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Tom Austin-Morgan from New Electronics reports Silicon Labs introduced its ARM-based BGM111 Bluetooth Smart module solution for IoT connectivity, noting, “The SoC’s integrated ARM Cortex-M4 processor-based MCU consumes 59µA/MHz in run