Top Ten Bitcoin Quotes

According to ten famous sources, Bitcoin is: “a techno tour de force” Bill Gates. “an Enron in the making,” Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, “a fraud,” Jamie Dimon “a remarkable cryptographic achievement,” Eric Schmidt “a mirage,” Warren Buffett. “evil,” Paul Krugman “a huge, gigantic scam,’ Jordan Belfort (the ‘Wolf of Wall Street’) ‘pretty cool,” ...

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Fritzing your way from ciruit digrams to PCB layouts

Maybe you are aware of Fritzing already? It helps with the design of electronics hardware, creating nice visuals from your circuit diagram and helping you document your projects.

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Hi-rel NFC tag chip for industrial use

AMS has launched a NFC tag IC with industrial-grade quality, intended for high-reliability long term use. Called AS3956, it is intended to act as a contactless bridge between a microcontroller and NFC readers or NFC-equipped phones. The chip is able to operate fully powered by the RF field, without any external supply, and can supply 5mA ...

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Mannerisms, Gadget Master, the Daily and the Weekly, in newsletter form

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Flexible graphene THz detector

THz radiation can be detected by graphene FETs fabricated on a flexible polymer substrate, according to Chalmers University in Sweden. At room temperature, it detects signals from 330 to 500GHz. According to “A flexible graphene terahertz detector” in Applied Physics Letters, estimated noise equivalent power in the antenna-coupled graphene FETs at room temperature is below 3nW/√Hz at ...

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Most read Gadget Master posts in October

The answers include the ZIP Halo for LED displays, an iPhone teardown, a hybrid tube DAC/Amp add-on for the Pi, a plant monitor, a DIY bike power meter and the Internet of Lego...

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Samsung said to be increasing DRAM capacity

The phenomenal increase in value of the DRAM market could be coming to an end as Samsung could be about to increase production, reports DRAMeXchange. With only three manufacturers, DRAM has become something of a money generating machine – prices have risen 77% this year and the market is expected to grow 74% Why spoil ...

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Droidcon London 2017: Building accesibility into your Android

One of the interesting, and worthwhile, talks I attended at Droidcon London 2017 was 'Accessibility @ Scale', given by Mallika Potter of Pinterest.

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Elliptical beam colour-mixing optic from Gaggione

Gaggione has added to its 45mm diameter LLC59 optics range with the colour-mixing elliptical beam LLC59E. It is aiming at high-performance applications like stage lighting. The beam can be as narrow as 6° x 31° with a 4mm x 4mm light-emitting surface RGBW led. I am not sure which led this is with. This is Gaggione’s table: ...

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Synopsys publishes Coverity report on code quality

Synopsys has released the 2017 Coverity Scan Report, which examines Open Source Software (OSS) quality and security data collected over the past decade through Coverity Scan, a free static analysis solution from Synopsys used by more than 4,600 active OSS projects. The report finds significant adoption of secure software development practices and underscores the importance ...

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Farnell launches ‘Maker to Market’

Farnell element14 has launched  “Maker to Market”: a range of capabilities that offer start-ups the support, expertise and resources to take their products to market. These Maker to Market services are supported by Design & Manufacturing Services which enable engineers to focus on developing the best product possible by providing support at every stage of ...

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Renesas puts auto 3D graphics on a chip

Renesas has announced an automotive infotainment SoC for  3D graphics displays in entry-level cars. The R-Car D3 chip delivers graphics while reducing  overall system development cost. The chip includes a 3D graphics core that enables a high-quality 3D display with a system cost equivalent to the BOM for 2D graphics instrument clusters. By adopting the ...

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Samsung sparkles

Samsung had Q3 operating profit of $12.9 billion on sales of $55 billion with $9 billion of the profit coming from semiconductor sales of $17.7 billion. Capex for next year will be $42 billion, with most of it ear-marked for chip fabs. The operating profit was 148% up on Q3 2016 propelled by the 77% ...

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Brainchip raises $21.5 million

Four year-old Australian neural net company Brainchip, headed up by Silicon Valley veteran Lou di Nardo, has raised $21.5 million. The company raised $6 million in May. It is already a public company with a market cap of $208 million. For FY 2017 it reported a loss of $5.8 million. The company develops neural network ...

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Computers Are The Future Of Air Traffic Control

Further information released by the Ministry of Aviation on a two-part plan for future ATC (air traffic control) programmes show that both parts involve computers and other electronic equipment. So, 56 years ago, starts a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of March 8th 1961 The story continues: At this stage the products of two companies ...

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Only Connect: On high temperature connectors from ITT Cannon

If you have products that are working in extreme environments but struggle to find connectors that can withstand very high temperatures, then take a look at ITT Cannon's Ultra High-Temp Micro-MDM Connectors.

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Drones, Things and Android galore at droidcon London 2017

What a shame it's over - it was another great droidcon London 2017, at the Business Design Centre in Islington.

