Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile Austria unit is buying Liberty Global’s Austrian cable business, UPC Austria, for $2.25 billion, including debt. The acquisition will enable the T-Mobile unit to offer more services, including broadband, where it currently only has mobile operations. “Broadband is the indispensable foundation for a digital Austria,” said Andreas Bierwirth, CEO T-Mobile Austria, in […]
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Qualcomm Rejects Broadcom’s Nominees to Board
Qualcomm says it won’t back any of the candidates that Broadcom and Silver Lake Partners are proposing for its board of directors, saying they are conflicted and have no incremental skills or expertise to offer. The announcement Friday comes with the chipmaker continuing to fend off Broadcom’s unsolicited $103 billion takeover attempt. Qualcomm said again […]
Renesas and Green Hills Software collaborate on development platform for software-defined cockpit
Renesas Electronics Corporation and Green Hills Software today announced their collaboration for the Renesas Connected Cockpit Vehicle developed with a Dodge Ram truck. Stationed in both companies’ areas at CES 2018, the Dodge Ram 1500 truck includes many new immersive technologies and integrates production-ready automotive-grade hardware, based on the Renesas R-Car H3 automotive computing system-on-chip (SoC), and […]
New JEDEC Committee for wide bandgap power semiconductors invites industry participation
JEDEC Solid State Technology Association announces the successful launch of its newest committee: JC-70 Wide Bandgap Power Electronic Conversion Semiconductors. JC-70 held its first meeting in late October with twenty-three member companies, led by committee and subcommittee chairs from Infineon Technologies, Texas Instruments, Transphorm, and Wolfspeed, a Cree Company. Committee members include industry leaders in power […]
“(Almost) Everything You Wanted to Know about Capacitors” workshop to be pre-APEC event
The Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA) and the IEEE Power Electronics Society (IEEE PELS) are jointly sponsoring an all-day workshop titled, “(Almost) Everything You Wanted to Know About Capacitors But Were Afraid to Ask,” on Saturday, March 3, 2018, the day before the start of and in the same venue as APEC 2018 at the […]
Shenzen’s ELEXCON 2017 addresses industry hot spots
The professional exhibition “ELEXCON & Embedded Expo 2017” will showcase five technology themes that are shaping the future of the electronics industry. The highlighted tracks include: · Next generation smart phone technology · Sense technologies: smart home, AI, smart medical care and IoT · Automotive electronics, car networking, motor, battery and electric control · Global […]
Verizon Completes Acquisition of WOW’s Chicago-area Fiber Infrastructure
Verizon has completed its $225 million purchase of Chicago-area fiber network assets from WideOpenWest (WOW!), as part of the service provider’s continued efforts to prepare for 5G. The deal includes 1,200 miles of fiber for more than 500 macro-cell sites and more than 500 small-cell sites in the city. Verizon said the purchase will […]
T-Mobile Taking Over Dutch Arm of Tele2 Mobile Provider
The Dutch arm of T-Mobile says it is taking over telecom and internet provider Tele2’s operations in the Netherlands, in a move T-Mobile says is aimed at competing with local heavyweights KPN and VodafoneZiggo. T-Mobile will pay 190 million euros ($224 million) and give Tele2 a 25-percent stake in the new combined company. T-Mobile parent […]
Fanless modular power supply now shipping from Sager Electronics
Sager Electronics is now stocking the CoolX600 NFF Series convection-cooled modular power supply from Excelsys. The CoolX600 NFF Series is the new, revolutionary, convection-cooled modular power supply platform from Excelsys Technologies which delivers an incredible 600W without fan assisted cooling from a very compact 8.5 x 4.5 x 1U package. The only fanless modular power […]
Broadcom Nominates Qualcomm Board Candidates amid Merger Push
Broadcom on Monday officially announced plans to nominate 11 candidates for Qualcomm’s board of directors as it continues to pursue a merger with the chip maker. The slate of 11 “independent, highly qualified individuals” includes former Nokia Mobile Networks president Samih Elhage, former Dialog Semiconductor and LSI Corporation board chairman Gregorio Reyes and Black Diamond […]