President Obama sets up semiconductor working group

President Barack Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) has formed a working group to strengthen the US semiconductor industry. The group consists of: John Holdren(Director, OSTP; PCAST Co-Chair); Working Group Co-Chair Paul Otellini (Former President and CEO, Intel); Working Group Co-Chair Richard Beyer (Former Chairman and CEO, Freescale Semiconductor) Wes Bush (Chairman, ...

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Rhodesia Gets First Computer

Rhodesia gets first computer was, 55 years ago, the headline on a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 25th 1961. The story opens: An ICT 1202 electronic computer is being installed by the Southern Rhodesia Treasury Department in Salisbury. Originally intended for the job of processing the Government’s 15,000 payroll, it is also to ...

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Autonomous peripherals for PIC18F MCUs

Microchip has added ‘core independent peripherals’ (CIPs)- peripherals that inter-operate whilst the core is sleeping – to its high-end 8bit PIC18F microcontrollers. Added to create the PIC18F ‘K40’ family, there are 10 devices with 16-128kbyte of flash in packages with 28-64 pins. “CIPs provide developers with the ability to accomplish tasks in hardware whilst freeing-up the ...

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Tilt switch contemplation

I was puzzling over tilt switches, which, in these mercury-free days, tend to be a ball bearing in a metal tube with a contact at one end. Tilting the tube lets the ball bearing roll down and short the contact to the tube wall. This arrangement is great if you want to make contact in ...

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The EW BrightSparks search begins

Highlighting the brightest, most talented young electronic engineers in the UK

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Only Connect: A further guide to Ethernet Cat 5e and Cat 6 testing

Welcome to another post in the series by Nick Locke, of Nicab Ltd, who has more than 15 years experience in the electronics manufacturing industry specialising in interconnection cable assembly. In our previous Guide to Cat 5e and Cat 6 cables we discussed the main differences and briefly showed the complex test structure required for true full ...

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Cloud security system spots software hacks in cars

Secure software for connected vehicles that uses cloud services, will be demonstrated at TU-Automotive Europe 2016 in Munich this week (2-3 November). The intrusion detection system (IDS) for connected vehicles is the result of a collaboration between connected vehicle software firms Harman and Airbiquity. With the increasing dependency on software to power vehicle systems and features, making vehicles secure ...

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Why Should Foreigners Get UK Roaming When Brits Can’t?

If foreigners can come to Britain and use any of the wireless networks, why shouldn’t we be able to use all the UK networks? A jolly good question. It was asked by a group of MPs who call themselves the British Infrastructure Group. We all know the mobile coverage is shit. And we know why. ...

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Yorkshire firm adds 3D force sensing to notebooks

Peratech, the Yorkshire-based sensor materials firm, is collaborating with several notebook computer manufacturers to incorporate its 3D force-sensing technology. The firm is developing its QTC force sensors for use in notebook PCs. The sensors, which consist of nanoparticles printed and encapsulated in ultrathin (down to 50 µm) polymer membranes, can be configured to sense an ...

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Industrial IoT node comes in kit-form

Eurotech is offering IoT designers a development kit that bundles all the hardware and software needed to prototype as sensor-based IoT device with data support in the cloud. The ECDK 4001 development kit is intended to allow designers to model specific IoT applications based on a template that includes the various elements typical of an industrial IoT chain – gateway, PLC, ...

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RS works with CIPS to offer MRO guidance

The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) is working with RS Components to offer its members information and guidance on the advantages of MRO. The topics covered include methods of unravelling MRO complexity, analysing consumption data and tracking savings achieved. MRO, or Maintenance, Repair and Operational Supplies, can be defined as all items and processes needed by a ...

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ARM edges towards VR and AR on the handset with G-51 and V-61 Mali cores

ARM has launched two Mali cores – the V61 with VP encode and the Vulkan-enabled G51. The cores are aimed at 14/16nm finfet processes for phones coming out in 2018. The target is the emerging VR and AR functionality. These are seen as handset capabilities which are coming, but still to come. “We have delivered ...

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Bristol start-up Graphcore raises $30m

Graphcore, a Bristol-based AI start-up headed by Nigel Toon formerly of Icera and XMOS, has raised $30 million in VC money. Backers include Samsung, Bosch and Hermann Hauser. Graphcore is developing processors specifically for machine learning – an approach which is says will deliver up to 100x more performance than off-the-shelf GPUs. Graphcore calls its ...

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Imec ‘Beyond CMOS’ programme demoes spin waves in majority devices

Imec has demonstrated the generation and detection of spin waves in sub-micron-sized magnetic waveguides with wavelengths smaller than 350nm traveling over 10 micrometer in a 500nm wide waveguide, and has proposed models for majority operation in nanoscale spin-wave structures. Spintronic majority gate devices promise alternatives to CMOS technology for certain applications, for example for arithmetic ...

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Ed Finds Another Wheeze

Procurement – that’s where the money is in this game, Ed confides to his diary – the Department must spend a fortune buying goods and services from outside. I’ve told my PPS to draw up a list of all the Department’s regular suppliers with the amounts we pay them and the services and goods supplied. ...

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Raspberry Pi challenges young people to help society

The annual Raspberry Pi challenge for school children and college students has been launched by PA.   The aim of this year’s competition, say the organisers, is for young designers to use Raspberry Pi to improve the lives of people who have conditions that limit their ability to do the tasks that some people take for ...

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The Tribute

On October 21st 1931, the New York Times wrote: “All along the Eastern seaboard from Maine to Florida, towns and hamlets, city and country, forgot for the moment the business of living to pay homage to to the dead. Further West, where Chicago’s ‘Loop’ was bathed in brilliance, the lights went out at 8.59, and ...

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Wireless charging in a Starbucks near you sometime soon

Wireless charging points for mobile phones are starting to appear in some McDonald’s and Starbucks stores, and wireless charging for consumer phones is expected to increase dramatically in the next year. “McDonald’s, Starbucks, Marriott and Hilton already offer wireless charging in some locations, and further penetration of the technology in more public areas will intensify ...

