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Infineon Technologies AG, Europe’s biggest chipmaker by revenue, agreed to buy Cree Inc.’s Wolfspeed Power unit for $850 million to expand in fast-growing markets such as electric cars, renewable energy and the Internet of Things. The company is paying cash for Wolfspeed, which makes compound semiconductors and power-management chips, according to a statement on Thursday. The deal adds to Infineon’s...

Following Microchip’s acquisition of Atmel, Avnet Silica now provides the full range of products available from the two companies. These products include the complete product portfolio that spans microcontroller, wireless, touch, automotive, security and memory solutions.Following the acquisition, Microchip says it has become the third largest microcontroller manufacturer worldwide.“Avnet Silica continues to boast a strong partnership with Microchip that...

National Instruments has announced further integration of the NI Multisim and LabVIEWplatforms. By integrating the recently released Multisim 10.1 and LabVIEW, engineers can better identify and analyse design behaviour and detect errors at the earliest stages of design. Additionally, with the beta version of the NI LabVIEW Multisim Connectivity Toolkit, engineers can now enhance circuit design. Multisim makes it possible...

Dual mode Bluetooth audio products have been introduced by Microchip. The IS206X family builds on the IS202X portfolio of SoC devices and modules by introducing Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) capability. Engineered for speakers, headsets and gaming headphones, this flash-based platform allows audio manufacturers to incorporate wireless connectivity in streaming music and voice-command applications. A 32bit DSP core provides the framework...

India's Ministry of Defence is soon expected place orders for the purchase of 12 S-400 'Triumph' Anti-Aircraft missile systems to secure Indian skies. This was stated as the official stand of the Make in India program spearheaded by India's PM Narendra Modi at the international industrial exhibition “Innoprom” in Yekaterinburg. According to information at the booth, India plans to lease...

Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP), a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, through its Silicon Storage Technology (SST) subsidiary, announced today qualification and availability of SST’s low-mask-count embedded SuperFlash® non-volatile memory (NVM) on GLOBALFOUNDRIES' 130 nm BCDLite technology platform. SST’s embedded SuperFlash memory solution requires the addition of only four masking steps to GLOBALFOUNDRIES’s BCDLite technology that...

This is for experienced designers and will allow them to work with the ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers (MCUs) down to register-level code, to controlling device peripheral and to optimise performance and run-time efficiency. The LL APIs are integrated into the STM32Cube packages with example projects designed to run on STM32 Nucleo development boards. The LL APIs can be used in parallel with...

This year’s market, worth $36.9 billion, will be split: Wafer Processing $29.33 billion +1.9% Test $3.36 billion +o.9% Assembly & Test $2.39 billion -5% Other Front End $1.86 billion -2.1% This year’s market will be split by region: Taiwan $9.46 billion -1.8% y-o-y China $6.41 billion. +30.8% y-o-y Korea $6.17 billion -17.3% y-o-y Japan 5.08 billion -7.6% y-oy USA $4.62 billion -9.8% y-o-y ROW $3.13 billion +58.9% y-o-y Europe $2.07 +6.2%...

What is Sensor technology sensor is kind of transducer; sensors may provide various types of output, but typically use electrical or optical signals. For example, a thermocouple generates a known voltage (the output) in response to its temperature (the environment). A sensor is a device that detects and responds to...

Birlasoft recognizes IoT as a driving force in manufacturing industries to maximize plant performance, increase manufacturing execution efficiencies, improve quality and quantity of plant output, and drastically reduce cost of plant maintenance.  The ROMO solution is built to capture machine-generated data from sensors in reverse osmosis (RO) plants, to provide real-time, unprecedented, smart analytics to the plant operations manager, in the form of improved,...