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Altera buys power conversion specialist

Researchers work to harvest electricity from plants

Ultracold atoms produced in portable device

Embedded Pi board connects Raspberry Pi, Arduino and 32bit ARM mcu

Intel targets mobile market with new Silvermont architecture

Thinned chips to secure paper

Twin colour LED to enable cheap lighting

10A load switch ics help to improve power management designs

AMD launches semi-custom business unit

Researchers unveil ‘bug-eye’ digital camera

iPhone and iPad sales drive growth in MEMS microphone market

IHS: 10million smart glasses to ship by 2016