When Nolan Bushnell and Al Alcorn built Pong, the world’s second video game (often credited as the first) they took it to Andy Capp’s Tavern, a low dive in Sunnyvale. They set it up and left it, recounts Leslie Berlin in her book Troublemakers. ‘Two guys soon separated themselves from the crowd and began inspecting ...
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Renesas is looking at buying IDT for $6 billion, reports the Nikkei. Renesas is engaged in something of a renaissance under CEO Bunsei Kure (pictured) who took over in May 2016. In February 2017, Renesas bought Intersil for $3.2 billion. Five years before that, in 2012, Renesas had to be bailed out by the Japanese ...
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There is the emergence of LPWA networking technologies, the Gartner Hype Cycle for 2018, a Top Ten for national broadband speeds and Global Foundries giving up on its 7nm programme...
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Ledil is aiming at architecture narrow-beam wall-washing with a sharp cut-off lens called Leia – achieving beams around 3° with single chip 3535 high-power LEDs – I think this is ±1.5°, and will check. High efficiency is claimed, but looking down the list of applications suggests it is around 50% – rather than the ~90% Ledil ...
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TT Electronics has announced a series of low profile (2mm) high power resistors for use on heatsinks. Called WDBR-UL, they are thick-film-on-steel resistors, developed from the existing WDBR series, with creepage, clearances and power ratings assessed in accordance with the requirements of UL508, “easing the compliance burden for UL approved end-users,” said the TT. “For circuit designers who need ...
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Socionext has announced acoustics IPs in its “ForteArt” software family. ForteArt enhances the sound-related user experience, with applications including consumer products, public signage and automotive infotainment systems. The software IPs can be implemented with other vendors’ hardware, as well as with Socionext’s SoC products. ForteArt has been organized as a family of solutions to address ...
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X-FAB is to double ssix inch SiC capacity at its fab in Lubbock, Texas. In preparation for doubling capacity, X-FAB Texas has purchased a second heated ion implanter for use in manufacturing 6-inch SiC wafers. Delivery of this heated ion implanter is expected by the end of 2018, and production release is planned during the ...
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Custom MMIC has launched a line of GaAs Digital Step Attenuators (DSA). The DSA family is intended to ease the design of high dynamic range receivers and instrumentation. These applications often must accomplish gain control of 50dB or more. Fine step DSAs (e.g., 0.5dB Least Significant Bit [LSB]) are often used for these applications. However, when ...
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Are the big tech companies getting so arrogant they now feel they can take on governments mano e mano? It turns out that a group of countries including the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia had asked ‘digital industry leaders’ – believed to include Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter – to a meeting to ...
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Heat-treating a filament-printed 3D print can make the print stronger by reducing stresses, and increase the operating temperature of the print. The penalty is a few percent shrinkage across the print and some growth in height. For a given batch of print material on a certain printer, these percentages are apparently predictable, allowing them to be ...
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The Drummond MTL15 test lamp has a 1,000V CAT IV safety rating, and LED indication for AC and DC voltages ranging from 50 to 690V, “ensuring compliance with health and safety requirements for safe working in all BS EN61010 installation categories”, said component distributor Martindale Electric, which is stocking the test lamp. Built-in LEDs provide ...
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Consumer goods should be repairable, freeing owners from the cycle of ‘throw it away and buy a new one’. If, like me, you are angered by the increasingly “throw-away” culture which pervades technology products you might wonder, like me, why the government can’t be more active in encouraging, even forcing companies that make consumer goods ...
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One of the great things about tech is that people will invest in it without having a clue about how it works, what it can do, if it’s credible or why it’s worth investing in. Even better when the investee is part of a whole new industry. At the end of the 70s a new ...
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LoRa is emerging as the champion for low power data exchange for the ‘smart’ utilities the IoT relies on, writes Caroline Hayes. Smart city low power wide area (LPWA) is expected to achieve over 140 million connections. According to analyst ON World, there could be as many as 2.6 billion connected, wireless IoT devices for ...
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Premier Farnell saw sales grow 11.1% y-o-y in its 2018 financial year with revenue of $1.5 billion. Q4 sales were up 13% y-o-y. “This is a significant result,” says Farnell president Chris Breslin (pictured), “we have built real momentum, delivering growth every quarter, in every region, and 13% year over year growth globally during the ...
