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| 2013-10-04 | Smart devices and the future of keyless entry technology Junko Yoshida discusses the potential of smart watches and smartphones as tools for keyless entry as well as how some automakers are treating the idea with scepticism. |
| 2014-04-02 | Silicon Labs lays down IoT SoC strategy The IoT SoC consists of six blocks: sensor, low-energy MCU, RF transceiver, energy management, mixed signals and memory. |
| 2015-01-20 | Shift in China's mobile market threatens U.S. chip companies Among big changes in the works are China Mobile's shift in procurement policy from five-mode smartphones to three-mode models and plans among Chinese apps processor vendors to embrace connectivity. |
| 2002-05-24 | Sensors seen enabling new-age services Proliferating wireless data transmitters and sensors will be the enablers of a new information revolution, but component and equipment makers will lose out to the collectors and organizers of sensor data if they can't spot the technology's commercial possibilities. |
| 2014-06-18 | Sensor fusion paves way for next-gen apps Know the importance of sensor fusion in connected embedded systems and how the ARC EM4 32bit CPU-based sensor IP sub-system allows design of devices with the right performance/power consumption mix. |
| 2014-11-17 | Samsung reveals new development projects Digital health was one of four growth areas in which Samsung rolled out new software developer kits, seeking to build ecosystems around its smartphones and tablets. |
| 2014-06-10 | Samsung joins medical, fitness wearables race Samsung gave a preview of a multi-function bracelet that is meant to accommodate a wide array of fitness and medical sensors. The Simband platform integrates Imec's sensing technologies to measure ECGs, bio-impedance, skin temperature, acceleration, and more. |
| 2014-11-05 | Rethinking memory design for IoT and wearables The space, power and application requirements of wearables and other mobile connected devices that collectively make up the growing IoT ecosystem require a fresh approach to system design. |
| 2008-11-26 | Researchers fuse CMOS circuits, flexible substrates Researchers claim to have invented a method that combines CMOS circuits on flexible substrates by transferring silicon circuits from a wafer onto the flexible polymer substrate. |
| 2012-09-04 | Research integrates CMOS into flexible substrates for medical implants The technology uses SOI CMOS devices and two layers of a polymer called Parylene C, one of which is perforated, to bond them to flexible substrates. |
| 2013-01-14 | Reprogrammable memory arrays on flexible substrate The MOMA consortium has recently announced the development of the largest reprogrammable non-volatile memory arrays which will be made on flexible substrates. |
| 2014-08-14 | Positioning module combines GPS, GLONASS receiver techs The module touts unprecedented accuracy with quad-constellation support, acquiring and tracking all visible GPS, GLONASS, QZSS, and SBAS satellites. |
| 2013-12-11 | Pebble: From prototype to being more than just a simple timepiece Eric Migicovsky, the CEO of Pebble Technology, looks back in only a span of five years how the smart watch prototype he was working on took "the industry by storm." |
| 2015-10-29 | PC industry is not dead, says HP CTO Shane Wall, HP's chief technologist, described new computing markets in which HP Inc. will play, although it's not clear whether the company has clearly defined platforms for many of them. |
| 2015-02-18 | Pattern recognition carves smooth road for Big Data Start-up NeuroMem seeks to enable efficient pattern recognition by bringing massively parallel, low-power, real-time, cost-effective computing architecture with a built-in capability to learn on the fly. |
| 2004-07-19 | Osram expands graphic display offering Osram Opto Semiconductors announced the newest addition to its Pictiva line of graphic display products. |
| 2016-01-06 | NXP brings the word 'easy' to smart home set-up Included in NXP's smart home solutions are production-ready modules and reference designs for smart lighting, smoke detection, motion sensing, home gateways and many other smart home applications. |
| 2015-02-12 | Novel sensor gives humans magnetic sensing capabilities Scientists from Germany and Japan developed a magnetic sensor that is thin, robust and pliable enough to be smoothly adapted even to the most flexible part of the human palm. |
| 2016-02-29 | New smart glasses offer virtual keyboard The processor used for K-Glass 3 is composed of a pre-processing core to implement stereo vision, seven deep-learning cores to accelerate real-time scene recognition within 33ms. |
| 2008-02-26 | Nanogenerators weave power suit Georgia Institute of Technology professor Zhong Lin Wang has invented clothing fabrics that generate electricity from the motion of wearing. |
| 2014-01-06 | Monitoring heart rates with PSoC Here's the design of a heart rate monitor using programmable system-on-a-chip. |
| 2016-03-10 | Mobile is Everything: MWC 2016 highlights Have a look at the highlightsthe new products unveiled and new announcements at recently concluded Mobile World Congress 2016 held in Barcelona, Spain. |
| 2016-01-08 | Mixed-signal IC design: Forecasts for 2016 This article will examine the key trends, challenges, and emerging solutions in mixed-signal system design enablement, focusing on mixed-signal verification. |
| 2014-03-26 | MIPS chips venture into smartwatches Imagination Technologies seizes an opportunity that has been opened alongside the growing popularity of smartwatches, of which none are yet MIPS-based. |
| 2014-07-01 | MEMS startup focuses on Chinese ODMs for growth Ben Lee, CEO of mCube, said it secured $37 million of Series C venture capital to enter phase three of its progress, and will target Chinese ODMs, not a design win from either Apple or Samsung. |
| 2014-07-07 | MEMS mic gives 64.3dB SNR within 235?A The device from Knowles uses three times less power than other digital MEMS microphones. It measures 20 per cent smaller, 3.5mm by 2.65mm by 0.98mm, and has the highest SNR of any low-power mic. |
| 2014-10-30 | MegaChips to acquire MEMS timing leader SiTime The two companies announced on Tuesday, October 28, a definitive agreement under which Osaka-based MegaChips will acquire SiTime, a leader in the MEMS timing market for $200 million in cash. |
| 2014-12-12 | M&As that pushed the Internet of Things Beyond the usual reasons for consolidation, many companies scrambled to make deals specifically to get IoT technologies and products that were missing from their portfolios. |
| 2013-07-05 | Li-Ion battery fuel gauge for medical, industrial apps The bq27421 is a Li-Ion battery fuel gauge integrated circuit which boosts battery run-time in portable medical devices 50 per cent and allows consumers to see remaining capacity. |
| 2015-07-10 | Jitter concerns when selecting timing solutions Determining the effects of jitter on the system, as well as defining the jitter budgets for the various sub-systems are the keys to optimising system performance. |
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