Fujitsu to distribute Apollo 2 MCU in Europe

Fujitsu Electronics Europe (FEEU) will distribute Ambiq Micro’s Apollo 2 MCU in Europe and expects the device to be generally available in the second half of 2017.

“Our goal is to accelerate our customer’s innovation process by providing them with best-in-class products from around the world,” said Axel Tripkewitz, FEEU’s president and managing director. “Ambiq’s Apollo 2 will be another important cornerstone in our line card, helping our customers to build wearables and IoT devices with maximised performance and minimised power consumption.”

Featuring an ARM Cortex-M4F core, the MCU can operate at up to 48MHz and consumes around 10µA/MHz, which is said to double battery life for wearables and IoT devices. Along with 1Mbyte of flash and 256kbyte of RAM, the part features: 14bit A/D converters; a digital microphone interface; a voltage comparator; temperature sensor; I2C/SPI interfaces; a UART; and integrated buck-converter.