For a man to be born rich or a woman to be born beautiful or an IC vendor to win an iPhone socket are all mixed blessings. For a while it’s marvellous, heady stuff but it can go tits up. Earlier this year Imagination was told it would lose its GPU slots; now Dialog ...
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A Leeds-based electronics manufacturing business has been given a boost from a successful local exporter. Daletech Electronics has received free strategic export advice from Yorkshire firm Radio Design as part of a new export network in the Leeds City Region. The advice and mentoring from Radio Design director Eric Hawthorn will help Daletech directors realise ...
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Students from 11 schools and colleges in Bradford, Leeds, Calderdale and Wakefield will take part in the premier Farnell Technology Challenge Grand Final at Aspire, Leeds on Tuesday December 5th. Each winning team will present to a panel of judges as they showcase the working prototype of a piece of technology that they have developed ...
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In 1997, a distinguished research establishment put out a number of predictions: We’d have: Artificial ears by 2000 Artificial hearts by 2010 Artificial lungs and kidneys by 2015 Artificial brain cells by 2017 Artificial brain implants by 2025 Artificial arms and legs by 2030 Artificial brains by 2035. Moral: Techie forecasts are for the birds. ...
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Diodes has used a simple emitter-follower design to create linear voltage regulators that work with inputs up to 60V in automotive environments. The ZXTR2105FQ, ZXTR2108FQ and ZXTR2112FQ are designed to deliver 5V, 8V, or 12V regulated outputs respectively from nominal battery supplies of 12V or 24V at up to 15mA. “These devices can tolerate battery ...
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PSJ2/PSL2 and PSG4/PSF4 are high-power resistive shunts from KOA, with two or four terminals respectively. Added to the PS series, and being stocked in Europe by TTI, they are constructed from solid metal alloy resistance element with copper terminals for what is claimed to be superior corrosion and heat resistance, along with excellent pulse resistance ...
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Let's just tarry awhile, by the side of Google Analytics, and see what posts your peers were most perusing on Gadget Master.
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Deloitte is to provide cyber-threat hunting services to companies in the EMEA region using the threat-hunting technology provided by Sqrrl. Threat hunting, in Deloitte’s definition, is the active search for cyber adversaries that have slipped past other defences. With the developing sophistication of ‘low and slow’, it said, and the growing impact of data breaches, ...
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XMOS has made available its xCORE VocalFusion Speaker Linear evaluation kit as part of its range of far-field voice capture products, Based on the XMOS VocalFusion XVF3100 voice processor, the kit is designed for developers, OEMs and ODMs integrating voice user interfaces into flat, or linear consumer electronics typically found at the “edge of the ...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS), has announced five new machine learning services and a deep learning-enabled wireless video camera for developers. Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service for developers and data scientists to quickly build, train, deploy, and manage their own machine learning models. AWS’ DeepLens (pictured) is a deep learning-enabled wireless video camera that ...
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Soitec, the FD-SOI wafer manufacturer, has announced half year revenues to the end of September. Soitec grew revenues 26% at €143 million for a profit up 139% at €22.5 million and EBITDA up to 24.4% of sales from 16.5% in H1’17. Net profit was € 23.2 million versus € 3.1 million in H1’17 and € 8.4 million ...
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Mouser will sponsor the Dragon Racing team throughout the 2017–18 FIA Formula E racing season. The season kicks off December 2 and 3 at the Hong Kong ePrix doubleheader. The 2017–2018 season marks the fourth edition of Formula E racing and the fourth-straight year that Mouser will be a team sponsor. Formula E features ...
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Transphorm, the 650V GaN specialist, has received a $15 million investment from Yaskawa Electric Corporation. A few weeks ago Yaskawa revealed its Σ-7 F servo motor relies on Transphorm’s high-voltage (HV) GaN. Transphorm intends to allocate the funds to various areas of its GaN product development. “We’ve seen the benefits of working with gallium nitride ...
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NXP has introduced an MCU-based IoT module with onboard Wi-Fi and support for newly launched Amazon FreeRTOS on Amazon Web Services (AWS) – offering developers universal connections to AWS. Amazon FreeRTOS provides tools for users to quickly and easily deploy an MCU-based connected device and develop an IoT application without having to worry about the ...
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Tsugio Makimoto has been awarded the semiconductor industry’s highest honour the IEEE’s Robert Noyce Medal. The medal is given “for exceptional contributions to the microelectronics industry”. The citation for the award to Makimoto states it is for: “For technical and managerial leadership in CMOS memory and microprocessors.” Makimoto led Hitachi’s transformation of CMOS from a ...
