onsemi has agreed to acquire Synaptics in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $7 billion, a deal that brings together power management, sensing, Edge AI compute, and wireless connectivity technologies as semiconductor vendors race to build integrated platforms for industrial…
Europe’s first sovereign chip manufacturing flow could reshape the IoT supply chain
Europe has taken a significant step towards semiconductor self-sufficiency after Dutch chip designer Qualinx and GlobalFoundries announced what they describe as the first fully European end-to-end semiconductor manufacturing flow for security-critical applications. The milestone centres on Qualinx’s QLX3xx global navigation…
ABB and Samsung connect building intelligence with enterprise IoT
ABB and Samsung Electronics have announced a new integration between ABB Ability Building Pro and Samsung SmartThings Pro, building on their existing partnership. The integration enables building owners and operators to access building data, insights, and controls through a more connected environment. Building owners and…
Mouser now shipping STMicroelectronics mainstream microcontrollers for industrial, smart, and robotics applications
Mouser Electronics, Inc. is now shipping the new STM32C5 Arm Cortex-M33 Core Mainstream Microcontrollers (MCUs) from STMicroelectronics. The STM32C5 MCUs are designed to support the development of entry-level, cost-effective, smart home, consumer, industrial, robotics, wearables, and computer peripheral applications. The…
Online Oceans raises £4 million to scale autonomous surface fleets
Online Oceans, a UK company building autonomous surface vessels and fleet software for defence and maritime security, has raised £4 million in funding led by Seraphim Space. The round also includes participation from investors, including Peter Rive, co-founder of SolarCity,…
Taiwan gets RTK GNSS test & design network availability
u-blox announced the availability of a high-precision RTK GNSS testing and designing network across Taiwan. This new capability enables engineers and developers to evaluate and optimise their designs using u-blox’s PointPerfect Flex service, achieving centimetre-level positioning accuracy in real-world conditions.…
ByteSnap Design to help manufacturers beat cellular shutdown deadlines
ByteSnap Design has announced the launch of its Cellular Migration Fast-Track service, a new service designed to help device manufacturers complete 4G LTE and 5G transitions in a fraction of the time typically required. With 2G and 3G network shutdowns already…
Wind River joins the CHERI Alliance
Wind River, an Aptiv company and global specialist in mission critical software for the intelligent Edge, has joined the CHERI Alliance, a group championing the global adoption of the Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI) security technology. CHERI architecture is…
OPC Foundation and LoRa Alliance to map LoRaWAN to OPC UA
The OPC Foundation announces a new joint working group effort with the LoRa Alliance to develop a mapping from LoRaWAN to OPC UA, bringing together two highly complementary technologies that play important roles in the future of Industrial and IoT…
MIKROE’ Click boards now in stock at DigiKey
MIKROE has announced that the company’s entire portfolio of Click boards is now being stocked by DigiKey. Compact Click add-on boards for functions such as sensors, connectivity, power, displays, and interfaces, enable developers to rapidly provide proof-of-concept, then prototype and…
