Broadcom CEO Hock Tan has written a letter to all  Qualcomm shareholders: Dear Qualcomm Stockholder, On November 6, 2017, we made a proposal to acquire Qualcomm for $70.00 per share in cash and stock, which would provide you with substantial and immediate cash value, as well as the opportunity to participate in the upside potential …

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CEVA has started licensing  ClearVox – voice input processing algorithms aimed at enhancing speech intelligibility and voice clarity for the CEVA-TeakLite-4 and CEVA-X2 audio/voice DSPs. Voice-enabled speakers have to cope with multi-mic beamforming, multi-channel acoustic echo cancellation and noise suppression in their products. The ClearVox algorithms cope with different acoustic scenarios and microphone configurations, including optimized …

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Moortec, the Plymouth PVT IP company, has opened a design centre in Gdansk (pictured). It will be headed up by Moortec Design Centre Manager, Szymon Gerka. Moortec provides embedded IP subsystem solutions for Process, Voltage & Temperature (PVT) monitoring, targeting advanced node CMOS technologies from 40nm down to 7nm. “The Design Centre in Gdańsk will …

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How to attract customers in a world of AI, robots, and automation is the subject of an interesting new book, “Customers the Day After Tomorrow”.

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The thorny Q is: How much will this cost Intel? Estimates vary from multi-billions to nothing. It all depends if Intel is on the hook for replacing all the faulty processors out there – which means multi-billions – or if the patches work without a performance penalty which means zero. Some say the performance penalty …

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You can now use the DeepAR forecasting algorithm for model training in Amazon SageMaker. 

Mann+Hummel company Microdyn-Nadir has acquired Italian firm Oltremare…

Amazon CloudFront announces six new Edge Locations that are now part of its global network. These six new Edge Locations are located in the following cities:

Perth, Australia; Chennai, India; Rio De Janeiro, Brazil; Los Angeles, California; and two additional Edge Locations in Tokyo, Japan.

Starting today, you can launch MariaDB version 10.2 instances on Amazon RDS. You can also easily upgrade your existing Amazon RDS for MariaDB database instances from version 10.1 to 10.2.11.

i2m LLC has extended its ceramic hollow fiber membrane portfolio, CERA~DUR, to suit specific filtration needs covering both ultrafiltration and microfiltration.