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ADI buys deterministic Ethernet chip firm

Analog Devices has moved into the market for real-time Ethernet with the acquisition of US-based firm Innovasic, which has developed interface chips for deterministic Ethernet. Seen as a high speed alternative to the serial fieldbus networking protocol in  factory automation, robotics and industrial IoT, real-time Ethernet is the focus of a new standards push for robust, synchronised networks. ...

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Tiny RF connector designed for 5G small cells

Connector makers Huber+Suhner, Radiall and Rosenberger are developing a new RF connector system for small cell mobile basestations. To be shown for the first time at next month’s Electronica exhibition, the small format coaxial connector system is being proposed by the suppliers for use in both 4G and upcoming 5G networks. Designed with robustness, small ...

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Pogo-pins aimed at wearables

Harwin has a new range of surface-mount vertical spring-loaded pogo-pins, and pads for them to land on. “Pogo-pin connectors have multiple applications, including wearable medical and fitness devices, mobile phones, car stereos, and notebook and tablet computers,” said the firm. Pins have a free height from 2.4 to 8.2mm and are also available as multi-contact ...

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Imec spin-off diagnoses epilepsy

Imec spin-off Epilog improves epilepsy diagnosis through an automated service that accurately and efficiently analyzes large amounts of EEG-data. Epilepsy, a condition characterized by uncontrolled brain activity, is a complex pathology that occurs in many different forms. The screening and treatment of epilepsy is a difficult and time-consuming process. Moreover, about one third of the ...

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Google self-driving car unit to be spun out.

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is to split off its autonomous driving unit into a standalone subsidiary, reports the Nikkei. Currently the autonomous driving operation is part of Alphabet’s X innovation lab? The news was given to the Nikkei Innovation Forum in East Palo Alto earlier this week by John Krafcik who was recruited from Hyundai ...

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Why?

The only logic behind the Qualcomm – NXP deal is that Qualcomm wanted to buy something and NXP wanted to sell itself. Qualcomm, founded by two communications geniuses, out-thought then out-spent the wireless comms industry on R&D and, with its invention of CDMA, took a commanding position in the industry leading to the death, or ...

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Fable: The Spirit Of Youth

There was once a Nobel Laureate physicist who discovered electron tunnelling and invented the tunnel diode. He devised five Don’ts for anyone wanting to realise their creative potential: Don’t allow yourself to be trapped by your past experiences. Don’t hold on to your preconceived notions. You should be a free spirit. Nobel Prizes are mostly ...

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Qualcomm buys NXP

Qualcomm is to buy NXP for $39 billion in cash valuing NXP shares at $110 each – 34% above their value before news came out that the deal was underway. Qualcomm will pay for the acquisition using cash and new debt. The combined company is expected to have sales of $30 billion a year. The ...

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Microlease expands in UK to meet European demand

Microlease has opened an extension to its office and warehouse facilities in Harrow, north London to support its expanding European business. This represents a £500,000 investment for the test equipment rental and management business. Its European team is now 225 strong, with 175 people based in the UK. There is also a third laboratory area for ...

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Microchip targets IoT designs with Sigfox chip

Microchip says it is now selling an RF transceiver supporting the Sigfox wide area wireless protocol being used for IoT networks. This is the FCC-certified ATA8520E transceiver with an integrated AVR micro controller. A FCC-certified development board is also available. Microchip is offering a Sigfox-certified ATA8520-EK as a standalone kit, or it can be bought as a kit ...

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USB Type-C driver supports 10Gbit/s video

Texas Instruments has released a slew of 10Gbit/s USB Type-C products. TUSB1046-DCI, for example, is a VESA USB Type-C Alt Mode re-driving switch supporting USB 3.1 data rates up to 10Gbit/s and DisplayPort 1.4 up to 8.1Gbit/s for downstream facing port (Host). 10Gbit/s is ‘SuperSpeedPlus’, compared with 5Gbit/s ‘SuperSpeed’. The device is used for configurations ...

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IET Savoy Place re-opened by Princess Royal

The London headquarters of the Institution of Engineering and Technology has been officially reopened by HRH The Princess Royal after two years of renovation of the historic building on the banks of the Thames in Savoy Place. To mark the official reopening, HRH The Princess Royal, who is an Honorary Fellow of the IET, sealed ...

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Good Q3 for ST

ST saw Q3 revenue grow 5.5% sequentially and 1.9% y-o-y to $1.8 billion with a gross profit of $64203 million, gross margin of 35.8% and cash generation of $178 million. The. Analog and MEMS Group (AMG) revenues increased sequentially 7.1% driven by motion MEMS and microphones. MCU and Digital ICs Group (MDG) increased 5.5% on ...

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Fujitsu – Lenovo PC initiative seeks government funding

Fujitsu and Lenovo are exploring a strategic cooperation in the research, development, design and manufacturing of PCs with funding from the government-owned Development Bank of Japan. Fujitsu transferred its Japan PC business to Fujitsu Client Computing Ltd (FCCL) on February 1, 2016. Since then, Fujitsu has been considering various options for its PC business. Lenovo, ...

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Largest torque sensor ever, from the Isle of Wight

Datum Electronics has built a record-breaking torque transducer, weighing 4.6tonnes and able to measure 10,000,000Nm (10MNm) torque. . As a comparison, 80Nm of torque is needed to tighten a nut on your car wheel. The Isle of Wight firm developed it with Solent LEP and the UK Government’s Technology Strategy Board. An extension of Datum’s 425 Series, it ...

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Rugged connector sews-in without electronics experience

Mag‑Net is the world’s first C4I2 MIL-spec connector specifically designed for textile mounting, according to its manufacturer TT Electronics. “Unlike circular barrel connectors, mag‑Net is a robust, flush rectangular solution with a self-aligning, automatic magnetic latching system that enables the easiest‑ever, one-handed blind mating,” claimed the firm. Intended for equipment connection to soldier-worn garments and ...

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Where’s The Money In Silicon?

Wally Rhines, Mentor CEO and the semiconductor industry’s sage, has applied Gompertz S-curves to his reading of the industry’s runes and concluded that the best is yet to come. The good news is that, in the next decade, the number of transistors produced will grow 50x. Driving the expansion are sensors, actuators, imagers and transmitters ...

