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China Mobile to offer Apple iPhone on its 4G and 3G networks
China Mobile to offer Apple iPhone on its 4G and 3G networks
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Apple and China Mobile have entered into a multi-year agreement to make available the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c on…
Google thins its margin on the Moto X to undercut smartphone rivals
Google thins its margin on the Moto X to undercut smartphone rivals
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Entering the new year, Google has just announced it would sell its Moto X smartphone, with 16 gigabytes of memory…
Magnetic sensor measures down to 0.1% of Earth’s field
Magnetic sensor measures down to 0.1% of Earth’s field
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PNI Sensor Corp. (Santa Rosa, Calif.) has introduced a geomagnetic sensor that can measure fields at 0.1 percent the intensity…
QuickLogic offers sensor hub for mobile devices
QuickLogic offers sensor hub for mobile devices
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Former FPGA vendor QuickLogic Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) has developed a sensor hub IC that provides multi-axis context awareness at approximately…

FTDI Embedded Video Engine (EVE) available in distribution
FTDI Embedded Video Engine (EVE) available in distribution
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For engineers who need to quickly implement a sophisticated user interface with minimum investment of time and effort, Mouser Electronics is now stocking FDTI’s FT800 Embedded Video Engine (EVE) integrated…
Flash MCU with LED/LCD driver directly drives display panels for small household appliances
Flash MCU with LED/LCD driver directly drives display panels for small household appliances
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Holtek Semiconductor Inc. has introduced a Flash MCU with LCD/LED Driver which includes fully integrated LCD and LED driver circuits that can directly drive display panels and eliminate the need…
Lfoundry closes ex-Atmel wafer fab in France; 600 jobs lost
Lfoundry closes ex-Atmel wafer fab in France; 600 jobs lost
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Lfoundry Rousset, the French chip manufacturing site of Lfoundry GmbH, has been declared bankrupt by the Commercial Court of Paris, with an immediate stop to activities on the site from…
LFoundry Rousset fab closes with loss of 600 jobs
LFoundry Rousset fab closes with loss of 600 jobs
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LFoundry Rousset, the French chip manufacturing site of LFoundry GmbH, has been declared bankrupt by the Commercial Court of Paris, with an immediate stop to activities on the site from…
Israeli semiconductor startup offers integrated, chip-scale light energy harvester
Israeli semiconductor startup offers integrated, chip-scale light energy harvester
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Sol Chip Ltd. (Haifa, Israel) has begun offering an energy harvester photovoltaic cell chip, the Saturn 100, that produces six selectable voltages from 0.75V to 9V.
To win: four RX62N evaluation platforms
To win: four RX62N evaluation platforms
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To offer you a good start in 2014, Renesas Electronics Europe is giving away four demonstrations kits worth 325 Euros each, for EETimes Europe's readers to win.
Startup offers chip-scale solar energy harvester
Startup offers chip-scale solar energy harvester
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Sol Chip Ltd. (Haifa, Israel) has begun offering an energy harvester photovoltaic cell chip, the Saturn 100, that produces six selectable voltages from 0.75 volts to 9 volts.
Antireflective black silicon technology slashes solar cell production costs
Antireflective black silicon technology slashes solar cell production costs
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To make solar cells, manufacturers typically acquire silicon wafers from an outside source. Since these wafers are cut from a large ingot, they usually have saw damage, which must be…
Is Nokia headed for Troll country?
Is Nokia headed for Troll country?
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The sale of its handset business to Microsoft provides Nokia with money for yet another reinvention of itself, but it presents the Finnish company with a fundamental choice.