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Room has to be found on Gadget Master for this book, Hello, is this planet Earth? Okay, it's not a gadget but the International Space Station (ISS) is the best gadget yet! Technology par excellence...
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I am tearing my hair out once again, this time buying car insurance. I know loyalty is equated to gullible-person-to-be-fleeced, and comparison websites are not the answer because they are not neutral: they are owned by insurance companies or get commission – or at least that is what I believe – please correct me and ...
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The scaly-foot gastropod, a snail, is a denizen of deep ocean hydrothermal vents and has iron sulphide plates on its ‘foot’ and an iron sulphide coating on its shell, making it unique in the animal kingdom. This inorganic compound is one of the ores from which iron is extracted, and once of its forms is ...
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Power Integrations has added to its isolated gate driver family, for mosfets and IGBTs, with a 5A driver in a wide-body eSOP package. 5A is enough for switches handling 300A, or more if an external booster circuit (see diagram) is added to push the drive to 60A. “This device provides n-channel drive for both the low ...
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Vishay has introduced a 25V n-channel power mosfet that it claims has industry’s lowest maximum on-resistance: 0.58mΩ at 10V, and lowest gate charge and gate charge times on-resistance figure of merit for devices with on-resistance below 0.6mΩ – although the firm went on to say: “the device released today is one of the only ...
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ARM is under notice that RISC-V is coming for it in high-end products as Esperanto Technologies announces that its developing high-end products with a 64-bit RISC-V family including: An AI “supercomputer-on-a-chip” made on TSMC’s 7-nm process. A 16-core “ET-Maxion” targeting highest single-thread performance A 4,096-core “ET-Minion” targeting performance-per-watt with a vector floating-point unit in each ...
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Excelsys Technologies has introduced an output module for its CoolX range of convection-cooled modular configurable power supplies, which provides up to 600W of power from one module (occupying three slots). Initially available with a 24V output, the CmE module provides up to 25A output current capability. Target applications are those which require one higher power ...
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Ocado, the online groceries supplier, is using robotics in its distribution centres to select grocery products from the 50,000 different items available. The new system uses a proprietary computer vision system designed by Ocado’s technology robotics research team to calculate grasping points for a given item without requiring a 3D model of the object to ...
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The Royal Academy of Engineering has welcomed the government’s industrial strategy white paper, Building a Britain fit for the future, because it takes inclusive approach to address the need for digital skills and focuses on the technologies for artificial intelligence and big data. Professor Dame Ann Dowling, president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, writes: “Now ...
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Toshiba is sampling Universal Flash Storage (UFS) devices using BiCS FLASH 3D flash. The devices meet performance demands for applications that require high-speed read/write performance and low power consumption, including mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, and augmented and virtual reality systems. The line-up will be available in four capacities: 32GB, 64GB, 128GB and 256GB. All ...
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Take a look at the anatomy of the new 1MW electric supercar being developed in Taiwan. The ‘Miss R’, as the car is called, is built by powertrain start-up XING Mobility and is based on a modular battery system that is cooled with 3M’s Novec engineered fluids. The world’s first electric supercar with on-road and ...
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Premier Farnell is celebrating the sale of 10 million Raspberry Pi with a special offer for customers Less than six years after it first began producing Raspberry Pi computers, Premier Farnell now sells over 50,000 Raspberry Pi computers each week to makers, industry and education across the globe. Over 4 million Raspberry Pi have been ...
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X-FAB has added three new low-noise transistors to its 180nm process node: a 1.8 V low-noise NMOS, a 3.3 V low-noise NMOS and a 3.3 V low-noise PMOS – all of which offer drastically reduced flicker noise compared to standard CMOS offerings. These transistors are mainly designed for sensor deployments which require very low-noise signal amplification ...
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Uber made a loss of $1.5 billion in Q3, according to the FT, on revenue of $2 billion and gross bookings of $9.7 billion. The Q2 loss was $1.06 billion and the increase in Q3 is being attributed to lawsuits, particularly the one with Waymo over alleged stolen IP. Last year Uber lost $2.8 billion ...
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QuickLogic has added Nordic’s BLE IP to its EOS S3 Sensor Processing Platform Alexa BLE Wearables Reference Design – the first commercially available reference design that supports voice-over-Bluetooth connectivity with Amazon Alexa. “We selected Nordic’s Bluetooth LE solution for its ultra-low power wireless technology’s dominance in wearables as well as its interoperability with a wide ...
