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NXP’s sensors for smart Band-Aids, smart bottles, and pay-per-use cars

Forget about smart phones and smart computers. Cheap and plentiful sensor chips are making possible everything from smart Band-Aids to smart bottles. NXP Semiconductors, a chip maker that spun out of Philips in 2006, showed off prototypes for these cool applications at its headquarters in San Jose, Calif., yesterday. Based on the working products and [...]
Jan 10th, 2011 | Filed under NewsTags: Caregiver, Chip Maker, Digital Signal Processor, Generation Radio, Hearing Aids, Magnetic Induction, Mixed Signal, Nxp, Plastic Bottom, Radio Frequency Identification, Senior Vice President, Sensor Chip, Sensor Chips, Smart Band, Smart Computers, Smart Phones, Smart Sensors, Urgo, Use Cars, Wireless Sensors -
Broadband chip maker MaxLinear files for IPO

Broadband communications chip maker MaxLinear has filed to go public in another indicator that the good times are back for tech stocks and exits. Carlsbad, Calif.-based MaxLinear makes analog or mixed-signal radio chips that can be manufactured in standard chip factories. The chips enable devices to display broadband video. The chips are sed in a [...]
Jan 10th, 2011 | Filed under NewsTags: Alps Electric, Analog Chips, Car Entertainment Systems, Chip Company, Chip Maker, Chip Makers, Deutsche Ban, Digital Signal Processors, Digital Tvs, Electronic Gear, Market Researcher, Maxlinear, Mixed Signal, Morgan Stanley, Netbooks, Set Top Boxes, Signal Radio, Thomas Weisel Partners, Ubs Securities, Venture Capital Funding