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Mouser offers customers a free inventory management tool

Mouser Electronics is offering customers an internet-based Inventory management tool which can be accessed using a mobile app for iOS and Android devices. Users will be able to manage and track their stock of electronic components and related supplies. Using the iOS and Android apps they scan barcodes as well as print bin labels directly ...

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Green Hills adds to secure RTOS support for Xilinx Zynq

Green Hills Software is supporting secure system development on the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC from Xilinx with its Integrity real-time operating system (RTOS) and supporting tools. Zynq UltraScale+ integrates 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 processor cores and an FPGA fabric which is being used in applications for automotive intelligence, industrial vision and defence. The secure RTOS allows software of different levels of ...

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When The NBT Is So 1980s

The tech industry is as much a slave to fashion as the Paris catwalks. A decade ago cloud computing was the big deal, now edge computing is the big deal. Edge computing is what we had before cloud computing i.e. computing done on a PC or mobile device – a practice enabled in the 1980s by the ...

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Mouser signs Helium

Mouser has signed connectivity specialist Helium to a global distribution agreement. Helium says its products reduce  IoT cost of operation. Their product line features Atom Modules, starter kits, and adapters plus Element Access Points The Atom Modules,  available in surface-mount and prototyping versions, are  dual-band RF communication modules for IoT-enabled wireless products. The Atom incorporates a ...

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Optically Clear Flame Retardant Resin

UR5641 is transparent and flame retardant ideally suited to the protection of LEDs.

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TrendForce forecasts for 2018

TrendForce has produced its forecasts for 2018: 1. Tight supply, high prices to continue in DRAM market 2. AI’s influence on the semiconductor industry will expand 3. Numerous fabs in China will come on-stream. 4. OLED penetration in smartphones will increase from 28% to 33% 5. 5G deployment begins 6. Voice-based personal assistants will drive ...

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Unhappy ST workers may affect production

Despite the rising financial fortunes of ST, whose share price has doubled in the past twelve months, there are staff shortages at Isère and Crolles and the company is having difficulty in hiring and retaining staff, says CAD-ST, the organisation representing ST employees. This situation could lead, says CAD-ST, to interruptions in production. “STMicroelectronics must ...

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China FPGA strategy takes shape

With President Trump denying China access to Lattice’s technology, the nascent China FPGA industry is looking to develop home-grown programmable logic. Digitimes reports that Shanghai Anlogic Information Technology vp Chen Li-guang says that China will have to develop the technology by themselves while concentrating on expanding their market share by focussing on entry-level products. . ...

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Si Valley money comes to the UK

Despite Brexit, Silicon Valley VCs are pumping money into UK tech start-ups, report London & Partners, the Mayor of London’s promotional agency. UK start-ups received £884.8m from Bay Area VCs in the first nine months of this year, compared to £342m in the whole of 2016, says the agency. Major deals include Andreessen Horowitz’s investment ...

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Ed Discovers A Nice Little Earner

I have identified a nice little earner for my so-called blind trust set up to hold my share portfolio when I became a Minister, Ed confides to his diary. It’s not actually very blind because it’s managed by an old mucker who does what I say. My new little earner is to tap into foreign ...

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The Power Of Standardising

Bernie Vonderschmitt, the founding CEO of Xilinx, always used to say he received a masterclass in business from David Sarnoff, the great CEO of RCA. “After World War II,  I had a job with RCA, I was managing the solid state division,” remembered Vonderschmitt, “RCA had a policy of licensing all their technology. That was ...

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Yokogawa gives scopes CXPI automotive serial bus analysis option

Yokogawa has added a CXPI serial bus analysis to the range of option to its DLM2000 and DLM4000 series mixed-signal oscilloscopes. CXPI (Clock Extension Peripheral Interface) is an automotive serial bus interface that can be used as an alternative to the established CAN and LIN buses for in-vehicle communications. Its attractions are lower power consumption ...

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Amplicon offers industrial LTE cellular router from Belden

Amplicon is stocking the OWL-LTE family of industrial cellular routers from Belden, which also have security capabilities. The small format LTE edge router also offers a range of interfaces including digital I/O, serial RS323 and fast Ethernet LAN. For security, the cellular router supports VPN and encryption methods, including OpenVPN and IPsec VPN. The router ...

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Top 10 most popular articles on ElectronicsWeekly.com

With electric vehicle batteries, Intel, ST fabs, DRAM and Arduino and STEM all figuring prominently...

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Bye Bye Intersil

One of the greatest and most enduring names in the semiconductor industry is about to be lost. 50 years ago, this year, Jean Hoerni, one of the ‘traitorous eight’ who founded Fairchild and the inventor of the planar process, founded Intersil. Intersil was bought by Renesas in 2015. Now Renesas is to drop the name ...

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The Amazing ‘A’s

Amazon and Alphabet showed off their differing business philosophies in their Q3 results. Amazon reported sales up 34% to $43.7 billion but said its profit was $256 million. Alphabet reported profit of $6.73 billion on sales of $27.7 billion. As well as looking for profit Alphabet is piling up cash – now over $100 billion. ...