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Security flaw found in industrial IoT controller

A security flaw has been discovered in Schneider Electric’s Unity Pro software for managing and programming industrial controllers across the globe – and has been subsequently fixed. The flaw was found by secrity firm Indegy Labs, and would allow industrial control boxes overseen by Unity Pro to be disrupted. “The vulnerability in Unity Pro allows any ...

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Open Bionics founder to speak at NIDays in London

James Dyson Award winner Joel Gibbard will present his personal view of technical innovation, which includes a little bit of playfulness, at NIDays in London next month (29 November). The CEO and co-founder of Open Bionics believes that technology with “a little bit of creativity and playfulness can change people’s lives for the better”. And ...

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Stamping makes pogo-pin cost less

Plastronics has developed a stamped alternative for traditional fine-pitch ‘pogo-pins’ – the spring- loaded contacts used for temporary electrical connections in test jigs, for example. “For decades the spring-loaded probe aka pogo-style pin has delivered excellent mechanical and electrical performance in a highly compliant contact,” said the Texas firm. “However, this often came at a high ...

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Smartwatch Sales Fall Off A Cliff

As extensively predicted, the smartwatch industry is failing fast. Apple Watch Q3 shipments were down by almost 72%, y-o-y with total smartwatch shipments declining by 51.6% year-on-year, says IDC. The Apple Watch remained the market leader but it shipped just over one million units in Q3. In Q3 2015, Apple shipped 3.9 million. Of the ...

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Beta Layout prototypes 3D interconnect devices

Beta Layout is offering a single-source prototyping and small-series manufacturing service for 3D mechatronic interconnect devices (MIDs). It will be demonstrated at the Electronica exhibition in Munich next month. With this prototyping service the company produces circuit carriers of the three-dimensional circuit boards using 3D printing. The advantage of the this technique, says Beta Layout, is that ...

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Renesas troika promotes IoT security with ARMv8-M

Renesas Electronics, Express Logic and IAR Systems are to collaborate on the development of a secure IoT platform based around ARM’s v8-M architecture. It will involve Express Logic’s ThreadX RTOS and IAR’s Embedded Workbench software development environment, both of which support ARM’s TrustZone security hardware within ARMv8-M. “These technologies will be a foundation for the ...

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BrightSparks needed for tech UK

Never has there been a more exciting time for ambitious and talented graduates in this country to start a career in electronics engineering. The need for engineers of all disciplines to drive a digital economy is growing dramatically. But the referendum vote and the UK’s proposed exit from the European Union could impact the potential ...

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Murata aims passives at Nordic Semi 2.4GHz radio chips

Murata has released two kits of passive components matched to Nordic Semiconductor Bluetooth and ANT 2.4GHz wireless reference designs based around nRF51x22 and nRF52x32 chips. “The inclusion of all the passive components needed in one package greatly reduces the amount of time and effort required by designers to procure sample-use components,” said Murata. Kits include ceramic ...

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Secure transactions rely on trusted behaviour not the PIN

Europe’s consumers are embracing mobile payments but if we are to instil the necessary level of trust in the system’s security must be based on user behavioural patterns, writes Robert Capps Payments made via mobile devices are ever increasing. New market research from Visa has shown that the number of consumers regularly using a mobile device ...

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Touchscreens can recognise objects, says Zytronic

Touch sensors that have an object recognition capability will mean that touchscreen in shops or museums will be activated to display information when specific objects or products are placed on the screen. A technology collaboration between Tyne & Wear-based touch sensor firm Zytronic and Tangible Display from France will demonstrate an object recognition capability on multi-touch ...

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Brexit and Indiegogo, Arrow Europe president talks to EW

Martin Bielesch, European president of Arrow Electronics talks to Electronics Weekly, about taking a global view of the UK referendum vote, how he sees potential in crowd-funded projects and the inevitable ever-presence of IoT for the broadline component distributor’s business. Are you concerned the Brexit vote in the UK is having negative effect on the European market? ...

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Intel aims at IoT edge with Atom processor

Intel has announced Atom processors for IoT ‘edge’ processing – pre-processing data to reduce its bulk before it is sent on to the internet. “IoT is expected to be a market with 50 billion devices creating 44 zettabytes [44 giga terabytes] of data annually by 2020, require much more processing power at the edge in ...

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UltraSoC adds to support for AMBA-5 CHI

UltraSoC has extended the capabilities of its on-chip monitoring and analytics semiconductor intellectual property (IP), to include debug, monitoring and analysis features for the ARM AMBA-5 Coherent Hub Interface (CHI). The CHI Monitor is the newest in UltraSoC’s family of protocol-aware monitors for interconnect and extends that from bus monitors to debugging and fine-tuning the ...

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ARM enhances IoT security

ARM has released what it calls its most comprehensive product suite ever to deliver new levels of security, efficiency, low-power connectivity and device life cycle management for the IoT. With new processors, radio technology, subsystems, end-to-end security and a cloud-based services platform, ARM is aiming to increase the rate at which IoT scales globally. “As ...

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Toshiba packages controller with NAND

Toshiba has added to its managed NAND devices with the addition of an Embedded Multimedia Card (e-MMC) and a Universal Flash Storage (UFS) which integrate NAND flash memory and a controller chip in a single package. This saves space and relieves host processors of the burden of key memory management functions including bad block management, ...

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Top 10 (plus 10) IC Companies In H1

Thanks to IC Insights for this one – the top 20 semiconductor companies at the end of H1:

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EW BrightSparks celebrates the future of electronics engineering

Electronics Weekly is teaming up with RS Components to launch a new programme, EW BrightSparks, highlighting the brightest and most talented young electronic engineers in the UK today.

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Interview: RS Components CEO bullish on future of UK electronics

Lindsley Ruth, the CEO of RS Components, says individuals can still make a difference in electronics and sees opportunities ahead in the future.

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Funny Fellows These Eurocrats

We’re learning a lot about these high-ranking Euro officials. You’d think these guys would have concerns about England’s relationship with the EU but Jean-Claude Juncker brushed off the BBC with a smartarse comment last week. Now the problematic future relationship between the EU and UK has been caused by a vote of the British people, ...

