Top 10 US Presidents For Issuing Executive Orders

With the new US President issuing a flurry of executive orders in his first ten days in office, here, thanks to CNN, are the top ten presidents of modern times for issuing the most executive orders:   Roosevelt  3,721 Truman 907 Eisenhower 484 Reagan 381 Clinton 364 Nixon 346 Johnson 325 Carter 320 Bush (2nd) 291 ...

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Cavendish Kinetics RF MEMS tuner in Samsung Galaxy A8

Cavendish Kinetics, the RF MEMS tuner specialist owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, says its SmarTune RF MEMS antenna tuners have been adopted by 40 different smartphone models from 10 manufacturers, including the Samsung Galaxy A8. RF MEMS technology has the potential to improve smartphone performance and user experience. Antenna tuning has become the default ...

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Waterproof micro USB connector

CUI’s Interconnect Group has announced a waterproof micro USB 2.0 connector. UJ2W‑MIBH‑4‑SMT is a micro B type with IPX7 rating for wet and damp environments. Copper alloy contact terminals with 30µinch gold-over-nickel plating and stainless steel shielding mean high durability – 10,000 mating cycles. The series features a surface mount package and horizontal orientation. Plastic mounting ...

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Succumbing To IoT-itis

In the office and the pub I am assailed by piss-takers as I succumb to IoT-itis. On these dark cold evenings my house needs supplemental heating to the central heating for when I get home at night and it’s also nice to come back to a house with lights on. Having looked around for appliances ...

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IoT Secure Systems Systems Summit expands speaker lineup

The IoT Secure Systems Summit 2017 runs in London on Tuesday 25 April, and the speaker lineup has been expanded. Another industry expert – Jan Tobias Muehlberg of Imec-DistriNet – will be speaking at the one day conference devoted to the design of secure hardware and software, with a particular emphasis on the IoT. The title ...

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Google preps latest rollout of Android Nougat

If you're really keen to see the latest Nougat in action... Google is about to roll out a public beta of 7.1.2, the next maintenance release for Android Nougat.

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Bristol University cuts sensor power stand-by to ‘zero’.

  Engineers at the University of Bristol have developed a three terminal pico-power chip that can cut stand-by drain in sensor node – even compared with today’s low-power microcontrollers. It does this by replacing the brief wake period in low duty-cycle sleep-wake-sleep MCU-based sensor monitors, with a voltage detector powered by the sensor – there ...

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Rohde & Schwarz introduce 6GHz scope for testing IoT

Rohde & Schwarz has added a 6GHz oscilloscope to its RTO2000 scope family. Intended for the testing of radio interfaces of 802.11ac WLAN components for IoT modules in the 5GHz band, the scope has up to 16-bit vertical resolution in high definition mode. It has a refresh rate of one million waveforms per second, and ...

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How to hack a TS Thumbstick for gaming

In a guest post for Gadget Master, the Design Spark blogger Connector Geek explores how you much can do in a day with APEM’s TS USB Thumbstick, as a custom made joystick. What started as a fix for a personal gaming dilemma developed into a general input device. As a keen PC gamer with a ...

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The ethics of driverless cars – or how to stop the killer robots

The risks for driverless cars will be a battle between the professional hacker and the system developer to protect both the passengers, pedestrians and other road users from malicious attacks, writes Mark Patrick With driverless cars becoming a reality and rolling out in trials around the world, it is now that  the ethical and liability ...

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Rohm claims world’s smallest reflector LED.

Rohm says it is selling the world’s smallest reflector-type high brighteness 3-colour LED. It is optimized for consumer devices such as matrix light sources for gaming and wearables that demand increased miniaturization. The MSL0402RGBU measures 1.8mmx1.6mm. In order to turn on matrix light sources it is necessary to take measures against ESD. Unlike conventional solutions that ...

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Element 14 releases Autodesk Eagle

Element14, the Development Distributor, released Autodesk EAGLE, which combines power, accesibility and affordability. The PCB Design Software is a  Schematic, PCB and collaboration tool with a new routing engine, ultra-precise selection, and easy circuitry reuse. Engineers can use Autodesk EAGLE to deliver integrated ECAD/MCAD for designing smart products. EAGLE will now be available through element14 ...

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EU gives £13m to Cardiff Compound Cluster

The compound semiconductor cluster at Cardiff led by IQE has received £13 million from the EU.The grant will go to establishing a clean- room in Cardiff.   “The role of compound semiconductors as an enabling technology for a wide range of next-generation applications, from high-speed communications to autonomous vehicles, is widely acknowledged worldwide, with major ...

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First Banda-Tronic For London

FIRST BANDA-TRONIC SHOWN IN LONDON was the headline, 56 years ago, on a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 19th 1960. The story opens: A new electronic business machine, the Banda-Tronic, was demonstrated in London last week. Developed by Pye for Block and Anderson, it will speed many routine jobs in commercial offices. Invoicing, ...

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We just don’t know our mobiles can be hacked

Almost half of us are unaware that our smartphones or any internet-connected devices could be infiltrated and used to conduct a cyber attack. That’s according to a new report published by Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu operating system. It would seem that consumer awareness campaigns, such as the government’s latest online cyber awareness campaign which costs over £6 per ...

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Nano Dimension embeds components in 3D printed PCBs

Nano Dimension, the Israel 3D printing specialist,  has successfully 3D printed electrical circuits, in which it embedded electrical components, through placement, as an integral part of the printing process.  The company’s 3D printer – the DragonFly 2020 – enables 3D printing of PCBs with conductive ink and dielectric ink. Today, the company announced a successful proof ...

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Seeing Shouldn’t Be Believing

After Theranos the pin-prick blood test company, and now Lily Robotics, VCs are getting a trifle nervous about how many other dud investments they’ve made. Lily turned out to be a scam. $15 million of VC money was raised, 12 million people saw Lily’s promotional video and $34 million was received from over 60,000 customers ...

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Only Connect: On cable flammability ratings

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. This week I am going to give you an overview of the different flammability ratings used in cables. The aim of which is to help make better ...

