French IoT chip and module maker Sequans Communications has cemented its drive in the burgeoning RedCap market, by acquiring Swiss RF transceiver and cellular System-on-Chip (SoC) company Advanced Circuit Pursuit (ACP) for an undisclosed fee. The move is significant in that ACP is an early specialist in enhanced RedCap (eRedCap), a further stripped-down version of the RedCap IoT technology, ushered in with 3GPP Release 18, which arrived in June 2024. The original full RedCap version was introduced with Release 17, two years earlier in June 2022. Sequans has decided that RedCap is set for a period of rapid deployment over the next few years, both as a successor to the LTE IoT protocols and to enable new use cases that…