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Following Theresa May’s trip to Africa, the DCMS has announced a number of tech initiatives with Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya. Dedicated UK science, technology and innovation teams will build on the existing science relationships with South Africa and Kenya, including through the shared investments in the Newton Fund and high-end research programmes like the ...
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Idec has improved the inherent safety inside its stop switches with two developments: By reversing the position of the spring, the contact’s relaxed state corresponds to its safety position (when contacts are open, the machine is at a standstill). The spring does not undergo any load once the plunger has been pressed down and as ...
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Darpa’s decision to spread the R&D love will keep US tech ahead of big-spender China. Thirty-three years after Sematech was founded, the Americans are embarking on a new semiconductor research and development programme which could be just as significant. Unlike 1985, when the Japan had overtaken the US in memory process technology and in semiconductor ...
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Sir James Dyson has applied for planning permission to build a ten mile test track for EVs at his ex-airfield base in Malmesbury. Dyson has also announced plans to spend another £150 million on an EV which will be launched the year after next. The investment will take Dyson’s total spend on the EV project ...
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Insight SIP, the ultra-miniature RF modules specialist, has seen a consolidation of its investors. By buying the interests of existing shareholders, the Toulon investment firm 2C Invest has amassed an 18.6% share in the company. Over the last 10 years, the company has grown at an annual rate of over 30% per annum and has ...
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Simplifying the design of low-to-mid-power motor controls in the 7V-45V range, ST’s STSPIN830 and STSPIN840 single-chip drivers contain flexible control logic and low-RDS(ON) power switches for industrial applications, medical technology, and home appliances. The STSPIN830 for driving 3-phase brushless DC motors has a mode-setting pin that lets users control the three half bridges of the integrated power stage with direct ...
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Honeywell’s IHM Series Aerospace Proximity Sensors for commercial and military aircraft are available from TTI. Honeywell has over thirty years’ experience designing accurate and reliable aircraft proximity sensors for extreme environments, and its IHM Series reduces downtime and maintenance costs by obviating the need for unnecessary preventative maintenance and troubleshooting. The IHM Series has a ...
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Helicopter Money – a Milton Friedman idea supported by Ben Bernanke as an anti-deflationary measure – has been enthusiastically adopted by our government. The first example of UK Helicopter Money was in the ‘Whiplash’ claims by motorists. Word got around that whiplash money was being paid out by the car insurance firms, firms sprang up ...
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According to a study in The Lancet more Chinese drink themselves to death than any other nationality. The UK is not in the top ten. The report says that the harmful impact of alcohol far outweighs any benefits with even an occasional drink proving harmful. The authors of the report say that governments should recommend people abstain ...
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Astute commenter of this parish zeitghost has drawn my attention to a rather neat application note on relay contacts, on the website of TE Connectivity. The wisdom includes: “Transformers can present an unusual trap for an unsuspecting relay user. When power is removed from a transformer, its core may contain remanent magnetism. If power is reapplied ...
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The question is: which is the most promising area for electronics startups? If you were to form a startup - or to invest money as a backer - what are the best places for future, profitable growth?
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The WARR Hyperloop team from the Technical University in Munich (TUM) wins the third international annual SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition
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Half of the industry’s capex this year will be spent on memory, says IC Insights. This year’s capex will be $102 bilkion, says I C Insights, the first rime it has topped $109 billion. This year’s capex is 9% on thec$93.3 billion spent in 2017, which was a 38% surge over 2016. More than half ...
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Tydrolyte of Texas is introducing an electrolyte solution for automotive, motive, and stationary storage lead battery manufacturers. Tydrolyte is a less toxic drop-in replacement for sulphuric acid in lead batteries, claims the company “Tydrolyte is a novel innovative chemistry and a promising new approach to advancing lead batteries. It eliminates the drawbacks of handling sulfuric ...
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AVX has increased the maximum operating temperature for its TWD High-Temp Max-Cap (HTMC) Series axial leaded, hermetically sealed wet tantalum capacitors from 125°C to 175°C. Currently available in two ratings, 50mF/6.3V and 25mF/10V the series achieves high capacitance values previously only offered by supercapacitors and delivers exceptional electrical and mechanical stability for extended lifetimes of ...
