When The UK Agonised Over Semiconductors

As the 70s progressed,  the failure of the UK to master the semiconductor industry caused increasing concern in official circles. The problem was referred to the Advisory Council for Applied Research and Development (ACARD) . In 1978, ACARD produced a report called ‘The Applications of Semi-conductor Technology’. “If we neglect or reject it as a ...

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Uber valuation falls 30%

Softbank, Dragoneer and other investors are to pay existing Uber shareholders $10 billion for a stake of around 20% in Uber. The deal values Uber at $48 billion compared to the last valuation at which Uber raised money which was $68 billion. It is thought that Softbank will take 15% of the investment with Dragoneer ...

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Soaring SOX

At 1,266, the SOX has risen 32% this year, 92% in the last two years and still, say experts, has some steam left in it. Of all the 11 S&P sectors semiconductors grew most last year. Strong earnings, M&A and the memory undersupply have driven the SOX and none of these are played out yet.. ...

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Fable: The Optimistic Genius

The idea of an artificial brain has fascinated people for hundreds of years – as it still does today. 68 years ago, a great scientist told a broadcast radio show about the potential of a new invention: “There has recently been a great deal of thought spent on electronic brains or computing machines. Many of ...

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Socionext Miilibeaut image processor powers ORBI Prime eyewear.

Socionext, the Matsushita-Fujitsu SoC jv, has had its Milbeaut image signal processor, the SC2000, designed into  the ORBI Prime, the first 360-degree video recording eyewear. ORBI Prime is equipped with four cameras and superior image stitching technology, the innovative, sunglass-type wearable device is capable of shooting total 360-degree video with no blind spots. The Milbeaut SC2000 ...

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Collibra raises €40m

Collibra, a Brussels start-up specialising in ‘data governance’, has raised €40 million. Collibra says: ‘Transforming your business to be data-driven is a top priority. But to achieve this goal, you must enable everyone across the business to find the data they need, understand its meaning, context, and lineage, and trust that it’s right. It sounds ...

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The Fourth National Memory Incarnation

The only surprise about China’s reported intention to look at price-fixing in the memory market is that it’s taken so long. The situation has looked pretty blatant all year with only three major DRAM players and four major NAND suppliers. In 2017, NAND prices rose 32% and DRAM prices more than doubled. Plans by the ...

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US Tech’s Windfall Billions

One of the interesting things about the US tech industry next year is what it will do with its new-found billions. The US corporation tax has gone down to 21% from 35% and the tax rate at which foreign profits can be re-patriated is 15.5%. Sitting off-shore are $252 billion of Apple profits, $128 billion ...

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China ponders price-fixing moves against NAND producers

China’s National Development and Reform Commission’s Pricing Supervision Department, is looking into mobile NAND price fixing according to the China Daily newspaper. NAND prices increased by over 32% in 2017, says Trendforce, though there are currently signs of a slowdown in price rises and the possibility of over-supply in the New Year. There are only ...

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Ten Best Places For New Year’s Eve

Here are the ten best places to see in the New Year: New York Edinburgh Sydney Rio London Paris Berlin Vienna Hong Kong Hawaii  

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How Sharp Won The LCD Market

Seiko and Sharp pioneered the LCD market in Japan but Sharp was first to commercialise the technology. According to Seiko’s LCD champion, Toshio Yamakzaki, Sharp’s success owed nothing to research everything to corporate balls. Early work can be pushed by an individual but to get a product from lab to factory is a matter for ...

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First transistor created 70 years ago: the device that changed the world

Since its inventors were awarded a Nobel Prize for their work in 1956 commentators have observed the milestones in the development of the humble transistor. And while transistors may be regarded as humble now, because so many of the tiny semiconductors are used as switches or amplifiers in every electronic device, the impact of the ...

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NXP and Baidu team on driverless cars

NXP and Baidu have announced a cooperation in autonomous driving. Under the terms of the agreement, NXP will join Baidu’s open autonomous driving platform, Apollo, and provide semiconductor products including millimeter wave radar, V2X, security, smart connectivity and in-vehicle experience technologies. Apollo is Baidu’s open autonomous driving platform which provides a comprehensive, secure and reliable ...

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The 5G Mirage

Well the good, the bad and the ugly of the telecoms world got together yesterday and declared a standard for 5G NR (New Radio). They also declared that trials could start and also, hopefully, declared that first deployments of 5G NR, could start in 2019. Hopefully, of course, because these guys aren’t buying the gear, ...

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Fable: The Entrepreneur Who Aked The Right Question

There were once two entrepreneurs who started a business and one of their products was a voice recorder. The thought struck them that they could use the device to play music tapes as a portable music player. However one of them spotted a flaw and asked the other: “The headphones are bigger than the device ...

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First 5G NR spec completed

Today, the first 5G NR spec was completed. AT&T, BT, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Huawei, Intel, KT Corporation, LG Electronics, LG Uplus, MediaTek, NEC, Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, Orange, Qualcomm, Samsung, SK Telecom, Sony, Sprint, TIM, Telefonica, Telia Company, T-Mobile, Verizon, Vodafone, and ZTE say that the completion of the ...

