M&A, Strategies, Alliances Industrial PC vendor Adlink is acquiring PrismTech for $16.6m, to add the Vortex computing platform to its hardware portfolio. Semtech has partnered with STMicroelectronics, to allow ST to build LoRa chips for LPWAN equipment. ST joins Microchip as Semtech LoRa partners, with Semtech licensing its designs. IBM is establishing a 1,000-person cognitive computing campus in Munich, the first in a series of Watson-powered innovation centers. Afero has emerged from stealth-mode, with a cloud platform and BLE module that it is targeting at developers for almost any vertical. Philips has been forced to reverse a firmware update to its Hue platform that was intended to lockout third-party bulbs. Vocal protests forced a climb-down from the new DRM stance,…