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Healthy Economy Driving Boom in Industrial Chip Spending
Spending on semiconductors for industrial applications is projected to experience a compound annual growth rate of nearly 10 percent per year through 2018.
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Acuity Brands Buys Distech Controls
Acuity will use the technology from Distech to help enhance its smart buildings and smart cities market.
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China's Baidu Reportedly Close to Launching Autonomous Car
China's largest Internet search engine company has been researching autonomous cars and reportedly could have the first vehicle out as soon as this year.
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Silicon Labs, ARM Team for IoT Efficiency
Firms partner on new power management APIs to enable more efficient battery-operated connected devices for the Internet of Things.
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Apple Watch Will Set the Bar for Rivals
The much-anticipated device will be the barometer by which all other smartwatches will be measured and play key role in determining whether the market for smartwatches will be sizable or remain a niche.
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Wirelessly Connected Audio at Peak Uptake
Home audio is going wireless at a rapid pace, changing from dedicated systems with wired speakers to multi-room wirelessly networked audio that supports multiple sources. But the market could plateau soon.
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NXP Acquires Smart Card Vendor Athena SCS
Chip maker buys smart card and security vendor for Internet of Things applications as well as Industry 4.0, automotive and identification products.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Broadcom Inks Deals with SK Telecom, KT
Chip maker signs up two of the largest telecommunications companies in Korea for its small cell system-on-chip offering in order to expand capacity and increase speed of their infrastructure.
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Samsung, LG, Sony to Dominate Flat Panel Shipments in 2015
Top three TV makers forecast to increase spending on display shipments this year and command greater influence among panel suppliers, especially in the event of a supply shortage.
