Silicon vendor Atheros Communications has agreed to acquire u-Nav Microelectronics, a GPS chip maker, for approximately $54 million in cash and stock, the companies announced after the close of ...

Optical atomic clocks can increase the precision of time and geographic position a thousandfold in our mobile phones, computers, and GPS systems. However, they are currently too large and complex to ...

BDStar Navigation Co. Ltd., a provider of positioning technology solutions, has announced its chip-coud integration strategy and introduced intelligent location digital base (iLDB) in Frankfurt, ...

Iridium Communications Inc. has unveiled a dedicated, miniature application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), the Iridium PNT ASIC. Engineered for seamless integration into a wide range of ...

Broadcom Extends Combo Chip Portfolio Delivering Simultaneous Operation of Bluetooth®, GPS and FM Radio in a Single System-on-a-Chip Solution Highly Integrated 65nm Combination Chip Enables Location ...

Like the teeth of a comb, a microcomb consists of a spectrum of evenly distributed light frequencies. Optical atomic clocks can be built by locking a microcomb tooth to a ultranarrow-linewidth laser, ...

All the buzz: As technology advances, scientists and engineers wage a daily war against limitations in size, scalability, and power consumption. Rising AI and data demands continuously drive the need ...