Lisle, Ill.-based Molex will present optical connectivity, structured cabling, and I/O and backplane systems for high-speed, high-density applications at the 29th Annual Supercomputing 2017 international conference and exhibition, being held this week in Denver. The company will feature high-density blind-mating optical backplane connectors for card, sled and drawer applications, and multi-fiber MT and VersaBeam expanded […]
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Tuesdays with Roger: Sprint and T-Mobile Go Their Separate Ways
Roger Entner discusses the end of merger talks between Sprint and T-Mobile, and more cable companies prepare to jump into the wireless market. Need to listen on the go? Tune in to Tuesdays with Roger episodes in podcast form here. Also, follow Roger on Twitter at @RogerEntner for more insights throughout the week, and stay up to date on the […]
Qualcomm Rejects Broadcom Takeover Bid
Qualcomm announced Monday that its board of directors unanimously rejected a $105 billion takeover bid from rival Broadcom as too low and fraught with regulatory concerns. Broadcom said last week that its offer of $70 per share in cash and stock — which would equate to $130 billion but include $25 billion in debt — […]
Broadcom Makes $100M Bid for Qualcomm
Broadcom this week announced an offer of more than $100 billion to acquire rival chip maker Qualcomm. The Silicon Valley company, which is officially based in Singapore but last week announced plans to legally relocate to Delaware, said that its proposal valued Qualcomm at $70 per share, split between $60 per share in cash and […]
T-Mobile, Sprint End Merger Talks
A lengthy effort to combine two of the nation’s four large wireless carriers came to a screeching halt over the weekend. T-Mobile and Sprint announced in separate statements Saturday that they were “unable to find mutually agreeable terms” and ceased merger talks. Reports in recent months suggested that the third- and fourth-largest U.S. carriers were […]
Report: T-Mobile Aims to Keep Sprint Merger Talks Alive
T-Mobile reportedly presented a revised merger offer to Sprint in an effort to keep the long-sought deal between the two major U.S. carriers afloat. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that T-Mobile’s board determined to reach out to Sprint with another bid just days after SoftBank Group, Sprint’s controlling stakeholder, indicated that it would seek […]
Crown Castle Completes Lightower Acquisition
Cellular tower giant Crown Castle International on Wednesday announced the completion of its $7.1 billion acquisition of Lightower. CCI officials said in a statement that the deal adds Lightower’s roughly 32,000 miles of fiber — located primarily in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and other northeastern markets — and more than doubles its overall fiber footprint […]
With FCC OK, CenturyLink Clears Last Regulatory Hurdle for Level 3 Deal
Clearing its final regulatory hurdle to closing, CenturyLink has received approval from the Federal Communications Commission for its $34 billion acquisition of Level 3 Communications. The approval comes on the heels of green lights from the California Public Utilities Commission, as well as the U.S. Department of Justice earlier this month. “The FCC’s approval […]
Deep-depletion technique could bring better power MOSFETs
Researcher say the deep-depletion regime of bulk-boron-doped wide band gap semiconductors could be an avenue toward power MOSFETs able to handle large voltages and high temperatures. A group with members based in France, the UK and Japan applied the technique to diamond-based MOSFETs. But they say a similar scheme would work in other wide-band-gap semiconductors. […]