Atmel buys more IoT capability

Atmel, best known as a maker of microcontrollers and capacitive touchscreens, is expanding its Internet of Things footprint with the acquisition of low-power wireless chip designer Newport Media. Newport Media started out life shipping TV system-on-a-chip (SOC) devices, and during 2012 and 2013 branched out into 802.11n, 802. …

[Charles Manning]

Cornering the unicorn feed market

profit?

[BillG]

Re: Cornering the unicorn feed market

Atmel is a smart company, should be interesting to see what they do with this acquisition.

[Mark 85]

Which is it?

Since the "corrections" button doesn't open a web-based email.... the headline says US $140 for Newport Media and the article says US $140 Million...

Yeah, I know but the headline needs correcting.