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Anaren IoT Group announced that Intel has selected Atmosphere 2.0, the company’s leading IoT platform for rapid prototyping and design.  The Intel Curie module is now available as a design element within Atmosphere, both at the module level and within devices like the Arduino 101 development board and the element14 tinyTILE from Premier Farnell. 

Rohde & Schwarz has introduced the R&S FPC1000, a new entry class spectrum analyzer.

The CEO of Peregrine Semiconductor, Jim Cable, announced significant changes to Peregrine’s executive team. In a move to increase the company’s semiconductor capability, Stefan Wolff is Peregrine’s new Chief Executive Officer. Cable will step into the role of Peregrine Chairman and CTO and will serve as the Global R&D Director for Peregrine’s parent company, Murata.

The mobile telecoms landscape is changing rapidly, with nationwide 4G deployments near completion in most markets across the world. But the race is far from over, with the first Gigabit LTE networks beginning to appear and offering blazingly fast connections to end users that can reach up to 1Gbps download speeds. ABI Research estimates that the two billion global 4G (LTE) subscribers in early 2017 will rise to exceed four billion during 2022. This means that more than one out of two people globally will be using an LTE network by 2022.

Micro Crystal offers the 32.768 kHz oscillator module in the advanced tiny package of 1.2 mm by 2.0 mm by 0.7 mm.