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Electronics

Step down switching regulator provides 100% duty cycle operation

NFC tags simplify Wi-Fi and Bluetooth pairing

Maxim buys Volterra for $605m

Resistive memory device to supersede flash?

Qimonda patents licensed to Mosaid

Wireless devices go battery-free with new ambient backscatter tech

Horizontal and coax connectors added to Harwin’s Miz-Tek series

Integrated voltage regulator offers 97.5% efficiency

Smartphone sales help offset slump in mpu market

Micron slashes 5% of workforce

Keithley adds touch control to source measurement unit

AMD adds low power apu to Embedded G-Series