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5G NR spec completed

Today the 3GPP TSG RAN Plenary Meeting in Lisbon  completed the first implementable 5G NR specification. AT&T, BT, China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Huawei, Intel, KT Corporation, LG Electronics, LG Uplus, MediaTek, NEC, Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, Orange, Qualcomm, Samsung, SK Telecom, Sony, Sprint, TIM, Telefonica, Telia Company, T-Mobile, Verizon, Vodafone, ...

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Cree upgrades LED streetlights

Cree has upgraded its NanoOptic Precision Delivery Grid optical system to enhance the performance of Cree Streetlights across the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) markets. The optics will be mounted on new orders of luminaires across the XSP, Urban, Square LED and RKT Series. The redesigned optics (Type 210, 275 and 2SH) deliver an ...

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Renesas brings out auto camera starter kit

Renesas Has brought out  the R-Car V3M Starter Kit to simplify and speed up the development of New Car Assessment Program (NCAP, Note 1) front camera applications, surround view systems, and LiDARs. The new starter kit is based on the R-Car V3M image recognition system-on-chip (SoC), delivering a combination of low power consumption and high ...

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Comment: It’s time for a DC homecoming

There is a certain irony to the fact that as I sat down to write this opinion piece we had a power cut, writes Blane Judd. It was a Sunday morning so not as bad as it could have been, but still an inconvenience. While my article was protected because I was using the laptop, ...

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Merry Christmas! But the Web never sleeps…

A quick post to wish all our readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Note, however, that ElectronicsWeekly.com is not taking a break.

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Deep Manta performs multi-task deep learning

List, a CEA unit, says it has developed a new category of AI called multi-task deep learning. DeepManta, a flexible algorithm, can demonstrate visual object recognition for smart cities, such as identifying vehicles, their type and position and counting them. Different objects, such as miniature cars, move into a camera’s field of view, where the ...

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Inequality

The World Inequality Report 2018 compiled by top economists including Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Shaez tells us what we already know – for 40 years the rich have been getting richer and the poor poorer. While people in developing countries, China and India particularly, have got richer, workers in the developed world have got poorer. ...

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EU Not So Net Neutral As You Might Think

We like to think we are a bastion of net neutrality in Europe. After all, the EU’s net neutrality policy, adopted in April last year, states: “Providers of internet access services shall treat all traffic equally when providing internet access services, without discrimination, restriction or interference”. And French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says: “France ...

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Ed The Confessor

There is no doubt that it is, indeed, our old friend Ed who has published his memoirs ‘Confessions of a CEO’ under the monicker ‘Anon’. Ed being Ed, he has probably decided he can make a buck or two by telling his sorry tale. On the other hand, he did go through a hard time ...

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China may buy into Japan Display

China is discussing a $1.8 billion investment in Japan Display, the cash-strapped, bailed-out, consortium of Japanese panel makers, reports Kyodo News. Three China companies are making the investment:BOE Technology Group Co,  Tianma Microelectronics and Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology. Japan Display, formedfrom the failing panel operations of Sony, Hitachi and Toshiba, has been loss-making for ...

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Hynix may license flash technology to Tsinghua

Amid reports that the China anti-trust regulator is looking askance at the presence of Hynix in the winning bid for Toshiba’s memory unit, comes a report from the Yonhap News Agency that Hynix is talking to Tsinghua Unigroup about licensing flash technology. Tsinghua is outfitting a massive memory fab at its Yangtze River Memory Storage ...

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2017 semi market grows 20%

The semiconductor market in 2017 will finish with annual growth of about 20%, says Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence, making 2017 the highest annual change since 32% in 2010. Memory, specifically DRAM and NAND flash, is the major market driver. WSTS projects the memory market will grow 60% in 2017, while the semiconductor market excluding memory will ...

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Uber is a taxi service rules ECJ.

Uber is a taxi service not an app, says the European Court of Justice which is the final court of appeal in Europe. Uber had argued it was a ‘mere intermediary’ in arranging taxi rides. “This ruling will not change things in most EU countries where we already operate under transportation law,” says Uber, “however, ...

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Samsung starts 2nd gen 10nm DRAM production

Samsung says it has begun mass producing 2nd-generation 10nm nanometer 8Gb DDR4 DRAM. The 2nd-generation delivers a 30% ‘productivity gain’ over the company’s 1st-generation 10nm-class 8Gb DDR4, says Samsung. Performance and power have been improved about 10% and 15%. respectively. The new 8Gb DDR4 can operate at 3,600Mbps per pin, compared to 3,200 Mbps of the ...

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Take more risks, says Intel CEO

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has sent a memo to employees urging them to take more risks and harking back to the examples of its three great founders, Bob Noyce, Gordon Moore and Andy Grove. Here is the text: Intel employees, As 2017 comes to a close, I want to reflect on this year and the ...

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Ten Best Semiconductor CEOs 2017

Here they are – the ten best chip CEOs of 2017: Jen-Hsun Huang Ming-Kai Tsai Hock Tan Moshe Gavrielov Jalal Bagherli Sanjay Jha Reinhard Ploss Oh-Hyun Kwon Yasuo Naruke Sanjay Mehrotra  

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Who?

