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Qualcomm announced at Google I/O that its premium tier Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 810 processor will power Google's next…

Qualcomm announced at Google I/O that its premium tier Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 810 processor will power Google's next generation Project Tango smartphone development platform. Project Tango devices combine the camera, gyroscope, and accelerometer to estimate six degrees of freedom motion tracking, providing developers the ability to track 3D motion of a device while simultaneously creating a map of the environment.

Google and Infineon's partnership is working to develop a sensing solution for radar-based technology. Potential…

Google and Infineon's partnership is working to develop a sensing solution for radar-based technology. Potential applications for the solution include wearables, internet of things and automotive applications. The companies have demonstrated its first implementations – which provide gesture recognition and presence detection capability – at the Google I/O Developers Conference in San Francisco.

Texas Instruments (TI) released today the industry’s first Near Field Communication (NFC) sensor transponder family.…

Texas Instruments (TI) released today the industry’s first Near Field Communication (NFC) sensor transponder family. The RF430RL25xH system-on-chip (SoC) device is equipped with a fully programmable low power microcontroller (MCU), non-volatile FRAM, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and supports an ISO 15693-compliant NFC interface as well as Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) and Inter Integrated Circuit (I2C). The high frequency13.56-MHz sensor transponder can operate on full passive (battery-less) or semi-active modes for optimal battery life in portable and wireless sensing applications.