch of a reduced-size tablet computer, smaller than its current…


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