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GloFo 45nm RFSOI process ready for 5G
GloFo 45nm RFSOI process ready for 5G
Technology News |
Globalfoundries Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has announced that is 45nm RFSOI manufacturing process is available to be targeted for designs.
Hydronium allows sustainable battery storage
Hydronium allows sustainable battery storage
Technology News |
Researchers at Oregon State University have developed a battery that uses the hydronium form of water as the charge carrier…
ST is USound’s piezoMEMS partner
ST is USound’s piezoMEMS partner
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Fabless startup USound GmbH (Graz, Austria), a 2014 company that wants to produce audio systems based on MEMS actuators, is…
IoT reference design promises end-to-end security
IoT reference design promises end-to-end security
New Products |
Avnet Silica has launched a complete security reference design to accompany its flexible, multi-faceted Visible Things development platform.

BMW, Mobileye feed HD map data to service cloud
BMW, Mobileye feed HD map data to service cloud
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BMW and Mobileye have signed an agreement introducing Mobileye’s Road Experience Management (REM) data generation technology in newly developed BMW models entering the market in 2018. The move resembles a…
“Experiential Network Intelligence”: porting AI to reconfigurable networks
“Experiential Network Intelligence”: porting AI to reconfigurable networks
Technology News |
Hoping to define a cognitive network management architecture based on the “observe-orient-decide-act” control model, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has launched the Industry Specification Group “Experiential Network Intelligence” (ISG…
Verizon acquires drone operations manager for IoT portfolio
Verizon acquires drone operations manager for IoT portfolio
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Verizon (New York City, NY) has purchased Skyward, a private company based in Portland, Oregon, that brings drone operations management to the Verizon IoT portfolio, simplifying drone operations and management…
Heart rate optical sensor slashes power consumption
Heart rate optical sensor slashes power consumption
New Products |
Optimized for wearable devices, the BH1790GLC heart rate optical sensor from Rohm leverages proprietary analogue circuit technology and optical sensor expertise to improve sensitivity, allowing pulse waves to be detected…
IBM, Bosch collaborate on Industrial IoT
IBM, Bosch collaborate on Industrial IoT
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IBM (Armonk, NT) and Bosch (Stuttgart, Germany) have announced a collaboration for the industrial Internet of Things (IoT), making available Bosch IoT Suite services on open standards-based IBM Bluemix and…
ARM buys NB-IoT startups
ARM buys NB-IoT startups
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Processor IP licensor ARM Ltd. has acquired Mistbase AB (Lund, Sweden) and NextG-Com Ltd. (Staines, England) for an undisclosed amount of money.
Low-power GNSS receiver chip for wearables
Low-power GNSS receiver chip for wearables
New Products |
Swiss company u-blox has announced the UBX‑M8230‑CT global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver chip, offering a unique balance of performance and ultra-low power use.
U.S. security concerns nix sale of Cree’s Wolfspeed division
U.S. security concerns nix sale of Cree’s Wolfspeed division
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In a company statement, LED lighting solutions provider Cree, Inc. (Durham, NC) announced that it will terminate the definitive agreement to sell its Wolfspeed Power and RF division (“Wolfspeed”) to…
Tower wants to build China fab
Tower wants to build China fab
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Specialty pure-play foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdal Haemek, Israel) is considering how it can build a greenfield wafer fab in China as well as other moves such as expanding into…
Panasonic reports organic multispectral image sensor
Panasonic reports organic multispectral image sensor
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Panasonic Corp. (Osaka, Japan) has developed an organic image sensor pixel that can be switched from visible light to near infrared (NIR).
Foundry Tower reports record financial year
Foundry Tower reports record financial year
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Specialty foundry chipmaker Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdal Haemek, Israel) has posted record financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2016.
Europe invests in Estonian ultracapacitor pioneer
Europe invests in Estonian ultracapacitor pioneer
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Skeleton Technologies OU (Tallinn, Estonia), a developer of graphene-based ultracapacitors, has received €15 million (about $16 million) in equity funding from the European Investment Bank (EIB).
USB scope enables high-res measurements of differential voltage waveforms
USB scope enables high-res measurements of differential voltage waveforms
New Products |
USB oscilloscope specialist Pico Technology's PicoScope 4444 high-resolution differential oscilloscope features four true differential input channels and a range of accessories for measurements from millivolt to 1000V CAT III applications.
Terahertz chip offers a way to see through matter
Terahertz chip offers a way to see through matter
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Electromagnetic pulses lasting one millionth of a millionth of a second may hold the key to advances in medical imaging, communications and drug development. To this end, researchers at Princeton…
Galileo authentication to make falsifying satellite signals more difficult
Galileo authentication to make falsifying satellite signals more difficult
Technology News |
The European Union activated its Galileo satellite navigation system in December 2016. However, the EU is dedicated to setting this system apart from other navigation systems such as GPS –…
Bosch and IBM collaborate on Industrial IoT
Bosch and IBM collaborate on Industrial IoT
Business news |
IBM and Bosch have announced a collaboration for industrial Internet of Things (IoT), making available Bosch IoT Suite services on open standards-based IBM Bluemix and IBM Watson IoT Platform for…
Heart rate monitor for wearables has ultra-low power consumption
Heart rate monitor for wearables has ultra-low power consumption
New Products |
The BH1790GLC is an optical sensor for heart rate monitoring optimized for wearable devices such as sports bands and smart watches. The sensor, developed by Rohm Semiconductor/Kionix (Kyoto, Japan), excels through…
Temperature compensated 100 pF MLCC claims world first
Temperature compensated 100 pF MLCC claims world first
New Products |
Murata has introduced the first temperature compensated 100 pF 008004 size monolithic ceramic capacitor (MLCC), which is part of the GRM011 capacitor range. With the appearance of a small dot…
ARM buys startups for NB-IoT expertise
ARM buys startups for NB-IoT expertise
Business news |
Processor IP licensor ARM Ltd. has acquired Mistbase AB (Lund, Sweden) and NextG-Com Ltd. (Staines, England) for an undisclosed amount of money.
Measuring vapour permeation to parts per million
Measuring vapour permeation to parts per million
New Products |
TVs, computer screens, tablets and mobiles are everywhere - and they are all exceedingly vulnerable to water, not only as a liquid but, far more insidiously, as a vapour. Many…
Vector buys Vector
Vector buys Vector
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Automotive software tool vendor Vector Informatik GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany), and Vector Software (East Greenwich, USA), an expert in automated embedded software testing, Inc. have frequently been confused. The confusion now…
ARM to speed up wireless connectivity integration
ARM to speed up wireless connectivity integration
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With the acquisition of both Swedish startup Mistbase offering a complete NB-IoT physical layer implementation solution and London-based NextG-Com delivering a complete layer two and three software stack for NB-IoT,…
Making power converters for the IoT efficient
Making power converters for the IoT efficient
Technology News |
At the recent International Solid-State Circuits Conference, researchers from MIT's Microsystems Technologies Laboratories (MTL) presented a new power converter that maintains its efficiency at currents ranging from 500 picoamps to…
Low-power GNSS receiver chip for wearable applications
Low-power GNSS receiver chip for wearable applications
New Products |
Swiss company u-blox has announced the UBX‑M8230‑CT global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver chip, offering a unique balance of performance and ultra-low power use.


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