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EnSilica opens Oxford RF design centre

EnSilica, the semiconductor IP sepecialist, has further expanded its network of specialist design centres with the establishment of a new facility near Oxford focusing on RF and low power sensing applications. The new RF and low power sensing design centre will be headed up by Alan Wong (pictured third from left front row) who joined ...

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University of Texas wins RoboCup 2016 final in Beijing

The University of Texas at Austin won the Beijing RoboCup 2016 competition beating the University of New South Wales Runswift by an comprehensive 7-3 in the the final. “We lost to a really good team,” said Jeremy Collette of the New South Wales team, “the American team was really good, they deserve to be the ...

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ST said to appoint London headhunter to find a CEO

ST has appointed a head-hunter to find it a new CEO, reports Bloomberg. The contract of CEO Carlo Bozotti expires in May when he will be 64. The headhunter is said to be the London company SpencerStuart. They will have to deal with the problem that the French and Italian governments each own 14% of ...

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X-ray pictures through 18 inches of steel

The world’s most powerful X-ray machine, specifically designed for high-speed radiography in the metals industry, will be installed at the A.O. Smith Corp plant at Milwaukee next spring. So, 56 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of December 21st 1960 The story continues: The eight million electron volt linear accelerator is now ...

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TI introduces convenient Bluetooth modules

Texas Instruments has expanded its wireless connectivity module range with a Bluetooth low energy module with built-in antenna. Part of the firm’s SimpleLink range, the module is pre-certified for FCC, IC, CE and TELEC regulations. “TI also offers certified software stacks for the Bluetooth specification,” said the firm. “Additionally, developers have the flexibility to use the module as a ...

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IoT malware problem needs “good common sense”

It has now been suggested that almost half a million IoT devices have been infected by Mirai IoT malware. This follows news earlier this month that the source code for the IoT botnet had been released. Perhaps inevitably this was seen as an opportunity by criminals to create their own versions of the malware which is now infecting new ...

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RIP IoT?

Have some people been misleading consumers? We have seen unparalleled hype for the IoT class of products without much apparent official that they may cause harm to the Internet’s operation. Everyone in the industry knows there is no such thing as total security on the Internet but it would seem that many have wilfully gone ...

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EBV creates new products business

EBV Electronic has combined its own branded semiconductor business with its main distribution and support activities in a new business unit called Product Innovations. The distributor said that it is combining sales and support activities, but the established brand names of EBVchips and EBVsolutions will remain unchanged. The German distributor set up the EBVchips business to develop and sell ...

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from Electronics Weekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/ebv-creates-new-products-business-2016-10/

Tesla believes full self-drive creates “safer vehicles”

Tesla says it is aiming to give all its electric vehicles the hardware needed for “full self-driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver”. The Californian company claims that full autonomy can be “safer than a human driver”. So what’s needed in terms of sensors and electronics to provide ...

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Where is the Kite Mark for safe IoT?

Lat week security cameras were used to launch a DDoS cyber attack on Dyn, and baby cams are being viewed covertly. And there is no way a consumer – even a consumer that does think about these things, and does give a toss, and might even be you – can tell a vulnerable product from ...

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ARM TechCon: FPGA module has 16Gbit/s I/O

Prototype design can now take advantage of Xilinx Virtex UltraScale technology with the latest FPGA modules from Pro Design. The proFPGA product series, which will be demonstrated at ARM TechCon in California this week (26-27 October), are intended to be used for ASIC and IP prototyping, real time system integration and pre-silicon software development. The five new ...

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ARM TechCon: mbed platform speeds IoT node design

ARM TechCon which takes place in California this week (26-27 October) will major on design platforms for IoT networks and gateways. Key to this is the ARM open environment called mbed OS 5 which incorporates a real-time operating system (RTOS) in the core of the operating system. For example, IoT gateways modules from u-blox now make ...

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Dyn cyber-attack came from incurable IoT devices

Last weeks huge internet attack on internet firm Dyn, said to have affected Twitter, Spotify and PayPal amongst other big names, was at least in part launched from IoT security cameras that continue to be a threat, according to security specialist Brian Krebs. The attack was ‘distributed denial of service’ (DDoS), where many – thousands or ...

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IT spend to top $3.5trn

Driven by growth in software and IT services revenues, worldwide IT spending is forecast to reach $3.5 trillion in 2017, up 2.9% from 2016’s $3.4 trillion, says Gartner. Software spending is projected to grow 6% in 2016, and another 7.2% in 2017 to total $357 billion. IT services spending is expected to grow 3.9% in ...

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GloFo jv China fab deal on hold

GloFo’s plan to get control of a cut-price fab in China has run into trouble, reports Digitimes. GloFo had an agreement with the regional government of Chongqing province to equip an old fab with 40nm 12-inch equipment whereupon it would obtain 51% of the jv with the Chongqing government owning the fab. According to Digitimes’ ...

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Infineon/EBV automotive power webinar

Decentralized Power Distribution Architectures for Efficient Automotive Designs

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Ed Gets Sat Upon

Well I’ve done some chums some favours with my IoT Committee and my driverless car study and I’ve got some credit in the media for being a go-ahead Minister with his finger on the pulse of the tech industry, Ed tells his diary, now I’ve got to find another area where we can make Britain ...

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The Battle of the Beams

German bombing in WWII exacted a heavy toll which would have been heavier if RV Jones hadn’t figured out a way of diverting it. Jones reckoned the bombers were finding their way by using Lorenz-type radio beams called Knickebein (crooked leg) beams. Called into a Cabinet Meeting at the age of 28 to explains his ...

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from Electronics Weekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/yarns/the-battle-of-the-beams-2016-10/

Better touch screens, from Nottingham

Binstead Designs of Nottingham has developed a way to increase touch-screen resolution without increasing the number of electrical connections. A 4×7 array of touch points delivered by eight connections using Binstead’s patented scanning technique.  It is said to work with both resistive and projected capacitance screens, and only requires connection along one edge of the display. ...