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Murata chip inductors for NFC

  Murata has introduced the LQM18JN series of chip inductors for near field communication (NFC) applications while overcoming inherent problems associated with previous NFC designs to offer a better, more consistent performance.   In recent years an increasing number of electronic devices such as smartphones have included NFC capability. NFC circuits utilize a chip inductor ...

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Bosch joins MIPI Alliance

  Bosch Sensortec  has joined the MIPI Alliance as a Contributor Member. The MIPI Alliance is a non-profit organization with more than 275 active member companies, developing interface specifications which drive consistency in processor and peripheral interfaces, promoting reuse and compatibility in mobile and IoT devices. Bosch Sensortec’s portfolio of MEMS sensors and solutions is ...

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Intel to sharply increase capex

Intel is looking to sharply increase capex in 2017 as it brings up its 10nm process. This is despite Intel’s forecast that 2017 sales will be flat with 2016. Intel’s 2017 capex is forecast to be $12 billion which is a $2.4 billion increase from last year. Memory capex is expected to grow from $1.6 ...

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Ed becomes a Trump-ite

‘We’re all Trump-ites now,’ Ed confides to his diary, ‘the PM has returned from Washington all aglow and the word from No.10 is no more snide remarks about comb-overs, walls and pussy. The vicar’s daughter has, it seems, been bowled over by the charisma of the rough-hewn Yankee builder. We’re hearing from No.10 that she ...

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The Remark Which Infuriated A Nobel Laureate’s Mum

In 1973 Leo Esaki was awarded the Nobel Prize of Physics for his invention of the tunnel diode while working at Sony. Although interesting scientifically, the device had little practical use. Unfortunately, Esaki’s research director at Sony, Makoto Kikuchi, was nobbled by the Japanese press after the Nobel announcement, and a reporter asked Kikuchi what ...

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Electro-‘muscles’ made from natural fibres

Swedish researchers have made ‘muscles’ by coating natural fibres with electro-active polymers. The actuators, according to ‘Knitting and weaving artificial muscles‘, a paper in Science Advances, typically deliver a few megapascals of stress, beating mammalian skeletal muscles which score around 0.35MPa. However, they are slow at the moment, acting over several seconds.   Woven muscles exert ...

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Toshiba mulls chip IPO

At a board meeting earlier today, Toshiba approved the proposed spin-out of its chip division and said that an IPO is one option for the unit. It was also said that they would look to IPO less than 20% of the spun-out company. Previous ways of raising cash were to simply sell a stake to ...

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Fourth generation super-junction mosfet from Vishay

Vishay has introduced the first device in its fourth generation of 600V E Series power mosfets, which is aimed at telecom, industrial, and enterprise power supplies. The n-channel SiHP065N60E has 30% less 0n-resistance and 44 % lower gate charge compared with previous 600 V E Series devices. The figures are 0.065Ω max at 10 V ...

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UK robotics head welcomes May’s industrial blueprint

Prime Minister Theresa May singled out robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) in her blueprint for a ‘modern’ industrial strategy for the UK. She indicated that part of the proposed £4.7bn investment in research and development to underpin her industrial plans, which are designed to strengthen the UK economy through greater self-sufficiency, post-Brexit, would be targeted ...

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Harvard scientists make metallic hydrogen

Harvard scientists Professor Isaac Silvera and Ranga Dias have made metallic hydrogen – a material which could have many applications including room temperature superconductors. “This is the Holy Grail of high-pressure physics,” says Silvera “It’s the first-ever sample of metallic hydrogen on Earth, so when you’re looking at it, you’re looking at something that’s never ...

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Toshiba separates memory for more stability

Toshiba has announced the spin-off of its memory business. Market watcher DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, believes there are advantages in the long run that will benefit the Toshiba-Western Digital alliance in the forms of expansion in NAND flash production capacity and increased efficiency in storage product development. “Toshiba wants to put its memory business in a more stable ...

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Practical Raspberry Pi

I worked from home yesterday and had trouble accessing the mighty servers of Electronics Weekly. So I fired up a Raspberry Pi 3 and…     ….I still couldn’t connect with the servers. But I could do all the usual office-type tasks at full speed and with out any inconvenience. Web-browsing was slightly slow, maybe ...

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Spin Transfer Technologies samples ST-MRAM

Spin Transfer Technologies (STT), the developer of breakthrough Orthogonal Spin Transfer Magneto-Resistive Random Access Memory technology (OST-MRAM), is sampling fully functional ST-MRAM devices to multiple customers in North America and Asia. The sample devices utilize 80nm perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs), the latest generation of MRAM technology. The company is delivering these devices on evaluation ...

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The Cost Of A Screw

It was once said of Qualcomm that you only get one chance to screw the industry. The question is: Was it worth it? Chickens are coming home to roost – a $975 million anti-trust settlement with China; an $858 billion fine from the Korean FTC, possibly more fines to come from the EU and the ...

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Intel revenues $59.4bn in 2016

Intel had 2016 revenues of $59.4 billion, operating income of $12.9 billion, net income of $10.3 billion and cash flow of $21.8 billion. For Q4, Intel had revenue of $16.4 billion, operating of $4.5 billion, net income of $3.6 billion. The PC business grew 2% in 2016; Thee data centre business grew 8% to $17.2 ...

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Check out the Raspberry Pi Guy video channel

The Raspberry Pi Guy is a young electronics enthusiast behind the eponymous YouTube channel TheRaspberryPiGuy, which has already totalled four million views (and counting).

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Printed electronics centre expands in Durham

The UK Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) is to develop ways to print the electronics of RFID lables, with £2.6m from the European Regional Development Fund. The funding will allow CPI to establish the Emerging Electronics Manufacturing Centre in County Durham, which will provide: a reel-to-reel RFID inlay production line, producing reels of RFID labels ...

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Fable: The Idea Whose Time Had Not Yet Come

53 years ago a compsny described the idea of an ASIC at the 1963 Wescon Show – the first time that the idea of customisable ICs had been suggested. The company suggested it would make standard RTL parts but have customers design a unique metal interconnect mask. The idea failed to get into production line ...

