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LoRaWAN Based Street Lighting Becomes a Reality

New LoRaWAN communication standard with its smart streetlight control system.

Mouser Sponsors Student Solar Car

Mouser is sponsoring the Ben Barber Career Tech Academy solar racing team as they compete in the 2015 Solar Car Challenge at Texas Motor Speedway July 18-23.

Advantest to Unveil IoT Equipment

The test equipment supplier will debut two new test equipment products at the SEMICON West trade show.

NASA Selects Leading-Edge Technology Concepts for Study

From Satellite Swarms to Interstellar Submarines, NASA Selects Technology Concepts for Study.

SunEdison Expands Wind Portfolio with $2 Billion Acquisition

The deal will expand the solar giant’s wind portfolio by 930 megawatts.

Adoption of 400 VAC PDUs Growing in Data Centers

In 2014, 8% of all three-phase transformer-based power distribution units were 400 VAC units.

Cree: Lighting Up North America

Cree Inc was one of the first companies to focus on LED and today it is lighting up North America.

Defense Sciences Office is Looking for Game Changing Technologies

Defense Sciences Office sponsors office-wide Proposers Day.

Power Efficiency to the People, ARM CEO Says

Simon Segars, CEO of ARM, is looking for industry R&D to meet the needs of computing from sensors to servers.

Intel Management Shake-Up

Renée James, president of the company, and the president of Intel Capital will leave in January

Will Globalfoundries be More Successful than IBM with Its Foundry Business?

With the addition of specialty technologies, extra capacity and IBM as a client, the pure play foundry has a better chance

Xilinx Completes 16nm FinFET Multiprocessor SoC Design

The chip is targeted at the Internet of Things, ADAS, embedded vision and 5G systems.

ISSI Stockholders Agree to Chinese Consortium Acquisition

Months-long bidding war ends as Uphill Investment offers $23 a share.

Radio IC Supports Both ZigBee and Thread

Fabless chip company GreenPeak claims to offer the first short-range communications controller IC that supports both protocols.

Synopsys Buys IoT IP Vendor Elliptic Technologies

Acquisition follows recent buyouts of Codenomicon and Atrenta.

Teardown: Cisco DPC3848V Wireless Residential Gateway

With the growing demand for Internet connectivity within consumers comes Cisco DPC3848V Wireless Residential Gateway a home and small office gateway combines a cable modem, router and wireless access points in a single device.