2016-10-21 - Murata

Murata acquires 3D silicon capacitor expertise

France-based IPDiA specialises in developing integrated passive devices, including 3D silicon capacitors.

2016-10-20 - NXP Semiconductors

Wireless MCU packs up to 512KB Flash, 128KB SRAM

Powered by the ARM Cortex-M0+ core, the Kinetis KW41Z MCU family offers certified BLE and pre-certified Thread stacks.

2016-10-17 - Peter Clarke

Achronix ventures into FPGA fabric licensing

The company's Speedcore is designed in a modular fashion to support compilation and porting of the technology to different manufacturing…

2016-10-10 - oneM2M

New global standard addresses IoT security concerns

Release 2 opens up the IoT ecosystem to devices that lack the protocol and enable interworking among systems.

2016-10-08 - Graham Prophet

Silicon Labs brings IoT RTOS in-house with Micrium buy

Micrium’s RTOS software has been ported to more than 50 microcontroller architectures.

2016-10-06 - Rick Merritt

Qualcomm emerges big winner at Google’s event

As many as five of Qualcomm's chips are inside the Pixel phones, the Snapdragon 821, two PMICs, an audio codec…

2016-10-05 - Susan Nordyk

Wireless charging IC takes power transfer to 3W

The chipset enables 1W transfer just 11mm-dia coils in the receiver or up to 3W using larger coils and a…

2016-09-28 - Graham Prophet

BLE SoC manages multi-sensor arrays

The DA14681 supports Bluetooth 4.2 standard and its integrated PMU provides three independent power rails for external system components.

2016-09-11 - Infineon Technologies

Infineon-powers iPass-ready wearables in Taiwan

The company has secured new smart wearables for Taiwan's transport ticketing system.

2016-09-11 - Peter Clarke

Globalfoundries rolls out 12nm FDSOI process

The company has announced a next-generation FDSOI process to follow on from the 22FDX process that is nearing production.

2016-09-11 - Rick Merritt

Jack is dead: Apple unveils first wireless SoC

The company’s new wireless AirPods and three new wireless Beats headphones include a custom chip called the W1.

2016-09-01 - TDK

Audio line filter features up to 2.5GHz attenuation

The MAF1005G can suppress the spurious emissions from cellular bands by up to 50dB.