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PicoChip bought by mindspeed for up to $75 million
PicoChip bought by mindspeed for up to $75 million
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Mindspeed Technologies, a fabless networking chip company has agreed to acquire PicoChip Ltd, a provider of chipsets for cellular communications…
Linear Technology extends wireless sensor networking capabilities by acquiring Dust Networks
Linear Technology extends wireless sensor networking capabilities by acquiring Dust Networks
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Linear Technology Corporation has acquired Dust Networks, Inc., a leading provider of low power wireless sensor network (WSN) technology. The…
Intel makes way for Ivy Bridge by phasing out 25 CPUs
Intel makes way for Ivy Bridge by phasing out 25 CPUs
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Intel has notified hardware partners it will be phasing out production of some 25 desktop CPU models to make way…
Arasan Chip Systems opens two new sales offices in Europe
Arasan Chip Systems opens two new sales offices in Europe
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Arasan Chip Systems has increased its International support further by opening up two new sales offices in Europe. The company…

Linear Technology acquires Dust Networks for wireless sensor networking capabilities
Linear Technology acquires Dust Networks for wireless sensor networking capabilities
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Linear Technology Corporation has acquired Dust Networks, Inc., a leading provider of low power wireless sensor network (WSN) technology. The acquisition of Dust Networks, based in Hayward, California, will enable…
EnSilica opens new design centre in India focusing on verification
EnSilica opens new design centre in India focusing on verification
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EnSilica, a provider of IC design services and system solutions, has opened a new design centre in India (Bangalore), to complement its existing design facilities in the UK. The new…
Lattice transfers its standard military drawing (SMD) product line to Arrow Electronics
Lattice transfers its standard military drawing (SMD) product line to Arrow Electronics
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Lattice Semiconductor has announced the transfer of its Standard Military Drawing (SMD) product portfolio to Arrow Electronics, effective immediately. Lattice's SMD products include the GAL family (GAL16V8, GAL20V8 and GAL22V10)…
T-Solar Group signs up $145m to fund 44 MW worth of photovoltaic power plants in Peru
T-Solar Group signs up $145m to fund 44 MW worth of photovoltaic power plants in Peru
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The two plants will be the first large-scale solar photovoltaic energy projects in Latin America. 113,600 thin-film amorphous hydrogenated-silicon modules produced by T-Solar's Orense, Spain factory will be deployed over…
Fabless subsidiary, Toumaz Microsystems supported by Imagination Technologies Group
Fabless subsidiary, Toumaz Microsystems supported by Imagination Technologies Group
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Toumaz Limited has established a new fabless subsidiary, Toumaz Microsystems, which will be responsible for its growing wireless IC business. Toumaz has secured investment and support from Imagination Technologies Group…
Tessera subsidiary buys 73 MoSys patents
Tessera subsidiary buys 73 MoSys patents
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Invensas Corp., a subsidiary of technology licensor Tessera Technologies Inc., said it has purchased 73 memory chip technology patents from MoSys Inc., for $35 million in cash.
SemiGen opens RF supply center in New Hampshire
SemiGen opens RF supply center in New Hampshire
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SemiGen, an RF/Microwave assembly and automated PCB manufacturing house has announced the opening of its new RF Supply Center and will begin accepting orders for epoxies, bonding tools, gold wire…
Fabless smart grid startup raises $12 million
Fabless smart grid startup raises $12 million
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Fabless communications chip company EnVerv Inc., has announced it has raised $12 million in a Series B round of funding led by Benchmark Capital. Previous investors, NEA and Walden International…
Thin-film solar startup raises $130 million
Thin-film solar startup raises $130 million
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Stion Corp., a startup formed to manufacture thin-film solar modules, has announced a $130 million equity investment led by AVACO and a number of Korean private equity funds. Existing investors…
Linear Technology acquires Dust Networks
Linear Technology acquires Dust Networks
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Linear Technology has acquired Dust Networks a provider of low-power wireless sensor network (WSN) technology.