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HERE, the road mapping company owned by Audi, Daimler and BMW, has bought Advanced Telematic Systems (ATS) which provides OTA (over the air) wireless software updates to connected cars. “The acquisition of ATS is a hugely important strategic investment for us to complement our portfolio as a premium automotive cloud provider,” says Ralf Herrtwich, SVP ...
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DENSO and NEC have formed a jv called DENSO NEXT CO to develop in-vehicle information and communications equipment critical for fostering a connected environment inside vehicles, such as instrument clusters, head-up displays, and on-board communication equipment. The company will start operations on December 1, 2017. The recent cockpit innovation and advancement of connected technologies have ...
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Do you want $20 million? If so, waltz into those plushy, deep-carpeted VC habitats and say: “We enable: AI-infused blockchain IoT blockchains AI-driven IoT Edge computing AI Blockchain in Edge computing Edge computing using AI-infused blockchain AI-infused big data analytics Neural computing on the IoT Quantum computing for blockchain Neural acceleration for AI-infused quantum computing ...
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ARM is under notice that RISC-V is coming for it in high-end products as Esperanto Technologies announces that its developing high-end products with a 64-bit RISC-V family including: An AI “supercomputer-on-a-chip” made on TSMC’s 7-nm process. A 16-core “ET-Maxion” targeting highest single-thread performance A 4,096-core “ET-Minion” targeting performance-per-watt with a vector floating-point unit in each ...
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What’s with Japan Inc? It seems to be falling apart at the seams. We’ve seen Sharp fall to Foxconn, Toshiba fiddle its figures and make an almighty cock-up of its nuclear business and the sale of its memory business. Last week Mitsubishi Materials announced it had shipped sub-standard products; Kobe Steel, Nissan and Subaru have ...
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Following on the heels of the Arduino book giveaway (now closed) and the STMicroelectronics IoT kit compo (still open), here comes a great chance to win a scope from test and measurement specialists Keysight Technologies.
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Toshiba is sampling 3.5inch HDDs with up to 10TB capacity which support up to 64 camera streams. The MD06ACA-V Series is designed for 24/7 streaming operation scenarios and is typically used for surveillance digital video recorders (SDVR), surveillance network video recorders (SNVR) and Hybrid SDVR. The HDDs have 7,200 rpm access performance. The 10TB model delivers ...
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New conductive polymer aluminium solid capacitors from Panasonic benefit from high ripple current and low ESR values Panasonic has introduced smoothing capacitors featuring a high ripple current of 5.8Amps and enabling miniaturization of switching power supplies. The SEPG series of radial lead type conductive polymer aluminium solid capacitors also benefits from very low ESR values ...
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The LT3964, a dual channel, 36V, high efficiency, synchronous, step-down LED driver with internal 40V, 1.6A power switches and an I2C interface that simplifies LED dimming control. The chip operates with a 4V to 36V input range, and features two independently controlled LED drivers that switch at up to 2MHz, resulting in a highly integrated, ...
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China is five years away from overtaking the USA in AI says a report today from the US Center for New American Security (CNAS). “China is no longer in a position of technological inferiority relative to the United States but rather has become a true peer that may have the capability to overtake the ...
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Infineon is expanding its CoM (Coil on Module) portfolio for secure contactless ID documents. The new SLC52 security chip is now available, integrated with the card antenna into a polycarbonate monoblock inlay. Conventional chip packages are welded, soldered or glued to the card antenna. With the CoM package, however, the chip module communicates with the ...
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It is reported in “Radio e Televisione”, No. 9, March that the Russian scientist Nikolai Semenof has set up a new type of transistor in plastic material, which has properties similar to those of normal germanium transistors. So, 56 years ago, starts a piece in Electronics Weekly’s edition of April 19 1961 The story continues: ...
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LuxLive as usual was a vibrant show, held once again a ExCel in London’s docklands. It is a tribute to just how far LEDs have penetrated the lighting market. Sadly, Electronics Weekly did not have time to visit the many Far Eastern manufacturers there, and steered away from most of the networking technology on show ...