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UltraSoC and NetSpeed to accelerate SoC design time

NetSpeed Systems, the on-chip network IP specialist and embedded analytics vendor UltraSoC, have teamed up to accelerate the time from concept to system validation for complex SoCs by integrating their product offerings allowing UltraSoC monitors, debug ports, and analytics, to work with NetSpeed infrastructure. UltraSoC’s IP enables designers to create an on-chip infrastructure that non-intrusively monitors a ...

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Saudi Arabia to put $1bn into Branson rocket programme

Saudi Arabi is to put $1 billion into Richard Branson’s space companies Virgin Galactic, The Spaceship Company and Virgin Orbit. “This investment is a sign of confidence from the international investment community that our vision, our approach and our technology are the right path to commercialising space access,” says Branson, “we are now just months ...

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Intel Q3 up 2% y-o-y

Intel had Q3 revenues up 2% y-o-y at $16.1 billion. Data centre revenue was up 7% y-o-year to $4.9 billion. IoT revenue  was up 23% y-oy to $849 million. Memory was up 37% y-o-y to $891 million. Programmable solutions (Altera) was up 10% y-o-y to $469 million. PCs were flat in dollars and 7% down in ...

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ST’s Two New 300mm Fabs

Yesterday, ST clarified the report that it is planning two 300mm fabs by muddying the waters.   “We do not have any plan to make new 12-inch fabs,” stated ST CEO Carlo Bozotti. So far so good. Clear as a bell. However Bozotti then went on to say: “We have certainly I believe the need ...

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TiePie adds EMC pre-compliance testing to USB scope

Netherlands-based TiePie is getting into EMI pre-compliance testing with a kit based around its Handyscope HS6 DIFF 1Gsample/s 14bit quad differential channel USB. Called Handyscope HS6 DIFF-1000XMESG, the supplied TP-EMI-HS6 probe set contains three magnetic field (H field) probes and one electric field (E field) probe, plus a tripod to position the probes in the ...

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Termite construction inspires low-energy building, 20 years ago

Maybe I am a bit late in noticing the Eastgate Building in Zimbabwe – it was built in 1996. It is actually a pair of buildings, that only consume 10% of the energy usually required to heat and cool similar but conventional buildings because they store heat in the day and let it out at ...

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Fable: The Salesman With Character

There was once a salesman who worked for an American company in Italy. He cycled to his customers and, because of cost, was not allowed to telex his US bosses. He had to use surface mail – even for price quotations – which could take a month to get a reply. He loved the job ...

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Lux Live: Harvard re-vamps CoolLED LED driver range

Harvard Technology will be unveiling the next generation of its CoolLED drivers at Lux Live, capable of dimming to 0.1% in some variants. The new programmable drivers are initially available in three variants: 15, 25 and 40W, delivering programmable constant current output, along with DALI dimming. They all support push-dim and ‘corridor’ function and operate ...

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Keysight provides validation route for automotive Ethernet

In-car communication networks are likely to be based on the Ethernet standard these days. As data requirements increase car manufacturers are looking to automotive Ethernet as a replacement for the media oriented systems transport (MOST) bus. Keysight Technologies has this trend in mind with the introduction of a suite of BroadR-Reach, 100Base-T1 and 1000Base-T1 compatible ...

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Amazon Alexa design kit available from Arrow

A kit for developing an Amazon Alexa Voice Service (AVS) terminal is available from Arrow Electronics. The distributor has partnered with Synaptics and NXP Semiconductors to create the Amazon AVS kit based on a voice input processor from Synaptics and an NXP application processor. It is a version of the Synaptics AudioSmart 2-Mic dev kit which includes the CX20921 ...

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Arduino-compatible STEM teaching kit

Intended to help teachers and students to learn about programming, electronics, design, and logic, Grove Zero Kit is a collection of plug-and-play modules, each with a built-in microcontroller pre-configured with code, from Seed Studio. The modules are colour coded according to function, such as sensor input or LED output, and snap together via magnetic connectors ...

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600V gate drivers work with 3.3V MCUs

Diodes has introduced 600V half-bridge drivers that are compatible with 3.3V logic. Numbered DGD2103M, DGD2104M and DGD2304, the chips have a floating high-side driver capable if driving an n-channel mosfet. “These drivers suit a wide range of motor control and power supply applications in industrial automation and white goods, that require AC and DC motor ...

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NXP Q3 revenue up 8% sequentially

NXP had Q3 operating income of $163 million – up 226% sequentially but down 6% y-o-year. Q3 revenue was $2.39 billion, up 8% sequentially but down 3% y-o-y. The y-o-y decline was due to the sale of its standard products division. HPMS revenue was $2.29 billion, an increase of 9% sequentially anf y-o-y. Automotive Q3 ...

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ST Q3 up 11% sequentially and 18.9% y-o-y.