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from Electronics Weekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/design/better-touch-screens-nottingham-2016-10/

Tech start-ups pick up awards from Deloitte

Three new tech businesses from the UK were named winners of the 7th annual Cambridge Wireless Discovering Start-Ups competition in London this week in an event hosted by Deloitte. The winners –  8power with its smart, self-powered wireless sensors, risk analytics company AlgoDynamix and satellite positioning specialist Focal Point Positioning – were chosen from 10 finalists who presented ...

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Osram lights St. Peter’s Square

St. Peter’s Square in Rome is now consuming ~70% less energy following a conversion to LED lighitng, by Osram. The project was conceived concept by the Direzione dei Servizi Tecnici del Governatorato dello Stato della Città del Vaticano, the same organisation that with Osram converted the Sistine Chapel to leds whose spectrum was deigned to ...

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Heart-rate sensor on a chip from Osram

An optoelectronic sensor IC from Osram Semiconductors can be used to monitor heart rate and blood oxygen levels. The BioMon optoelectronic sensor is available from distributor Intelligent LED Solutions in three variants, each of which is available mounted on a reference design board that will enable early stage development and prototyping. The heart rate and ...

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from Electronics Weekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/market-sectors/medical-electronics/heart-rate-sensor-chip-osram-2016-10/

ARM Cortex MCUs get fast trace probes

Segger wants to make it easier to get true instruction trace up and running with its new Cortex-M Trace reference board. The firm believes that the main reason that developers do not use trace probes is the complexity of the tools. By referring to a tutorial on the firm’s website, engineers can experience streaming trace, ...

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Optical probes work for high speed measurement, says Tektronix

Dean Miles  describes how an optically isolated probe can overcome common mode interference measurement challenges. Advancements in power conversion components have far outpaced the ability to accurately measure and characterise these designs. Engineers working on power device designs involving GaN and SiC technologies and other high-speed applications currently have no way to accurately measure differential ...

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Europe will have a 5G bonanza

Prospects of a significant boost to Europe’s industrial electronics markets comes as the industry prepares to travel to Munich for next month’s Electronica exhibition. Europe’s automotive, health, transport and energy sectors could be in line for a €100bn a year windfall following the introduction of 5G mobile communications services. A study for the European Commission ...

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Brexit is no big deal for manufacturers

The UK’s manufacturing sector is generally reacting positively to the Brexit referendum. New market figures from the electronics supply chain are better than expected, according to Adam Fletcher, chairman of the Electronic Components Supply Network UK manufacturing generally weakens in August each year as a result of organisational summer holidays. According to Fletcher, while overall ...

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SEMI book-to-bill stays positive.

SEMI’s September book-to-bill ratio was 1.05. September bookings were $1.60 billion – 8.5% lower than August’s $1.75 billion, and is 3.2% higher than the September 2015 order level of $1.55 billion. September billings were $1.53 billion – 10.2% lower than August’s $1.71 billion, and 2.6% higher than the September 2015 billings level of $1.50 billion. ...

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from Electronics Weekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/semi-book-bill-stays-positive-3-2016-10/

Toshiba adds to auto MOSFETs

Toshiba has expanded its family of automotive power MOSFETs with the TK1R5R04PB – the first device in its new low-resistance D2PAK+ package. While the D2PAK+ has the same footprint as a conventional D2PAK (or TO-263) package, it offers reduced package resistance. This is thanks to a source pin that is much wider near to the ...

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Good Old H2

ST’s former chief economist Jean-Philippe Dauvin used to say “I wish we could always live in the second half of the year.” How right he was. According to IC Insights, the average second half versus first half of the year growth rate in the IC market since 1990 is 8.9%. Here are the figures:

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Semi market to shrink this year, reports Gartner

Worldwide semiconductor revenues are forecast to total $332 billion in 2016, a decrease of 0.9% from 2015, according to Gartner. This represents two consecutive years of revenue decline, which has happened only once in history. But the outlook for the semiconductor market is improving. “The worst appears to be over, with a stronger outlook for ...

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76GHz corner reflector increases cycle e-visibility

iLumaware is developing a corner reflector that can be attached to a bicycle to make it more visible to 76GHz forward-facing automotive anti-collision radar. According to the firm’s KickStarter entry, it increases visibility by 7.2dB, increasing the effective radar cross section to that of a small car. Testing showed a cycle without the reflector, called ...

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Semi market to grow this year, reports IC Insights

IC Insights has raised its IC market forecast for 2016 by three percentage points from a 2% decline to a 1% increase and its 2016 IC unit volume shipment growth rate forecast from 4% to 6%. A large portion of this revision is due to a strengthening DRAM market. Although the average third quarter sequential ...

Read full article: Semi market to grow this year, reports IC Insights

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Analogue dc-dc battery charger includes MPU

Taking the microcontroller to an extreme, Microchip has created an 8bit MCU that is more analogue power supply than processor. Called MCP19124 and MCP19125, “this unique product family combines the performance of a high-speed analogue solution, including high-efficiency and fast transient response, with the configurability and communication interface of a digital solution”, said Microchip. And ...

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America II goes in to design and manufacturing services

America II, the US component distributor, is moving into the services business. As well as its main component distribution business it will offer product design, manufacturing and failure analysis services. It is also moving into the market for PCB design and manufacture. Within the last two years America II has been growing its market presence in mainland Europe and other ...

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Binary clock calculates from Pi Zero

Check out this rather clever Binary Clock, which is based on a Raspberry Pi. Lets move away from "traditional sexagesimal time" and get some binary action going.

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from Electronics Weekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/gadget-master/raspberry-pi-gadget-master/binary-clock-calculates-pi-zero-2016-10/

Raspberry Pi founder tells of “toy” that grew and grew

Four years ago Raspberry Pi was launched as a “toy computer” to help teach children about programming, but the Raspberry Pi phenomenon was not destined to remain only in the classroom. Eben Upton, founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation and now CEO of Raspberry Pi (Trading) gives Electronics Weekly an exclusive view on what happened ...

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MP calls on government to make most of AI

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has responded to a new report on robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) from the House of Commons Science and Technology (S&T) Committee by saying that it is important to prepare for the new jobs that AI will create, rather than dealing with the fallout of the jobs that ...

