Direct CHIPS funding would be in addition to $6-$8 billion in tax credit
Texas Instruments has signed a preliminary agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce to receive up to $1.6 billion in CHIPS and Science Act funding that will support semiconductor manufacturing in Texas...
The MIOTY Alliance, the industrial IoT group, formed in early 2020 by the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) to shepherd its burgeoning MIOTY technology into the crowded low-power wide-area (LPWA) IoT space, has struck a deal with FábricaDigital in Mexico, described as a...
Amazon has issued a clarion call to the IoT crowd to build IoT devices for Sidewalk, its nationwide LoRa-based low-power wide-area (LPWA) network in the US. It said the Sidewalk network, which links consumer smart home devices into a low-power neighbourhood wirless infrastructure for...
The Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) this week confirmed the release of the 1.0 launch-version of the new Matter connectivity specification for interoperability of IoT products, mainly in the smart home environment. This initial release will support various smart home products, including lighting and electrical,...
Heliot Europe, the biggest Sigfox operator in Europe, has joined the MIOTY Alliance, the group promoting MIOTY as an alternative to low-power IoT technologies like Sigfox, as well as LoRaWAN and NB-IoT. The move, which might once have been considered by the Sigfox crowd...
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 concurrent use of license free 2.4GHz spectrum for BLE and sub-GHz spectrum for MIOTY.
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Note, this article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report on the combination of low-power short- and long-range communications technologies in hybrid IoT systems. Go here for the full report, which is free to download. A webinar on the same subject,...
Note, this article is taken from a new Enterprise IoT Insights editorial report, out tomorrow, on the combination of low-power short- and long-range communications technologies in hybrid IoT systems (see cover image below). Go here for the full report, which is free to download. The...
Security experts have identified a series of 19 vulnerabilities, given the name Ripple20, in a small software library integrated into “hundreds of millions”, and potentially billions, of IoT devices that have been sold into consumer, enterprise and industrial markets during the past two decades.
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A band of research organizations and industrial companies have formed the MIOTY Alliance to promote telegram-splitting ultra-narrowband (TS-UNB), commercialized as MIOTY, as an alternative low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology to the likes of LoRaWAN and NB-IoT in the industrial IoT and smart cities markets.
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The U.S. semiconductor industry urged President Donald Trump to ease the ban on sales to Chinese vendor Huawei through the approval of export licenses, according to Bloomberg.
“We encourage prompt action to issue approvals for sales that do not implicate national security concerns, particularly where...
The number of certified Zigbee IoT products and platforms in the market for smart homes and cities has passed 3,000, according to the Zigbee Alliance.
The alliance’s certification programme seeks to establish quality standards and levels of interoperability among Zigbee products for product developers,...
University students win a Thrive X prize for IoT beekeeping concept that helps beekeepers
SALINAS, Calif. — A team of engineering students from Santa Clara University was honored by Thrive X at the recent Thrive AgTech demo day for their labor-saving beekeeping concept that uses the...
Nearly 25 years after the introduction of mobile phones, it is still disconcertingly familiar to see people leaning against a window, holding phones in the air or rushing around as they search for the elusive indoor cellular signal. The crowds around the windows are...
Nearly 25 years after the introduction of mobile phones, it is still disconcertingly familiar to see people leaning against a window, holding phones in the air or rushing around as they search for the elusive indoor cellular signal. The crowds around the windows are...
Verizon launched its ThingSpace IoT platform in 2015 amid a blitz of publicity and buzz around the enormous potential of the internet of things. At the time, the IoT was a new concept for many of Verizon's customers and partners, but now the carrier...
Microchip is targeting connected home, smart city and industrial applications with its new SAM R30 RF microcontroller. The company sees growing demand for wireless solutions that can be powered by one small battery for an extended period of time. The SAM R30 leverages the...
The Intelligent Edge - the tyranny of latency, security and cost will drive a more intelligent edge
Moderator David Houghton of James Brehm & Associates is joined by executives from Qualcomm, Intel and Texas Instruments to discuss the Intelligent Edge
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Valerie Young, 5G Infrastructure Software Platform...
IoT DevKit Demonstrations
Adrian Fernandez, Microcontroller Development Experience Manager, Texas Instruments
https://youtu.be/iHPcQIzeQWU
Adrian Fernandez is the Microcontroller Development Experience Manager at Texas Instruments. In this role, he is responsible for defining the microcontroller development ecosystem and augmenting the way developers interact with TI’s microcontroller portfolio through hardware...
Enabling the internet of things
Many of the applications and devices set to drive future sales of wireless hardware have not yet been invented and no one knows this better than semiconductor companies. Wireless chip designers Qualcomm, Gemalto and Intel have created internet of things...
Internet of things developers cite security and interoperability as key challenges.
Texas Instruments has staked a claim in the growing IoT development community, since its processors power the popular BeagleBoard and BeagleBone Black development boards. Now TI wants to further simplify development with...
Verizon Wireless is moving closer to connecting meters and asset trackers directly to its LTE network. Modem maker NimbeLink said it has demonstrated a live Category M1 connection on the Verizon Wireless LTE network. The company connected its device directly to Verizon's ThingSpace platform...
CloudAir manages spectrum, power and channels in the cloud.
Huawei is developing a new technology it says will allow different air interfaces to operate in a single spectrum band. The company says its CloudAir solution will dynamically allocate spectrum resources based on fluctuations...
Sprint and SoftBank filed moves to consolidate Clearwire 2.5 GHz spectrum, and T-Mobile moved on MetroPCS acquisition … 4 years ago this week.
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the...