ST had Q3 revenues of $2.14 billion up 11.1% on Q2 and up 18.9% on Q3 2016. Gross profit was $845 million and net profit was $236 million with a gross margin of 39.5%. “All product groups recorded double-digit year-over-year revenue growth, driven by strong demand across all geographies in our focus application areas of ...

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Free-space optical comms gets nearer

Scientists take an important step towards using 'twisted' light to deliver free-space optical communications for wireless, high-capacity data transmission.

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ARM TechCon: Moortec and Sonics offer tight frequency scaling

Moortec has teamed with Sonics, US-based on-chip network firm to provide advanced power management techniques for ARM-based system-on-chip (SoC) and MCU designs. The partnership, announced at ARM TechCon in California, combines Sonics’ ICE-P3 dynamic voltage and frequency scaling technology with Plymouth, UK-based Moortec’s temperature sensors to provide on-chip temperature-compensated, dynamic voltage and frequency scaling. This ...

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Case study: Optimising thermal management for battery module safety

Simone Saile of Panasonic Industry Europe considers how, by combining and adapting various different materials, thermal management could be optimised for the service life and safety of battery modules. Compared to other frequently used batteries, lithium-ion batteries are known for having a high energy and power density, a long service life and for being composed ...

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VMware makes cloud commitment to open source Linux

VMware, the cloud infrastructure firm, is making a commitment to open source by deepening its membership of the Linux Foundation. The company’s open source contributions include support for The Linux Foundation projects like Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP), Cloud Foundry, Open Container Initiative, Open vSwitch, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), EdgeX Foundry and IO Visor, ...

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Retail website tech firm joins Mayor of London’s growth programme

Online video company GoInStore is the latest London-based start-up to be accepted onto the Mayor of London’s GotoGrow Programme. The aim of the initiative is to support the creation of international businesses in the capital. To join the initiative, companies must be able to demonstrate 20% year-on-year growth over a three-year period. GoInStore’s technology supports ...

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Anritsu adds test upgrade for high speed LTE-Advanced mobiles

Anritsu is supporting the testing of RF transceiver characteristics for 6CC CA with new software options for its MT8821C test system for LTE-Advanced/LTE-Advanced Pro terminals. The new software upgrade will support the implementation of faster LTE-Advanced/LTE-Advanced Pro network speeds: Carrier Aggregation (CA), which aggregates multiple component carriers (CCs). With support for RF and PHY layer ...

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Interface many TVs or STBs to one PC via IR or RF

For those needing to remote control many TVs or set-top boxes (STBs) from one PC, RedRat has launched a device that supports IR and RF links – the latter via optional Bluetooth or RF4CE add-on modules – according to the firm, RF is being increasingly used to control 4K and UHD TVs and associated set top boxes, ...

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Mouser launches inventory management app

Mouser has launched its Inventory Management Tool – a web-based inventory system which helps people to manage and track their stock of electronic components and related supplies. The integrated iOS and Android apps enable users to scan barcodes as well as print bin labels directly from the application. Customers can take advantage of this new free ...

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Semi capex to increase sharply, says Semiconductor Intelligence

  Semiconductor capex in 2017 will increase significantly from 2016, says Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence. In August, Gartner forecast 2017 cap ex growth of 10.2% and IC Insights projected 20.2% growth. SEMI expects spending on semiconductor fabrication equipment will increase 37%. Capex growth is primarily driven by increased capacity for DRAM and flash memory. Of ...

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4.5-5.5% CAGR for semi industry 2017-27, says Chang

The semiconductor industry will have 4.5-5.5% CAGR 2017-27, says Morris Chang. TSMC will have a 2017-27 CAGR of 5-10% says Chang. Computing, IoT, mobile and automotive will be the drivers, he says. Chang said that the first profession to be affected by AI will be medical services because,  as AI becomes capable of diagnosing minor ...

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ZIP Halo LEDS light up wearable Halloween project

We wrote about the ZIP Halo recently, and Kitronik are highlighting a wearables Halloween project for the Micro:Bit powered technology.

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Government chooses automotive funding winners for CAV testing

Competition winners to receive funding to upgrade testing infrastructure for connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) technology.

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Andes core fabbed in FD-SOI

Andes Technology has implemented 32bit CPU IP cores in 22FDX, the 22nm FDSOI process from Globalfoundries.   “Our newest products, N25 32bit and NX25 64bit RISC-V based cores coupled with a mature toolchain, will provide even more value to customers in these advanced nodes by providing both high speed and power efficiency,” says Andes CTO ...

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800A resistor gets tapped holes for mounting and connections

Vishay has added tapped holes to some of its high-current shunt resistors to aid PCB and wire mounting. WSBS8518…M3 and WSBS8518…M4 are 36W battery shunt resistors featuring M3 and M4 tapped holes (close to the centre in the photo), respectively. The resistors are 85 x 18 x 3mm With resistance values down to 50µΩ, Vishay ...