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Fable: Great Technology, Great Products, but No Cash

The first company to manufacture transistors in Japan used them to make some attractive pocket radios. In the 50s the KT-63 was sold. It had 6 transistors a diode and a varistor and measured 4 3/8 x 2 13/16 x 1 3/8 inches / 111 x 72 x 35 mm In the early 60s came ...

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Allo music player, excitement and disappointment

Well the proper version Ubuntu including a custom version of max2play is available for the Allo Vana hi-fi music player – a player which works with Allo’s own Sparky single-board computer or Raspberry Pi. So I downloaded it, and it all boots up well. Trough a different computer on the network, I can log into ...

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Electronics giant backs UK weight-powered off-grid lighting

Siemens is putting money into the work of UK charity GravityLight Foundation, which has designed a weight-powered lighting system for places with no grid connection. In particular, Siemens Stiftung – the foundation arm of Siemens that promotes sustainable social development – will help roll out the UK-designed system to to over 15,000 people without electricity ...

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Electronics giant backs UK weight-powered off-grid lighting

Siemens is putting money into the work of UK charity GravityLight Foundation, which has designed a weight-powered lighting system for places with no grid connection. In particular, Siemens Stiftung – the foundation arm of Siemens that promotes sustainable social development – will help roll out the UK-designed system to to over 15,000 people without electricity ...

Read full article: Electronics giant backs UK weight-powered off-grid lighting

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Micro:bit Foundation promises peer-to-peer radio comms

The continuing rollout of the BBC micro:bit minicomputer – and the plan is to give them free to a million UK school children – will now be overssen by a new Micro:bit Educational Foundation (a not-for-profit company), which launched in London yesterday. The Micro:bit, if you don’t know, is a credit card-size battery-powered computer, and an associated website offers four different ...

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air-to-air drone recharging

Imperial College is proposing air-to-air refuelling amongst electric drones using resonant inductive charging. In a proof-of-concept, a small drone carrying a receiving coil, with its battery removed, was hovered 10cm above a static transmit coil etched into PCB using transferred power. “There are a number of scenarios where wirelessly transferring power could improve drone technology. ...

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from Electronics Weekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/research-news/air-air-drone-recharging-2016-10/

What next for car and EV batteries?

Lithium-ion batteries will dominate the automotive scene over the coming ten, and possibly 15, years, but some odd-ball technologies could push their way through, according to market research firm IDTechEx. “During that time we shall see peak Pb-acid battery, the biggest nail in its coffin being when electric vehicles more widely abandon them and even ...

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from Electronics Weekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/market-research/next-car-ev-batteries-2016-10/

China plans 3D NAND production next year

Yangtze River Storage Technology (YRST) the Tsinghua Unigroup Chinese memory company, will start producing 3D NAND at the end of next year, reports Digitimes. 3D NAND industry leaders Toshiba, Samsung and Intel/ Micron are in production of 48-layer NAND. XMC, which was taken over by YRST earlier this year, developed the flash technology with Spansion ...

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Return to sequential growth at Taiwan foundries

Q3 revenues at Taiwan’s Big Three foundries were up 14.3% q-o-q and 18.5% y-o-y, reports Digitimes. The q-o-q rise comes after five sequential quarters of decline. Combined Q3 revenues of TSMC, UMC and Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) were $9.36 billion up from Q2’s $8.19 billion. Combined Q3 16nm revenues were $1.75 billion up 60.6% q-o-q ...

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7nm processes at IEDM

In two late-news papers at IEDM 2016 in SanFrancisco on December 3rd to 7th, both TSMC and the IBM, Globalfoundries, Samsung alliance will take the wraps off their forthcoming 7nm FinFET technology platforms. A 7nm CMOS Platform Technology for Mobility from TSMC will present the world’s first 7nm CMOS platform technology for mobile system-on-a-chip (SoC) ...

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Good Luck Mentor

Once again Mentor comes under threat and it makes you realise what a great force for good Mentor has been in the semiconductor industry. It has been notably involved in the engineering community offering its ordinarily rather expensive tools to academia and start-ups on affordable terms, engaging in educational and training projects, stimulating the IC ...

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from Electronics Weekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/genius/487693-2016-10/

Elektra 2016 University Research award launches

The University Research category for the Elektra Awards 2016 is launching, and we are looking to readers to express their choice.

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A fix for Allo Vana hi-fi player for Raspberry Pi?

New software for the Allo Vana hi-fi player for Raspberry Pi or its clones appeared on GitHub a few hours ago. The music player sounds great, but has had some software issues. Fingers crossed this code will sort it. Allo Vana GitHub has Max2Play images. They are pointed to from this Sparky/Allo forum page, then ...

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CNXsoft reviews Allo Vana hi-fi player

Where I failed to get much further that playing the odd music file on Allo’s Vana hi-fi stack – which is compatible with Raspberry Pi, website CNXsoft has managed to go the extra mile. The issues that stopped me were around the version of Max2Play software supplied with the Sparky Raspberry Pi clone in the ...

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NEC adds Raspberry Pi socket to displays

NEC  has adopted Raspberry Pi as a standard internal display peripheral “enabling a seamless integration of Raspberry Pi’s devices with NEC’s displays”, said NEC. In this case, it is the third-generation Raspberry Pi Compute Module – an industrial computer with a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor. “The latest Raspberry Pi 3 compute module boasts significant performance ...

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VC Funding Trend Continues Negative

CB Insights and KPMG report that VC Funding went negative in Q4 and stayed low in Q1: The number of $100 million plus VC financings fell off a cliff in Q4 and have stayed low: Q1 was a five quarter low for new companies entering the unicorn club: The median size of European late-stage deals ...

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from Electronics Weekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/markets/487522-2016-10/

Pico-ITX board provides good graphics and audio at low-power

LP-176 from BMV is a Pico-ITX (100 x 72mm) single-board computer is based around a choice of Intel 14nm Braswell quad-core processors: 1.6GHz N3710 Pentium or 1.04GHz Atom X5-E8000. Applications are expected in information appliances where graphics rich operation and high end audio are key. Both versions have Generation 8 graphics support with a standard ...

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Tool-free 19in rack fastener replaces captive nuts

Rittal has introduced a fastener that replaces captive nuts when installing equipment in 19inch racks. Attachment is by hand without tools, and it can be used with every enclosure in the Rittal product range straight away. It is available as a pre-assembled 1U support with three captive nuts, including centre attachment, to standard EIA 310. ...