Who are Matt Lauer, Tom Petty, Fidget Spinner and Chester Bennington? Well if you don’t know you’re in good company because they were among the ten most searched for topics on Google in 2017. The others were: Hurricane Irma iPhone 8 iPhone X Meghan Markle 13 Reasons Why India National Cricket Team  

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Mouser signs Keysight Technologies

Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with Keysight Technologies. The Keysight product line available from Mouser Electronics includes oscilloscopes, benchtop power supplies, waveform generators, and digital multimeters. Keysight has oscilloscopes from high performance to extreme value and bandwidths ranging from 50 MHz to 200 MHz. Keysight’s InfiniiVision 1000/2000 X-Series oscilloscopes are engineered to provide ...

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Toshiba sampling 2.4TB 10,500 rpm HDD

Toshiba is sampling  a new generation of 10,500rpm enterprise performance hard disk drives for mission-critical servers and storage. The  series has a 2,400GB capacity model. Built to deliver superior low-latency performance, the AL15SE Series supports 12Gbit/s[2] SAS dual-port interface to optimize the host transfer rate. All models utilize a space-efficient, power-saving 2.5 inch, 15mm form-factor. ...

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Winners of Farnell element14 ‘IoT on Wheels’ design challenge

element14.com has announced the winners of its ‘IoT on Wheels’ design challenge, sponsored by STMicroelectronics. Over the course of 11 weeks, the participants focused on design, research, prototyping, coding and testing their IoT-connected transportation solutions and posted frequent blog posts throughout the process on their element14 project pages. To help build their projects, each participant ...

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X-Fab launches flash blocks

X-FAB has availability of two new Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) IP solutions – a low power embedded Flash (eFlash) IP block and a NVRAM compiler. Both are based on the company’s proprietary 180 nm XH018 mixed-signal CMOS technology and are targeted at applications requiring high reliability and field re-programmability while operating at low power and in ...

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BrightSparks 2018: Be one to watch

Having uncovered the industry’s brightest young talent last year, the search is on for the BrightSparks of 2018.

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EW BrightSparks 2018 search begins

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

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Plessey Beat Voltage Drop

This was a headline, 56 years ago, in Electronics Weekly’s edition of March 8th 1961. The story runs: The difficulties of transmitting small pulses from nuclear radiation detector over lengthy  cables have been met by Plkessey Nucleonics Ltgd using pulse transformers. The detectors are generally located at some distance from the main pulse amplifier, and the ...

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Only Connect: A review of connectivity In 2017

This year has seen the continued march for miniaturisation and the desire to reduce the footprint of new product designs.

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Nailed Like A Scalp To The Wall

In a wonderfully graphic phrase from the Old Wild West, legal evidence was described as being nailed ‘like a scalp’ to the wall by a court official in the Waymo-Uber trade secrets theft case. Special Master John Cooper had unearthed a letter from an Uber in-house security guy written to Uber’s lawyer. Uber had not ...

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Seed Stars

Seedstars World, the international start-up competition, held its Ukraine event in Kyiv last week when 12 start-ups won through to the next round of the competition. The 12 startups from Lviv, Odesa and Kyiv, will represent Ukraine at the Seedstars Summit in Lausanne, Switzerland, on April 12th where they will compete with startups from 65+ ...

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Farnell sponsors Aston hackathon

Farnell has become the  Gold Hardware Sponsor of Astonhack, a 24-hour Hackathon organised by Aston Computer Science Society and held at Aston University in Birmingham as part of Major League Hacking’s 18th season. The organisers define a Hackathon as “where teams of up to four people work together to build something over 24 hours. Challengers ...

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LT8364 current mode step-up regulator has 2.8V – 60V input range

The  LT8364 current mode, 2MHz step-up DC/DC converter has an internal 4A, 60V switch. It operates from an input voltage range of 2.8V to 60V, and is suitable for applications with input sources ranging from a single-cell Li-Ion battery to multicell battery stacks, automotive inputs, telecom power supplies and industrial power rails. The device can be ...

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Mofcom could derail Toshiba sale

The latest twist in the Toshiba saga is that China could derail the deal. China’s Ministry of Commerce (Mofcom) is reported by Bloomberg to have raised concern about Hynix’s presence in the winning consortium. With only four significant NAND producers in the world, the prospect of Hynix taking control of Toshiba will affect markets. Hynix’s ...

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China to put EV quotas on car manufacturers,

China is to ramp up its EV ambitions by putting quotas on domestic vehicle producers which will oblige them to make a set percentage of their total vehicle production electric. A company producing 1.2 million EVs in China a year will be obliged to produce 20-30,000 EVs. The quotas are to take effect from 2019. ...

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Qualcomm could lose 30% of workforce

Bad news for Qualcomm is that, if Broadcom succeeds in buying it, 30% of its employees may lose their jobs. Apparently, over the last four years and five acquisitions by Broadcom, around 30% of the employees of the five companies bought – some 5000 people – have lost their jobs. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan (pictured) ...