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Ink jet printed photonic structures

Advances in ink jet printing have allowed photonically active structures to be printed, according to researchers at the University of Cambridge and the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory. “Most inkjet printers push the ink through the nozzle by heating or applying pressure, producing ink droplets about the size of the diameter of a human hair,” said Dr Vincenzo ...

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EU vs Germany’s Car Industry

It will be interesting to see if the Eurocrats can do to the German car industry what they did to Apple and Google. After all, the German government tells the EU what to do, and the German car industry is no small influence in lobbying the German government. Last week BMW had its offices raided at ...

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VoW and VoM next year, says Qualcomm.

Qualcomm says it will launch video-over-wireless (VoW)  products utilising video over mesh networks (VoM)  next year. “Qualcomm  a mesh Wi-Fi solution that provides the flexibility for carriers to deploy advanced video services through traditional wireless gateways and set-top-boxes or through mesh architectures, so that consumers can enjoy a resilient network that supports their growing entertainment ...

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Plextek joins global community for mission-critical comms

Plextek, the Cambridgeshire-based RF design firm, is joining global mission-critical communications organisation, TCCA. TCCA addresses the ongoing development of the TETRA open standard as well as promoting the development of mission-critical broadband communications. For its part, Plextek is involved in the development of systems for both Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and digital Professional Mobile Radio (PMR) ...

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Aspen stocking Itech power analysers

Distributor, Aspen Electronics is now selling Itech Electronic Co power test instruments. The products which can be used for testing power supplies and household appliances, include the IT9121 power analyser for measuring voltage, current, power, frequency, harmonics and other parameters. It has a maximum rated input of 600Vrms and 20Arms with measurement bandwidth of 100 ...

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Belfast researcher’s work on hurricane comms in Newton Prize final

A researcher at Queen’s University Belfast has been shortlisted for the 2017 Newton Prize for his work designing a wireless communications system for use when natural disasters, such as an earthquake, tsunami or hurricane, strike. Dr Trung Duong, who is originally from Vietnam and based at the Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology at ...

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Back-end process adds LEDs and photo-diodes to silicon for on-chip comms

Photonics can be added to silicon CMOS, creating infra-red LEDs and photo-diodes using layers of molybdenum telluride, according to MIT. As a back-end process over CMOS, the team fabricated a p-n junction with an infra-red bandgap from a bi-layer of the two-dimensional dichalcogenide MoTe2. “Researchers have been trying to find materials that are compatible with silicon, ...

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Renesas and ASTC develop ADAS SoC

Renesas and Australian Semiconductor Technology Company (ASTC) are jointly  developing The VLAB/IMP-TASimulator virtual platform (VP) for Renesas’ R-Car V3M, an automotive system-on-chip (SoC) for advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS) and in-vehicle infotainment systems. The VP simulates image recognition and cognitive intellectual properties (IPs) in the R-Car V3M SoC and realizes embedded software development using a ...

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Brainchip ships first accelerator card

BrainChip, the neural net specialist, has shipped its first BrainChip Accelerator card to a major European automobile manufacturer. It is the first commercial implementation of a hardware-accelerated spiking neural network (SNN) system. The BrainChip Accelerator is an example of neuromorphic computing, a branch of artificial intelligence that simulates neuron functions. BrainChip Accelerator will be evaluated ...

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Qualcomm had 42% smartphone AP market share in H1

Qualcomm had 42% of the smartphone AP market in H1,  followed by Apple and Mediatek with 18% each, says Strategy Analytics. The market declined 5% y-oy to reach $9.4 billion in the first half of 2017. “After a successful 2016, Qualcomm continued its momentum and gained market share with the help of a strengthened portfolio ...

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Imec develops curved photo-detector

Imec and Holst Centre have produced a prototype of a curved photodetector on a plastic substrate. The breakthrough paves the way for smaller optical and 3D imaging X-ray systems with better, more uniform image quality. A prototype curved X-ray detector has been integrated into a medical cone-beam CT (CBCT) demonstrator. Curved surfaces are the most natural ...

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LTE and 5G to push GaAs RF to $9.5bn market in 2021

RF GaAs devices passed $7.5 billion sales last year for the first time, says Strategy Analytics. Last year saw the RF GaAS market grow less than  1% with a drop in cellular revenues offsetting gains in other market areas. SA forecasts that gigabit LTE and emerging 5G applications will drive GaAs device revenue past $9 ...

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TI launches LLC resonant controller with integrated HV gate driver

TI has launched an inductor-inductor-capacitor (LLC) resonant controller with an integrated high-voltage gate driver that enables, claims TI, the industry’s lowest standby power, as well as longer system lifetimes. The UCC256301 provides a cost-effective system solution that helps meet stringent energy-efficiency standards for a wide range of AC/DC applications, including digital televisions, gaming adapters, desktop ...

