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MEMS & Sensors Summit | WiFi & LoRa Make Nice | How to Blow A Recovery

EE Times Current · 4 Oct 2019 · 36m

What this episode covers

EE Times editors Nitin Dhadwal and Anne-Françoise Pele report from the MEMS & Sensors Summit in Grenoble, highlighting trends like sensor fusion with AI, 3D sensing, and medical applications such as subretinal chips. The episode also features a discussion with Bruno Thomas of the Wireless Broadband Alliance and Remy Loran of Semtech on how Wi-Fi and LoRaWAN protocols complement each other for IoT connectivity. Finally, Balaji Oja warns that the semiconductor memory market's notorious boom-and-bust cycles have returned, citing significant revenue declines at Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron.

Most relevant to

large enterprises

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
STM Microelectronics, Bosch Sensortec, PNI Sensor, Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, Micron Technology, Semtech
Products
Wi-Fi 6, LoRaWAN, 5G

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