NikkoIA gets European money for organic NIR sensor
NikkoIA gets European money for organic NIR sensor
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NikkoIA SAS (Grenoble, France) has said it will benefit from €1.5 million (about $2 million) in subsidies over the next two years thanks to multiple European Union backed collaborative development…
Intel takes on Raspberry Pi with a European solution
Intel takes on Raspberry Pi with a European solution
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Intel’s first new processor architecture for a decade is a distinctly European affair. The Quark synthesisable x86 core was developed in Ireland for low cost applications such as wearable electronics,…
Mini-module 32-bit development board comes with GPS/GNSS receiver: seeks crowdfunding
Mini-module 32-bit development board comes with GPS/GNSS receiver: seeks crowdfunding
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Fabless GNSS positioning technology company SkyTraq Technology is undertaking a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to explore if there is sufficient interest in applying GPS/GNSS processor technology beyond the standard GPS/GNSS…
Laptop chargers can be smaller with 100 MHz power-conversion switching
Laptop chargers can be smaller with 100 MHz power-conversion switching
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FINsix, a power conversion startup based in Boston and Silicon Valley, has developed laptop power adapters and LED drivers that claim to be 75% smaller than their conventional counterparts.
Power Tip 66: Reduce EMI from an offline power supply cost-effectively
Power Tip 66: Reduce EMI from an offline power supply cost-effectively
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Robert Kollman, Senior Applications Manager, Texas Instruments points out that in every product, there is a balance to be made between cost and performance. Cell phone adapters are a prime…
University of Valencia develops low cost thin film photovoltaic device with high energy efficiency
University of Valencia develops low cost thin film photovoltaic device with high energy efficiency
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A group of researchers led by Hendrik Bolink of the Institut de Ciència Molecular (ICMol) of the Scientific Park of the University of Valencia has developed a thin film low…
7/16 DIN coaxial connectors support high power communications applications
7/16 DIN coaxial connectors support high power communications applications
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L-com, Inc., has released a full line of 50 Ohm 7/16 DIN coaxial products for use in high power wireless communication systems such as cellular network antenna systems.
Sales of Stop-Start Vehicles will reach 55 million annually by 2022
Sales of Stop-Start Vehicles will reach 55 million annually by 2022
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Worldwide sales of Stop-start vehicles (SSVs) will grow from 8.8 million in 2013 to 55.4 million in 2022 according to a new report from market intelligence analyst Navigant Research.
Thumb-sized 32-bit development board with GPS/GNSS receiver seeks crowdfunding
Thumb-sized 32-bit development board with GPS/GNSS receiver seeks crowdfunding
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Fabless GNSS positioning technology company SkyTraq Technology is undertaking a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to explore if there is sufficient interest in applying GPS/GNSS processor technology beyond the standard GPS/GNSS…
Novel circuit helps make laptop charger smaller and cheaper
Novel circuit helps make laptop charger smaller and cheaper
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FINsix, a power conversion startup, has developed laptop power adapters that claim to be 75 percent smaller than their conventional counterparts.
IR sensor startup preps smartphone bid
IR sensor startup preps smartphone bid
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Pyreos Ltd. (Edinburgh, Scotland), a developer of infrared sensors that spun out of Siemens in 2007, has raised $4 million to help it pitch for design wins in smartphones and…
Moortec improves on-chip thermal sensors
Moortec improves on-chip thermal sensors
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Moortec Semiconductor Ltd. (Plymouth, England), a provider of mixed-signal IC design services and IP and whose customers include AMD, Broadcom, Intel and Imagination amongst others, has announced improvements to its…
LED A-lamp shipments increased by 72 percent in 3Q13, reports NEMA
LED A-lamp shipments increased by 72 percent in 3Q13, reports NEMA
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NEMA, the association of electrical equipment and medical imaging manufacturers, has reported that the association’s index for LED A-line replacement lamps increased for the second consecutive quarter in Q3 2013.
Thermally conductive nano-ceramics simplify led lighting assemblies
Thermally conductive nano-ceramics simplify led lighting assemblies
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Manufacturing a high-performance thermal substrate is a balancing act: it involves applying a dielectric layer to a metal base plate to gain sufficient electrical isolation for the circuit’s tracks and…
MCU-based designs for Internet Radio Audio Streaming and Dual Hi-Speed USB
MCU-based designs for Internet Radio Audio Streaming and Dual Hi-Speed USB
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NXP has reference designs using its LPC4357 and LPC1837 microcontrollers, that provide all the hardware and software required to build functional designs, and showcase the features of the MCUs…


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