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V-TAC lamps soon to be listed with DIALux

V-Tac’s range of lights will be listed on DIALux’s software by March this year, said V-Tac. “We are delighted to have become a DIALux Partner,” said V-Tac marketing director Anil Sunagar. “The capabilities of their software makes lighting design much easier for everyone.” According to V-Tac, over 600,000 architects, engineers and lighting technicians use DIALux software ...

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Better wisdom from the crowd

The ‘wisdom of the crowd’ can be better extracted by asking two questions: What someone thinks the right answer is, and what they think popular opinion will be. The variation between the two aggregate responses indicates the correct answer, according to MIT’s Sloan Neuroeconomics Lab which worked with Princeton University. “In situations where there is ...

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Deep learning diagnoses skin cancer as well as professionals

Stanford University develops artificial intelligence that can diagnose skin cancer as well as dermatologists, it claims.

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Smart grid control technique handles wind turbine contributions

Chinese researchers are developing a smart grid control technique to handle wind turbine contributions.

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Qualcomm Q4 shows growth but challenges mount

  Qualcomm reported 2016 revenues of $23.5 billion and Q4 revenues of $6.2 billion up from $6 billion in Q3. Net income for Q4 was $1.9 billion, up from Q3’s $1.7 billion but that was hit by an $868 million fine from the Korean FTC. “We are forecasting continued growth of global 3G/4G device shipments ...

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Cypress aims FL-L flash at automotive, industrial and IoT

Cypress adds to its FL-L flash family with AEC-Q100 (automotive) qualified 64 and 128Mbit NOR memories with Quad SPI data transfer.

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DNA sequencing can give everyone a genetic passport

A new age has dawned: the age of when a full genome can be sequenced for $1,000. It’s an important milestone for medicine. DNA sequencing specialists Yves Moreau and Pol Van Dorpe discuss how DNA sequencers can be made cheaper and more efficient. A genetic passport for everyone? There are 23 pairs of chromosomes in ...

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ST Q4 profits up; plans to invest $1bn in manufacturing

ST saw Q4 operating profit of $112 million up from $2 million in Q4 2015 on revenues of $1.86 billion up from $1.67 billion in Q4 2025.   “In the fourth quarter we continued to see sustained demand, resulting in revenues and gross margin better than the midpoint of our guidance. Net revenues grew 3.5% ...

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Arrow offers configurable Artesyn power supply service

Arrow has partnered with Artesyn to offer a configurable AC-DC power supply service from its production facility in Swindon. The distributor will offer configured power supplies from Artesyn’s MP, iMP and low profile (1U) MicroMP (uMP) ranges. It will offer the service on small batches of up to ten units with a 48 hour turnaround ...

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Fujitsu Labs develops connection control for LTE and WiFi

Fujitsu Laboratories has announced the development of connection control technology for LTE and Wi-Fi to boost communication speed in areas with Wi-Fi. When devices doing high-load communications tasks, such as streaming videos, are concentrated on a single Wi-Fi access point, deterioration in communications speed for each of these devices is a problem. Until now, devices ...

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A Communist Dictatorship’s Route To IC-Making

The story of China’s biro makes you wonder if China’s $160 billion initiative to spawn a chip industry is doomed. Although a big biro manufacturer, it transpired that China was importing the tips, so reducing profitability, because it did not have the precision machinery or the quality of steel to make the tips itself. It ...

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Poor Old Tosh

Toshiba has appointed Goldman Sachs to help with the attempted sale of a 20-30% stake in its chip business. First bids are expected the week after next with a buyer to be selected by the end of March. Canon, Western Digital, Tokyo Electron and various private equity companies are said to have shown an interest, ...

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Subtleties of AVR PWMs

Having advocated Arduinos for prototype PWM signal generation, I have just discovered a subtlety that might trip up the unwary (amongst which I count myself). The original idea was not to use Arduino with the Arduino programming language, which resilts in rather slow PWM outputs, but to use Arduino hardware and assembler-code the PWM bit which ...

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Tearing down the Oculus Rift Touch controller

This iFixit teardown covers the evolution of arguably the best-known headset - the Touch controller, added to the Oculus Rift system at the end of last year.

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Mouser stocks SparkFun for makers and professionals

Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with SparkFun Electronics, to distribute its DIY electronics and open-source technology globally. The distributor is expecting interest from professionals as well as hobbyists and makers. “The agreement provides increased access to both Mouser’s and SparkFun’s product ecosystems, enabling customers to shop for maker technology to support their projects,” ...

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Tiny battery connector handles 10A for faster charging

Kyocera has managed to squeeze 10A capability into a 2.2 x 5.64mm board to board connector with 0.7mm stack height. Part of the 7129 series, it is intended to allow high battery charging currents in portable devices such as smartphones, tablets and wearables. It also includes two signal pins. According to the firm, it has metal guides ...

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The Top 10 (+9) Countries For Citizens Thinking It Is World’s Best Country

Thanks to YouGov for this one – the countries where most citizens think they live in the best country on the planet:

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Lumileds claims efficacy record for outdoor led

“Luxeon MX is the only emitter in its class to deliver 1,200 lm at 150 lm/W in a 12V configuration,” is Lumileds claim – at 85°C, 4,000 – 6,500K and 70CRI. “Which enables a system efficiency of 120 lm/W when driven at 700 mA.” I am trusting Lumileds on this one, and hoping ‘class’ in this case ...

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A Laugh

Here’s a laugh. One assumes this is a joke but the insanities of wearables, IoT and CES excess make you wonder if, in a gullible world,  it could, possibly, be for real.   SHIELD YOURSELF FROM SPRING SHOWERS WITH THE UMBRELLA DRONE -Drones e-tailer DronesDirect.co.uk launches Umbrella Drone to protect against wet weather- OUTDOOR explorers ...

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Samsung profit up 50% y-o-y.

Samsung Electronics had Q4 operating profit of $7.9 billion on revenues of $53 billion – the highest operating profit in 13 quarters and 50% up on Q4 2015. $4.25 billion of the profit came from the semiconductor business which was 77% up on Q4 2015. “Fourth quarter earnings were driven by the components businesses, mainly ...

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Four-point plan to save the tech sector post-Brexit

A new report says that the tech sector is highly integrated with European markets and dependent upon legal and regulatory frameworks established at EU level over many decades. The report ‘The UK Digital Sectors After Brexit‘ by Frontier Economics was commissioned by digital business body techUK. According to techUK, it is “extremely difficult to predict exactly what ...