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Thales to buy Gemalto

Thales is to buy Gemalto for €4.8 billion after topping a €4.3 billion offer made by Atos. “Combined with Gemalto’s unique leading digital security portfolio, Thales will be ideally positioned to offer an end-to-end solution, to secure the full critical digital decision chains, from data creation in sensors to real-time decision making,” said a joint ...

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Bitcoin transactions suffering long delays

It is currently taking four and a half hours to sell or buy a Bitcoin, reports Business Insider. Each sale or purchase has to be confirmed by six miners. Miners prioritise the highest priced transaction and they also charge a reported $26 per trade. When the crash comes, the time transactions take and the fees ...

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Ed Stitches Up A Cabinet Colleague

I am about to engage in a turf war with the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, Ed confides to his diary, some friends of mine could benefit from a shake-up of the procedures around the awarding of telco licences. Trouble is the Secretary of State guards his turf jealously. Nonetheless I ...

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Why Don’t Programmables Grow?

Why don’t programmable grow. The FPGA market was worth $4 billion in 2008 and $4 billion in 2016. It seems a no-brainer that, as ASICs got more expensive programmables would grow. But they didn’t. In 1996  the FPGA market was worth $1.9 billion and Xilinx forecasted it would be worth $5.8 billion in 2001. In 2001, the ...

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Top 10 most popular articles on ElectronicsWeekly.com

Here are the top ten most popular articles on ElectronicsWeekly.com in the last week, with LoRaWAN, iPhone sales, Micron, semi equipment and the sale of Toshiba's memory unit all figuring prominently...

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November SEMI billings up 1.6%

SEMI’s November billings figure was 1.6% up on October at $2.05 billion. The November figure is 27.2% higher than the $1.6 billion of billings in November 2016. . “November billings for North American equipment manufacturers increased modestly for the first time in four months,” said Dan Tracy, Senior Director, Industry Research and Statistics, at SEMI. ...

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Hitachi to install proton beam therapy unit in Madrid

Hitachi is to provide Clinica Universidad de Navarra (CUN) with its proton beam therapy (PBT) system. The PBT System will be installed at CUN’s facility in Madrid, Spain and is equipped with state of the art technology including spot scanning capability for treating certain forms of cancer. The system includes a compact synchrotron accelerator, full ...

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Net Non-Neutrality: Us Next?

From across the pond comes an unfortunate example which the more rabid of our Tories will be excited to follow. Fortunately for the Continentals, the Brussels big-wigs wouldn’t follow that example in a month of Sundays but, for us, when we leave Europe, our fate will be in the hands of whichever party forms our ...

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Bridgetek expands PanL system

Bridgetek continues to expand on the scope of its pioneering PanL system level solutions, adding new hardware that will accelerate the implementation of ‘intelligent spaces’ within a broad spectrum of different sectors. These will include domestic, retail, hospitality, enterprise and utilities, right through to factory automation, agriculture and medicine. The whole premise of the PanL ...

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Most read Gadget Master posts in 2017

The answers include Google's AIY voice recognition kit (its launch and relaunch), a DIY home alarm system, an Arduino garage parking assistant, Android Things for the IoT and a new Boston Dynamics robot...

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T-Mobile plans pay TV move in the US

T-Mobile is planning to enter the US pay TV market with the acquisition of Layer3 TV. The mobile operator has announced plans to launch a new TV service in 2018. Denver, Colorado-based Layer3 TV products stream online video content and social media in five cities across the US. “People love their TV, but they hate ...

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Fable: The Man Who Set An Example

There was once a massively successful billionaire entrepreneur and great man who believed that written directions in running a company were never enough and that walking around talking to people was the way to manage his company. While doing this he came across a machinist making a plastic mould die. Unthinkingly he touched the mould with ...

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Machine vision firm runs AI deep learning on Nvidia platform

MVTec Software, a Munich-based machine vision specialist, says it it now possible to run deep learning functions on embedded boards with Nvidia Pascal architecture. The deep learning inference in the latest version of the firm’s Halcon machine vision software was successfully tested on Nvidia Jetson TX2 boards based on 64-bit Arm processors. The deep learning ...

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MIPI makes market push for I3C sensor interface

The MIPI mobile interface organisation is opening access to its sensor interface specification, called MIPI I3C. This is an important interface upgrade to the long-established I2C technology. MIPI I3C, initially released to the MIPI Alliance member community in January 2017, is the next generation interface for sensor networks currently using I2C and SPI. Companies, including those not ...

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Nexperia adds in-vehicle protection diodes

Nexperia, the  former Standard Products division of NXP, today announced a new generation of in-vehicle network (IVN) protection diodes that offer a higher surge current, greater ESD robustness and a significant improvement in ESD clamping performance. The new AEC-Q101 qualified PESDxIVN series of surface mount devices is optimized for the latest generation of CAN, LIN, ...

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Digi-Key recognised for connector sales by Harwin

Online distributor Digi-Key has achieved sales growth of 40% for Harwin product lines over the last 12 months, and as a result has received the connector firm’s global distributor award for 2017. Doug Steele, v-p of sales at Harwin, writes: “This year Digi-Key have really stood out as a powerful force in progressing Harwin’s market ...

