Mike Wong

Semtech Corporation, a high-performance semiconductor, IoT systems and cloud connectivity service provider, has announced its collaboration with Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics Group, to launch the MCU+SX126x reference design to provide more cost-effective solutions for clients in the fields of instrumentation, fire prevention and security, environmental monitoring, and other applications.

As decades-old technologies, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and cellular are well established, but they were not designed to allow long-range communications at a low bit rate among things such as sensors powered by a battery.

Semtech, a supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and provider of end-to-end solutions for low-power wide-area network (LP-WAN) connectivity known as LoRa, has joined the Board of Governors of the IoT M2M Council (IMC).