© Semiconductor Today Magazine / Juno Publishing The global market for millimetre-wave and microwave RF transceivers (including applications in mobile phones, tablets, smart TVs, PCs and laptops, and set-top boxes) will grow at a ...
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Dialog Semiconductor (XTRA: DLG) and Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML) announced today that Dialog has agreed to acquire Atmel in a cash and stock transaction for total consideration of approximately $4.6 billion. The acquisition creates a ...
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NliteN has just added the dimmable 2D-Lux™ Smart LED Disk (SLEDD) to its campaign on Indiegogo. The 2D-Lux SLEDD, a 60W-incandescent-replacement LED smart "bulb", adds an Atmel AVR microcontroller, USB interface, and ...
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Europe's Digital Agenda Commissioner on Thursday set out plans for the E.U. to produce more micro- and nano-chips than the U.S. in the next seven years. "I want to double our chip production to around 20 percent of global production. I ...
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The European Commission said it has launched a formal investigation into a group of smartcard chip suppliers who are suspected of breaking the European Union's antitrust laws by operating a cartel, and has sent letters detailing its ...
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Premier Farnell is supporting ARM processor-based designs by making available a number of development tools, software and evaluation boards across Europe. A similar offering is already available in the Americas. The distributor's ARM ...
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The third-party tools and software ecosystem is expanding for Atmel's ARM Cortex-A5-based SAMA5D3 microcontrollers. A5 is ARM's baby A-series-compatible core, designed as an up-grade from the ARM926 and ARM1176 with better mW/MHz than ...
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Atmel has demonstrated at Embedded World in Nuremberg this week its AT86RF233 2.4GHz IEEE 802.15.4 radio transceiver carrying out distance measurement between two radios. A process known as ranging. It can be necessary to determine ...
At the SIL conference, Atmel announced a driver IC family designed specifically for high-CRI lamps and luminaires that use a mix of phosphor-converted white LEDs and red or amber LEDs that combined deliver good light quality and high ...
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Atmel says it is shipping production quantities of the its SAMA5D3 series microprocessor, which is based on the ARM Cortex-A5 core with an on-chip floating point unit. The SAMA5D3 microprocessors are fabbed on a 65nm process technology ...
The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) intends to create a standard method to evaluate the energy efficiency of ultra-low power(ULP) microcontrollers. To date, the industry has lacked a common method to test, validate, ...
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Guillaume d’Eyssautier, formely CEO of picoChip, has been appointed CEO of RF MEMS specialist start-up DelfMEMS. DelfMEMS has just attracted $10.5m in ‘B’ Series financing from CDC Entreprises, Iris Capital, Capitalaria, ...
Tags: picoChip, DelfMEMS, mobile devices, smart phones, tablets
Atmel has expanded its ARM Cortex-M4 processor-based flash microcontroller family to include devices with extra connectivity peripherals, a floating point unit (FPU), analogue capabilities, and higher processing power. The SAM4E ...
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Digi-Key has added two new product lines to its global distribution websites. The new lines are GeneSiC Semiconductor, the supplier of silicon-carbide devices and capacitive touch screen specialist Precision Design Associates (PDA). ...
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We roundup some of the major electronics news stories from CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2013, which runs 8 - 11 January in Las Vegas. Thursday 10 January CES: LG unveils curved OLED TV LG debuts a curved model of its OLED TV ...
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