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Electronics Weekly joins with Chipless Ltd to discuss the IoT and security in a webinar entitled 'IoT KnowHow: Securing Your Connected Technology'
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Make another note for your diary, for a new Electronics Weekly webinar – IoT KnowHow: Securing Your Connected Technology
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UK controls firm Danlers launched a range of energy saving controls in collaboration with Casambi at LuxLive. The ‘Casambi-enabled’ PIR occupancy sensors with daylight control communicate wirelessly over Bluetooth low energy mesh, said Danlers, with out a wired gateway or Wi-Fi network. Using Casambi software, and enabled occupancy sensor can be used to control individual or ...
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Innovation was clearly visible on Integral Led’s stand at LuxLive. One neat idea was a skeletal fire-rated downlighter (right) for removable bulbs. Gone is the usual metal can, to be replaced with nothing. Instead, 30-60-90min fire-rating comes from the front panel, a special-recipe glass window in the front panel, and extra-strong mounting springs. Anyone’s lamp ...
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Samsung was talking about ultra-high colour rendering (for leds) on its LuxLive stand, with typical Ra97 R1 to R15. This is for its D-Series CoBs (pictured), of which generation 2 was announced in February and generation 3 is well on its way – although which of thee hits a CRI of 97 I sadly didn’t ...
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For high temperature use, lens-maker Khatod is making silicone versions of optics from all of its ranges. That was that was one of the things it was talking about at LuxLive. Another was Cosmo, in which it has combined TIR plus Fresnel technology to reduce the height of 50, 70 and 90mm diameter optics. Then, there ...
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Xi Jinping has a personal chip guru, according to the Korea Herald. The Herald calls him Xi’s ‘semiconductor tutor’ and he hails from Xi’s old alma mater Tsinghua University. His name is Wei Shaojun and he is Dean of the department of micro- and nano-electronics at the university. Wei is a cautious forecaster saying it ...
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Fern Howard had a lot on its stand. Of particular interest was office ceiling panels: EdgeLed is a panel with moulded microlenses to spread light while minimising glare. Up to 3,300 lm is available >82 Ra 4,000K) and there is a seven year extended warranty. Cutlass is a lower cost panel, also edge-lit, using laser ...
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Ledil had a lot of lenses and reflectors on its stand, plus a new range of adapters to connect six of its optical families CoBs with emitting diameters of 6 or 9mm (and sometimes larger) from various manufacturers. Called Hekla, each consists of a base clip (‘connector’ – photo right) that holds the CoB down, ...
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EnSilica’s eSi-ADAS RADAR Imaging Co-processor seeks to solve the problem of RADAR data overload and resolution by doing it in a dedicated co-processor to enable tracking of potentially hundreds of objects to be made in real time. It is claimed to have up to 20x lower power requirements than today’s lower resolution systems and lower ...
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Download the ATO 2018 report to see the latest trends impacting automated test.
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European start-ups are not motivating their employees by giving them sufficient equity, says VC company Index Ventures in a reprt called Rewarding Talent. It could explain why Europe doesn’t produce world-beating start-ups on the same scale as the USA. “We believe that a fresh approach to employee ownership is key to creating European tech giants ...
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Of the various options for the technological development of transportation, transformational improvement of the internal combustion engine has remained unconsidered. Until now. Nissan has developed a car engine (pictured) which has a variable compression ratio system which significantly increases power. The engine has a maximum thermal efficiency of around 40% – double the usual level ...
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I have to say I had to consult the dictionary when the Chancellor’s budget speech included the notion of a ‘Geospatial Commission’, Ed confides to his diary. The dictionary says geospatial means geographical-related data. Surely even this Chancellor is not so dumb as to think this sort of thing is worth investing £80 million in, ...
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UK connector maker Harwin was had a stand at LuxLive for the first time this year, showing a product that it developed following conversations with potential customers at LuxLive last year. Clip and Bar is a minimalist connector for electrically connecting led strips in assemblies. The idea is, according to Harwin’s Robert Webber, who designed ...
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Toshiba wasn’t at LuxLive to talk about its high CRI leds, but it was in the Bluetooth cluster to promote Bluetooth Mesh and the hardware and software it is offering for Mesh. Bluetooth Mesh does not involve setting up a connection between two devices, but uses a modified version of the Bluetooth ‘advertising’ profile. It ...
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Harvard Technology unveiled the next generation (gen 3) of its CoolLED drivers at Lux Live, capable of dimming to 0.1% in some variants. “Smaller, lighter, more efficient and completely flicker-free,” was thew summary provided by a spokesman on the stand, to which he added that the firm adopted some techniques from automotive electronics to get ...
