CAMARILLO, Calif.,– Semtech Corporation announced that Sustainable Hrvest Sdn Bhd (SH) has deployed LoRa-enabled sensors and LoRaWAN-based gateways across its Durian fruit farms in greater Malaysia.

Semtech recently acquired Sierra Wireless. That’s a pretty big acquisition. To understand why it is was done and what it means to an embedded developer, I spoke to Pravin Desale, the Senior Vice President of IoT Engineering at Semtech on this week’s Embedded Executives podcast.

CAMARILLO, Calif. And Cary, NC -- Semtech Corporation and Connected Development are launching the new XCVR Development Board and Reference Design, based on Semtech’s LoRa® SX126x series, and integrating the LoRa® Sub-GHz Radio Transceiver to ease the design process and reduce time-to-market for building management, agriculture, supply chain, logistics, and industrial control markets.

In the wake of Semtech Corporation's acquisition of Sierra Wireless, the company unveiled a refreshed brand reflecting its revitalized focus on sustainable IoT solutions. With the acquisition, Semtech's Cloud-to-chip portfolio has expanded to include products and services like semiconductors, software, cellular modules and routers, and connected services for digital transformation.

From supply chain and agriculture to cold chain monitoring, Research and Markets reports that IoT adoption is on the rise. IoT-enabled asset tracking and monitoring is a fast-growing market that’s quickly gaining the attention of these verticals and many others.

CAMARILLO, CALIFORNIA, and VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA. Semtech's all-cash transaction amounts to a total enterprise value of around US$1.2 billion, almost doubling Semtech’s yearly revenue and adding about US$100 million of recurring revenue in high-margin IoT Cloud services. Semtech expects the acquisition to be immediately accretive to non-GAAP EPS and to generate US$40 million of run rate operational synergies within a year and a half.

CAMARILLO, Calif. Semtech Corporation revealed its HotSwitch platform with embedded secure circuity, dynamic behaviors (limited rush current, proper loading sequence), and safety features (overcurrent, voltage) for a smaller BOM and a reduced PCB area. The HotSwitch system can embed IEC 61000-4-2 level compliant ESD protection for a variety of applications.