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Sony revealed as MRAM foundry for Avalanche
Sony revealed as MRAM foundry for Avalanche
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Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. has agreed to make spin-transfer torque (STT) magnetic random access memories (MRAMs) for Avalanche Technology Inc.
Smart lighting provider raises funds in bid to disrupt commercial market
Smart lighting provider raises funds in bid to disrupt commercial market
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Silvair (San Francisco, CA), a provider of Bluetooth-based smart lighting technologies, has announced that it has completed a $12 million…
STEM shortage: real; not real?
STEM shortage: real; not real?
Feature articles |
Bill Schweber ponders an old conundrum: is there a shortage of science and engineering graduates, or are scare stories written…
InvenSense, Sonion launch miniature MEMS microphones
InvenSense, Sonion launch miniature MEMS microphones
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Some 18 months after the start of a collaboration, InvenSense Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) and Sonion A/S (Roskilde, Denmark) have…

Could Sony, ST, Intel or China acquire InvenSense?
Could Sony, ST, Intel or China acquire InvenSense?
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Inertial and microphone MEMS provider InvenSense Inc. (San Jose, Calif.), a startup that emerged to go public in August 2011, could be about to be acquired.
Leonard Kleinrock: the father of the Internet
Leonard Kleinrock: the father of the Internet
Feature articles |
Steve Taranovich sings the praises of the academic from University of California Los Angeles who oversaw the connection of the first two computers to form the Internet.
Sony revealed as MRAM foundry for Avalanche
Sony revealed as MRAM foundry for Avalanche
Business news |
Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. has agreed to make spin-transfer torque (STT) magnetic random access memories (MRAMs) for Avalanche Technology Inc. (Fremont, Calif.)…
Slideshow: The other things Tesla discovered, invented
Slideshow: The other things Tesla discovered, invented
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Steve Taranovich, editor of EE Times' Planet Analog website, presents a slideshow illustrating the less well-known work of the polymath Nikola Tesla.
Wake up and smell the vaporware of LTE for IoT
Wake up and smell the vaporware of LTE for IoT
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Analog IC design consultant Scott Elder ponders the race to achieve compliance with LTE Release 13 which includes support for low bandwidth, low power IoT applications.
Hearables boom prompts microbattery IPO
Hearables boom prompts microbattery IPO
Business news |
Microbattery maker Varta AG (Ellwangen, Germany) is planning an initial public offering of shares on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange to raise €200 million (about $222 million).
Near-eye OLED display refreshes only active pixels to cut power
Near-eye OLED display refreshes only active pixels to cut power
Technology News |
Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology (FEP) in Dresden, Germany, have developed a near-eye OLED display for head-mount wearables that can drastically reduce…
Medical marijuana grows well under LED lighting
Medical marijuana grows well under LED lighting
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A study conducted by Wageningen University & Research Center (Wageningen, Netherlands) found that some varieties of cannabis produce more medicinally active substances when grown under LEDs. It also found that…
IoT processor beats Cortex-M, claims startup
IoT processor beats Cortex-M, claims startup
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Fabless chip company GreenWaves Technologies SAS (Villard-Bonnot, France) is getting close to taping out its GAP8 multicore processor, which it describes as being the industry’s first processor purpose-designed for IoT.
Nordic wireless SoC designed into Xiaomi VR headset
Nordic wireless SoC designed into Xiaomi VR headset
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Nordic Semiconductor (Trondheim, Norway) has disclosed that the fourth-largest smartphone manufacturer, Beijing-based Xiaomi, has specified its nRF52832 Bluetooth® low energy System-on-Chip (SoC) in the wireless motion controller bundled with the…
Serial memory enables instant-on in auto, industrial, IoT
Serial memory enables instant-on in auto, industrial, IoT
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Cypress Semiconductor (San Jose, CA) has configured a low pin-count multi-chip package that combines its HyperFlash and HyperRAM memories using the high-bandwidth, low-pin-count HyperBus interface to make a small-footprint memory…
Violet LEDs power Japan’s first full-color facade lighting system
Violet LEDs power Japan’s first full-color facade lighting system
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New Kyoto Building of Wacoal Holdings Corp., Japan’s leading creator of intimate apparel for women, is leveraging a full facade lighting system based on Kyocera's violet LEDs (combined with RGB…
New Ubuntu Linux OS secures the IoT
New Ubuntu Linux OS secures the IoT
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Canonical (London, UK) – the company that is the commercial face of Ubuntu – has issued Ubuntu Core 16 for the Internet of Things (IoT), with regular and reliable security…
Heterogeneous SiP delivers intelligent motor control
Heterogeneous SiP delivers intelligent motor control
New Products |
ST’s STSPIN32F0 combines a microcontroller and an analog IC in a 7x7mm QFN package, delivering the flexibility and power of a microcontroller-based motor drive with the convenience, simplicity, and space-efficiency…
MEMS design contest posts $5,000 first prize
MEMS design contest posts $5,000 first prize
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Cadence, X-Fab, Coventor and Reutlingen University, the sponsors of a two-year worldwide MEMS design contest have announced the opening of registration and that the winning team will get $5,000 in…
50Mbps photocouplers boast reinforced isolation
50Mbps photocouplers boast reinforced isolation
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The TLP2767 photocoupler from Toshiba Electronics Europe supports data rates up to 50Mbps while enforcing a creepage and clearance distance of 8mm and boasting an isolation thickness of 0.4mm for…
Anticipating a more virtual Moore’s law
Anticipating a more virtual Moore’s law
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Nicky Lu, executive director of the Taiwan Semiconductor Industry Association, is looking forward to the coming era of a “virtual” Moore’s Law, leading to a resumption of growth and profitability…
Hearables boom prompts Varta IPO
Hearables boom prompts Varta IPO
Business news |
Microbattery maker Varta AG (Ellwangen, Germany) is planning an initial public offering of shares on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange to raise €200 million (about $222 million).
Lattice Semi to be sold to China-backed private equity
Lattice Semi to be sold to China-backed private equity
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FPGA vendor Lattice Semiconductor Corp. (Portland, Ore.) has announced it will be sold to newly-formed private equity company for approximately $1.3 billion inclusive of Lattice’s net debt.
ST bases intelligent motion-control SiP around STM32 MCUs
ST bases intelligent motion-control SiP around STM32 MCUs
New Products |
Aiming it at “smart industry and high-end consumer”, STMicroelectronics has configured an integrated system-in-package (SiP) that simplifies intelligent motor control for smart-manufacturing equipment, drones, high-performance home appliances, and portable BLDC…
Seven-port USB 3.1 Gen1 SmartHub IC for USB Type-C
Seven-port USB 3.1 Gen1 SmartHub IC for USB Type-C
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Microchip’s USB58xx and USB59xx SmartHubs are seven-port USB 3.1 Gen1 hub ICs that promise simpler designs and cost savings over previous solutions. These families of hub ICs offer manufacturers multiple…
Intel Joule IoT apps development platform, in distribution
Intel Joule IoT apps development platform, in distribution
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Distributor RS Components has the Intel Joule compute modules and development kits that target developers, inventors, and OEMs for Internet of Things applications, enabling rapid prototyping.
Single channel gate driver supports both MOSFETs and GaN devices
Single channel gate driver supports both MOSFETs and GaN devices
New Products |
Infineon Technologies has launched a family of 1 channel gate drivers for MOSFETs and GaN power devices.
Terabit uplink to satellite uses laser light
Terabit uplink to satellite uses laser light
Technology News |
Scientists from the German aerospace research center DLR have achieved a data transmission rate of 1.72 Terabit per second over a distance of more than 10 kilometers of open space.


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