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Smartphones Seen as Most Disruptive Trend in Automotive Infotainment

With smartphone use in motor vehicles reaching ubiquity, a wealth of challenges and opportunities exist for automakers and semiconductor suppliers making this trend the most disruptive development in infotainment.

Huawei Buys Neul for IoT Thrust

Chinese telecom and networking equipment giant Huawei has bought startup Neul Ltd., a pioneer of IoT communications for $25 million as the latest part of major investment in 5G and IoT engineering in UK.

Apple Claims 10 Million iPhone 6 Sales in 3 Days

CEO says firm could have sold more units if they had been available.

Ericsson Shuts Down Modem Group

Ericsson has said it will close its LTE modem development group a year after it was taken back from the failed joint-venture ST-Ericsson.

Estimote Leverages Nordic to develop Bluetooth Beacon Stickers

A New York startup with roots in Poland has made use of a Bluetooth transceiver IC from Nordic Semiconductor to develop Beacon Stickers and has signed up Cisco as a partner.

AMD Aims to Speed up Cloud Computing Market

Processor vendors teams with Canonical to provide an OpenStack private cloud computing platform based on the SeaMicro SM15000 server.

Switching NAND Helps Micron Raise SSD Specs

Micron is using something called dynamic write allocation, which programs NAND flash memory ICs in different ways, to raise the specs of its solid-state drives and deliver a blow to the magnetic drives.

Apple Touts Record Pre-orders for iPhone 6

Apple said that it has recorded more than four million pre-orders in the first 24 hours, exceeding the demand of the initial pre-order supply

Flextronics to Build Micromem’s 'Lab-on-a-Chip'

Flextronics has signed an agreement with Micromem Technologies Inc. to build the company’s “lab-on-a-chip”used in vehicles to measure oil levels, temperature and oil condition.

Pushing the Limits of Wi-Fi

The latest version of Wi-Fi takes wireless communications to a new level. Creating the standard took nearly five years, but results prove that the time was well spent.

Altera, China Mobile To Research C-RAN Mobile Networking

A three-year R&D agreement is expected to lead to lower-power and more scalable multi-standard base station equipment using a cloud-based C-RAN architecture for mobile infrastructure.

Apple Reveals New iPhone 6

Apple Inc. officially introduced the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus smartphones and the Apple Watch.

UMC Supplying Automotive ICs to Japanese Manufacturers

Pure-play foundry has made no secret of its desire to make inroads into the Japanese automotive semiconductor market and by extension the Japanese car industry.

Manufacturing Defies ‘Dog Days’ of August

One of the U.S.’s leading production indexes reached its highest level in more than three years during August.

Google Glass Said to Run Too Hot

The Google Glass multimedia device gets so hot when it is used for computation-intensive tasks such as video chat that the device is potentially harmful and is in need of a system-level redesign, according to a Rice University research paper.

ZigBee-Based Networks Offered to Watch Over Elderly

ZigBee chip vendor GreenPeak is offering a system that can monitor the movement of the elderly at home and to send alerts to relatives about unusual behavior.

CSR Rejects Microchip Takeover Bid

Publicly traded UK connectivity chip company CSR has rejected a take-over bid from US consolidator Microchip Technologies Inc.

Europe’s Galileo Satnav Hit By Satellite Failures

Two satellites for Europe's Galileo location system were launched atop a Soyuz rocket last week – but ended up in the wrong orbits.

MIPS DevBoard Launched to Compete With Raspberry Pi

Processor IP licensor Imagination has come up with a hobbyists' developer board to try and attract Linux and Android developers over from ARM to the MIPS architecture.