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Virtual reality paints Modigliani’s studio in a new light

In an instant I was transposed to 1919 Paris, up in Modigliani’s studio on the Rue de la Grand Chaumière. Motes of dust circled and, if I stretched my neck, I could see a bit more of the Paris sky through the whitewashed window left ajar… How strange. It was, of course, a virtual reality experience ...

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Farnell secures Croatian BBC micro:bit rollout

Farnell  has signed an agreement with the Croatian Academic and Research Network (CARNet) for the delivery of 45,000 BBC micro:bit in an official national rollout led by a privately financed nonprofit IRIM. As part of the national rollout, all students in Grade 6 will receive a BBC micro:bit to help them develop their skills in ...

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Soaring Server Market

Google, AWS, Microsoft and Facebook are by far the biggest owners of servers dwarfing their China counterparts Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu, The top server suppliers remain HPE, Dell and Lenovo with market shares of 17%, 16% and 7% respectively, according to DRAMeXchange, which expects the server market to grow 5.53% next year. Server DRAM is ...

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Vayyar raises $45m

Vayyar Imaging, the 3D imaging sensor company has closed a $45 million Series C financing round co-led by Walden Riverwood and ITI with additional funding from Claltech and follow-on investment from Battery Ventures, Bessemer Ventures, Israel Cleantech Ventures, and Amiti, bringing total capital raised to date to $79 million. Vayyar will use the funds to ...

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Microsemi and Imperas develop RISC-V ISS.

Microsemi and Imperas Software have come up with the Extendable Platform Kit for Microsemi Mi- RISC-V soft CPUs. The collaboration delivers the first commercially available instruction set simulator (ISS) for Microsemi’s Mi-V ecosystem, a program designed to increase adoption of Microsemi’s RISC-V soft CPU product family utilizing RISC-V open instruction set architectures (ISAs). “The Imperas ...

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Mouser makes SensiBLE signing

  Mouser will distribute the SensiEdge range of SensiBLE  board-level IoT modules and development tools. As part of the agreement, Mouser is stocking the company’s low-power SensiBLE IoT edge module and accompanying SensiBLE development kit with integrated debugger, which enable designers to reduce the length of IoT prototyping cycles through the combination of the module’s ...

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Analytics + Big Data = Money

Applying analytics to Big Data crunching is the business model du jour. Cambridge Analytica is said to have 5k data points on every US citizen. You can understand why FAAMG want to slurp up every last detail on us they can. Premonition AI, a Miami analytics company, sells stats on lawyers’ win/fail rates, individual judges’ ...

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Fingersound hopes for a thumbs-up for smart control

Regular readers will know I like my Theremin content on Gadget Master... Well, how about this, Fingersound, which could be the "Theremin of consumer electronics"?

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AI Is Not Automation

Gartner makes the rather good point that AI shouldn’t be confused with automation when its influence on jobs is considered. “Unfortunately, most calamitous warnings of job losses confuse AI with automation — that overshadows the greatest AI benefit — AI augmentation – a combination of human and artificial intelligence, where both complement each other,” says ...

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AI Is Not Automation

Gartner makes the rather good point that AI shouldn’t be confused with automation when its influence on jobs is considered. “Unfortunately, most calamitous warnings of job losses confuse AI with automation — that overshadows the greatest AI benefit — AI augmentation – a combination of human and artificial intelligence, where both complement each other,” says ...

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Cruden simplifies hardware driving simulator design

Dutch firm Cruden has developed a simulation tool for automotive R&D that combines hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) set-ups and driver-in-the-loop (DIL) simulators. As an example, Cruden installed a driver simulator merged with a dSPACE HIL set-up at the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences in Germany, where students can integrate hardware into the driving simulator. HIL set-ups, for ...

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Airbus helps PMR networks meet new EU security directive

A European directive on network and information security (NIS) comes into force next year. The aim of the NIS directive is to improve the member states’ cooperation and protection against attacks. The European Union’s directive on network and information security (NIS), was adopted in summer 2016, and national governments will have to implement the legislation ...

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Teledyne e2v expands business ties with China

Teledyne e2v has opened a new healthcare and security facility to support its growing business in China. The facility in Chaoyang District, Beijing will be customer facing for radiotherapy, security and other high-power RF applications. Ewan Livingstone, President RF Power: Commercial, officially opened the site on 4 December 2017, and Teledyne e2v is looking forward ...

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Panasonic offers single-side stable 16A LZ-N relay

Panasonic’s latest electromechanical switch is a single side stable 16A relay. The normally open contact as well as the change-over contact can switch loads up to 16A/250V at ambient temperatures of up to 105°C. The clearance and creepage distance between contact and coil is min. 10mm despite the relay’s very compact dimensions of 12.5 x 28.8 ...

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Comment: The amazing power to build the future is in your hands

Electronics will exert an enormous influence on how the world changes in the next decade. I am often asked whether the magazines I work on – Electronics Weekly and Packaging News – ever appear as the object-of-fun rag for the headlines round of Have I Got News For You. I smile, say no, and move ...