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London’s IoT community is growing fast, says IoTUK report

UK companies looking to break into the market for IoT devices, applications and services have amassed £42m of venture capital funding since mid-2015. Market research by the government’s internet of things tech catapult group IoTUK has identified 45 companies across the UK that have received private funding, ranging from a few thousand to multi-million pounds. The vast majority of ...

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Arduino fires up the Altair 8800

Do you remember the Altair 8800, one of the first widely sold personal computers? An Arduino enthusiast is resuscitating the old microcomputer.

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from Electronics Weekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/gadget-master/arduino/arduino-fires-altair-8800-2017-01/

Android apps coming to future Chromebooks

As the owner of one of the small-but-nice Asus Chromebooks, this one caught my eye: all new Chromebooks will be able to run Android Apps, in the "coming future".

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from Electronics Weekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/eyes-on-android/general-eyes-on-android/android-apps-coming-future-chromebooks-2017-01/

Aldi App asks to snoop too much

A generous friend gave me a fitness tracker, bought from Aldi. And a neat thing it is, looking like a small wristwatch and using accelerometers to measure and estimate a bunch of stuff. To get the most out of it, it needs to work with an app – iPhone or Android. I am always a ...

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Preppers

Back in the 70s I knew a TI semi exec who was preparing a bolt-hole for his family somewhere in the South Seas for when the bomb dropped. Although he was an engaging guy I could see that, deep down, he felt superior to the rest of us and I think it was this feeling ...

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from Electronics Weekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/delusions/preppers-2017-01/

Distributor rates suppliers and delivery performance

Anglia is providing its online customers with analysis of forward, current and historical orders and enquiries. The distributor is also giving a vendor rating based on delivery performance. Steve Rawlins, CEO of Anglia says he wants to give customers complete transparency in their trading relationship with Anglia. “We’re putting full and comprehensive information about our business relationship ...

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from Electronics Weekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/distributor-rates-suppliers-delivery-performance-2017-01/

Asus’s 1.8GHz 32bit quad core Raspberry Pi clone

PC giant Asus has jumped on the Raspberry Pi bandwagon with Tinker Board. According to Farnell, which is stocking it, it has a Quad core 1.8GHz ARM Cortex-A17 CPU from Rockchip – faster than Raspberry Pi 3, but 32bit compared to Raspberry Pi’s 64bit. Tinker Board also has more memory – 2GB dual channel LPDDR3. Its Rockchip RK3288 ...

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Designing smart tech lowers mental anxiety

An imaginative smart textiles design workshop has shown that involvement in new technologies can benefit people with mental health issues, writes Richard Wilson A research project involving technology product design using smart textiles has been used to help people with mental health conditions by lowering levels of anxiety. Dr Sarah Kettley, a reader in product ...

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Imec, EVG demo superior overlay accuracy for wafer-to-wafer bonding

Imec and EVG have demonstrated  1.8µm pitch overlay accuracy for wafer-to-wafer bonding. Wafer-to-wafer bonding is a promising technique for enabling high-density integration of future ICs through 3D integration. This is achieved by aligning top and bottom wafers that are then bonded, thus creating a stacked IC. An important advantage is that wafers/ICs with different technologies ...

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Silicon Labs buys Zentri

Silicon Labs of Austin Texas has bought three year-old Los Gatos IoT specialist Zentri which helps people connect things to eachother and to the internet. Zentri’ combination of modules, embedded and cloud software, APIs and tools enables rapid development of secure IoT end node products. Zentri has raised $3.4 million in venture capital since being ...

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from Electronics Weekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/silicon-labs-buys-zentri-2017-01/

Great Success Of British Computer

GREAT SUCCESS OF BRITISH COMPUTER 56 years ago, this was the headline on an article in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 19th 1960. The story opens: WORLD-WIDE acceptance of a British made computer indicates the growing demand for medium size computing systems. Elliott Brothers have successfully marketed their 803 solid state computer not only on ...

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Some way to go in Government’s industrial plans

Gerard Grech, CEO of TechCity sees the Prime Minister’s Modern Industrial Strategy as a “good first step on the way to building an exciting partnership between tech firms and government”. According to Grech, tech and digital sector in this country employs 1.6 million people and is growing at almost three times the rate of the wider economy. “We welcome the ...

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How to build your own Bluetooth Smart thermometer

Check out a new post on the Arduino blog, showing how to build your own Bluetooth Smart thermometer, based on a Genuino 101, a digital temperature sensor and smartphone app.

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from Electronics Weekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/gadget-master/sensors/build-bluetooth-smart-thermometer-2017-01/

Tech sector welcomes May’s industrial blueprint

Prime Minister Theresa May’s proposals for a Modern Industrial Strategy is being welcomed by the industry and tech investment sector. Companies in the tech sector had been hoping the Government would recognise their importance and place tech businesses and skills at heart of any post-Brexit industrial policy. This follows the government’s announcement of its new Industrial Strategy and a commitment ...

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Government strategy: You reply

Dell UK cloud business director Rob Lamb To date, investing in STEM and digital skills has not been a focus for UK businesses in the industrials sector. Our report last year, The Great Skills Exodus, revealed that 46% of IT workers in engineering and construction stated that they only receive training once a year or ...

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Deals Dominate Semiconductors

Nearly half of the largest M&A deals in the history of the semiconductor industry were done in 2015-16, reports IC Insights. 2016 saw $98.5 billion of deals done while 2015 saw $103 billion worth of deals.   Since 1999 there have been 27 semiconductor M&A deals worth over $2 billion: Seven in 2015; Five in ...

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3U OpenVPX board offers Zynq UltraScale+ multi-processor SoCs

PanaTeQ has introduced a 3U (100 x 160mm) OpenVPX-compatible board with Xilinx 16nm Zynq UltraScale+ SoCs. In a single device, the Zynq UltraScale+ integrates a quad-core 1.5GHz 32/64bit ARM Cortex-A53, a dual-core Cortex-R5, a MALI-400 GPU and a programmable logic – as well as on-die memory, external memory interfaces, and interface peripherals. The board, called VPX3-ZU1, includes ...

