Market Watch

July 2016

UK’s struggling machinery equipment market must now face Brexit straight-on

Machinery export scenarios

UK’s struggling machinery equipment market must now face Brexit straight-on

Rolando Campos, senior data analyst, IHS Markit

IHS Markit Economics and Country Risk predicts that Brexit will reduce global GDP growth in 2017, but the hardest hit will be the United Kingdom, then Europe (including Spain, Germany, France and Poland) – and as far-away as Singapore and Brazil. Even before Brexit, IHS Markit predicted that U.K. machinery pr

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07/29/2016

Infinite RF Holdings to merge with L-Com

Infinite RF Holdings, an urgent-needs supplier of engineering-grade radio frequency (RF), microwave and millimeter-wave components and cable assemblies through their Pasternack and Fairview Microwave branded lines, announced the acquisition of L-com, a manufacturer of wired and wireless connectivity solutions wi

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07/28/2016

DOE to advance geologic carbon storage and geothermal energy

The The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the selection of eight new research and development projects to receive a total of $11.5 million in federal funding under DOE’s Subsurface Technology and Engineering Research, Development, and Demonstration Crosscut initiative. The projects are focused on

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07/28/2016

Takaki Murata Named VP and GM at Peregrine Semiconductor

Takaki Murata

Takaki Murata Named VP and GM at Peregrine Semiconductor

Peregrine Semiconductor, founder of RF SOI (silicon on insulator) and pioneer of advanced RF solutions, announced the promotion of Takaki Murata to vice president and general manager of the high performance analog (HPA) business unit. “Peregrine Semiconductor was acquired by Murata in December of 2014, and

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07/27/2016

myDevices and Senet announce IoT tech partnership

myDevices, creators of Cayenne, the drag-and-drop IoT project builder, and Senet, a North American provider of public, low-power, wide-area networks (LPWANs) for long range-based (LoRa-based) Internet of Things (IoT) applications, announced their IoT technology partnership. The collaboration between the two co

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07/27/2016

Molex launches Transcend Alliance to promote network-connected lighting

Molex has announced that six partners have joined the new Transcend Alliance, a consortium of companies working together to expand and promote the use of network connected lighting in commercial buildings by developing and implementing new systems and protocols. New integrated lighting network solutions, su

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07/27/2016

Analog Devices buys Linear Tech in cash and stock deal

Liana Baker, Reuters

Analog Devices said it would buy fellow chipmaker Linear Technology for about $14.8 billion, the latest deal in a wave of consolidation that has swept the semiconductor industry in the past two years. The deal comes on the heels of SoftBank Group Corp's (9984.T) $32 billion acquisition of British chip designer ARM

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07/26/2016

Total takes control of Saft Group

The Autorité des marchés financiers (the “AMF”) published today the results of the public tender offer initiated by Total on Saft Groupe. Following the settlement-delivery of the offer which is expected to occur on July 21, 2016, Total will hold 23,456,093 Saft Groupe shares representing 90.14 percent of

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07/19/2016

Arrow signs agreement for Cypress Semi's IoT portfolio

WICED Cypress' IoT platform

Arrow signs agreement for Cypress Semi's IoT portfolio

Arrow Electronics will distribute Cypress Semiconductor’s newly acquired Internet of Things (IoT) portfolio, comprising state-of-the-art Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and ZigBee RF technologies capable of connecting nearly every emerging product category in the IoT ecosystem – including home appliances, health and fitness mo

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07/15/2016

Infineon to buy Wolfspeed for $850 million

Infineon Technologies and Cree announced that Infineon has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Wolfspeed Power and RF division (“Wolfspeed”) of Cree. The deal also includes the related SiC wafer substrate business for power and RF power. The purchase price for this planned all-cash transaction is

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07/14/2016

Mouser expands investment in Czech Republic

Mouser Electronics celebrated the fifth anniversary of operating in the Czech Republic with the opening of bigger premises, required to support huge growth in the region. Mouser moved into its first office in Brno on March 1st 2011, and the current team based there is responsible for customers from 12 countries: Cz

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07/14/2016

Driving the technology behind fuel-efficient electric cars

Emma Lowry

An £830K research project to speed up the shift from fossil-fuel reliant to greener, quieter and cheaper electric vehicles, using low carbon propulsion technologies, is being run at The University of Nottingham. The research, led by an EPSRC Challenge Network in Automotive Power Electronics, aims to suppor

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07/13/2016

WaveRoller ocean energy gets first Technology Qualification Certificate from Lloyd’s Register

Following more than two years of cooperation, Lloyd’s Register has awarded its first Technology Qualification certificate to a developer of ocean energy technology, AW-Energy in Finland – a leader in near shore wave energy. The Technology Qualification certificate was presented in person by the Chairman of

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07/12/2016

Ideal Power applauds California Public Utilities Commission action on self-generation incentive program

Ideal Power, a developer of innovative power conversion technologies, is pleased to support the recent decision by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to modify the Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) to allocate 75% of new funding to energy storage and modify the program rules to bolster th

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07/07/2016

Inside the first municipal solar-plus-storage project in the US

Solar and storage are an obvious pairing

Inside the first municipal solar-plus-storage project in the US

There are some things that just seem to go together. Like Superman and Lex Luthor, Kim and Kanye, and love and marriage, solar and storage are an obvious pairing, right? So obvious, in fact, that one utility executive said she felt surprisingly unsurprised by the proposed Tesla takeover of SolarCity. “Solar an

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07/06/2016

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