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Chinese PV Firm Acquires California Solar Project

Solar Power Inc. has made a deal to grab the assets of California's Aerojet project, which was one of the largest single-site industrial solar installation platforms in the U.S. when it was built back in 2009.

Breakthrough Year for Wireless Charging

With leading brands designing wireless charging into smartphones, 2015 is expected to be the year when the technology breaks through. But some of the promising long-range technologies may miss out, according to IHS.

Broadcom Rolls Secures MCUs With Integrated NFC

Devices said to be first secure microcontrollers to integrate NFC.

Novatel Wireless Makes IoT Grab

Wireless machine-to-machine technology vendor finalizes acquisition of end-to-end Internet of Things supplier in deal worth up to $50 million.

Renesas Retains Top Spot in Automotive Chip Vendor Ranking

Renesas retained its position as the No.1 supplier of automotive chips in 2014, according to an updated ranking of the top ten suppliers from IHS.

Philips to Sell Lighting Business

Deal, worth $3.3 billion, will result in Philips LED and lighting business being spun off into a new company called Lumileds.

IBM Bets $3 Billion on IoT

Big Blue is planning to spend $3 billion on the creation of an Internet of Things business unit that will center on an open platform for hosting data from myriad sources that can be analyzed and acted upon.

Exclusive Video Teardown: GoPro HERO

The IHS Technology teardown examines the components and structure of the new GoPro entry-level camera.

Avago Looks to Acquire Emulex

Analog/mixed-signal chip supplier Avago offers $606 million in cash to acquire I/O connectivity provider.

How Automotive Chipmakers Will Compete Against NXP-Freescale

Combined company will be a powerhouse in the automotive semiconductor market, but moves already made by other chipmakers and OEMs' desire for a second source will allow other companies to compete.

UK Government Awards Cardiff University $26M for Semi Research

Funding will create research foundation billed as the first of its kind in the UK.

Alpha and Omega Semi’s CTO Steps Down

Co-founder to resume role as head of technology development at power supply management chip vendor.

Altera Acquisition Would Strengthen Intel

The acquisition of programmable logic vendor Altera could help Intel diversify away from the troubled PC market and boost its server and networking offerings—but at what price?

Synopsys Takes ‘Best of Both Worlds’ Approach to Embedded Vision Processing

EDA and IP vendor rolls embedded vision processor that combines fully programmable processor with an object detection engine implemented in dedicated hardware.

SanDisk Warning May Signal Larger Weakness in Enterprise Storage Market

SanDisk says it will have lower-than-expected revenues in the first quarter as a result of lower sales in its enterprise products but it isn’t only SanDisk seeing a decline in the traditional enterprise market.

Micron and Intel Team for 3D-NAND Flash

Heavyweight chipmakers work together to develop next-generation flash storage technology for use in data centers, notebooks, smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices.