Leuven (Belgium) and San Diego (California, USA)  – December 3, 2013 – Imec, Holst Centre and Wicentric introduce today their integrated ultra-low power Bluetooth® Smart radio solution for a range of smart applications. With a power consumption up to five times lower than state-of-the-art radios and an extremely small memory footprint, this radio solution, integrating imec and Holst Centre’s 2.4GHz ultra-low power radio and Wicentric’s exactLE product line of Bluetooth® Smart software, leads the way to new Internet of Things applications such as personal health monitoring systems and smart home applications.

Autonomous wireless sensor systems running on … Read More → "Bluetooth® Smart radio with record battery lifetime"

Geneva, December 3, 2013 – STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications and the leading supplier of MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) devices for consumer and mobile applications^[1], has unveiled its new state-of-the-art high-performance MEMS accelerometer engineered to withstand increasingly challenging conditions inside the latest smartphones and other portable devices.

With today’s processing-intensive mobile apps and super-slim handset designs, portable electronics are more vulnerable to thermal variation and bending. As OEMs push … Read More → "STMicroelectronics Reveals Advanced MEMS Accelerometers Engineered to Withstand Stresses of Modern Mobile Life"