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Silicon Labs and Sigma Designs, Inc.  announced the completion of Silicon Labs' acquisition of Sigma Designs' Z-Wave business, including a team of approximately 100 employees, for $240 million in an all-cash transaction. Z-Wave is a leading mesh networking technology for the smart home. More than 2,400 certified, interoperable Z-Wave devices are available from the thriving Z-Wave Alliance of more than 700...

 Mouser Electronics Inc. is teaming up for the fourth consecutive year with celebrity engineer Grant Imahara for the latest edition of their popular Empowering Innovation Together program, the Generation Robot video series. The exciting new series features five videos filmed in locations around the world, highlighting the people, companies and machines that are changing how we view and interact with robots....

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. introduced two new AEC-Q101 qualified transmissive optical sensors for automotive and industrial applications. Offered in a compact 5.5 mm by 5.85 mm by 7 mm package, the Vishay Semiconductors TCUT1630X01 and TCUT1800X01 are the industry's first 3- and 4-channel transmissive sensors, respectively. The triple-channel TCUT1630X01 includes an infrared emitter and three phototransistor detectors located face to face in a surface-mount package....

Global semiconductor revenue derived from chip usage in electronic equipment and devices amounted to $111.4 billion at the end of Q1 2018, up a significant 17% from $95.2 billion during the same quarter a year ago, according to data from a new IHS Markit report. The figures come from the latest Application Market Forecast Tool (AMFT), an Excel database updated...

Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering), announced that its electronics arm, Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited (ST Electronics) has set up a subsidiary, ST Electronics (Chongqing) Co. Ltd (ST Electronics Chongqing). The paid up capital for the new subsidiary established in the New Liangjiang Area, Chongqing, will be RMB 50m (approximately S$10m). The subsidiary set-up will enable the Group’s electronics sector...

DENSO Corporation  announced that it has taken an equity stake in On The Road Co., Ltd., a developer of next-generation software using cloud computing, edge computing, and other IT platforms, to accelerate development of technology for -T. The amount of investment is about 160 million yen (approximately US$ 1.5 million) which corresponds to about a 14.88% stake. To achieve MaaS,...

Mouser Electronics, Inc.,  is now stocking QPD1025L gallium nitride (GaN) on silicon carbide (SiC) transistors from Qorvo. Operating with 1.8 kW at 65 V, the QPD1025 is the industry’s highest-power GaN-on-SiC radio frequency transistor, delivering the high signal integrity and extended reach essential for L-band avionics and identification friend or foe (IFF) applications. The proven performance and reliability of GaN...

Allegro MicroSystems, LLC, a leader in developing high-performance power and sensor integrated circuits that serve high-growth applications within the automotive, industrial and consumer/computing markets, announced that they have appointed Richard Du as Vice President, Asia Sales. He brings more than twenty-eight years of semiconductor industry experience to this position with responsibilities ranging from market share growth to key customer...

At the recent Mobile World Congress, networking giant Cisco rolled out a new networking and device management platform for Internet of Things (IoT) practitioners that promises to enable the creation of extremely large-scale deployments without breaking the bank. However IoT at scale can be expensive in terms of delivering basic device interconnectivity and management costs. Therefore IT buyers, especially...

The STNRG011 digital-power controller from STMicroelectronics simplifies and accelerates development of 90-300W power supplies and adapters for computers, LED lighting, medical equipment, telecom, and industrial equipment, meeting today’s most stringent eco-design standards. The STNRG011 combines a double-ended LLC resonant half-bridge controller and a multi-mode Power-Factor Correction (PFC) controller, managed by a digital core running best-in-class control algorithms. Integrated digital peripherals leveraging ST’s...