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Competition: Win a MiniZed development board

Check out the new competition on Electronics Weekly, giving you the chance to win an AVNET MiniZed-single-core Zynq 7Z007S development board.

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Maxim’s integrated USB Type-C charger

Maxim’s USB Type-C charger for 2-series Li-ion battery packs integrates a charger, USB Type-C charger detection, 28V over-voltage protection, and power path onto a single chip. The MAX14748 supports legacy USB BC1.2-compliant and other non-standard chargers and enables USB Type-C charging at twice the power of Micro USB solutions. A programmable Automatic Input Current Limiting ...

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Toshiba and Western Digital settle

Earlier today, Toshiba and Western Digital announced that they had agreed to withdraw all lawsuits and arbitration claims they had filed against each other. The companies ‘have entered into a global settlement agreement to resolve their ongoing disputes in litigation and arbitration, strengthen and extend their relationship, and enhance the mutual commitment to their ongoing ...

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Components market grows 17% in 2017

Growth in the 2017 UK electronic components market is set to continue into 2018 and for years to come, distributors forecast. The UK market for electronic components is likely to continue its stellar 2017 growth well into next year, according to forecasts from the Electronic Components Supply Network (ECSN). The organisation, which represents distributors, has ...

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Top Ten Predictions For 2022

Thanks to Jeffries’ Brent Thill for this one – to ten predictions for 2022: Almost 40% of the global population will be on Facebook. 50% more videos will be viewed on-line. ARPU will have increased by 50%. Amazon, Google and Facebook will have won in the AI market. Half of all first dates will begin ...

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Android platform stats: Nougat swells its share in December

Google has released the latest platform stats for Android, giving a break down on the share for the various versions of Android out in the wild in December.

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Comment: Post-Brexit UK will depend on engineering

Never has the future of the technology sector been so important to the whole country’s success. The government’s industrial strategy for a post-Brexit economy seems to depend on UK companies making a success of emerging technology markets such as artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous vehicles and big data. It also puts a new urgency into pressure ...

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Leti wristband monitors sleepers

Leti has developed a wristband that measures physical indicators of a range of conditions, including sleep apnea, dehydration and dialysis-treatment response. APNEAband provides real-time detection of sleep-apnea events caused by pauses in breathing or shallow breaths during sleep. The wristband measures heart rate, variation in the time interval between heartbeats, oxygen saturation levels in the ...

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A Misnomer By Any Other Name Would Probably Be Better

I learnt something last week – IoT doesn’t have to be Internet-connected. What’s been called networking for several decades is now called IoT. “It’s not new,’ Andy Rhodes Dell vp and GM of its IoT business told me, “we’ve had machine to machine for ever. IoT is the new buzzword. What has made it more ...

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The winners of the Keysight DSOX1102G competition are…

Thank you to the one thousand three hundred people who entered our Keysight Technologies scope competition!

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Sweat-charged batteries woven into fabric

Seokheun Choi, a researcher at Binghamton University,  researcher has woven microbial fuel cells charged by bacteria into a flexible fabric which could be used for clothing. Choi’s microbial fuel cells (MFCs) use bacteria to trigger reduction/oxidation reactions, which swap electrons between molecules to generate electricity. “Humans possess more bacterial cells than human cells in their ...

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Toshiba sampling UFS 2.1-compliant eNAND for auto

Toshiba is sampling shipments embedded NAND flash memory products for automotive applications that are compliant with JEDEC UFS version 2.1. The products meet AEC-Q100 Grade 2[3]requirements, support the wide temperature range of -40°C to +105°C, and offer the enhanced reliability capabilities that are required by increasingly complex automotive applications. The devices  integrate NAND chips fabricated ...

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Farnell launches LoRaWAN IoT networks

Farnell element14 has a range of LoRaWAN products from The Things Network. The Things Gateway, The Things Uno and The Things Node which enable users to create LoRaWAN internet of things networks quickly and easily. Using The Things Network Gateway you can setup a LoRaWAN network in just 5 minutes – you can then use ...

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US Electronics Output To Top $10bn.

Assuming no substantial rise in the volume of imports from Japan, America’s major competitor for US markets, the US electronics industry should break through the 10 billion dollar (£2,800 million) level of total business in 1961. So, 56 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s issue of April 5th 1961. The story continues: This ...

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Picture Gallery: Elektra Awards 2017 Attendees – The after-party (III)

A picture gallery from the after-show party, following the Elektra Awards 2017 dinner and awards presentation.

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On-chip metal-to-metal tunnelling makes light without lasers

Light made on CMOS chips using quantum tunnelling could be used for optical interconnect and chemical sensing

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Bonkers Bonanza

If only a thousand people own 40% of Bitcoin, and some say it’s only a few hundred, and with the 100 biggest owners owning 17.3% of all bitcoins then the fact that they are few enough to be in touch with eachother Around 100 people are said to have bitcoins worth more than $100 million. ...

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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 communication systems that are defining the new 5G landscape.