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UK lighting manufacturer TamLight had a big stand at LuxLive, and was promoting its ‘Vision’, lighting control system – used in the Ericsson exhibition hall at the Coventry Ricoh Arena – where automatic dimming and presence detection can be managed via wired or wireless networks. On the hardware side, it was showing some new in-office ...
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This is an interesting one. Take a look at the EksoVest, an “upper body exoskeleton”, finding a role in an industrial, automotive setting. Ford and a compnay called Ekso Bionics have partnered to explore how the exoskeleton that elevates and supports a worker’s arms can best help and reduce chances of injury. The moving assembly ...
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Nine years ago the future was looking good for NXP – it didn’t know that nine years of disruption was imminent. Two years before, in the autumn of 2006, NXP had been bought by private equity firm KKR. NXP’s CEO in 2008 was Frans van Houten, now CEO of Philips. In September 2008, I talked ...
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A Chinese firm has created an educational robotic game for the very young which it says can lay the foundations for developing logic and programming skills. Matatalab says the aim of the toy is to address the stage of brain development at around age four when the brain lays the groundwork for development of logic. ...
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NI has introduced a PXI chassis with a higher power rating of 58W per slot. This represents a 50% increase in power and cooling per slot compared to previously released NI PXI Express chassis. Fan noise has been reduced in the 38W cooling mode with a 13dB improvement compared to the previously released PXIe-1085 chassis. ...
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Aurora Lighting is another firm (see also All Led) that is leaving the mainstream far behind with a 100 lm/W fire-rated downlighter for domestic use. It is the 6W E6pro, which will be available in the new year, producing 620lm at 4,000K (103 lm/W) and 580 lm at 3,000K. It is dimmable and beam angle ...
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Is it possible to discern trends the have begun shaping the world of app design and will continue into 2018? Jake Davis, Design Director of Pocket App, highlights five developments that he sees. 2017 is nearly over and it’s time to consider the future of app design. Apps are being adopted more and more in ...
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All Led has bucked the trend for what-we-can-get-away-with domestic lighting, and has introduced fire-rated down lighters with a proper modern efficacy: 100 lm/W at 4,000K and 95 lm/W at 3,000K for the 10W AFD010D/40 and /30 respectively. Available now, there are non-steerable IP68 types (shown) and steerable IP44 versions. Downlighter efficacies have been in the ...
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With Lattice and FD-SOI, RS Components and Pancras Square, Broadcom and 7nm, Intel and roadmaps, and ARM and profits all figuring prominently...
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Nichia is claiming almost a CRI of ~100 without resorting to a UV die. The firm, which was a phosphor maker before it invented GaN blue LEDs, has combined a 420nm die with five phosphors: Apatite blue, silicate-based, LuAG, SCASN and an improved MGF. What this Apatite was, was not revealed at LuxLive, but last ...
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Qualcomm has issued the terms on which it will license FRAND patents for 5G. They are: ‘Consistent with Qualcomm’s Fair, Reasonable and Non- Discriminatory (FRAND) commitments, European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Intellectual Property Right (IPR) policy and industry practice, Qualcomm’s cellular standard essential patent licensing program is based upon licensing mobile handsets that fully conform ...
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China DRAM start-up, Fujian Jin Hua Integrated Circuit, is moving fab equipment into its Jinjiang fab (pictured) with the intention of running first silicon in Q3 2018, reports Digitimes. The fab is to make DRAM on a 32nm process supplied by UMC. It is being initially equipped to run 60k wpm. It is spending $5.3 ...
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Melexis has brought out a family of miniature far infrared (FIR) sensors for use in multiple applications where accurate temperature measurement is required. The MLX90632 family is based upon Melexis’ established FIR technology that utilizes the fact that every object emits heat radiation. The ultra-small integrated thermopile CMOS IC is a complete solution in a ...
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You’d think that a budget which wants to achieve what the government says it wants to achieve would be a lot more ballsy than Phil’s drab little number this week. For instance, much of the business side of the budget is devoted to inspiring and supporting entrepreneurship, but the simplest way of encouraging the young ...
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How Industry 4.0 could add value, with the digitization and networking of the industrial value chain and its products
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There was once a very great scientist who was renowned almost as much for his wisdom as for his scientific achievements. His wisdom is seen in many remarks which are treasured: “Imagination is more important than knowledge. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. I have no ...
