Wireless mesh network module maker NeoCortec, is to offering licenses for its NeoMesh wireless mesh networking protocol and software stack. “Our primary focus remains the manufacturing and sale of our low-power wireless sensor modules,” said NeoCortec CEO Thomas Steen Halkier. “However, by introducing a licensing model for our software stack, customers can implement our software in their designs to gain ...
UK LED maker Plessey is to move to an intellectual property licensing model, following City apathy towards British manufacturing. Its Plymouth fab will now focus on R&D, and only limited production. The firm has single-handedly developed a viable GaN-on-silicon process suitable for making high-power lighting LEDs, which are already selling in Europe, the US, China and Taiwan, and has a ...
Osram and Taiwan’s Unity Opto have agreed to dismiss the pending patent litigation Osram had brought against Unity customer ASUS in Germany – Düsseldorf District Court had awarded Osram an injunction and found that ASUS had to compensate Osram’s damage caused by the patent infringement, and ASUS had appealed. Osram has granted Unity a royalty-bearing license to produce white LED packages under ...
ARM saw Q2 revenues rise 15% to $357 million and profits rise 32% to $192 million. A record 54 processor licences were signed and one new subscription licence was signed with a major Chinese OEM. Other points highlighted by ARM include: 7 ARMv8-A processor licences signed, including three lead licences for next-generation processors 9 Mali multimedia processor licences were signed, including ...
Standard essential patent (SEP) holders have been reined in by a court judgement yesterday limiting their rights to take legal action against rival companies. Now, if you own standard essential patents, and you want to take out an injunction against a willing potential licensee, you could be found guilty of abusing a dominant position. The European Court of Justice, the ...
Fusion-io, the non-volatile memory company which has Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak as its Chief Scientist, has announced that IBM will use the company's high-speed memory technology in its servers.
ARM has licensed its physical IP to Globalfoundries and will work with the Abu Dhabi-backed foundry to port its Cortex A-9 processors to Globalfoundries' 28nm process.
Reduced margins on Pure DAB radio sales have pulled down profits at Imagination Technologies, while its intellectual property (IP) licensing business continues to grow.
Microchip was telling visitors to its Electronica stand that it had added an inductive touch sensing capability to its technology portfolio and making the functionality available to customers via a free licence.
A pick of the main stories crossing the ElectronicsWeekly.com News Index this week, from Theo Claasen retiring from NXP, and SanDisk licensing 3D flash technology to Toshiba, to Intel selling its RFID operation, and Siemens wanting to cut 16,700 jobs...
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