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Microchip Adopts Semtech’s LoRa RF Technology for Enabling IoT
Microchip garners Semtech’s LoRa RF technology for use in future products that compete in the IoT, machine-to-machine (M2M) and other markets.
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Over the Horizon
A new dye-sensitive solar cell (DSSC) that absorbs both visible and IR light; direct steam energy from the sun.
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STM Develops STB Platform for Brazilian Switch to Digital TV
STMicroelectronics has rolled out a digital set-top box (STB) platform in order to speed up Brazil’s switch to digital television.
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Microsoft Sues Samsung Over Patent Royalties
Microsoft files suit against Samsung for what it claims to be a lack of payments on patents related to the Android operating system.
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Movidius Moves Myriad Vision Processor to 28nm
Perhaps Google included two Myriad-1 VPUs in the Project Tango depth-sensing prototype mobile because it knew that a new and improved Myriad-2 was coming.
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Health and Fitness Wireless Chips Set for Strong Growth Through 2018
Consumers' growing interest in health and fitness devices is providing a spark for wireless connectivity semiconductors.
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ARM Server Chips Start to Roll
Although the ARM server community took a hit last December with the closure of Calxeda, ARM-based server chips are starting to flow from Applied Micro, AMD
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Developer of Collision Avoidance Systems Files for IPO
Mobileye, an Israel-based developer of advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) technology, has raised the range for which it expects to price shares in an IPO later this week.
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Allwinner Preps 64-bit Tablet Processor
Allwinner, a significant player in the Android tablet application processor market, aims to have a 64-bit offering implementing the ARMv8-A instruction set architecture before the end of 2014.
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Ericsson Acquires MetraTech to Further IoT Offerings
Ericsson set to acquire U.S.-based company in an effort to strengthen the company’s IoT and Everything as a Service business.
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Ultra-high Definition TV Sales Grow Slowly
Despite a slow and steady increase, UHD TVs maintain minimal market share in the flat-panel TV space.
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Qualcomm's China Troubles Cloud $6.8 Billion Quarter
Qualcomm expects to be hit by an investigation by Chinese authorities into its business practices and meanwhile reckons some licensees are under-reporting sales volumes while awaiting the outcome.
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Apple Posts $37.4 Billion in Q3 Sales
Revenue, profit strong on iPhone, Mac and services growth.
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Set-Top Boxes on Course for High Growth in Next Two Years
Market achieved highest annual revenue total in history with $20.3 billion in 2013.
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Nitero Launches 60GHz Wi-Fi Chip for Mobiles
Nitero is leveraging Samsung's 28nm RF CMOS process to produce a more power efficient 60GHz streaming Wi-Fi transceiver.
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Google Launches Smart Home IoT Protocol
Google's Nest has teamed up with Samsung, Freescale, ARM and others to define Thread, a 6LoWPAN-based mesh protocol for controlling domestic fittings and appliances.
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Google Ventures Launches $100 Million Fund for Europe
Google opens up VC office in London to spread $100 million of venture capital around Europe.
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Startup Preps Neural Network Visual Processor for Mobiles
A Purdue University spin off company has a multi-layer neural network approach to cognitive vision processing that it reckons could make a compelling addition to next-generation smartphones.
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Intel, Samsung Form Group to Take on Qualcomm in IoT
Two IoT open source consortia, one vision. Intel and Samsung are co-founders of the Open Interconnect Consortium, which appears destined to be a rival to the six-month old AllSense Alliance.
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InvenSense To Buy Movea for Sensor Fusion Software
Inertial motion sensor firm InvenSense has agreed to buy two providers of algorithms and software for motion and data fusion - Movea and Trusted Positioning.
