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Renesas completes acquisition of Reality AI

Japanese electronics company Renesas has completed its acquisition of Reality AI, a US provider of embedded AI products, following Reality AI shareholders’ and required regulatory approval. Headquartered in Columbia, [...]

Congatec modules help Intel develop IoT-connected robots

Intel Labs China has chosen Congatec’s Com Express modules for its Hero heterogeneous extensible robot open platform for developing IoT-connected service robots, retail robots and self-driving vehicles. Created by [...]

U-Blox MoU expands GNSS services in Australia

Swiss firm U-Blox and Position Partners, an Australasian provider of intelligent positioning technology, have signed an MoU to expand the availability of GNSS augmentation services in Australia and New [...]

Berg predicts rapid growth in cellular IoT

The global number of cellular IoT subscribers increased 22 per cent during 2021 to reach 2.1 billion, according to Berg Insight, which predicts there will be 4.3 billion IoT [...]

Microsoft secures unmanaged IoT devices

Microsoft has introduced security for unmanaged IoT devices in the enterprise network with Defender for IoT. While IoT devices can easily outnumber managed endpoints such as laptops and mobile [...]

Siemens tackles IoT SoC design verification

To address design verification problems with complex mixed-signal systems-on-chip (SoCs), Siemens has introduced the Symphony Pro platform for automotive, imaging, IoT, 5G, computing and storage applications. This extends the [...]

Quectel brings centimetre level accuracy to Hyfix.AI

California-based Hyfix.AI has built a GNSS Geodnet base station with centimetre-level accuracy using Chinese company Quectel’s LC29H dual-band GNSS module. Geodnet is a decentralised network of high-precision multi-band GNSS [...]

STM and GF plan wafer fab to support IoT

ST Microelectronics and GlobalFoundries are planning a 300mm manufacturing facility in France to support technologies for automotive, industrial, IoT and communications infrastructure applications. Swiss electronics firm ST Microelectronics and [...]

Ericsson, Thales and Qualcomm take 5G into space

Ericsson, French aerospace company Thales and wireless technology innovator Qualcomm are planning to take 5G out of this world and across a network of Earth-orbiting satellites. This could not [...]

Google deploys cloud power closer to DT edge

Deutsche Telekom and Google Cloud have defined a joint roadmap to bring the power of the cloud closer to mobile and connected devices at the edge of Deutsche Telekom’s [...]

JT IoT acquires MVNO Top Connect

JT IoT, founded as Jersey Telecom’s IoT connectivity wing, has acquired Top Connect, an Estonian MVNO and global roaming provider. The acquisition of this IoT and roaming connectivity provider [...]

Kit helps developers power IoT devices wirelessly

A wirelessly-powered sensor evaluation kit combines the technologies from Californian companies Energous and Atmosic. The kit highlights the capabilities of wireless power and helps IoT device developers deploy wireless [...]