NXP Semiconductor has agreed to purchase Austin, Texas-based Freescale Semiconductor in a deal valued at $11.8 billion, creating a $40 billion chip giant that will be a dominant supplier for the… Read more »
Today we are worshipping the gods of the algorithm, according to one prominent magazine. It’s not a bad comparison. Everything from search results to our machine learning efforts are the basis… Read more »
In another bet on the internet of things, chip maker Silicon Labs has purchased Bluegiga Technologies Oy, a Finnish company that makes wireless radio modules for $61 million in cash. Bluegiga… Read more »
Intel has purchased Lantiq for an undisclosed sum, a company familiar to those of us in the wireline broadband sector for its DSL and other networking chips. This follows Intel’s moves… Read more »
Ringly, which makes a line of connected rings, has raised $5.1M in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from High Line Ventures and Silas Capital. The funds will… Read more »
Ambiq Micro, a semiconductor company in Austin, Texas, has been working for the last five years to build a lower-power chip by applying to silicon a technology that has been used… Read more »
Finding ways to cut battery consumption is driving all kinds of innovations in semiconductors, including building chips that are less accurate as a way of saving power. Read more »
Does the internet of things need an entirely different style of operating system? ARM thinks so. It upgraded mbed to bridge full-featured OSes and the real-time OSes for the embedded market. Read more »
ARM has released a higher-performance microcontroller core design aimed at the the internet of things, and several chip firms are already using it. Read more »