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Sony to sample 7.42MP stacked CMOS image sensor

Sony says it will sample, next month, a stacked CMOS sensor with an ‘effective’ 7.42 Mega-Pixels. Sony sees it as an image sensor for cameras enabling ADAS and says it can capture a high-definition image of road signs approximately 160 metres ahead. The sensor is equipped with a pixel binning mode for raising the sensitivity ...

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Toshiba EV battery gives 200 miles after six minute charge

Toshiba says that by replacing the lithium-titanium oxide anodes used in its lithium-ion EV batteries, with titanium-niobium oxide (TNO) anodes it can charge a battery in six minutes. This would give an EV 200 miles of range on a six minute charge, says Toshiba. Currently the Chevy Bolt gets 90 miles after a 30 minute ...

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Fantastic Fair In Moscow

Questions, questions and more questions. Never before have British electronic exhibitors had such a busy time as they are having at the British Trade Fair which opened in Moscow on May 19. So, 56 years ago, opened the front page story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of May 31 1961. The story continues: Thousands of Russians ...

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Free Segger Embedded Studio for Nordic nRF51 and nRF52

Nordic Semiconductor has licensed Embedded Studio from Segger Microcontroller on behalf of Nordic customers – in particular those developing applications for its nRF51 and nRF52 Bluetooth chips – both of which have spare user-accessible processing power. Embedded Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for managing, building, testing, and deploying embedded applications, which includes: a project ...

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Till The Cows Come Home

TSMC has delivered its State of the Industry report and concluded that the foundry industry will grow 7% this year and the semiconductor industry will grow 16%. This is pessimistic compared with IC Insights’ forecast of 20% growth this year for the semiconductor industry. TSMC reckons the memory industry will grow 51% this year whereas ...

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Comment: Disrupting the insurance business with open source IoT hardware

Is the revenue model for IoT products broken? Maarten Ectors of Legal & General and Mike Bray of RS Components explain the rationale behind the LeakKiller challenge The adoption of IoT products is a bit sluggish. While there are many causes, the number one reason stems from the high cost of hardware, with the retail ...

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The Future of Wireless Communication

Watch NI’s video to see how wireless researchers at Nokia and leading universities are developing comms systems defining the new 5G landscape.

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Ed Feels European Again

The PM returned from Brussels very chipper, Ed confides to his diary, we don’t get told much at Cabinet because, with a couple of ex-journos on-board, we’re a leaky lot, but we were told to prepare for trade talks starting in a few weeks. The Brussels bureaucrats have been taught valuable lessons: that the money ...

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2D position and pressure sensor, from matchbox to room-sized

Yorkshire start-up Quantum Technology Supersensors has been set-up to exploit a pressure-sensing technology that can produce 2D position sensors the size of a room, down to tiny touch pads. Referred to as QTSS, it is based electron-tunnelling between shaped particles of ‘magnetite’ buried in various elastomers. If this sounds familiar, company founder David Lussey also ...

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European project to boost electric vehicle performance

Better drive-trains for third-generation electric vehicles is the target of a European Horizon 2020 project

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Vonderschmitt on Noyce

Bernie Vonderschmitt, founding CEO of Xilinx, had a huge regard for Bob Noyce. “The guy I got to know best at Intel was Bob Noyce he was the nucleus,” said Vonderschmitt, “Bob Noyce had everything, he knew process, he knew systems, he was a very bright guy. I never forget the first time I met ...

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Nominate a star engineer for our BrightSparks 2018 programme

Please note that we are now accepting entries for EW BrightSparks 2018. If you would like to enter, or nominate someone you know, head over to the page!

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The path to 100Tbit/s fibre – an interesting paper

Fujitsu has taken a look at how to increase the speed of fibre backbone to 100Tbit/s. It has its own ideas, which are set out if a few pages by an in-house team as ‘Technologies for optical transceivers and optical nodes to increase transmission capacity to 100 Tbps‘. The really nice thing about this paper ...

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Software bugs fixed automatically with AI and Big Data

Fujitsu Laboratories creates artificial intelligence that automatically creates patches for software bugs

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Green Hills verifies multicore OS for future airborne systems

Green Hills Software is to verify conformance of its Integrity-178 operating system with the technical standard for Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) edition 2.1. Certon, the critical systems certification firm, will help carry out the verification Time-Variant Unified Multi Processing (tuMP) operating system for three different multicore architectures, or Units of Conformance (UoC): Intel, ARMv8 and PowerPC/QorIQ. ...

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Custom mosfets help to simplify hot-swap design

Infineon releases a family of custom mosfets targeted specifically for hot-swap, e-fuse and battery protection.

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Top 10 most popular articles on ElectronicsWeekly.com

With Dyson's automotive ambitions, new ST fabs, an Arduino lie detector, Canyon Bridge and EUV all figuring prominently...

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Aerospace electronics reach the height of cool

Aerospace electronics demand higher standards of reliability for their thermal design than other industries, writes Tom Gregory of 6SigmaET.