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from Electronics Weekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/products/emech-enclosures/tool-free-19in-rack-fastener-replaces-captive-nuts-2016-10/

SMD re-work station has camera

Weller’s WTQB 1000 surface-mount re-work station is intended to cover infra-red pre-heating, de-soldering, pad cleaning, positioning and soldering components from 1 x 1 to 42 x 42mm. And BGAs can be re-balled – fitted with new solder balls. It includes an adjustable positioning arm with a vacuum pipette for lifting components and a camera, plus a ...

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micro:bit launches educational foundation

A foundation, in the form of not-for-profit company, has been set-up to support the BBC micro:bit educational computer. Prior to this, support has been from a group of companies and other organisations loosely called the ‘micro:bit partnership’. “I’d like to say huge thank you to everybody that has played a part in getting the micro:bit to ...

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Step carefully with Brexit, warns Royal Academy of Engineering

The government should step carefully when it implements Brexit, says the Royal Academy of Engineering, which wants to see free movement, a continuation of UK participation in EU R&D projects and continued access to the single market. A report from the RAE says skilled engineers from the EU are essential to maintaining the world-class quality ...

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Government appoints director of digital and media.

The government has appointed the former Ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould, to be Director General for Digital and Media. At university, Gould studied philosophy and divinity. Gould set up the UK-Israel tech hub, and was the Cabinet Office’s Director of Cyber Security and Information Assurance. He will work with Liam Maxwell, the Government’s National Technology ...

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Intel has sparkling Q3

Intel’s Q3 revenues grew 9.1% y-o-y and profit grew 21% y-o-y Gross margin was 64.8% and operating profit was $5.1 billion. The PC business saw sales increase 21% y-o-y, and 5% q-o-q to $8.9 billion. Data centre grew 13% q-o-q and 10% y-o-y to $4.5 billion. IoT grew 20% q-o-q and 19% y-o-y to $689 ...

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Top Ten Q2 Chinese Smartphone Vendors

Thanks to Digitimes Research for this one – the top ten Chinese smartphone vendors in Q2: Huawei 18.8% Oppo 11.5%, Vivo 9%, Xiaomi Technology 9%, TCL 5.3%, ZTE 5.3%, Lenovo 4.7%, GiONEE 4.5%, Meizu 2.5% Coolpad 2.1%.

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Law needs to credit inventive computers in patents

Inventions generated by artificial intelligence are rising without the legal framework to manage the issue of patents, which could result in less innovation and uncertainty about invention ownership, according to law professor Ryan Abbott at the University of Surrey. He proposes that patent law be changed to acknowledging computers as inventors in order to encourage the development ...

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‘Green’ piezo replacement could be worse for the environment

Comparative life-cycle studies of lead zirconate titanate (PZN) piezoelectric and its ‘green’ replacement potassium sodium niobate (KNN) suggest KNN is worse for the environment, according to the University of Sheffield. Professors Ian Reaney and Lenny Koh undertook the comparative analysis as part of an EPSRC project. The mining and production process for the recommended replacement releases heavy ...

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Stretchy floppy optical fibre could sense strain inside living tissue

  Researchers from MIT and Harvard Medical School have developed a bio-compatible stretchable optical fibre, which might one day deliver therapeutic light within the body or sense disease said the team. A particular use of the fibre, which is made of bio-polymer hydrogel, could be within jelly-like brain tissue. To keep light in the fibre, the core ...

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The Cheerfulness Detector

Fujitsu Labs reckons its voice recognition technology can determine whether someone is happy or sad. Using a method that takes into account the average pitch of the voice, the degree of variation and the characteristic changes at relative points within voice data that covers multiple words – namely at the start or end of speech ...

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Talking reed relay sense

I don’t often type my contact details into the web for something free, but in the case of Pickering Relay’s two technical guides it was well worth it as they are packed with information. For example, for portable equipment, you can get relays that can be directly driven by CMOS and only draw a couple ...

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Fixing into walls made of fragile stuff

In the category of ‘things I am glad someone invented’, I now add chemical fixing sleeves. I live in a 60 year old house whose inner skin is a random mixture of what I would call breeze blocks and hollow terracotta blocks (aka ‘pots’, aka clay blocks). The terracotta blocks have all of the hopeless ...

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Force feed-back beings variable feel to rotary and push switch

If you thought there was nothing much left to do with switches, think again, and Elma has bought real-time variable feel to a rotary encoder. Dubbed Cyber One, as a switch it combines a 384 clock/rev rotary encoder and push-button. Then, for user experience, as an experience, its firmware offers various pre-set ‘feels’, including: 0-6 Ncm torque ...

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Mentor for sale

Mentor Graphics is reported by Reuters to be exploring options for selling the company after it has been receiving the attentions of activist investor hedge fund Elliott Management. Elliott, which is also making life difficult for Samsung, has bought 8% of Mentor, says its shares are under-valued Elliott says it sees the opportunity of “enhancing ...

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Apps processor market grows 3% while tablet AP market sinks 34%

The application processor (AP) market grew 3% on year to $10 billion in H1 2016, while the tablet AP sector declined 34% to $889 million, says Strategy Analytics. Qualcomm topped the smartphone AP market with 39% revenue share in H1 followed by MediaTek with 23% and Apple with 15%. 64-bit APs accounted for two-thirds of ...

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Baidu adopts Xilinx ICs for FPGA acceleration

Baidu is using Xilinx FPGAs to accelerate machine learning applications in their data centres in China. The two companies are collaborating to further expand volume deployment of FPGA-based accelerated platforms. As rapid growth of emerging applications begins to drive up computational workloads, data centers are turning to application accelerators to keep up with the demands ...

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Time, Einstein and Satellites

An interesting experiment has been proposed by Dr Davidson of Battersea College of Technology, London, in a letter to Nature. So, 56 years ago, started a piece in Electronics Weekly’s edition of December 28th 1960. He suggests the use of an artificial satellite carrying a caesium atomic clock. A measurement could then be made of ...

