Rohm has dual-standard wide-area radio chip for IoT

A smart meter wireless comms device that supports both Sigfox and IEEE802.15.4k radio standards has been introduced by Lapis Semiconductor, part of the Rohm Group. Designated the ML7404, the chip will be supplied with the protocol stack for IEEE802.15.4k as open-source from partner stack vendors. The Sigfox standard is a subscription-based low power wide-area wireless ...

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Nexperia launches miniature TVS diodes

Nexperia, the former Standard Products division of NXP, has announced three miniature TVS diodes. Using 1 x 0.6 mm (DFN1006-2/SOD882 package) of PCB space and with a height of 0.5 mm, the new PTVS4V5D1BL TVS diode has  good clamping characteristics and a typical surge robustness of 38.3 A (8/20 µA pulse), which is industry benchmark ...

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Automotive supplier opens PCB plant in Lancashire

Scorpion Automotive, the Lancashire-based supplier to the automotive and marine sectors, has opened a new PCB production plant in Chorley with a ceremony conducted by the Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons and Chorley MP, Lindsay Hoyle. Scorpion Automotive is a manufacturer and supplier of vehicle security and telematics systems for cars, LCVs, HGVs, ...

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Cambridge Prowler bags up £10m

Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC) has led a £10 million Series A funding round for PROWLER.io which develops based on interpretable principles of mathematics and learning. “This investment allows us to expand our world-leading team of academics and developers,” says PROWLER CEO Vishal Chatrath (pictured) “we will continue to solve some of the world’s hardest machine ...

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Schneider to take control of Aveva

Cambridge software company Aveva has finally been snapped up by the French energy company Schneider Electric after two failed takeover attempts. Talks between the two companies first started in July 2915 at a valuation of £1.3 billion. Aveva later said that the risks for shareholders were too high. Talks re-started in July 2016 but collapsed ...

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Google sets up XXVI

Google has re-structured itself again, setting up a new holding company called XXVI after the 26 letters in the Alphabet. Two years ago, Google formed Alphabet to be the Google holding company but all the non-Google activities – known as ‘Other Bets’ remained subsidiaries of Google under that structure. Under the new structure, XXVI will ...

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Cardiff Cluster Catapult appoints CEO

Stephen Doran, formerly of Motorola, Raytheon and Wolfson, has been appointed CEO of the Cardiff Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult. The Cardiff Catapult is one of 10Catapult Centres set up by Innovate UK The others are: Cell and Gene Therapy Digital, Future Cities, High Value Manufacturing Offshore Renewable Energy Satellite Applications Transport Systems Energy Systems Medicine ...

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