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NAND ASPs to ease in Q1

NAND ASPs will ease in Q1 says DRAMeXchange citing better yields leading to more output and the seasonal dip in demand. Demand from notebooks, servers and phones is expected to fall 15% while  the NAND bit output is expected to rise 5%. ‘Consequently, NAND Flash market will experience an oversupply in 1Q18 and contract prices ...

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Micron sues UMC and Fujian Jin Hua for DRAM process theft

Micron has launched a law case in the North California District Court alleging that UMC and its mainland China DRAM partner Fujian Jin Hua IC copied its DRAM production process. ‘The misappropriation of the Micron trade secrets has caused and will continue to cause Micron irreparable and substantial injury,’ says Micron’s lawsuit. Fujian Jin Hua ...

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Uber in court in London this morning

Uber goes to court in London this morning to appeal against the suspension of its licence. The court hearing is at Westminster Magistrates Court which is expected to set a date for a another court hearing. The process could go on for months during which time Uber can operate. “We continue having constructive discussions with ...

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Slowing iPhone X sales

iPhone X shipments are slowing, reports Digitimes. Apple’s forecast for November shipments is said to have slipped 30%. The supply chain is expecting weaker sales in December. The slow sales come as the wait time for the iPhone X has been brought down from 5-6 weeks to 1-2 weeks. Suppliers expect orders in January and ...

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Ed Relishes Regulatory Alignment

The PM is all aglow. Peace has broken out around the Cabinet table – pro tem at any rate – and I am left marvelling at how quickly these politicos lurch from loyalty to treachery and back again. The EU deal was cleverly arranged to make it look a painful process to any other potential ...

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Picture Gallery: Elektra Awards 2017 Attendees – The awards dinner (II)

Continuing our Elektra party theme, here is another picture gallery of Elektra Awards 2017 guests, this time from he dinner itself. Can you spot yourself – or your colleagues and friends – among this year’s attendees? More pictures to follow shortly. The Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards 2017 were presented at a Gala Dinner at the Grosvenor ...

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The Gentleman

When HP set up its chip operation, HP Associates, it put in the contract HP’s right to buy out the founders after five years. Five years went by, the operation was a success, and Dave Packard told the founders he wanted to exercise HP’s right to buy and asked them to suggest a price. The ...

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Microwave kit for in-car 24GHz radar design

An evaluation kit with a fully operational 24GHz radar movement detector is being sold by Aspen Electronics. The K-LD2 evaluation kit has been developed by RFbeam Microwave, a German supplier of planar radar sensors, K-band measuring equipment and engineering. The kit’s digital signal processing capability allows for evaluation of radar motion sensing. The K-LD2 sensor ...

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NI adds MAC layer support to LabVIEW for 5G

NI has announced MAC layer support for its LabVIEW Communications 802.11 Application Framework. The multiuser MAC layer enhancements to the 802.11 Application Framework to go beyond the PHY layer to address complex network-level problems that will arise for 5G system development. One example of this is 5G network slicing across different radio access technologies. Wireless ...

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Raspberry Pi Zero gets a docking hub with five USB ports

MakerSpot, a Canadian supplier of Raspberry Pi accessories and electronics, has been selling a stackable USB hub for Raspberry Pi Zero for a year. Now the seller is introducing its first Raspberry Pi Zero Docking Hub, through a Kickstarter campaign. The docking hub comes with five USB host ports and adequate spacing between each port ...

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Picture Gallery: Elektra Awards 2017 Attendees – The reception

Check out our gallery of Elektra Awards 2017 guests – can you spot yourself or your colleagues among this year’s party people? More to follow shortly. The Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards 2017 were presented at a Gala Dinner at the Grosvenor House Hotel, and here is picture gallery from the reception before the dinner and awards ...

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Toshiba launches 14TB HDD

Toshiba has brought out a 14TB Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) HDD. Using a 9-disk, helium-sealed design, the  MG07ACA Series provides the power-efficient capacity and storage density needed by cloud-scale and enterprise storage solution providers to achieve their TCO objectives. “We have raised the bar with the new MG07ACA Series 9-disk helium-sealed design,” says Toshiba’s  Akitoshi ...

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BlackBerry and Qualcomm to work together on connected cars

BlackBerry and  Qualcomm are to extend their co-operation in connected car technologies. Qualcomm hardware will be used with  BlackBerry’s QNX software to enable virtual cockpit controllers, telematics, including eCall and Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything technology, electronic control gateways, digital instrument clusters and infotainment systems. BlackBerry and Qualcomm will optimise BlackBerry over-the-air software and BlackBerry Secure Credential Management Services for ...

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Walking Talking Living Doll

It’s funny how things come along at the right time. This whole thing about publicly destroying men who touched a girl’s knee 20 years ago is beginning to look a bit disproportional. Yet coming along are some awfully realistic animatronic dolls. Already men with both doll types are coming forward to say that they prefer ...

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Fable: The Ad Which Captured A Culture

33 years ago a company ran an ad which was less than complimentary about a rival. ‘Let each and everyone of you rejoice, for today we celebrate the first, glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directive,” ran the ad parodying the rival, “we have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of ...

