The company, which began its life as a division of Motorola that was spun off in 2004, focuses on the created of embedded microprocessors, controllers and sensors in a number of applications.

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The building efficiency revolution emerges now from the inter-related confluence of the collapsed cost of microprocessors, enabling embedded intelligence in offerings as simple as light bulbs (soon), as well as the development of standards and interfaces for the formerly "dumb" hardware, and the ubiquity of the Internet.

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