After rebranding its smart replacement lamp line Sylvania Smart+ in December, LEDvance starts the new year with new LED-based Bluetooth mesh alternatives in multiple form factors.

In a hook-up with Razer, it’s offering “surround sound for your eyes,” an immersive Hue system in which colors and brightness dynamically change with the game’s action.

Amazon Rekognition is a deep learning-based service that makes it easy to add image and video analysis to your applications. Rekognition Image API allows you to detect objects, scenes, faces and inappropriate content; extract text; recognize celebrities; and search and compare faces, in images. Rekognition Video API for the AWS US-East (Ohio) region allows you to track people; detect objects, scenes, activities and inappropriate content; recognize celebrities; and search faces, in videos stored in Amazon S3. 

Ricoh Electronic has launched an IC for providing power and/or charging a wide range of devices. USB Power Delivery is a technology that enables compliant devices to negotiate about what optimum power level is required for operation but also sets which device should operate as a power source or power sink. The RN5U700 makes it …

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ON Semiconductor has brought out  a scalable family of CMOS image sensors to address the spectrum of applications for ADAS and autonomous driving. The family offers car makers and tier one suppliers a choice of robust imaging devices based on a common platform and feature set. The sensors have resolutions scaling from 8.3 megapixels (MP) …

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In Q2, CEVA will start selected licensing of  a processor family called  NeuPro ‘for deep learning inference at the edge’ with performance ranging from 2-12.5 TOPS. General licensing starts in Q3. The NeuPro processor line goes beyond machine vision to applications like natural language processing, real-time translation, authentication, workflow management, and other learning-based applications. “It’s …

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China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) met Samsung in December to discuss memory pricing, reports DRAMeXchange. China already made statements about a possible regulatory investigation into memory price-fixing. China is concerned about the cost of memory affecting Chinese handset makers.. Avril Wu of DRAMeXchange, says that DRAM and NAND ASPs have increased 40% since …

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Qorvo has developed an eHealth system which is being provided by an insurance company to 3,000 senior citizens in Holland. The eHealth system  consists of a non-intrusive set of motion and open/close sensors, and a gateway. It combines proven cloud algorithm expertise from Sensara with  Zigbee Green Power RF solutions from Qorvo. Zigbee Green Power …

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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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