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If the Chancellor hoped to woo the tech sector with £500 million support for AI and handouts for broadband, 5G and smart cities he will be disappointed. The tech sector may find it difficult to see the positives in Philip Hammond’s ‘tech-boosting’ Autumn Budget. The tech sector seems to be unimpressed and it still has ...
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A Swedish start-up is proposing a novel approach to charging electric vehicles. It is to use robotics to replace the vehicle’s battery with a pre-charged cell instead of charging through a power cord. This means the charging time can be cut to just three minutes, says the firm called Powerswap. Sten Corfitsen, founder of Powerswap, ...
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The benefits of 4K scanning using the Olympus’ LEXT imaging platform
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Check out a new whitepaper on the site relating to surface metrology. It’s from Olympus and it covers 4K scanning using the Olympus’ LEXT imaging platform. Particularly, how to capture the shape of any surface and measure challenging samples. Read the whitepaper » It is written by Dr. Megan Cordill who researches thin films on ...
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The University of Hertfordshire is launching an engineering degree-level apprenticeship programme. Trainee engineers will be able to combine work and study, from September 2018, with an Engineering Degree Apprenticeship. The University is offering engineering courses in mechanical, manufacturing, automotive, aerospace or electronic engineering. Degree Apprenticeships are a pathway to gaining a degree-level qualification, while also ...
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Rohde & Schwarz has a test instrument which can be used for validation of radio devices using the sub-6GHz 3GPP 5G new radio (NR) protocol. 3GPP’s 5G NR protocol will ultimately support frequency ranges up to 52.6GHz, but initial 5G designs will use frequencies below 6GHz with a focus on 3.5GHz. For these sub-6 GHz ...
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Single board computer firm Congatec is now offering Qseven and SMARC standard modules with 64-bit NXP i.MX8 processors. These are based on the new ARM Cortex A53/A72 based processors. These processors integrate up to four cores and along with graphics for up to four independent displays. Since the modules are designed for the extended ambient ...
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Anglia Components is extending its small order split reel service to cover more stock items. The distributor says customers can order low volumes for design and prototype phases on commodity surface mount parts in small quantities supplied in cut tape format. Up to ten breaks can now be shown for each part. The distributor is ...
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Toshiba is sampling a constant current 2-phase stepping motor driver for automotive applications and a range of general uses, including adjusting the mirror for projection of heads-up displays, motorcycle valves and valve / damper controllers in HVAC applications. Production is scheduled to, start in July 2019. The TB9120FTG IC provides PWM 2-phase constant current control from ...
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Hynix grew its mobile DRAM sales by 30% in Q3 and, with Samsung, accounted for 85.6% of the market with Micron taking 12.4%, reports DRAMeXchange. For Q4, a 10-15% price hike is expected on top of the 5% hike in Q3. Samsung’s move to 18nm mobile has seen its share move to nearly 50% with $8.8 ...
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Will 5G do anything for anyone? Well it will if it’s widely deployed but will it be? The hype from the technology developers is well underway. There is lip service from the politicians with our Chancellor offering £160 million in support yesterday – a startlingly trivial sum. In the real world, the head of BT ...
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Hardware security and the threat of cyber attacks is the focus of a £5m multi-university research initiative in the UK. Its hub will be the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT), which was launched at Queen’s University Belfast this week. The Research Institute in Secure Hardware and Embedded Systems (RISE) aims to tackle the problem ...
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CST Global, the Glasgow-based III-V opto-electronic, semiconductor foundry, is collaborating with the University of Glasgow and Gas Sensing Solutions on a project to fabricate active matrix, single-photon GaAs devices. The project will develop light-weight, monolithic, mid-wave infrared (MWIR) imagers, capable of detecting a single photon of IR light. These are primarily used to image gasses ...
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Chancellor Philip Hammond’s bid to improve the teaching of computing in schools has been welcomed by the tech sector following today’s Budget speech, The Chancellor plans to triple the number of fully-qualified computer science teachers from 4,000 to 12,000. Cindy Rose, UK CEO, Microsoft, comments: “We welcome the announcement by the Chancellor to triple the ...
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Lattice, freed from the attentions of its Chinese-backed predator, is charting a new course. Over the next year or two it will put all its products onto FD-SOI processes and will target consumer and wireless slots with its portfolio of FPGAs and connectivity ICs. “We’re working on FD-SOI processes with Samsung and Globalfoundries,” Lattice COO ...