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Thanks to Cable for this one – the top ten countries for broadband speeds plus where the UK stands in the world rankings:
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Electronics Weekly is investigating the support available and challenges faced by technology start-ups in 2018.
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Gartner has posted its 2018 Hype Cycle for emerging technologies. Here it is:
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GloFo’s decision not to pursue leading edge process technology demonstrates that it’s impossible to catch TSMC in the market. It probably also shows that it’s impossible to catch up with Intel, Samsung, TSMC, Hynix, Micron and Toshiba in process. If the $20 billion spent by Mubadala, and the process technology delivered by IBM’s R&D people, ...
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The high-performance plastic PEEK – polyether ether ketone – used in connectors, medical implants and oil industry seals – can now be 3D printed, following the introduction of a PEEK-based filament for fused filament printers by German firm Apium Additive Technologies. “PEEK is considered as one of the most powerful high-performance polymers due to its ...
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Former CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services UK, Jacqui Ferguson has taken a role at EngineeringUK as a trustee. EngineeringUK has plans to broaden its industry and business support activities across a wider range of technology sectors. Ferguson’s appointment will bring new expertise to the organisation. Prior to Hewlett Packard she worked for Electronic Data ...
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Spanish high-voltage tester firm Diael has chosen a UK-made PC oscilloscope as part of is latest partial discharge analyser – partial discharge measurement is a way to assess the condition of insulation in high-voltage installations. Diael’s new system, dubbed MS Pico, uses Diael’s proprietary ‘BlueBox’ technique in which digital processing separates transient events that are ...
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Omron Electronic Components has added to its range of AC latching power relays with devices that have interfaces for electric vehicle (EV) charge stations, PV inverters and lighting control. The G9TA AC range of power latching relays are designed for applications up to 60A maximum switching current. These G9TA relays feature 2mΩ contact resistance, 6kV ...
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Logic Supply has introduced a fanless ventless industrial PC with an 8th Generation (Kaby Lake) Intel Core i7 CPU. It is based around an Intel Dawson Canyon motherboard – one of Intel’s ‘NUC’ small size motherboards, which are around 100 x 100mm. “ML100G-31 provides a fully solid state, passively cooled computing solution, designed for reliability ...
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Here's one for our Gadget in Extremis category - Airbus's solar-powered UAV recently claimed a record after flying continuously for more than 25 days.
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Schurter has overhauled its robust metal push-button range. The switches of the MSM family retain the original 19, 22 or 30mm diameters, and stainless steel or aluminium housings, but have changed in two places, both involving the illumination: Ring illumination is more even – “by cleverly selecting a new material that diffuses the light much ...
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Globalfoundries is giving up on 7nm. Instead, the company will concentrate its resources on its 14/12nm Finfet process. “GF is putting its 7nm FinFET program on hold indefinitely,” says the company. It is assumed that the 5nm and 3nm programmes are also scrapped. The 7nm process, which was expected to see customers’ designs tape out ...
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Arthur C Clarke’s concept of a space elevator could stsrt to be realised by experiments beginning next month by a Japanese university and construction company. Shizuoka University and contractor Obayashi aim to launch two small (10 sq cm) satellites connected by a 10m steel cable from the International Space Station. Containers on the cable will move ...
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On Wednesday the first meeting will be held by a group put together by the Japanese government to pursue flying cars. The group includes Airbus, Uber, Boeing, NEC, Cartivator (a Toyota-backed start-up), ANA, Japan Airlines, and Yamato Holdings. Japan’s Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry and the Transport Ministry plans to draft a road map this year. Economy, ...
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Fujitsu has developed a crystal structure that increases both current and voltage in GaN HEMTs, effectively tripling the output power of transistors used for transmitters in the microwave band. GaN HEMT technology can serve as a power amplifier for equipment such as weather radar. By applying the new technology to this area, it is expected ...
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The government has allocated £100 million to come up with a plan for a UK GPS system, according to the Sunday Telegraph. The Continentals are threatening to ban the UK from using the military encrypted signals from the EU Galileo satellite constellation. Richard Wimmer, Project Manager of the Aeolus satellite at Airbus in Stevenage, told ...