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Aussie qubit lasts longer for quantum computing

Australian engineers have created a long-lasting quantum from the spin of a silicon atom and an electromagnetic field – existing for 2.4ms before de-phasing. Known as ‘dressed qubit’, it retains quantum information for much longer that an ‘undressed’ atom, said the research team, from the University of New South Wales (UNSW). “The greatest hurdle in ...

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Electronica: Linear Tech features IoT mesh radio

Linear technology is to show two third-party IoT network product ranges at Electronica in Munich, based on its SmartMesh radios. Norwegian company Vicotee Njord is offering wireless sensors to replace wired sensors. “The product is an off-the-shelf solution that will enable companies and public services to connect with traditional wired sensors over the Internet through ...

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Corrupt Public Officials Are What Yanks Fear Most

You’d have thought that what most Americans are most dreading is their choice of President next month but, according to CB Insights, this is what the Americans are most afraid of: The top ten fears are: Corrupt government officials 60.6 Terrorist Attack/Manmade Disasters 41 Not having enough money for the future. 39.9 Terrorism/Crime 38.5 Government ...

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Royal Academy of Engineering brexit report

I sometimes despair that our government has to make decisions based on facts. Because so few politicians or MPs appear to have any real grasp of statistics or numbers. That said, there are a few people who can understand numbers near the government, and there are some very good Lords* – Gus O’Donnell, for example, knows ...

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Engineering Brexit report aims at Governement

UK engineering bodies are aiming at the Government with a detailed report about Brexit Called ‘Engineering a future outside the EU: securing the best outcome for the UK‘ has been compiled by an alliance of engineering organisations led by the Royal Academy of Engineering, claiming to represent over 450,000 engineers. “For many we have consulted ...

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The Airbus Factory of the Future

See how National Instruments is improving airplane production efficiency.

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1nm gate-length MoS2 transistors could spell the end of silicon

Silicon’s elasticity has been under threat for some time and a joint paper in Science from UC Berkeley, Stanford, the Lawrence Berkeley National University and the University of Texas could spell the end of the silicon story. The researchers describe a molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) transistor with a 1nm gate length. “High-performance silicon transistors can have ...

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TSMC bids for process leadership

TSMC looks like it’s bidding for process leadership with the revelation of co-CEO Mark Liu that it is starting volume production on 10nm this year, risk production on 7nm in Q2 next year, volume production on 7nm in 2018 and risk production on 5nm in H1 2019. There are reports that Intel won’t be on ...

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Ed Stumbles On A Wheeze

“What is the Department doing about the IoT?” I ask the Permanent Secretary. “The Department can do nothing about something incapable of definition, Secretary of State,” replied the PS. ‘Connecting things to eachother via the Internet,” I suggest. “Connecting things like what, Secretary of State?” “Oh, fridges to toasters, that sort of thing.” “De minimis ...

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Android Studio builds in LTE emulation for Nougat

Google has made Android Studio v2.2 available for download, the company's official development environment for building Android apps.

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On-chip radar development kits stretch to 122GHz

Silicon Radar of Frankfurt has introduced development kits for its GHz CMOS radar MMICs (millimetre wave integrated circuits), which are built using SiGe or SiGe:C from IHP. “We offer high frequency circuits for radar solutions, phased-array-systems and wireless communications, for both custom specific ASIC design and supply of standard circuits in frequency range from 10GHz ...

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16nm FinFET FPGAs in production, says Xilinx

Xilinx says it has reached a significant production milestone for its 16nm UltraScale+ FPGAs ahead of schedule. “Less than a year after first ship of all devices, open order entry for production devices is available this quarter,” said the company. Xilinx  UltraScale+ FPGA family is a FinFET-based programmable technology which is now available at 14nm or 16nm process nodes. ...

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The Gynaecologist Entrepreneur

The founder of Canon, Takeshi Mitarai, was a doctor, specialising in gynaecology. “He didn’t know much about business and he didn’t care much about money,” according to his son. However Mitarai did care that “the microscopes we used at school were made in Germany.” “I thought that this kind of business was right for Japan,” ...

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Combined gate magnetics for silicon carbide power in avionics

Aiming at silicon carbide power converters in avionics, Beta Transformer Technology (BTTC) has combined both gate power and gate signal transformers in a single package. Isolation in excess of 2.5kVdc is claimed, as is low parasitic capacitances in order to support the fast transients typical of SiC converters – up to 50kV/µs. Developed with Belgian ...

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DMA Test 14 Oct 2016

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Avery Dennison invests in flexible electronics firm

Packaging giant Avery Dennison has made a significant investment in UK-based flexible transistor technology firm, PragmatIC. The investment by Avery Dennison, which also develops radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, was part of a £18m funding round which also included existing shareholders Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC) and ARM. This investment in PragmatIC is expected to accelerate the mass deployment ...

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Join the Electronics Weekly webinar on Automotive Power

Make a note in your diary for the next Electronics Weekly webinar. It's by Infineon and EBV and is entitled, Decentralized Power Distribution Architectures for Efficient Automotive Designs.

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Top 10 most popular articles on ElectronicsWeekly.com

Here are the top ten most popular articles on ElectronicsWeekly.com in the last week, with the Raspberry Pi Pixel desktop UI, Stratix 10, Osram headlights and PC sales all figuring prominently… Taking it in reverse order as always: 10. Pi gets a new Pixel desktop 9. Wishy-Washy Chancellor 8. Raspberry Pi 3 becomes Hi-Fi audio player with ...

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UK will continue to lead EU in broadband

The UK is expected to continue to lead the EU’s five largest economies on a range of fixed broadband measures in 2020, according to a new report by global telecoms advisor Analysys Mason. The report compares the outcomes of the UK broadband market with key benchmark countries including the ‘EU five’ (France, Germany, Italy, Spain ...

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Antenova samples antenna for 433MHz ISM band

Antenova, the Hatfield antenna manufacturer, is sampling an antenna for small devices in the 433MHz ISM band. The antenna measures 101.0mm x 20.0mm x 0.15mm, and weighs 0.5g, with a peak gain of 2.80dBi. It is suitable for any small electronic device in the 433MHz band, typically remote monitoring, robot control, smart meters, home automation ...

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