Chip designer CSR rejects takeover bid from US rival Microchip Technology as it mulls IoT options

West Malling, Kent, UK. September 1, 2014 — CSR has confirmed that it has been approached by Microchip Technology Inc. with terms for a possible offer for the company. The proposal by US-based MicrochipTech, a larger rival as well as a customer, has been rejected by the CSR Board and the company said that it

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ARM and Sensor Platforms deliver an open source framework for sensor devices

Cambridge, UK – ARM® and Sensor Platforms Inc. are extending their collaboration to the Open Sensor Platform (OSP) to simplify development of embedded sensor-based products utilising ARM architecture. Contributions to the OSP framework will enable ARM CMSIS, the ARM RTX RTOS, and compatibility with the ARM mbed™ SDK and mbed platforms.

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UK government funds HyperCat, ‘a new way for machines to work together’ says IoT tech consortium

London, UK. June 26, 2014: A consortium of more than 40 UK-based technology companies funded by the UK’s innovation agency, Technology Strategy Board, has delivered on the first phase of its initiative to accelerate the widespread move to the Internet of Things (IoT). HyperCat is a new open IoT specification that allows machines to work

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ARM targets automotive and industrial control markets with new architecture

ARM has disclosed technical details of its new ARMv8-R architecture for real-time embedded processors for use in automotive electronics and other integrated safety and control applications.  The ARMv8-R architecture builds on the rich heritage of the 32-bit ARMv7-R architecture used for the company’s market-leading Cortex®-R series of real-time processors and complements the ARMv8-A architecture announced

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LogMeIn and ARM work together to accelerate commercial products in the Internet of Things

Boston, MA, USA – LogMeIn, Inc. is to collaborate with ARM® to simplify and accelerate commercial development of the Internet of Things (IoT). The news coincides with the release of LogMeIn’s Xively Cloud Services, a new commercial IoT Public Cloud.

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FIME qualifies first GlobalPlatform TEE product for Trustonic

FIME, advanced secure-chip testing provider, and Trustonic – formed by ARM, Gemalto and Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) – have announced the qualification of the first GlobalPlatform compliant trusted execution environment (TEE) product

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Trustonic: The new standard of trust and security for Connected Devices

Trustonic, the new company formed by ARM, Gemalto and Giesecke & Devrient (G&D), has launched as a new standard security provider to address the increasing need for trust built into smart connected devices.

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Renesas Electronics develops Smart Analog and unveils new microprocessor 'roadmap'

Dusseldorf, October 23, 2012 – Renesas Electronics, a semiconductor systems supplier, has introduced Smart Analog, to help engineers implement sensors in embedded designs. Renesas has also unveiled a microprocessor roadmap.

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M2M supergroup formed by ARM in Cambridge

Cambridge superchip designer ARM has launched a new UK powergroup to create a technology blueprint for how the 50 million connected devices expected worldwide by 2020 can work together.

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Five Arm devices support M2M segments

Atmel has added five devices to its Sam 9 Arm 926-based family of microcontrollers for applications in M2M, industrial and building control, HVAC, point-of-sale terminals, printers and medical devices, smart grid with data concentrators, and human machine interfaces.

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Smart energy module combines metering and control

Bytesnap Design has released the ZMM-01 Zigbee smart energy module that combines the features of metering and control in one, low power platform. It also provides a real-time clock, accurate up to 2ppm.

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