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Toshiba is sampling a 50V / 5A rated bipolar stepping motor driver that supports 1/128 microstepping. The TB67S128FTG meets the often conflicting requirements of high speed, high performance and reduced power consumption making it suitable for a variety of modern applications including 3D printers, office equipment, cash dispensers, amusement machines and home appliances. At the ...
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The government’s £1 million Digital Skills Innovation Fund is now open for bids from Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) and Combined Authorities for initiatives which specifically aim to help people take up digital roles. The funding will be used to help women, disabled people, people from minority backgrounds or those living in lower socioeconomic areas to ...
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Automotive infotainment designers can upgrade to bigger, higher resolution displays with Maxim’s MAX20069. The MAX20069 integrates four I2C-controlled, 150mA LED backlight drivers and a four-output thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display (TFT-LCD) bias in a single chip. The chip supports larger screen sizes and higher resolution by providing positive analogue supply voltage (PAVVD) and negative analogue supply voltage ...
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STIMULUS to what is now called ergonomics fitting the job to the worker was supplied by the Second World War when maximum production became industry’s watchword. So, 57 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s issue of April 12 1961. The story continues: Research in ergonomics today is concerned mainly with improving the layout ...
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Essex-based contract electronics manufacturer (CEM) Challenger Solutions has achieved AS9100 accreditation – the extension to ISO 9000 that adds aerospace quality management standards. “Everyone gets ISO 9000,” Challenger business development manager Richard Hancock told Electronics Weekly. “AS9100 means that we can work on jobs to a better specification. You need it for anything that is ...
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I took my eye of the ball and missed Gaggione’s LLC25N collimator, which was released at the end of last year. It brings the firm’s colour mixing technology to its 32mm diameter form-factor, providing “state-of-the-art colour mixing for RGBW or tunable white applications”, claimed Gaggione at the time. “It is also capable of great beam ...
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The CPU to be featured in a supercomputer being developed by Fujitsu and RIKEN, ARM's two-year roadmap, five-colour televisions, Samsung's lead over Intel for semiconductor sales and D-Wave quantum computing...
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The age-old relationship between sales and marketing is best described in the bible of tech salesmanship – Marketing High Technology by Bill Davidow “I have always been amazed by the number of marketing departments and sales organizations that don’t get along,” writes Davidow. “The complaints always seem to be the same: The sales organisation isn’t competent ...
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Cree has introduced an ‘S Line’ version of its XP-G3 led line – the remainder is now called ‘Standard’. “Through innovations in component architecture, the new XLamp XP-G3 S Line LED can withstand double the number of switching cycles when compared to competing leds in its class,” said Cree in the launch paperwork – leaving ...
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Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology (OIPT),has announced that Sino-semic have selected its Cobra plasma etch systems for their manufacturing facilities in Taizhou City. Sino-semic is a manufacturer of VCSELs for face recognition. The vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser, or VCSEL is a semiconductor laser diode which emit a perpendicular beam from the top surface, rather than the edge ...
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An engineering student working for Rutronik has conducted tests on the latest generation of Bluetooth Low Energy and have analysed the performance of the wireless standard under various conditions. One of the results of the study was a significant increase in range compared to the previous version, Bluetooth Low Energy 4.2, with a simultaneous reduction ...
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The PI354x-00-BGIZ is the latest addition by Vicor to its 48V Cool-Power ZVS buck regulator portfolio, offering a BGA package option to the existing PI354x-00-LGIZ LGA series. The device’s ZVS topology is designed to enable 48V direct to point of load. And step-down regulation from a higher voltage source will improve efficiency and reduce I2R ...
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Labcenter Electronics has partnered with SamacSys to provide free PCB symbols, footprints and 3D models for its users, via the SamacSys CAD library content. SamacSys, which also powers the Electronics Weekly Component Search Engine, has been selected to provide high-quality CAD models for Labcenter’s Proteus design tools. Components can now be downloaded into Proteus without ...
