SMIC builds South China’s first 12-inch fab
The new fab, which has a total designed capacity of 40,000 wafers per month, is aimed at meeting demand for…
Broadcom aims for IoT with $5.9B Brocade buy
Broadcom will retain Brocade's Fibre Channel storage area network switching business and divest the company's IP networking business.
Curiosity boards designed for developing 32-bit apps
The PIC32MZ EF board features a 200MHz PIC32 MCU with an integrated Wi-Fi module, while the PIC32MX470 features a 120MHz…
IIoT: Standards needed for connectivity, security
Most early adopters believe little organisational change will be necessary to integrate IoT into their day-to-day operations. Are they right?
Qualcomm bags NXP for $47B
Qualcomm will offer $110 per share and, including debt, the deal will cost close to $47 billion.
FCC-certified RF transceiver, kits target IoT apps
The kits are powered by Microchip's ATA8520E, a low-power RF transceiver with an integrated AVR microcontroller.
‘Intelligent things’ to penetrate businesses in 2017
Gartner anticipates a shift from stand-alone intelligent things to a collaborative intelligent things model.
Reference system paves way for multi-gigabit Wi-Fi
The system is based upon access point architecture that augments the home gateway with Wi-Fi extenders connected via a wired…
Chinese business IoT market to hit $361B in 2020
The market is set to move into a development phase featuring market integration, driven by technology and business model innovations.
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.
Start-up secures funding for sub-treshold processors
Minima provides a middleware stack with its hardware that provides compatibility with dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) regimes.
Thin, flexible ICs fit into smart packaging
The technology is built around a planar nano-transistor, in which the conducting channel and gate structure are co-planar.