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Wi-Fi hackers may move to Zigbee, Bluetooth and Sigfox

Wireless attack tools are becoming more accessible and has resulted in Wi-Fi hackers focusing their attention on intercepting and decoding traffic from wireless devices based on protocols such as Zigbee, Sigfox and Bluetooth along with RFID, LoRa, and 802.11 variations, according to researchers at WatchGuard Technologies. WatchGuard believes that the same trends that spurred the ...

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Industrial connector supports 10Gbit/s Ethernet

TE Connectivity has added a Cat6A cable connector to its Mini I/O family of industrial connectors supporting serial, bus and Ethernet communication up to 10Gbit/s (Cat6A) data speeds. Design of the Mini I/O connector offers a stable connection due to a stable mechanical interface and double spring/double contact point layout. It is also designed to ...

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Qualcomm sampling Snapdragon 845

Qualcomm is sampling its latest Snapdragon processor – the Snapdragon 845. It stays on the same 10nm node at Samsung as its predecessor and emphasises AR capabilities. Features include: Qualcomm Spectra 280 ISP -Ultra HD premium capture -Qualcomm Spectra Module Program, featuring Active Depth Sensing -MCTF video capture -Multi-frame noise reduction -High performance capture up ...

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Kyocera shows its smallest capacitor

Kyocera has developed its smallest multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) measuring just 0.25 x 0.125 x 0.125mm. The CM01 series MLCCs are designated as having a 008004 case size. The company has used proprietary electrode printing and forming technologies to reduce MLCC’s space requirement by 60% in mounting area and 75% in total volume, as compared ...

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CMOS will cut cost of integrated photonics, says Leti

French research group Leti has demonstrated a III-V semiconductor fabrication technique which it says will simplify the production of lasers. Leti says it has integrated hybrid III-V silicon lasers on 200mm wafers using standard CMOS process flow. “This shows the way to transitioning away from 100mm wafers and a process based on bulk III-V technology ...

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Elektra Awards 2017 – The Winners

We are very pleased to announce the winners of the Elektra Awards 2017, announced at a Gala Dinner last night at the Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane.

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Fujitsu bonds diamond to SiC at room temperature.

Fujitsu has developed a technology for bonding single-crystal diamond to a SiC substrate at room temperature. Using this technology for heat dissipation in a high-power GaN high HEMT enables stable operations at high power levels. Application of this technology is expected to significantly enhance the performance of weather radars and wireless communications. Boosting range and ...

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UltraSoC and Percepio hook up

UltraSoC, the embedded analytics specialist, and Percepio, the RTOS tracing tools vendor, are getting together to produce a comprehensive product for  designing and debugging complete real-time systems. Combining Percepio’s Tracealyzer tools to provide insight into real-time behaviors in RTOS-based (real-time operating system) embedded software, with UltraSoC’s hardware-based universal monitoring and analytics platform, the partnership allows ...

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LETI integrates III-V lasers on 200mm wafers using CMOS flow

  Leti has integrated hybrid III-V silicon lasers on 200mm wafers using standard CMOS process flow. This shows the way to transitioning away from 100mm wafers and a process based on bulk III-V technology that requires contacts with noble metals and lift-off based patterning. The project, carried out in the framework of the IRT Nanoelec ...

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TI claims first high precision op amp with lowest supply current

TI has introduced an op amp which, it claims, is the first to combine ultra-high precision with the industry’s lowest supply current. “With exceptional power-to-precision performance, the LPV821 zero-drift, nanopower op amp enables engineers to attain the highest DC precision, while consuming 60 percent less power than competitive zero-drift devices.,” says TI. The LPV821 is ...

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Auto and IoT Will Drive IC Market, says IC Insights

IC sales for automotive systems and the Internet of Things are forecast to grow 70% faster than total IC revenues between 2016 and 2021, according to IC Insights. ICs used in automobiles and other vehicles are forecast to generate worldwide sales of $42.9 billion in 2021 compared to $22.9 billion in 2016, while IC revenues ...

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AI cracks Enigma code in 13 minutes

Artificial intelligence has been used crack one of the codes originally deciphered in the 1940s at Bletchley Park. It took just 13 minutes and cost £10. And involved a computer recognise German, from a standing start. A company called Enigma Pattern did it by combining machine learning and artificial intelligence, running its algorithms on cloud servers ...

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Elektra Awards 2017 shortlists

Electronics Weekly reveals the companies, people and products in line to win this year’s awards at a glamorous ceremony in December. The votes are in and today Electronics Weekly is proud to reveal the shortlists for this year’s Elektra Awards. After another record-breaking year for entries, in these pages you will find the products, companies ...

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Wise words on IoT

Ian Poole of Radio-Electronics.Com passed on to me some wise words that sum up the vulnerability of the Internet of Things. ” The ‘s’ in IoT stands for security “ I think that says it all. Thanks Ian

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Don’t Stint On The Mai Tais

When you’re feeling the blues, attacked on all sides and fighting for your very existence what’s the best thing to do? Give a humdinger of a party is the gutsy response and rmthat’s exactly what Qualcomm is throwing in Maui, Hawaii as we speak. The San Diego party animal has flown 300 analysts and journos ...

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