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Government to publish ‘modern industrial strategy’ green paper today

This morning’s Government pronouncements are leading up to 1pm today when the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) will publish a green paper on the Government’s ‘modern industrial strategy’. Pre-released information includes the announcement of “sector deals” and investment in research and development that will support “the industries of the future where Britain has the ...

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Foxconn considers US manufacturing plant

Foxconn is considering a plan to set up an OLED manufacturing plant in the US which could employ up to 50,000 people and cost $7 billion. The plant could be built as a jv with Apple. Apple accounts for about half of Foxconn’s revenues. The plan was revealed after Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou had a ...

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Battery design and manufacturing faults caused Note 7 fires.

Samsung held a two hour press conference this morning to explain that faults in battery design and manufacturing caused the fires in the Note 7. Koh Dong-jin, president of mobile communications at Samsung, told the conference that the original battery, made by Samsung SDI, had electrodes which touched each other causing a short circuit and ...

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Subaru Saves 2000 Man Hours

Subaru quickly brings its first hybrid vehicle to market using PXI for HIL testing

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Toshiba faces problems in selling chip stake

Toshiba’ plan to sell off a stake in its chip business to raise cash faces problems. The need arose because of losses in its nuclear business which could be as big as $6 billion and its barring from raising fresh equity funding following its accounting scandal. Toshiba now faces having a negative net worth It ...

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Flex Logix signs eFPGA deal with DARPA

Flex Logix, the embedded FPGA IP specialist has signed a deal with DARPA which allows aby company or government abency designing ICs for the US government to use Flex Logix’ EFLX arrays. Flex Logix will make available EFLX arrays in the TSMC 16FFC process node from 2.5K to 122.5K LUTs so that these companies and ...

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Ed Sucks Up To No.10

No.10 have been badgering me about what my department is doing about driverless cars, Ed confides to his diary, it’s a lot of nonsense but it’s the tech obsession du jour and you might as well argue with a doorpost as with the present lot at No.10. I’ve come up with an approach which will ...

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from Electronics Weekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/ed-the-serial-ceo/ed-sucks-no-10-2017-01/

Safe and Sound wearables challenge tackles personal safety

Here's another competition for you - element14 launches a wearables design challenge called ‘Safe and Sound’.

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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 Compute Module 3, Brexit, STEM education, watches and DC-DC converters all figuring prominently… Taking it in reverse order as always: 10. Mains power chip is efficient at 6W 9. Imagination brings complex games to mid-range phones 8. Tech ...

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Theory could predict noise in future plasmonic systems

Noise in nanoscale photonic and plasmonic amplifiers could be modelled following research at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. The scientists have proposed an approach that that could predict maximum data transfer rates in future optoelectronic microprocessors, or fundamental limits on nanophotonic interface bandwidth. Surface plasmon polaritons, which can be created from a photon of ...

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Mentor certifies RTOS for automotive designs

Mentor Graphics has introduced an ISO 26262 qualification programme for its tools and embedded software for use safety-critical designs and verification flows at all criticality levels up to and including ASIL D. Called the Mentor Safe programme it includes the Nucleus SafetyCert real time operating system, the Volcano Vstar Autosar operating system and BSW stack. It also includes ISO 26262 ...

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from Electronics Weekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/market-sectors/automotive-electronics/mentor-certifies-rtos-automotive-designs-2017-01/

Cost Control At National

“Once, during a period when cash was short, we decided not to spend any money on keeping up the landscape around our Santa Clara plant,” recalls National Semiconductor CEO Charlie Sporck in his book SPINOFF. “The grass grew tall and Bob Widlar had one of his crazy inspirations. He bought a sheep and tethered it ...

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from Electronics Weekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/yarns/cost-control-national-2017-01/

Cambridge deal creates major graphene centre in the UK

A majority stake in Cambridge Graphene, a spin-out company from the University of Cambridge, has been acquired by UK-based firm Versarien. Cambridge Graphene develops inks based on graphene and related materials using processes developed at the Cambridge Graphene Centre. The spin-out company has commercialised graphene inks for novel technology applications. Cheltenham-based technology firm Versarien says it ...

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Fully transparent electroluminescent dislays

Fully transparent segmented displays are available form Beneq of Finland. Pictured is the Tasel-branded ELT15S technology demonstrator. “Tasel displays combine the rugged and reliable build of thin-film electroluminescence with the unique freedom of designing a completely transparent display,” said the firm. “It is ideal for consumer electronics, architectural use and other fields where viewing experience and ...

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Book: The 5G Myth

An interesting new book for your attention: the '5G Myth' by the wireless comm expert Professor William Webb, of the Weightless SIG.

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from Electronics Weekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/electro-ramblings/industry-comment/book-5g-myth-2017-01/

Scotland turns to Isle of Wight electronics to measure fishing vessels

Marine Scotland turned to Isle of Wight torque measurement firm Datum Electronics when it had to confirm fishing vessel engine power as part of a certification process. “What Marine Scotland really required was a temporary and relatively inexpensive system that can be easily configured and able to collect data in the field, also logging all ...

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EU customs exit ‘no problem’ for component suppliers

The Prime Minister’s plans to withdraw the UK from Europe’s single market and customs union should not present any problems for electronic component suppliers, according to the ECSN supply chain organisation. The UK electronics supply chain is highly reliant on timely shipment of products across EU and international borders. As things stand there are virtually no tariffs (import ...

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Computer beats the ‘average American’ in intelligence test

An artificial intelligence has done well on a test that is said to measures abstract reasoning in humans – Raven’s Progressive Matrices. All of the test’s problems consist of a matrix with one image missing, and offer six to eight choices of answer. The artificial intelligence, “performed better than the average American”, said Northwestern Univeristy, ...

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Tsinghua announces huge memory fab in Nanjing

Tsinghua Unigroup said yesterday that it would build a $30 billion, 300k wpm fab in Nanjing. Phase 1, costing $10 billion, will be to set up a 100k wpm fab making DRAM and 3D NAND. Tsinghua says the project is part of China’s efforts to build a world-leading chip industry, and it hopes it will ...

