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LSI to acquire SandForce for $370 million
LSI to acquire SandForce for $370 million
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Chip maker LSI Corp., said it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SandForce Inc., a supplier of flash processors…
Tektelic and Picochip collaborate on small cell LTE devices
Tektelic and Picochip collaborate on small cell LTE devices
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Picochip and TEKTELIC have announced that they are collaborating on a phased development of a new small cell LTE micro…
Samsung, Cadence tout collaboration on SoC
Samsung, Cadence tout collaboration on SoC
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South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., has said its foundry business is now in initial production of Ambarella's 32-nm HD…
Mouser Electronics signs global distribution for Nordic Semiconductor
Mouser Electronics signs global distribution for Nordic Semiconductor
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Mouser Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with ultra-low-power RF specialist Nordic Semiconductor, providing design engineers and buyers with…

Axeon sign collaboration and supply agreement with A123 Systems
Axeon sign collaboration and supply agreement with A123 Systems
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Europe’s leading independent developer and manufacturer of lithium-ion battery systems, Axeon, has signed a collaboration and supply agreement with advanced lithium-ion battery manufacturer, A123 Systems. The companies will work together…
Quantenna partners with Sagemcom on Wi-Fi whole-home networking solutions
Quantenna partners with Sagemcom on Wi-Fi whole-home networking solutions
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Quantenna Communications and Sagemcom announced a collaborative agreement to integrate Quantenna's Wi-Fi technology in Sagemcom video bridges and other Wi-Fi products, accelerating time-to-market for advanced wireless video and TV services.
TI touts role in Android 4.0 rollout
TI touts role in Android 4.0 rollout
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While the mobile masses enthused over Google's announcement of Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) in Hong Kong on Wednesday (October 19), chip maker Texas Instruments (TI) was also excited about…
Seoul Semi quadruples LED production capacity
Seoul Semi quadruples LED production capacity
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Korean LED manufacturer Seoul Semiconductor has launched volume production in its second manufacturing site in Ansan. The products from this site - LEDs and chips - aim at general lighting…
Excelitas moves up the value chain with complex performance-based LED solutions
Excelitas moves up the value chain with complex performance-based LED solutions
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Excelitas Technologies, the successor company of PerkinElmer IDS, displayed its portfolio of LED-based aircraft position lights and runway lighting modules at the interAirport Europe trade show in Munich. The company…
Berner & Mattner establishes competence center for Functional Safety
Berner & Mattner establishes competence center for Functional Safety
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In its new Safety & Systems Engineering Competence Center, Berner & Mattner pools expertise for functional safety. The solutions provider for automotive electronics software is thus forming a team of…
Smartphones, tablets drive mobile CPU growth
Smartphones, tablets drive mobile CPU growth
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The booming growth expected in mobile devices through at least 2016 will drive a corresponding explosion in mobile processor growth, according to an analyst.
Report: Samsung ramping Apple’s A6 chip
Report: Samsung ramping Apple’s A6 chip
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Samsung is ramping production of the A6 quad-core application processor for Apple because rival foundry TSMC has yet to stabilize its own production of the same chip, according to a…
Mitsubishi Electric starts full-scale testing of Smart Grid in Japan
Mitsubishi Electric starts full-scale testing of Smart Grid in Japan
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Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has begun full-scale tests of smart grid and related smart-community technologies at the company’s production sites in Japan. The aim of the project is to develop and…
Chicago needs 84,500 small cells by 2015, world needs over ten million
Chicago needs 84,500 small cells by 2015, world needs over ten million
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Chicago will need approximately 84,500 small cells to deliver truly high-speed LTE by 2015, with acceptable coverage and speeds, according to analysis from Picochip. To provide LTE everywhere in the…
Future Lighting provides LED lighting technology for reinvention of Leipzig’s historic lamps
Future Lighting provides LED lighting technology for reinvention of Leipzig’s historic lamps
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Braun Lighting Solutions of Berlin and solid-state lighting experts Future Lighting Solutions have equipped the historic street lights in the city of Leipzig with modern LED technology, helping the municipal…
Nordic and Mouser Electronics sign global agreement
Nordic and Mouser Electronics sign global agreement
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Ultra low power (ULP) RF specialist Nordic Semiconductor ASA has announced a global distribution deal with leading distributor Mouser Electronics – a subsidiary of TTI Inc., and part of Warren…
CommScope supplies active antennas in North American 4G network trial
CommScope supplies active antennas in North American 4G network trial
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CommScope has supplied the first active antennas in use in an LTE network field trial, a major step toward the promise of better, more cost effective ways to transmit broadband…
Nordic Semiconductor adds Mouser to its global distributor list
Nordic Semiconductor adds Mouser to its global distributor list
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Ultra low power (ULP) RF specialist Nordic Semiconductor has made a global distribution deal with distributor Mouser Electronics which already has 19 global support locations and supplies more than two…
Optogan launches Europe’s second largest LED production line
Optogan launches Europe’s second largest LED production line
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Finland-based LED manufacturer Optogan group has opened a new manufacturing line in Landshut, Germany. The vertically integrated LED and luminary supplier shares its campus with chipmaker LFoundry GmbH.
Digi-Key and flash vendor Macronix sign global distribution partnership
Digi-Key and flash vendor Macronix sign global distribution partnership
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Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corporation has signed a global distribution agreement with the US subsidiary of Macronix International. Macronix offers a broad range of NOR Flash memories with parallel and…
Wireless service providers look to the cloud to regain profits
Wireless service providers look to the cloud to regain profits
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Despite booming growth in data revenue, margins for wireless operators have been squeezed as they have been slow to react to the paradigm shift wrought by the explosive rise of…
Farnell launches six new microsites in Europe
Farnell launches six new microsites in Europe
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Farnell has opened six new microsites that focus on the key segments of Wireless, Transportation, Defense and Aerospace, Robotics, Medical and Instrumentation & Measurement. These are in addition to the…
Intel sets up ‘green’ lab in Ireland
Intel sets up ‘green’ lab in Ireland
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Intel has announced the creation of a laboratory dedicated to researching and collaborating on energy use and sustainability at its Leixlip campus near Dublin, Ireland.
Murata to buy MEMS firm for $260 million
Murata to buy MEMS firm for $260 million
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Japanese passives to power supplies giant Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd., has announced it has agreed to buy VTI Technologies Oy (Vantaa, Finland) for about 20 billion yen (about 190 million…
Farnell and Eurocircuits collaborate on quick-turn PCB prototyping
Farnell and Eurocircuits collaborate on quick-turn PCB prototyping
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Adding to its depth of services for electronic design engineers, Farnell has announced a collaboration with Eurocircuits to provide quick-turn bare board PCB prototyping services for its customers in Europe.
Tridonic enters LED Module market
Tridonic enters LED Module market
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Austrian Lighting components manufacturer Tridonic has launched a range of LED modules. Thus, the company completes the range of its products, effectively turning the company into a system vendor.
Costs up at India’s R&D centers
Costs up at India’s R&D centers
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Operational costs are on the rise at global technology companies' Indian R&D centers as the focus shifts from cost cutting to innovation and value creation, a recent study found…
RF Micro Devices creates new Compound Semiconductor Group
RF Micro Devices creates new Compound Semiconductor Group
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RF Micro Devices, Inc. is implementing a strategic initiative to extend RFMD's industry leadership in compound semiconductor technologies into a broad array of adjacent non-RF growth markets. The strategic initiative…


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