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Stable but uninspired – this describes the German component distribution market during the second quarter 2018. Sales by companies registered with the Fachverband Bauelemente Distribution (FBDi e.V.) grew in the months April, May and June by 5% (compared with Q2/2017) to 949 million Euros. The order situation performed better, and with 1.04 billion Euros exceeded ...
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July billings by manufacturers of semiconductor equipment were $2.36 billion which was 4.9% down on June’s $2.48 billion and 4.1% up on June 2017’s billings of $2.27 billion, reports SEMI. “Global billings declined for the second month in a row, indicative of customer push-outs,” says SEMI CEO Ajit Manocha, “we expect the industry to weather ...
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Cree has announced an extension to the XLamp XP-G3 LED product line optimised for connected lighting. It is designated the XLamp XP-G3 S Line. With the XP-G3 S Line, Cree delivers high-power LED technology optimized for long-lifetime, high-power general lighting applications where sensors and the internet of things (IoT) are becoming common, such as commercial ...
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TT Electronics of Woking has introduced a compact, infrared LED emitter with a spot diameter of 7mm for super-reliable optical sensing and position encoder applications. With up to 10mW total radiated power at the maximum drive current of 100mA, and 2.25° angle of half intensity, the OP207CL couples optical flux extremely efficiently onto the receiving ...
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The product development cycle has been reduced to this graph from CB Insights:
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Check out this innovative timepiece, where the clock hands are antennas that can capture the wireless energy from ambient signals, shared with us by EW BrightSparks 2018 winner Chaoyun Song. We’re talking wireless energy harvesting, maybe to help power smart sensors and IoT… The aim of the project, Chaoyun tells us, is to help develop ...
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You don’t get semiconductor CEOs like this any more. In his book, Microcosm, George Gilder describes the arrival of a CEO at his company’s 1984 sales conference in Waikiki: “White-haired and with a gilded crown, draped in frangipani leis, royal in a radiant velveteen robe, open to show a grizzled chest and a French bathing ...
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Paper can be turned into an actuator by applying a thin layer of conducting thermoplastic by 3D printing, or even by hand, according to Carnegie Mellon University. When current is fed through the thermoplastic – off-the-shelf graphene polyactide composite – it heats and expands causing the paper to bend or fold – an process which ...
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The University of Minnesota has sputtered a ‘topological insulator’ – a solid that conducts on its surface but not inside – avoiding the single crystal growth process or molecular beam epitaxy normally needed. Bismuth selenide (Bi2Se3) is the material, magnetron-sputtered into a thin film of particles <6nm across in hetero-structures with CoFeB – “Using the sputtering ...
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The UK government has published the first tranche of guidance should the UK leave the EU with ‘no deal’. It is in a single document that can be found on the gov.uk website here. According to the Department for exiting the European Union: “This document puts the government’s technical notices in context, explaining the current ...
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Canadian firm D-Wave Systems has calculated its way through a ‘topological phase transition’ using its 2,048-qubit ‘annealing quantum computer’. Several huge organisations have bought D-Wave computers – including Google and NASA (Lockheed-Martin even up-graded its D-Wave system) – but, in a world where folk are having trouble quantum-coupling a handful of qubits, there remain questions ...
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Toshiba has introduced a bipolar driver for two-phase stepping motors up to 44V 5A that includes 1/128 micro-stepping. TB67S128FTG, as it is to be known, also supports full, half, quarter, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32 and 1/64 step operation – micro-stepping is by PWM, using sine-wave derived on-off ratios – output chopping frequency can be adjusted by external ...
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ADI has broken ground on its new headquarters in Wilmington, Massachussetts. The facility will feature laboratories, design and manufacturing and cross-functional group collaboration space. In addition to 13,700 additional square metres for R&D, the global headquarters will include a 4,700 m² Hub comprising a café, fitness facility and auditorium designed to enable and encourage employees from all ...
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Taxing social media companies to support quality journalism is one of Jeremy Corbyn’s new ideas, along with a ‘digital licence fee’ on ISPs and publishing the social class of BBC employees. Corbyn will put forward the ideas later today in the Alternative MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival. The money raised will go to ...