Mouser to distribute Micrium’s embedded products worldwide
Mouser to distribute Micrium’s embedded products worldwide
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Mouser Electronics and Micrium have signed a global distribution agreement, effective immediately, for the global distribution of Micrium's complete portfolio of RTOS, protocol stack and utility products, and development tools…
Knitter-switch expands its presence in Asia with Hong Kong office
Knitter-switch expands its presence in Asia with Hong Kong office
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Knitter-switch has moved its Hong Kong office to a larger facility which, in addition to offering increased sales services, also provides extended quality management services for all products manufactured in…
Cree grants 5 LED lighting manufacturers licenses to some of its patents
Cree grants 5 LED lighting manufacturers licenses to some of its patents
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Cree has granted five LED lighting manufacturers licenses to some of its patents through the company's recently launched remote phosphor licensing program. Initial licensees to Cree’s remote phosphor patents include…
Saft begins deliveries of first lithium-ion batteries produced at new Jacksonville plant
Saft begins deliveries of first lithium-ion batteries produced at new Jacksonville plant
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Saft has started shipping the first cells to roll off the production lines at the world’s most advanced automated lithium-ion battery factory, in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. The first deliveries from…
SP Devices continues collaboration with LeCroy on interleaving and linearization IP
SP Devices continues collaboration with LeCroy on interleaving and linearization IP
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SP Devices, a leader in signal processing technology for analog-to-digital conversion and high-speed digitizers, has announced further collaboration with LeCroy Corporation, including its interleaving and linearization IP technology.
DRS technologies signs international reseller agreement with Acal BFi
DRS technologies signs international reseller agreement with Acal BFi
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DRS Technologies, a Finmeccanica Company, has entered into an international reseller agreement with Acal BFi - a division of Acal plc to distribute its family of advanced military and commercial…
Rambus and ITRI to work on 3-D packaging
Rambus and ITRI to work on 3-D packaging
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Technology licensor Rambus Inc., said it is engaging Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) on the development of interconnect and 3-D packaging technologies.
Apple to set up R&D center in Israel
Apple to set up R&D center in Israel
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Apple has hired a veteran technologist to help it set up an R&D center in Israel, its first R&D center outside California, according to a Globes report that references "sources."…
ST creates early-stage venture capital fund
ST creates early-stage venture capital fund
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STMicroelectronics NV, Europe's leading chip company, has announced the launch of ST New Ventures, a corporate venture capital fund. However, the announcement did not indicate how much money the organization…
Soitec purchases manufacturing facility in San Diego to locally produce CPV modules
Soitec purchases manufacturing facility in San Diego to locally produce CPV modules
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Soitec announced it has purchased a manufacturing facility in Rancho Bernardo, Calif., within San Diego City limits, and will soon begin fitting the factory to produce its concentrator photovoltaic (CPV)…
Cree expands design and evaluation services to speed LED product development
Cree expands design and evaluation services to speed LED product development
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Extending the support services offered to LED lighting manufacturers that were launched this fall, Cree announces the addition of two new Cree TEMPO offerings to its design and evaluation services.
Richardson RFPD and Recom Power team-up for global distribution
Richardson RFPD and Recom Power team-up for global distribution
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Richardson RFPD has entered into a global distribution agreement with Recom Power, provider of DC/DC and AC/DC converter modules, switching regulators, and constant current LED drivers.
Redpine completes low power Gbit/s Wi-Fi design
Redpine completes low power Gbit/s Wi-Fi design
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Redpine Signals has completed the design of a low power Wi-Fi block based on the 802.11ac standard that supports up to a Gbit/second of throughput over 5 GHz spectrum. The…
Aquos smartphones powered by Thor thin modems from ST-Ericsson
Aquos smartphones powered by Thor thin modems from ST-Ericsson
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ST-Ericsson is pleased to announce that Sharp has announced three smartphones in Japan based on the ST-Ericsson Thor™ M5730 modem. With its low power consumption, this highly-integrated 21 Mbps Thor…


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