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450mm, EUV, Scaling, 3D NAND and FD-SOI

  IFS 2017 in London this week looked at current technology issues on 450mm, EUV, scaling, 3D NAND and FD-SOI “It looks like 300mm is the end of the process road,” said Malcolm Penn, CEO of Future Horizons, adding, “then again, in this industry never say never.” The 450mm champion – Intel – has stalled ...

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Hats of to HP for interesting PC/speaker

HP has done something interesting by combining a PC with a loudspeaker So you only have one lump in the room, doing two jobs. Don;t get too excited unless you are prepared t spend a fair amount – th sis not a bargain basement PC. However, you get a 6th generation multi-core Core i3, i5 ...

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Raspberry Pi gets I2S sound card add-on

A group in Barcelona has developed a I2S Sound Card specially designed to fit on practically all of the Raspberry Pi models. Called DACBerry ONE, it is compatible with many of the actual distributions for RPi, also working on 3rd party open source audiophile music players. Orion Sanchez from OSA Electronics, writes on Kickstarter: “After ...

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Mouser adds image-assisted search

Component distributor Mouser Electronics has added image-based browsing to its website, as well as by data sheets or by newest products. “The new Images tab lets customers to browse by using any search or navigation function,” said Mouser v-p of internet business Hayne Shumate. “Engineers and buyers can now group and browse images using the ...

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Fable: The IC Designer Who Wanted To Be Rich

Over 50 years ago an IC designer wrote a short resignation letter: “I resign effective December 31 1965.” On the company’s Exit Interview form he wrote under the heading ‘Reason of Separation’: “I want to be RICH.” Asked what would keep him he replied: “$1 million tax free.” He added it was his goal to ...

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Gadget Watch: Kitronik Bluetooth Stereo Amplifier Kit

Kitronik launches a Bluetooth Stereo Amplifier Kit for for use within Design & Technology lessons within secondary schools.

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Cambridge: superconductivity initiated in Graphene

Researchers have activated the dormant potential for graphene to superconduct, by coupling it with praseodymium cerium copper oxide (PCCO). According to St John’s College, University of Cambridge, graphene could now be used to create new types of superconducting quantum devices for high-speed computing, and might be used to prove the existence of the mysterious ‘p-wave’ ...

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Low-power chip modulator has THz potential

A novel slot waveguide with tunable, two-dimensional electron gas could form the basis of a room temperature THz modulator, according to Massachusetts-based Tufts University. Through lack of THz facilities, the researchers have created a lower frequency prototype, than can amplitude modulate a 250GHz carrier to 96% intensity with a 14GHz signal. “This is a very ...

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Superhemophobic surface could make implants safe in blood

Medical implants might be able to reside in the blood following the development of a ‘superhemophobic’ surface by Colorado State University engineers. According to Colorado biomedical engineer Ketul Popat, the undesirable interaction of blood with foreign materials is an ongoing problem in medical research. Over time, clots and obstructions form. Often patients need blood-thinning medications ...

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Toshiba mulls semiconductor spin-off

Toshiba is looking at spinning off its semiconductor division and selling a 20% stake in it, reports the Nikkei, and may make the decision this week. The accounting scandal followed by cost over-runs in its nuclear Business following a US acquisition, have exposed Toshiba to huge liabilities. On Friday the company meets its bankers to ...

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China Can Make Biros

China’s attempts to develop a home-grown chip industry look less plausible when you consider its biro-making record. Last week China announced it could make a complete biro. The effort has taken years. Although it makes 40 billion biros a year – 80% of the world demand – China has had to import the tips. That’s ...

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Charger chip for LiFePO4 cells leaks less

Intersil has announced a 3.6V single-cell battery charger for lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) cells. Called ISL78693 and qualified to AEC-Q100 Grade-3, it leaks only 3uA, suiting it to eCall back-up battery charging, said the firm, which announced the chip at the Automotive World conference in Tokyo. In the event of a crash, eCall systems are intended ...

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Work

    Automating jobs via AI is one of the obsessions du jour with a couple of candidates for the French presidency offering €750 a month guaranteed state-paid incomes for everyone. However a McKinsey report suggests, sensibly, that an awful lot needs to happen before that becomes necessary. That’s not to say that a large ...

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Mains power chip is efficient at 6W

Power Integrations has introduced a family of off-line, ac-dc converter ICs delivering up to 6.1W in wide-input range designs, and up to 9.2W for 230Vac open-frame applications. Designed for isolated and non-isolated fly-back topologies and called LinkSwitch-XT2, the family can achieve current and voltage regulation of better than -/+3% and typical efficiency above 80%. LinkSwitch-XT2 ICs consume less ...

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All IoT forecasts are baloney

The semiconductor industry will grow by 11% this year, Malcolm Penn, CEO of Future Horizons, told IFS 2017 in London this week. Unit demand growth is, however, trending below the 30 year average of 10%, said Penn. In 2013, the unit growth was 9.5%, in 2014 it was 8.3%, in 2015 it was 5.1%, and ...

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Danielle George says Marconi can inspire a generation

How did the work of Guglielmo Marconi. the pioneer of long-distance radio transmission lead to today’s massive radio arrays which are watching star formation in deepest space? Danielle George, a Professor of Radio Frequency Engineering at the University of Manchester, will discuss the impact of Guglielmo Marconi on the world of radio astronomy in the Institution of Engineering and ...

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Melexis chip-set implements ToF 3D vision.

Melexis, the Belgian fabless automotive IC specialist, has brought out a chipset and its evaluation kit that simplify and speed the implementation of  time‐of‐flight (ToF) 3D vision. Representing a complete ToF sensor and control solution, the chipset supports QVGA resolution and offers sunlight robustness and up to -40°C to +105°C temperature range operation. Using the evaluation ...

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Xilinx wins space design-in

FPGAs are at the heart of processing in Iridium NEXT satellites launched a few days ago, according to Xilinx. Each satellite has several space grade Virtex-5QV devices in the On Board Processor (OBP), delivered by SEAKR Engineering. “The re-configurability of Xilinx’s Virtex-5QV enables Iridium NEXT to continue in-orbit integration of future advancements and innovations throughout ...

