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Vimicro Snags $50 Million in Funding
Chinese video surveillance company closed private placement funding, raising $50 million from Alpha Spring Ltd.
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Microchip Rolls First LoRa Module
Module, targeted at the European market, enables control of a number of sensors over a range of 10 miles.
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SMIC Names Ex-Chinese Bureaucrat Chairman
Pure-play foundry taps Zixue Zhou to replace the retiring Wenyi Zhang as chairman and executive director.
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Axcelis Reaches Agreement With Activist Hedge Fund
Chip equipment vendor nominates two to board in an effort to placate concerns from one of its main investors.
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Marriage of IoT, Maker Movement Paves Way for 'Fourth Industrial Revolution'
Low-cost hobbyist electronics and hardware kits, easy-to-use programming software, 3D printers, widespread access to mobile connectivity and an increasing number of citizen science labs globally are ushering in a new stage of innovation in human history.
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Samsung Acquires LED Sign and Display Vendor
Deal gives South Korean electronics giant additional LED display products as well as an expansion into the large-format display space.
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BOE's Module Push Accelerates Mobile Display Competition
With shipments for handset display modules expected to rise only 4 percent this year, Chinese vendors are making a push to increase their market share at the expense of rivals.
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Semtech Nabs Wireless Charging Vendor Triune
Deal, worth $45 million, expected to help analog/mixed-signal chip vendor take advantage of the budding wireless charging market.
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Integrated LED Lighting Poised to Challenge Traditional Light Bulbs
With 42 percent of light bulb shipments expecting to be LED replacement lamps by 2022, integrated LED bulbs—which combine the LED and driver electronic into the luminaire itself—are gaining traction in the replacement market.
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MWC Offers Glimpse Into Mobile’s Future
While the big name companies hyped up the latest products in the main hall at Mobile World Congress, a group of startups, venture capitalists and industry gathered down the street to talk what lies ahead for the mobile industry.
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Swisscom, NKE, La Poste Choose LoRa for Wide Area Networks
The three network operators are looking at ways to increase opportunities in the Internet of Things through the emerging long range wireless interface standard.
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Mobileye's Next Vision Processor Targets Autonomous Driving
Specialist automotive vision processor firm is finalizing the design of its fourth generation processor, the EyeQ4, with samples expected this year to aid design-in to 2018 vehicles.
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SanDisk Rolls Flash Storage System for Enterprise
InfiniFlash said to offer 50 times the performance and five times the density of current HDD offerings at a cost of less than $1 per gigabyte.
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Nvidia Launches Shield Gaming Console
Graphics chip vendor continues to move up the value chain with the launch of an Android TV player and gaming console based on its Tegra X1 octacore 64-bit processor.
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AMS, STMicro Team on NFC
STMicroelectronics has teamed up with Austria's AMS, developer of NFC antenna booster technology, on a reference design aimed at the burgeoning market for near field communications chips.
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Chip Industry Posts Record Sales for January
Sales up nearly 9 percent year-over-year as 2015 gets off to a strong start.
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BlackBerry Unveils Touchscreen Smartphone
At Mobile World Congress, smartphone vendor launches 5-inch touchscreen handset said to offer long battery life and high durability.
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Arrow Electronics to Acquire immixGroup
Distributor will gain a value-added vendor with more than 800 partners and offers IT solutions to more than 250 technology suppliers.
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Mobile World Congress Spotlights Next Wave of Wearables
Explosive growth projected for wearable electronics has lured established companies from different industries to mobile computing's biggest event.
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Microchip Debuts First LoRa Alliance Wireless Module
At Mobile World Congress, Microchip Technology rolled out the first in a series of modules that support the LoRa standard designed to enable a wireless networking interface for IoT and M2M applications.