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gInfineon has availability of a new member of its CoolMOS P7 family, the 950 V CoolMOS P7 Superjunction MOSFET. The 950 V CoolMOS P7 attributes include improved DPAK R DS(on) enabling higher density designs. Similar to the other members of the P7 family from Infineon, it comes with an integrated Zener diode ESD protection. This results ...
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Mouser has released the fourth video episode in the Generation Robot series, part of Mouser’s Empowering Innovation Together programme. In the video, Grant Imahara tours the Cyberdyne Studio just outside of Tokyo to learn more about the company’s Hybrid Assistive Limb (HAL) — a robotic medical suit that combines human, machine, and information functionalities to restore or improve ...
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Manu (as he doesn’t like to be called) Macron had better brush up on his meteorology if Imperial College is right about French leaders who defy the British. Manu is said to have a Napoleonic complex – believing he is destined to lead Europe. But God isn’t keen on having a Frog run Europe, suggests ...
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Voice control and smart speakers. They're the future, it seems. And Android is growing in this direction too... Time to consider an Android Action.
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While pondering the heat shedding capability of a 100mm diameter sheet of 3mm thick aluminium with an led on a star board bolted to it, I came across the rule of thumb formula: Rha = 50/√(area in cm2) I believe this is for ‘sufficiently thick’ plates Does anyone know where this comes from? And if ...
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A fair amount of rubbish is talked about the UK having a lead in driverless cars. Here, according to CB Insights, is the patent position:
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All hail the conquering football heroes! The 19th Silicon Gorge Cup 2018 five-a-side football tournament, organised by Mentor, a Siemens business, took place on Thursday 5th of July. The venue was the Goals Soccer Centre in Bristol. UK Electronics Championship It is the biggest football tournament for the UK’s electronics design community and is quite ...
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Cliff Electronics has added a panel mounting BNC connector with a moulded plastic body to its FeedThrough connector range, all of which mount through the industry standard 24mm XLR panel cut-out. It comes in both 50Ω and 75Ω versions, and saves weight over the earlier metal version (~15g compared to ~28g). “The BNC connector is ...
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Reserve a date for an Embedded Linux and Security training day in September
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Three UK universities have been recognised as Academic Centres of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR), highlighting the country is leading the way in cyber security skills. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (ESPRC) have identified the University of Kent, King’s College London, and Cardiff University as ...
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Fujitsu has announced the specifications for the A64FX CPU to be featured in the post-K computer, a supercomputer being developed by Fujitsu and RIKEN as a successor to the K computer, which achieved the world’s highest performance in 2011. The organizations are striving to achieve post-K application execution performance up to 100 times that of ...
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A way of connecting up IoT devices securely is being licensed by Foundries.io. “Our mission is solving the problem of IoT and embedded space where there is no standardised core platform like Android for phones,” says Foundries.io CEO George Grey. The Foundries.io offering comes in two flavours. For simple devices there’s the Zephyr RTOS micro-platform ...
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Toshiba is in production of 650V power MOSFETs that are intended for use in server power supplies in data centres, solar (PV) power conditioners, uninterruptible power systems (UPS) and other industrial applications. The first device in the DTMOS VI series is the TK040N65Z, a 650V device that supports continuous drain currents (ID) up to 57A ...
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Thanks to IHS for this one – the top 20 industrial semiconductor companies:
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According to a report published by Allied Market Research, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) will dominate the machine learning (ML) chip market. The Machine Learning Chip Market report forecasts the global ML chip market will be worth $37.8 billion in 2025, demonstrating a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 40.8% between 2018 and 2025. The ...
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The shocking news is that robots are being put out of work by automation. ATMs have been around for 50 years and now, it seems, we’ve seen peak-ATM. Paying with a phone means people go to ATMs less often. Average withdrawals per ATM in Australia have nearly halved since 2007-08. and the Reserve Bank of Australia ...
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The days when journalists got a chance to road-test new tech for free seem long gone, which is a shame, because I think my upcoming holiday would give me a chance to really put a new piece of carry-on luggage from ForwardX called Ovis through its paces, writes Sue Proud. One of the harder things ...
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Just a quick post to flag that Google has released the source code for its showcase Google I/O 2018 app.