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The Chancellor Philip Hammond has presented his 2017 Autumn Budget to Parliament.
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Toshiba is adding 11 products to its line-up of new-generation transistor arrays equipped with DMOS FET outputs, capable of delivering high-voltage, large-current drive up to 50V/0.5A. The new devices expand the 37 products that are already part of the TBD62xxxA series, which have found application in areas including motors, relays, LEDs, and level shifters for ...
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman, the only woman to be CEO of two Fortune 500 companies, is to leave HP Enterprises at the end of January. HPE’s president, Antonio Neri becomes CEO on Feb. 1. Whitman oversaw the split of HP into HPE – the data centre business and HP – the PC and ...
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Thanks to IC Insights for this one: a forecast of the top ten chip vendors this year:
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Thanks to IHS for this one – the top 20 industrial semiconductor suppliers:
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Maxim is aiming at medical wearables with a set of chips for sensing various vital signs. In particular, its chips are aimed at wearables that meets US Fedral Drug Administration (FDA) sensing specifications – so far, said Maxim, no wearables have achieved FDA approval. MAX86141 is an autonomous dual-channel (for two photodiodes) optical pulse oximeter ...
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"It's a long way to the top if you want to Rock and Roll..." But maybe this guitar pedal will help you get there just a bit faster, electronically.
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Broadcom is touting itself as the regulators’ pal as it hints that it might be up for changing Qualcomm’s notorious licensing practices if it succeeds in its bid for Qualcomm. Such a result would not only be a relief to regulators who have had to adjudicate on Qualcomm’s business practices but a huge relief to ...
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Nvidia’s ‘Cuda’ graphics processors, with their high bandwidth PCIe interface, have opened the door to fast, but simple, instrumentation-grade DSP, according to Spectrum Instrumentation. Spectrum is a maker of digitisers – effectively low-noise multi-channel ADCs, some PCIe-based. Cuda is an Nvidia parallel number-crunching technology, that allows direct PCIe peripheral to GPU interaction without the host ...
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A gentle reminder that we are now accepting entries for EW BrightSparks 2018. It's a great way to recognise and highlight the work of a star young engineer in the electronics industry.
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Infineon is in production of 600V CoolMOS high-voltage Superjunction MOSFETs. The 600 V CoolMOS CFD7 completes the CoolMOS 7 series. This new MOSFET addresses the high power SMPS market for resonant topologies. It offers industry-leading efficiency and reliability in soft switching topologies like LLC and ZVS PSFB. This makes it a perfect fit for high ...
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Nano Global, the Austin Texas molecular data company, is working with ARM in a chip in a chip which can be used in the recognition and analysis of health threats caused by pathogens and other living organisms. The first IC to be delivered from the collaboration is scheduled for 2020. The chip will leverage advances in ...
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Siemens is to buy Solido Design Automation, the Saskatchewan specialist in variation-aware design and characterisation software for the semiconductor industry. Variation-aware design and characterisation has become fundamental in designing complex ICs which combine analogue and mixed signal circuitry. Verification software needs to deliver confidence in the simulation results while avoiding time- and resource-intensive analysis methods, and ...
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Marvell is to buy Cavium for $6 billion. Last year Marvell co-founders Weili Dai and her husband Sehat Sutardja were forced out of Marvell. They founded Marvell in 1995 and were accused of accounting irregularites which were unproven. The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) awarded them the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award. This is the ...
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After 24 years as No.1 semiconductor vendor, Intel will lose its crown to Samsung this year, reports IC Insights. Intel became No.1 in 1993 and was expected to match TI’s record as the only chip company to be No.1 for 25 successive years, but this year’s soaring memory prices will give Samsung the crown. ‘Samsung ...
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‘We all know chaps who, mentally speaking, are in a constant whirl. We hesitate to call them unbalanced, particularly if they are senior to us. Usually we manage to smile politely and ignore the whole thing. Of course, if the degree of unbalance gets beyond a certain point or, in other words, if the old ...
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Maxim has introduced a partner security chip for microcontrollers. Called the DS28E38 secure authenticator, it includes security keys created on-die by a ‘physically un-cloneable function’ (PUF), which the firm is branding ChipDNA. “We looked at existing PUF designs – we would have bought one, but they fell short,” said Maxim v-p of security business Dan Loomis, who ...
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Take IoT security seriously, however daunting this might be, is the message of Dan Loomis, v-p of security business at chip-maker Maxim. And he would say that wouldn’t he, because he was talking at the launch of a new security chip. But what he said is important for anyone designing an IoT product, regardless of ...
