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RivieraWaves announces the world’s first Bluetooth® 3.0 qualified baseband IP
RivieraWaves announced today that it has successfully passed the Bluetooth Qualification with its Bluetooth 3.0 baseband Intellectual Property (IP).
Agilent Technologies Announces Winner of Third Annual Early Career Professor Award
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the winner of the company's third annual Agilent Early Career Professor Award. Dr. Michael Jewett, assistant professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering in the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University, will receive the prize, which provides an unrestricted research award of $50,000 per year for two years to Northwestern in Dr. Jewett's name.
Cypress Announces First-Ever Cash Dividend
Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced that its Board of Directors has adopted a dividend policy under which the Company intends to pay quarterly cash dividends on its common stock.
MIFARE4Mobile Industry Group Announces Roadmap
The MIFARE4Mobile Industry Group, consisting of leading players in the Near Field Communication (NFC) ecosystem including Ericsson, Gemalto, Giesecke & Devrient, NXP Semiconductors, Oberthur Technologies, STMicroelectronics and ViVOtech, today announced the new roadmap for MIFARE4Mobile™ specifications.
Display Solution and Impuls TV Introduce the World’s First Mini Multi Cell LC Display for Text, Photo and Video Display on Retail Shelves
Display Solution AG, experts in the areas of LCD TFT special solutions, together with Impuls TV, an operating company for Digital Signage projects at POS/POI has introduced the world’s first Mini USB/Multi Cell LCD TFT module that allows informative, entertaining and accurate product information to be displayed on retail shelves.
ARM Passes x86 and Power Architecture to Become The Leading MCU/eMPU Architecture in 2010
According to preliminary findings from the 2011 edition of Semicast’s 32/64-bit Microcontrollers & Embedded Microprocessors study, ARM became the leading architecture for 32/64-bit MCUs/eMPUs in 2010.
Microchip Introduces Accessory Development Kits for Android
Microchip announces its Accessory Development Starter Kits for Android, which enable accessory development for Google’s Android platform. Specifically, Android versions 2.3.4 and 3.1 and later include a new framework that allows apps to communicate directly with an accessory connected to a smartphone or tablet, via USB.
Premo Wuxi received R&D Center certification by China Government
Premo Wuxi R&D Center has been approved and certified by Jiangsu Province. Total of 68 companies in the whole province has been certified before and PREMO Wuxi is the sole one representing Wuxi city, 95% were from Suzhou and rest from Nanjing.
Energy Micro makes South Korean appointment
Energy Micro has announced the appointment of Byoung-Ho Choi as its first Country Manager for South Korea. BH will head local sales and distribution activities for the company's growing family of ARM® Cortex(TM) based energy friendly microcontrollers and RF transceivers. Energy Micro's ultra low power EFM32 Gecko MCU and EFR4 Draco radio products are capable of consuming a quarter of the energy of competing solutions.
Fujitsu Licenses Imagination Graphics and Multimedia IP Cores
Imagination Technologies Group plc – a leader in System-on-Chip Intellectual Property (SoC IP) – has signed a strategic license agreement with Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited for Imagination’s POWERVR SGX graphics and POWERVR video technologies.