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C&K has launched SDB DIP switches, intended for low-profile applications where a long life cycling under load is important. There are through-hole or surface mount models, contact rating is 25mA at 24Vdc or 100mA at 50Vdc (at least, that is what the data sheet and website say) with electrical life predicted to be 1,000 cycles ...
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One of the world’s first commercial computers has been registered as technology with essential historical significance by Japan’s National Museum of Nature and Science. Manufactured by Fujitsu in 1959, the FACOM128 was the first relay-type commercial computer made in Japan, and was instrumental in the development of Japan’s computer industry. The original computer featured the ...
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Taking the blue phosphors out of traditional RGB displays and adding yellow cyan and violet to make a five colour televisions, for example, could strongly reduce sleep disruption from late-night viewing without noticeable changes in image quality, according to research by the Universities of Manchester and Basel – and the display could be switched to ...
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element14.com has launched a giveaway for educators to help get the popular BBC micro:bit coding device into the hands of more students and get teachers talking about how to use it in the classroom. For many students and educators, the month of August signifies the approaching return to school, and shopping for the classroom. The ...
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Nintendo set up a nifty competition - its Labo Creators’ Contest - using kits that include cardboard cut-outs and other materials which can be assembled in combination with the Nintendo Switch console display and Joy-Con controllers.
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Gresham Power Electronics, the Salisbury power conversion specialist, has introduced announced its latest micro-footprint, Ultra High Density (UHD) 550W output power supply the OF(M)550. The product range has been designed for use in applications including industrial and telecom systems, medical equipment and LED lighting. This new series of open frame switching power supplies utilises a ...
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Vision Engineering of Woking is shipping a compact TVM Field of View (FOV) video measurement system. TVM combines a small footprint, with larger system performance and ease of use. Time-saving instant FOV measurements and a moving stage allow larger components to be measured quickly and easily. The TVM series includes TVM20 and TVM35, with FOV ...
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Amazon shipped 4.8 million Echo devices between April and June, says Strategy Analytics, three times more than its closest competitor Google which shipped 1.6 million units. Google grew its smart speaker market share from 16.1% in Q2 2017 to 27.6% in Q2 2018. Apple was in fourth place in Q2, behind Alibaba, with 700,000 HomePods shipped ...
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To better protect industrial systems from the dangers of high-voltage signals, equipment designers can now turn to the MAX22445 5kVRMS four-channel reinforced digital isolator from Maxim. The MAX22445 communicates across the isolation barrier to ensure safe operation of compact industrial, medical and other equipment. In high-voltage equipment, digital isolators provide signal isolation and level-shifting for ...
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THE Hellermann Mark Counter should prove a most useful little device to busy inspectors, storekeepers and others who need to keep an eye on stock and the flow of products. So, 57 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of April 12 1960 The story continues: In use, it enables much of the ...
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Samsung extended its lead over Intel to 22% in H1, reports IC Insights. All but four of the top 15 companies had double-digit year-over-year growth in 1H18. Moreover, seven companies had ≥20% growth, including the five big memory suppliers (Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron, Toshiba/Toshiba Memory, and Western Digital/SanDisk) as well as Nvidia ...
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I don’t think I succumb to schadenfreude any quicker than the next guy but, for some reason, I’m glad the crypto bollox is starting to fall apart. The figures for crypto mining out of Nvidia are quite astonishing. In Q1, Nvidia had crypto mining chip revenues of $289 million. The Q1 forecast for Q2 crypto ...
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Mouser Electronics is now stocking Intel’s RealSense D400 range of cameras, depth modules and vision processors that support 3D imaging for a variety of indoor and outdoor applications. Mouser is stocking two depth-sensing cameras: the D415 and D435. Both incorporate the latest Intel RealSense Vision Processor D4 to handle the complex depth algorithm, and use ...
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Phoenix Contact has extended its range of PCB connectors, with a pitch of 2.54 mm. The single and double-row MCC 0,5 and DMCC 0,5 connectors are suitable for conductor cross sections from 0.14 mm² to 0.75 mm². The 2-pos. to 16-pos. connectors are designed for currents up to 6A and voltages up to 160V. Corresponding crimp contacts with ...
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This post is about making assemblies smaller with Hirose DF13 Connectors. I am often asked to help customers with new designs of their cable assemblies and one common theme is making assemblies smaller...
