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European LTE, Broadband Penetration Rises
High-speed broadband in Europe has reached 62 percent of the population while LTE is up to 32 percent penetration across the continent, according to a study from IHS.
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Peraso Launches WiGig Radio Chip
Canadian fabless chip developer Peraso Technologies has announced a 60GHz RF front-end IC to complement its recently introduced WiGig baseband IC.
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Tempo Signs Distribution Agreement with EDOM
Tempo Semiconductor has signed on EDOM to distribute its audio chips to increase its sales in Asia.
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SMIC Joins Group Planning Takeover of Stats ChipPAC
Foundry is joining a Chinese group led by packager JCET that is putting together a proposal to acquire Singaporean test and assembly firm Stats ChipPAC.
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Sony Develops Google Glass Competitor
Sony’s product will be an attachable single-lens display that can turn eyewear into a smart device to enable a number of features involved in sports, photo-taking or industrial applications.
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Xilinx Begins Volume Production of 20nm FPGAs
The programmable logic company said its Kintex Ultrascale range is the first FPGA family to move to volume production at the 20nm node.
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"BrainCard" Maker Project Marks Startup's Market Entry
Startup NeuroMem is offering the maker community access to a trainable neural network IC on a board. It is claimed the so-called BrainCard can add cognitive perception to Raspberry Pi, Arduino and Intel Edison processor boards.
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Atmel Enters into Biometric Fingerprint Agreement
The semiconductor company has struck a deal with Fingerprint Cards AB that will combine maXTouch Technologies with fingerprint sensors for new mobile device applications.
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Imagination Launches Series 7 of PowerVR GPUs
Graphics IP licensor Imagination's PowerVR Series 7 GPUs provide up to a 60 percent improvement in rendering performance compared with the previous Series 6 GPUs as well as support for virtualization and hardware tessellation.
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Spansion, Sensoplex Team on Wearables Dev Kit
Platform intended to help customers develop wearable devices combining inertial, bio and environmental sensors along with low-power wireless protocols Bluetooth Low Energy and ANT+.
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Altera Demos High Performance DDR4 FPGAs
Firm claims Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs are the first type of devices to support this data rate and offers significant memory improvements over competing products.
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IoT a Boon for MEMS
The market for MEMS used in the industrial equipment sector will grow to $120 million by 2018, up from $16 million in 2013 as the market gears up.
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Sansa Security Joins Thread IoT Consortium
Firm formerly known as Discretix Technologies Ltd. joins group formed around the Thread low-power, wireless mesh networking protocol for the Internet of Things.
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SMIC Makes Snapdragon, Opens Shenzhen Wafer Fab
It's all go at Chinese foundry SMIC as it starts making Snapdragon 410 processors on 28nm CMOS and opens a wafer fab in southern China for complementary ICs such as image sensors and PMICs
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ABB, Hitachi Form Power Grid Partnership for HVDC
A joint venture is going to bring ABB's High Voltage Direct Current technology to the Japanese market and be the first step in a strategic partnership with Hitachi.
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IDEs for the IoT
The complexity of devices and software for the IoT pose serious obstacles to companies seeking to shorten development cycles.
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ON Semi Expands LED Lighting Component Portfolio
New power factor corrected offline AC-DC driver families intended for use in LED applications that require a higher amount of power.
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PV Equipment Bookings, Billings Declined in Q3
Book-to-bill ratio remained below parity for the second consecutive quarter, according to a trade group.
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Skype Demos Real-Time Language Translation
Skype, the provider of the ubiquitous and eponympous chat application has, under the ownership of Microsoft, gone one better and developed an extension to it for real-time translation between languages.
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8-bit Microprocessor Opens Path to Organic IoT
A long-running strand of research based at the Holst Center in Eindhoven could produce low-cost printed organic microprocessors that open up an alternative way to develop smart objects for the Internet of Things
