Chipsets

Suntory Beverage & Food, the soft drinks division of Japanese drinks company Suntory, has recruited Hitachi to deploy its Lumada-branded IoT platform and IoT analytics applications at its newly opened …

In 2017, Kurt Busch was suddenly a man in a hurry. He had a lightbulb moment watching his youngest child talk with his iPad, and in that instant saw an …

IoT module maker Telit has introduced a new cloud-based platform called Telit NExT to give service providers and enterprise users access to cellular IoT networks in 190 countries. The product, …

Qualcomm has announced its first “purpose-built” 5G modem for industrial IoT applications, scheduled for release next month (June 2021). The new modem-to-antenna solution is pitched at the manufacturing, energy, agriculture, …

The crucial trend in the internet-of-things (IoT) space to bring miniaturised machine learning (ML) into battery-powered edge devices is gathering pace. Chip maker Infineon Technologies has just announced a new …

IoT module maker Sierra Wireless has announced a new family of embedded 5G modules, compliant with the latest Release 16 (R16) version of the 5G standard, for routers, gateways, and …

Semiconductor maker STMicroelectronics (STMicro) has agreed a deal to acquire France-based edge AI software specialist Cartesiam for an undisclosed fee. The deal covers all Cartesiam’s assets, including its intellectual property …

Toronto-based BehrTech has combined with Texas Instruments to release the first dual-stack low-power IoT chip to run both wide-area MIOTY and short-range Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) connectivity. The unit makes …

“It will take time, but this provision of untethered enterprise value will eclipse the standard consumer telecoms market.” So says Mark Bole, chief executive at core networking provider Quortus. It …

AmericanPharma Technologies, a provider of technology for healthcare and biopharmaceutical products, has developed an LTE-M based monitoring Covid-19 vaccine shipments and storage in the US. It has partnered with France-based …

Austin-based chip-maker Silicon Labs has announced a new range of system-on-chips (SoCs) with support for Wi-SUN, an alternative for low-power wide-area (LPWA) networking like LoRaWAN and Sigfox. It said its …

Semiconductor firm STMicroelectronics (STMicro) has joined the burgeoning MIOTY Alliance, to promote the novel telegram-splitting ultra-narrowband (TS-UNB) technology, commercialized as MIOTY, as an alternative to low-power wide-area (LPWA) protocols like …

UK-based vehicle battery manufacturer Hyperbat has claimed a “world-first” industrial virtual reality (VR) solution for manufacturing using a private 5G network. It is working with BT and Ericsson on the …

US manufacturing company Vision Metering is ramping up production of LoRa based smart energy meters connecting on LoRaWAN networks. The South Carolina firm claimed it has been “quickly onboarding” municipal …

French firms Atos, Dassault Systèmes, Groupe Renault, STMicroelectronics, and Thales have joined together to create a new ‘Software République’ to develop home-grown “sustainable mobility” solutions for cities, regions, and businesses, …

Arm has unveiled its first new architecture in a decade to raise performance and security in the “next 300 billion Arm-based chips” to be delivered to the market over the …

Barcelona-based IoT antenna company Fractus Antennas has rebranded as Ignion. The company has reissued its mission statement, to establish its proprietary off-the-shelf multiband ‘virtual antenna’ chip technology as a driver …

Nordic Semiconductor has expanded its presence in South America with a new sales and technical support agreement with Brazilian consulting firm BP&M. The chipmaker reckons “IoT is on a roll” …

The FiRa Consortium, the organisation looking to build the IoT market around the burgeoning ultra wideband (UWB) technology, is taking on new members at a decent rate. Germany-based wireless test …

Among the many things we’ve learned during the era of Covid-19 is the importance of efficient, reliable, and always-available healthcare services. The urgency of the pandemic has not only spurred …

Sony Semiconductor Israel has released a new cellular IoT chipset for NB-IoT networks. The firm’s low-power Altair ALT1255 chipset is designed for LTE Cat NB2 devices, running the Release 14 …

(Am I really going to write this?) 6G is a trillion dollar opportunity, apparently. So says the headline in a PR missive about a new report from research firm IDTechEx, …

Note, this post is continued from an article called, “5G helped us through Covid’ – Lufthansa Technik on private 5G with Nokia, Vodafone”. Click here to see the previous instalment. …

Deutsche Telekom is working with The Things Industries (TTI), the industrial solutions division of LoRaWAN network provider The Things Network (TTN), to combine licensed and unlicensed low-power wide-area (LPWA) technologies …

The French government has announced funding for new national industrial 5G projects, as parts of its France Relance (France Relaunch) package. It has also raised alarm bells that the country …