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US FTC suing Qualcomm

  After getting an $854 million fine from Korea for abuse of a dominant market position and a $975 million fine from China for abuse of a dominant market position, Qualcomm is now being sued by the American FTC for abuse of a dominant market position. “Qualcomm recognized that any competitor that won Apple’s business ...

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The Top 10 (+9) Countries Which Like Immigration Most

Thanks to YouGov for this one – the 19 countries which are most in favour of immigration:

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Imagination brings complex games to mid-range phones

Imagination Technologies is aiming to bring sophisticated gaming to mid-range mobiles with a series of PowerVR graphics processors (GPUs). The processors combine computational performance (‘flops’) with pixel processing performance (pixels/clock). In general, the flops pre-process image – in rich gaming environments, automotive object detection, augmented reality and virtual reality, for example – then the pixel ...

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Tech body welcomes May’s Brexit plan

Commenting on today’s Brexit speech from Prime Minister Theresa May, Antony Walker, deputy CEO of techUK, believes leaving the Single Market will have a bigger impact on tech than the rest of the UK economy and so an orderly Brexit will be essential. But he does not think the risk of falling off a regulatory cliff ...

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Flying Cars Get Closer

With flying cars a possibility for some years now, the big question has always been: When? Suddenly Airbus has started to answer that question, Its Project Vahana has been talking rather vaguely about having flying cars available in ten years time but, on Monday, CEO Tom Enders told a Munich audience that Airbus will test ...

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Intel wants to put robots in shops

Intel is going into shops, or it hopes so anyway. This will be base on the processor firm’s Responsive Retail Platform which makes the most of an IoT style sensor node with imagers, wireless connectivity along with new software and APIs. CEO Brian Krzanich told the Retail’s BIG Show in the US this week that the firm plans to invest ...

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VR will make buying furniture easier

Using VR to select the furniture or wallpaper you want for your home could boost retail sales by as much as £1bn a year, according to new market research. Virtual and augmented reality could provide commercial benefits to the UK’s retail economy by making customers more likely to make purchases if they could preview products in a virtual setting first. Research ...

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Win a place at the Secure Systems Summit 2017 conference

A chance to win a ticket to our Secure Systems Summit, a one-day conference on hardware and software security running in London on Tuesday 25th April.

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Infineon Selling 700V CoolMOS

  Infineon  developed its 700 V CoolMOS P7 family for resonant flyback topologies. The devices are available now. The MOSFETs offer performance improvements compared to currently used superjunction technologies. Soft switching topologies like smart phone and tablet chargers but also notebook adapters profit from this advantage. Additionally, the new CoolMOS supports fast switching and high ...

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Stanford researchers build fire extinguisher into lithium-ion batteries

Stanford researchers have found a way to extinguish a fire in a lithium-ion battery. The researchers put triphenyl phosphate (TPP) inside a shell which melts at a temperature of 150C (302F) releasing the flame retardant TPP whivh extinguished fires in under 0.4 seconds in tests. ‘We have fabricated a novel smart electrospun separator with thermal-triggered ...

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Fujitsu sales arm brings Ambiq Micro to Europe

Ambiq Micro’s extremely low power ARM microcontroller, called Apollo 2, is being sold exclusively in Europe through Fujitsu Electronics Europe (FEEU). The Apollo 2 MCU is notable for its use of sub-threshold logic developed by Ambiq Micro. This allows the device to have power consumption of around 10µA/MHz. As the exclusive distributor of Ambiq Micro products ...

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The Raspberry Pi Compute Module evolves

Maybe you need more access to GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi, maybe you’re even building a robot, or some such home automation project, or maybe you’re just interested in the latest release from the Raspberry Pi Foundation… the thing to note is the new Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3! And the module is now ...

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Moortec temperature sensor on TSMC 16nm processes.

Moortec, the Plymouth specialists in PVT sensors, are in production of their Embedded Temperature Sensor on TSMC’s 16nm FF+ and FFC processes. The temperature sensor range extends Moortec’s position as acprovider of embedded thermal sensors and on-chip monitoring IP to semiconductor customers. The new TSMC 16FFC/FF+ Embedded Temperature Sensor is a high precision low power ...

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Britain Explores Space Club

SPACE TALKS INCONCLUSIVE ‘Purely exploratory’ This was the headline, 56 years ago, on a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of September 28th 1960. The story opens: Last week’s Canberra talks on a British space programme between the Minister of Aviation Mr Thorneycroft and the Australian Prime Minister Mr Menzies, were described in a joint statement ...

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Pyrrhonian Scepticism

Peter Thiel, the US President-Elect’s new friend and transition team member, has an approach to life he calls ‘Pyrrhonian skepticism’. For Thiel, Pyrrhonian scepticism involves standing a consensus view on its head and seeing if it makes sense upside down. He likes to “flip around” issues to see if conventional wisdom is wrong, In other ...

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China fund invests in Hungary telecoms market

China CEE Investment Co-operation Fund has secured a deal to buy an interest in the Hungary telecoms market by agreeing to buy Magyar Telecom holdings in operator Invitel. The proposed sale is subject to shareholder and Hungarian competition authority approval. It values the Invitel Group at an enterprise value of €202m. Competition Authority filings are being submitted ...

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Crossbar sampling ReRAM

Crossbar, the six year-old ReRAM specialist with $80 million VC backing, is sampling embedded 40nm ReRAM from SMIC and expects to have 28nm technology available in H1. Crossbar says the technology will scale to 16nm and 10nm. Crossbar’s business model is to be an IP house licensing the technology but says it is talking to ...

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Yorkshire design firm targets medical device market

GSPK Design has secured quality accreditation to ISO 13485:2016, in support of its business designing and manufacturing electronic devices for the medical market. The North Yorkshire-based electronic design firm was awarded a full accreditation by the British Standards Institution. This follows the SBRI funding the design and manufacturing services firm received last year as part of its work on a new EMG ...

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Manchester data centre invests in secure services

UK-based internet hosting firm UKFast has made a £2.3m upgrade at its data centre in Manchester. November’s Autumn Statement saw the government pledge up to £1bn in digital infrastructure investment, with a call to private companies to match that figure with investment in their own projects. UKFast CEO Lawrence Jones, writes: “The commitment from the government is a ...