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Thank you to the nine hundred people who entered our Cypress IoT PSoC 6 BLE Pioneer Kit competition. A great response.
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Is an IDM Commune an idea whose time has come? Richard Chang thinks it is. 20 years as a TI-er, the experience of founding WSMC which was sold to TSMC for half a billion dollars and his credentials as the founding CEO of SMIC give Chang’s judgment authority. Chang’s vision is a variation on ...
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China’s production of electronics equipment has grown 13.8% so far this year, says Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence, which is heading to be the largest annual growth for six years. Last year China’s electronics production increased by 10%. In the USA, year-to-date electronics production is up 5% – the strongest growth in 11 years. ...
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It was common to refer to conspiracy theorists who were paranoid about interference in their private lives as “the tin foil hat brigade”...
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ARM had a Q3 EBITDA profit of £73 million down from the £82 million of Q2, the £216 million of Q1 and the £133 million of Q4 2016. 26 licences were signed in Q3, down from 41 in Q2 Licensing revenues slipped from £112 million in Q2 to £91.2 million in Q3. Royalty income rose ...
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Synapse Design has bought IC design house Tech Vulcan of San Diego which gives Syynapse 45 engineers and a second design center in California. Tech Vulcan provides SOC VLSI design services ranging from RTL design, functional verification, physical design, test vector development to ATE testing and product commercialization. Pradeep Mishra, Tech Vulcan, CEO, says Synapse ...
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer is set to announce financial support for a raft of technology projects in the Autumn Budget on Wednesday: £75m for artificial intelligence £400m for electric car charge points £100m to boost clean car purchases £160m for next-generation 5G mobile networks across the UK £100m for an additional 8,000 fully-qualified computer science ...
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Mediatek is to hand out $5.3 million in bonuses to its 16,000 employees at its 20th anniversary company sports day, Those hired before May last year get $400. Those hired before September get $330. Mediatek’s Q3 profit was $168 million, up 129% on Q2 but 35% down on Q3 2016.
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It’s Budget Week and a load of under-funded, mis-guided, over-optimistic initiatives are to be touted to give the impression that HMG understands tech, Ed confides to his diary. While the Treasury provides largesse, it’s up to Departmental Ministries to administer it, and my job is to get my Department’s hands on the money, pitiful though ...
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A 9ns minimum on-time has allowed Rohm to offer a 60Vto 2.5V dc-dc converter – a 24:1 step-down ratio – that runs at 2MHz, claiming this to be a world first.Worst case minimum on-time is 20ns. Called BD9V100MUF-C, the BiCDMOS chip includes output mosfets and is aimed at 48V automotive systems. 2MHz operation keeps it ...
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With the West Coast techies getting very exercised about immortality – remember Soul Catcher? Soul Catcher was a £25 million research programme at BT’s Martlesham labs. In the 1990s, BT’s Martlesham Labs had an ‘Artificial Life’ team which conceived Soul Catcher as finding a way to record all the electrical pulses which flow through our nervous system ...
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The government thinks there’s more to AI, like improving public services and boosting productivity, writes Richard Wilson. Artificial intelligence (AI) may be one of the most interesting developments in computing in recent years. But can we be certain its impressive capabilities will give us what we really want? Do we want AI to be used ...
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First samples of the Cypress Semiconductor PSoC 6 BLE Pioneer kit will soon be shipped by Digi-Key Electronics. The distributor confirmed this week that it has received their stock of the PSoC 6 Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) development kit and have begun processing and shipping customer pre-orders. Cypress has designed the PSoC 6 MCU, which has built-in security features,for integration ...
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UK-based LTE specialist CommAgility has been selected by Korean wireless broadband equipment developer Eucast to supply its LTE physical layer software for use in the development of small cells. Eucast has licensed Loughborough-based CommAgility’s LTE physical layer software, called SmallCellPHY, for small cells. The software is designed forTexas Instruments’ KeyStone II silicon and will be ...
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London’s technology sector may be competing with the world’s best-known tech city, San Francisco when it comes to job opportunities, but can the good times last? London could be “stopped in its tracks by the restlessness of its tech workforce”, according to research by recruitment website Indeed. The research found that 10.8% of all jobs ...
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Android Studio 3.0 is the latest version of Google's all-encompassing IDE for Android development, and it now supports the use of Android Things.
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