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State machines in Arduino

I was looking for ways to do finite state machines in Arduino code. Forgive me here C and C++ programmers, for I do not dwell within your hallowed halls. This one, from SparkFun, is the most understandable one I have found yet, although I have no idea how long case statements take to execute. Before ...

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Fable: The Programmer Whose Software Was Stolen

41 years ago this year, a programmer wrote an “Open Letter to Hobbyists”. “As the majority of hobbyists must be aware,” wrote the programmer, “most of you steal your software.” The letter was a powerful plea that people should pay for software, The letter had zero effect on anyone, and the programmer’s software got so ...

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NI radar test system targets autonomous vehicle design

NI has introduced a system for testing car radar technology. The system is designed around millimetre-wave (mmWave) front end technology to test 76–81GHz radar systems which are being used in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). The system, dubbed VRTS, uses a 76–81GHz vector signal generator/analyser designed for dynamic obstacle generation and comprehensive RF characteristic measurements. ...

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Audio chip brings context aware processing to voice-activated smartphones

An audio processor which aims to improve the quality of voice-activated smartphones has been developed by US-based firm Knowles. It does this, says the firm, by improving recognition especially in far-field and high noise environments. Increased data processing adds context awareness to voice recognition. The design of the IA8508 audio processor achieves this with four ...

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Renesas expands e² studio for ADAS

Renesas will issue an expanded e² studio integrated software development environment in Q1 which ugrades  e² studio for R-Car V3M with various features to boost the performance of ADAS and automated driving applications. e² studio  is an integrated development environment (IDE) based on the open-source Eclipse C/C++ Development Tooling (CDT) software and supports other Renesas devices ...

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Tiny open-frame medical supply gets equally tiny fan kit

EOS Power has introduced a fan and cover kit for its (M)WLP225 series of 225W medical open-frame power supplies. The total size of the module is under 110 x 80 x 50mm. “The uniqueness of its profile makes the (M)WLP225 the smallest 225W power supply in the global power market today,” claimed the firm. Outputs ...

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Mouser signs Auvidea

Mouser has signed embedded systems specialist Auvidea. Mouser will stock Auvidea’s J1xx family carrier boards for the NVIDIA Jetson TX1 and TX2 compute modules. The J100 board matches the Jetson TX1 module’s 50 × 87 mm footprint and connects to form a very compact processing unit to meet the compact size requirements of target applications such ...

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IoT dev kit has security, Bluetooth, touch and zero-power display

Cypress has released a development kit for low-power high-performance IoT devices. It is based around a programmable logic chip that includes a 150MHz ARM Cortex-M4 core and a 100MHz Cortex-M0+ core. “Active power can be as low as 22µA/MHz on the Cortex-M4 and 15µA/MHz on the Cortex-M0+ cores, and dynamic voltage and frequency scaling ensures ...

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Bosch 48V battery targets hybrid vehicle growth in China

Bosch has developed a 48V battery for use in hybrid vehicles. Bosch says the 48V battery has been designed to offer a comparatively inexpensive way of cutting fuel consumption in hybrid vehicles through use of a boost recuperation system (BRS). This involves storing the energy normally lost when braking and applying it when the driver ...

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Denso licenses Coretex-R52 to automated driving

Denso is licensing ARM’s Cortex-R52 for automated driving systems and vehicle control reference platforms. The core allows high functional safety levels (ASIL D) to be achieved, providing hardware-enforced separation of software tasks to ensure safety-critical code is isolated – which decreases the amount of code that needs to be safety-certified. Denso used ARM ‘cycle models’ ...

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Connector and cable battles in high tech

Connector and cable technology is being transformed to meet new requirements as military systems improve

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Comment: ST’s low-power fabs are just what Europe needs

Plans for new fabs in France and Italy lay solid foundations to develop IoT chip production, writes editor and publisher Josh Brooks. Europe will get a solid foundation for IoT chip making if ST’s plans to build two new 300mm fabs in France and Italy, producing sensors, imagers, photonics and MEMS, bear fruit (see ST ...

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DRAM ASP to rise in Q1

Nanya president Lee Pei-Pung expects DRAM prices to rise in Q1. – usually a down quarter. “DRAM prices still have room to go up in the first quarter of 2018, a traditional low season for memory chips, thanks to healthy demand and tight supplies,” says Lee. Lee reckons that the price will stay high all ...

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GaN Systems offers evaluation board

GaN Systems announces today the availability of a new Evaluation Board using the world’s fastest combination of GaN power transistors and power drivers. Combining best-in-class GaN transistors with the fastest commercially available GaN transistor driver on the GS61004B evaluation board, the GS61004B-EVBDC evaluation platform is now available with the latest in high-speed GaN E-HEMT drivers ...

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Antenova launches antennas for ISM and cellular frequencies

Antenova, the Hatfield antenna manufacturer,  is introducing two antennas for the ISM and cellular frequencies. These antennas are designed to be used on the exterior of a product, and are built to an ergonomic blade design to blend into the outside of the design. The first antenna, named Draco (P/N SREL036) is a terminal antenna ...