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Littelfuse looks for growth in UK with Anglia

Littelfuse, the manufacturer of circuit protection devices. has appointed Anglia as UK and Ireland distributor. The distributor will stock Littelfuse cartridge and surface-mount fuses, resettable fuses and fuse holders. It will also carry suppression products such as metal oxide varistors, gas discharge tubes, TVS diodes and SIDACtors. Paul Turner, EMEA sales director at Littelfuse, writes: “We realised there ...

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IoT Systems Summit 2017

IoT security challenges – save this date in your diary: Tuesday 25 April, London

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IQD rubidium oscillator delivers low phase noise

IQD’s rubidium oscillator, the IQRB-2, delivers low phase noise of -112dBc/Hz at 1Hz and -158dBc/Hz at 10kHz. It is housed in a 95.5 x 62.5 x 44.3mm module so can be used in a 1U rack. The electrical connections include an SMA connector for RF output, RS232 connectors RX & TX, a voltage control input ...

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Only Connect: The ix Industrial Ethernet connector

Here is a product that has the potential to be an industry disrupter: the ix Industrial from Hirose & Harting.

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Raspberry Pi Computer Module 3 brings quad-core 64bit to embedded

Raspberry Pi and RS Components have introduced the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3, introducing a quad core 64bit ARM Cortex-A53 processor running at up to 1.2GHz into the original Compute Module form-factor. Processing comes from a Broadcom BCM2837, running with 1Gbyte of LPDDR2 RAM and optional 4Gbyte eMMC flash storage. There are two versions: Raspberry ...

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How to make your own Tractor Beam

While no-one wants to live next door to someone who’s building a ‘Death Star’, making a DIY tractor beam in your garden shed could be a fun challenge.

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Tsinghua – Powertech deal scuppered

Tsinghua has had another rebuff to its attempts to put together a Chinese semiconductor industry – its proposed investment in Taiwanese test and assembly house, Powertech, has been blocked. Last year Tsinghua proposed buying 25% stakes in three of Taiwan’s assembly companies – ChipMOS, SPIL and Powertech. Though the execs of the companies were favourably ...

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A Life On The Ocean Wave For Ed

One thing I’ve learnt from being Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Innovation is how keen businessmen are to cosy up to government. Although they’d never admit it, business people have respect for mandarins and when I suggest to them ‘Why don’t you drop into the Department and have a chat with some of ...

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2017 slowdown in semiconductor capex growth

Semiconductor capex will increase 2.9% in 2017, to $69.9 billion, says Gartner, after 5.1% growth in 2016. The forecast to 2020 with the y-o-y growth rate is: 2016 $67.9 5.1%, 2017 $69.9 2.9%, 2018 $73.6 5.3%, 2019 $78.4 6.4%, 2020 $75.8 -3.3%. “The stronger growth in 2016 was fuelled by Increased spending in late 2016 ...

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The Market Which Vanished

In 1970, the world’s first digital watch, the Pulsar, was launched. It cost $1500 and was made by the Hamilton Watch Company. In 1973 Roger Moore’s James Bond sported one in Live and Let Die. The LED display had to be turned on for each reading of the time and the batteries typically lasted four ...

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‘Cuk-buck 2’ dc-dc converter – more fine art from the pen of Slobodan

Slobodan Cuk, inventor of the innovative Cuk dc-dc topology has been at it again and come up with another innovative dc-dc, dubbed the ‘Cuk-buck 2’. He sees the partly-resonant design as a competitor to hard-switched high ratio topologies – such as for 48V to 1V conversion, where on-time is so short that GaN switching transistors ...

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Time for a cup of Raspberry tea?

It's good to see the uses people find for a Raspberry Pi, and here's an example: an automated tea-dunker designed to deliver a perfect cuppa.

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TI aims at STEM education with Hub

Texas Instruments has developed a classroom tool for teaching embedded computing. Called the TI-Innovator Hub, and soon to be available in the UK, the Hub is a palm-sized box with a microcontroller, red and RGB LEDs, a light sensor and sounders inside, plus IO lines to connect with the world outside. Control, display and data ...

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Foundry grew 11% in 2016 to $50bn, says IC Insights

The pure-play foundry market grew 11% in 2016 to top $50 billion, says IC Insights, and will grow at a CAGR of 7.3% from 2016 to 2021 when it will be worth $72 billion. Figure 1 shows the ranking of the top 10 pure-play foundries in 2016. In 2016, the “Big 4” pure-play foundries (i.e., ...

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It’s Never As Easy As You Think

Maybe the West Coast algorithm companies are beginning to realise that they’re not Masters of the Technoverse. Hard on the heels of Apple and Google giving up on plans to manufacture driverless cars, Google now says it has given up its plans to make Internet-delivering drones. It’s somehow innate in software guys to believe that ...

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Success and failure in the camera drone market

US-based consumer drone firms are facing increasing competition from China, and not everyone is flying high. San Francisco-based Lily Robotics, a three year old crowd-funded startup, is the latest camera drone firm to fail. In a message on the company blog, Lily founders Antoine Balaresque and Henry Bradlow said that “the adventure comes to an ...

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IoT Secure Systems Summit 2017 – coming in April

Just a quick post asking you to save this date in your diary: Tuesday 25 April – the IoT Secure Systems Summit 2017. Organised and hosted by Electronics Weekly it will be held at CodeNode in central London. The one-day event will cover the challenges and solutions for hardware and software security, particularly in the ...

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Fable: The Far-Sighted Government

40 years ago next year, the UK government gave a UK company the funding to install an MOS process. This was when Fairchild was dithering over making MOS, when Intel had not yet been founded specifically to pursue MOS , and when General Microelectronics was one of the few US companies successfully pursuing the technology. ...

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Candidate SVHC list increases

On 12th January 2017 the Candidate SVHC list increased by 4 to 173. This is the list change that was expected in December. For more details see https://echa.europa.eu/candidate-list-table Directive Decoder – Peter Wheeldon, Head of Global Product Compliance, Farnell element14 See also: REACH SVHC List changed See also: REACH – Notification of SVHC’s

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