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Avnet Abacus to debut at Embedded World with LED-related products
Avnet Abacus to debut at Embedded World with LED-related products
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With its broad product spectrum of interconnect, passive and electromechanical components, distributor Avnet Abacus has made it to daily presence…
Movidius and Toshiba co-operate on 3-D camera system
Movidius and Toshiba co-operate on 3-D camera system
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Fabless mobile multimedia chip company Movidius Ltd. has announced it has partnered with Toshiba Electronics Europe and developed a reference…
Preh provides Porsche 911 climate control
Preh provides Porsche 911 climate control
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For the center console of the new Porsche 911 models, automotive supplier Preh has developed a climate control system with…
Ford triples production of parking assistant system
Ford triples production of parking assistant system
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The active parking assist in Ford's current vehicles seems to be success story: The company announced that it has increase…

Portuguese retail group equips shops with LED lighting
Portuguese retail group equips shops with LED lighting
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The Jerónimo Martins Group is among the first European retail companies to equip its new stores and filling stations entirely with LED lighting. The move will save the company 50…
Distributor Farnell becomes a member of TRACE International
Distributor Farnell becomes a member of TRACE International
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Multichannel electronics distributor Farnell has been granted a certificate of membership signifying the company’s commitment to transparency in international commercial transactions by TRACE International Inc. (TRACE). TRACE is a non-profit…
Mouser Electronics signs global distribution deal with Monolithic Power Systems
Mouser Electronics signs global distribution deal with Monolithic Power Systems
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Mouser Electronics, Inc., has signed a global distribution agreement with Monolithic Power Systems (MPS), a leading fabless manufacturer of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors.
Renesas Electronics to withdraw from the large-sized display driver IC business
Renesas Electronics to withdraw from the large-sized display driver IC business
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Renesas Electronics Corporation has announced it will withdraw from the large-sized display driver IC business. The slowdown of the flat panel display market for mostly TVs and falls in prices…
ABB to acquire Thomas & Betts for $3.9 billion, expands access to North American market
ABB to acquire Thomas & Betts for $3.9 billion, expands access to North American market
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ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, and Thomas & Betts Corporation, a North American leader in low voltage products, have agreed to a transaction in which ABB will…
MagnaChip buys IGBT module maker
MagnaChip buys IGBT module maker
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Analog and mixed-signal chip vendor MagnaChip Semiconductor Corp., said Friday (January 27) it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held semiconductor supplier Dawin Electronics Co. Ltd. Terms of the…
Speaking up for M2M radio innovation
Speaking up for M2M radio innovation
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Luke D'Arcy, vice president of marketing at Neul Ltd., (Cambridge, England), has been in touch to argue that in general standards bodies are not addressing the need for innovation at…
Microsemi acquires timing, synchronization and synthesis business from Maxim Integrated Products
Microsemi acquires timing, synchronization and synthesis business from Maxim Integrated Products
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Microsemi Corporation has acquired the telecom clock generation, synchronization, packet timing and synthesis business from Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. The acquired product lines and technology are vital to the efficient…
Printed electronics startup plans pilot production line
Printed electronics startup plans pilot production line
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PragmatIC Printing Ltd., (Cambridge, England), a developer of printed electronic technology, has announced plans to begin pilot-scale production the government-backed Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) in Redcar, Northern England.
Digi-Key signs global distribution for LEMO
Digi-Key signs global distribution for LEMO
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Electronic components distributor Digi-Key and LEMO have signed an agreement in which Digi-Key will distribute LEMO’s product worldwide. Offering more than 50,000 combinations of product that continues to grow through…
Spanish citycar electric vehicle project selects Axeon lithium-ion batteries
Spanish citycar electric vehicle project selects Axeon lithium-ion batteries
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Axeon has been selected by the Spanish urban mobility consortium, Hiriko to supply batteries for the company’s prototype electric vehicles.
Seoul Semi builds its future on IP
Seoul Semi builds its future on IP
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LED manufacturer Seoul Semiconductor expects a very positive business performance in 2012. The company's optimisms is based on two factors: The high number of patents and the production ramp-up of…
TGMC and Partner Electronics announce complete design-to-manufacturing service
TGMC and Partner Electronics announce complete design-to-manufacturing service
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Design specialist Partner Electronics Limited (PEL) and contract manufacturing provider Thames Gateway Manufacturing Centre Ltd (TGMC) have announced today that they have forged a partnership to offer a complete development…
Apple was top chip buyer in 2011
Apple was top chip buyer in 2011
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Apple Inc. was the leading customer of semiconductor chip vendors in 2011, driven by the ongoing success of its iPhones, iPads and MacBook Air, buying $17.3 billion worth of chips…
Intel buys Qlogic InfiniBand business for $125 million
Intel buys Qlogic InfiniBand business for $125 million
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Intel Corp., has agreed to buy product lines and assets associated with the InfiniBand standard from Qlogic Corp., for $125 million in cash. A significant number of the employees associated…
AMETEK Power Instruments agrees cross-selling deal with Amperion
AMETEK Power Instruments agrees cross-selling deal with Amperion
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AMETEK Power Instruments has formed a teaming agreement with Amperion, Inc., to cross sell each other’s products. As part of the teaming agreement, each company will use its sales and…
Semtech to buy Gennum for $494 million
Semtech to buy Gennum for $494 million
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Analog and mixed-signal semiconductor vendor Semtech Corp., said Monday (January 23) it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire fellow analog and mixed-signal chip supplier Gennum Corp., in a cash…
Datalogic’s acquisition of Accu-Sort Systems completed for USD 135 million
Datalogic’s acquisition of Accu-Sort Systems completed for USD 135 million
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Datalogic S.p.A., a leader in the market of bar code readers, data collection mobile computers, RFID and vision systems, has completed the acquisition, through certain of its subsidiaries, of Accu-Sort…
Presto Engineering opens semiconductor service hub in Israel
Presto Engineering opens semiconductor service hub in Israel
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Presto Engineering announced the opening of its newest Hub to serve the semiconductor design community in Israel. The company’s new Israeli Hub was established through the acquisition of the assets…
Amino selects Celeno Wi-Fi for connected IPTV set-top boxes
Amino selects Celeno Wi-Fi for connected IPTV set-top boxes
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Amino Communications, leaders in IPTV/OTT, have selected Celeno Communications to provide a range of wireless products that complement Amino’s range of award-winning IPTV set-top boxes (STBs).
Leading German operator to leverage Anite’s test solutions for LTE device approval
Leading German operator to leverage Anite’s test solutions for LTE device approval
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Telefónica Germany has selected Anite’s LTE interoperability test solution SAS, in order to ramp up its market introduction of LTE devices.
Intel, Samsung ‘smell blood in the water’
Intel, Samsung ‘smell blood in the water’
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Aggressive 2012 capital spending plans revealed this week by Intel Corp., and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., signal that the two largest chip firms see an opportunity to distance themselves from…
Micron buys storage virtualization startup
Micron buys storage virtualization startup
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Memory chip vendor Micron Technology announced the acquisition of Virtensys Ltd., a privately held provider of PCIe-sharing solutions based in Manchester, England, and Beaverton, Oregon. Financial terms of the deal…
EU Commission queries stakeholders on Solid-State Lighting
EU Commission queries stakeholders on Solid-State Lighting
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Under the title "Lighting the future - Accelerating the development of innovative lighting technologies", the EU Commission has published a Green Paper which discusses industrial, usage and deployment aspects of…


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