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A Kind Word

There’s a problem when, as a 20 year-old, you start a business based on giving youngsters what they want which transforms you into the world’s fifth richest person 13 years later. The problem is that, at 33, you no longer know what young people want. This is the kiss of death for your business. Which seems ...

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Chip market to grow 22%, says IC Insights

Strong growth driven by a 74% surge in the DRAM market and 44% jump in the NAND flash market, will see the IC  market grow by 22% this year, says IC Insights.. IC Insights has raised its IC market growth rate forecast for 2017 to 22%, up six percentage points from the 16% increase shown ...

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UK Led opens UK factory

Lighting maker UK Led has opened a factory in the Wirral, despite already owning one in China. “We are proud that it’s the first manufacturing facility of its type in the UK,” said the firm. “We chose to invest in the UK factory for a number of reasons. [One is that] some clients, in international ...

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Building an Arduino lie detector test

This one caught my eye - an Arduino-based lie detector that can measure the skin's response to a question. It checks our electrodermal activity, apparently.

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The Threat To The US Chip Industry

Here’s an interesting foil:   Clearly the fact that China will be, according to SEMI, the biggest investor in semiconductor manufacturing equipment in 2019 is one headache for the US semiconductor industry. Another headache is that the China market represents 60% of the world market and the US market represents around 12%. The strongest force for ...

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Commercial use of small satellites is the new space race

The commercial use of small satellites in low earth orbit is changing the design dynamic of the space industry, says Roger Tall.

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Surface mount circuit protection device runs at high temperatures

Littelfuse says it can supply a silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) thyristor circuit protection device with a junction temperature of 150°C in a surface-mount package. The SJ series thyristors have a low gate current trigger level of 6mA or 15mA maximum at approximately 1.5V. The most sensitive devices feature a gate trigger current of less than 200μA, ...

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Socionext ups video transcoding speed 10X

Socionext’s “Media Cloud” is designed to deliver a 10-fold increase in video transcoding speeds and efficiency, resulting in unprecedented levels of performance and optimal user streaming experience. The Media Cloud addresses the ever-growing mass consumption of high-quality video, specifically the need for efficient and dense live transcoding for today’s standards and tomorrow’s 4K AVC/HEVC requirements. ...

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Intel to ship first neural network processing silicon in two months

Intel says it will ship its first silicon for neural network processing before the end of this year. This will be the Nervana neural network processor (NNP) and Intel’s target is the growing interest in artificial intelligence (AI) computing in areas such as medical diagnosis and autonomous vehicles. Behind the development of a range of ...

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Comment: Dyson is equipped to drive into a new market

Dyson is well‑placed to hijack the bandwagon set rolling by Google and Tesla when they moved into the electric car market.

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Canyon Bridge reveals aim to expand in UK

The new owner of Imagination, Canyon Bridge, will look to grow both in UK and across Europe presence after buy-out.

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Samsung readies 8nm foundry process

Samsung says it has finished its development of an 8nm process for foundry. The 8nm process is a straight shrink from the 10nm process which delivers 10% more dendity with 10% less power. The 8nm process is a low-power plus (LPP) process acting as a half-node interim process between Samsung’s 10nm and 7nm process. 7nm ...

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Denso and FotoNation collaborate on image recognition

DENSO Is to sstart joint technology development of cabin sensing with the Silicon Valley image recognition specialist  FotoNation. The partnership will help DENSO improve the performance of its Driver Status Monitor, an active safety product currently used in commercial vehicles. Improvements of such products also will accelerate the development of next-generation products to be used ...

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Synopsys buys Sidense

Synopsys has bought Sidense – the one-time programmable (OTP) non-volatile memory (NVM) IP specialist. The acquisition complements Synopsys’ existing DesignWare Multi-Time Programmable (MTP) NVM IP solution with OTP NVM IP in 16-bit to 1.28-Mbit configurations. With this acquisition, Synopsys gains access to proven OTP NVM IP in process technologies from 180- to 16‑nm along with ...

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Farnell element 14 gets scary

Farnell element 14  has announced a new competition to celebrate the season of frights and scares. Engineers and element14.com members are asked to get involved with the chance of winning one of two Cel Robox 3D Printers. To get involved engineers can: Build and document their past or present Halloween projects on the element14 community. ...

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FTDI Chip launches Chinese Web-Site

 FTDI Chip is taking further steps to gain greater traction in the Far East. The company has made major investment into a creating a capacious, easy-to-navigate website that focusses specifically on the needs of customers located in the increasingly important markets that have emerged out of China. This comprehensive new online resource not only covers ...

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China to be biggest semi manufacturing equipment buyer in 2019

15 new fab projects in China are underway or have been announced since 2017, says SEMI, boosting spending on semiconductor fab equipment  to more than $12 billion, annually, by 2018. As a result, China is projected to be the top spending region in fab equipment by 2019, and is likely to approach record all-time levels ...

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