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Analog Device has created an impressively thin dual 10A dc-dc converter, that can also be used as a single 20A converter. Called LTM4686, it comes in a 16 x 11.9 x 1.82mm LGA package. “The 1.82mm package height allows the LTM4686 to be placed on a PC board very close to its load such as ...
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After nine quarters of consecutive growth the DRAM price is finally on the way down, reports DRAMeXchange. Q4 contract ASPs are expected to fall 1-3% due, says DRAMeXchange, to “increasing supply yet fairly limited growth in demand.” Contract prices for PC DRAM and server DRAM memory have risen 1-2% sequentially in Q3, while mobile DRAM and ...
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Shipments of flexible AMOLED panels are expected to account for more than 50% of total AMOLED panel shipments by 2020. Shipments of flexible AMOLED panels are expected to reach 335.7 million units by 2020, topping those of rigid AMOLED panels at 315.9 million units. Flexible AMOLED panels are predicted to make up 52% of total ...
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Q2 semiconductor sales were up 6% q-o-q and 20.5% y-o-y at $117.9 billion, says the SIA. June sales increased 1.5% on the month and 20.5% from June 2017 to $39.3 billion. “Halfway through 2018, the global semiconductor industry continues to post impressive sales totals, notching its highest-ever quarterly sales in Q2 and record monthly sales ...
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TI’s HDC2080 humidity and temperature digital sensor is a capacitive-based device that uses an integrated heating element to dissipate moisture and condensation. The sensor allows for the use of programmable input thresholds to deliver system wake-ups and alerts without needing to rely on a microcontroller to monitor the system. Developers can place their MCUs in ...
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Even in the dog days of August there’s a fever in the political swamp this year, Ed confides to his diary, a looming party conference, the unveiling of the decisions on Europe and plotting, plotting plotting. With the fin de siecle foment, come opportunities for graft. They’ve always been there but, when the show looks like ...
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We are very pleased and proud to announce the commencement of EW BrightSparks 2019.
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One of the industry’s most ambitious failures was Intel’s 1975-81 development of the 432. The project was headed up by Bill Lattin and was located in Oregon which sometimes made it difficult to get equipment. “We had ordered a $100,000 plotter, but nobody knew when it was arriving,” recalled Lattin, “when the trucker pulled in ...
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The way ants dig tunnels could help prevent collaborative robots accidentally slowing each other progress, according to Georgia Tech. The study, published August 17 in Science, shows that not all nearby ants attempt to dig a tunnel simultaneously. “We noticed that if you have 150 ants in a container, only 10 or 15 of them ...
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Aiming at broadcast racks, Densitron has will be showing its UReady range of high-resolution rack-mount displays at IBC in Amsterdam (14-18 September, Hall 8, Stand C07). Intended to bring phone-like quality to rack displays, there are options with up to 212ppi resolution and IPS technology for wide viewing angles. With versions for 1U and 2U ...
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There are the issues of huge semiconductor business deals, a new design for FETs suitable for nanodevices, an organic solar cell efficiency record, Mouser distributing Micron and bad financial results for ARM...
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Formula 1 training simulation technology could be used for testing and certifying autonomous vehicles, according to the University of Warwick which has funding from the Government’s Innovate UK agency to examine the potential. “Several manufacturers are already testing their vehicles on public roads, with mixed results,” said the University. “One of the problems is the ...
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Breaking with tradition, Arm has announced a roadmap for its client CPUs, and plans for a new CPU later this year and the company’s plans to meet the demands of 5G and always-connected devices. Following the release of Cortex-A76 in May this year, Arm will deliver a CPU, codenamed Deimos to partners later this year, ...
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Renowned Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo expects Apple to launch a car between 2023 and 2025. “We expect that Apple Car, which will likely be launched in 2023–2025, will be the next star product,” says Kuo, “the reasons for this are as follows: Potentially huge replacement demands are emerging in the auto sector because it is being ...
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Infineon has enabled a new open source software stack which aims to make work easier for developers who want to use the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 – a standardized hardware-based security solution for securing industrial, automotive and other applications such as network equipment. This is the first open source TPM middleware that complies with ...
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Applied Materials grew net sales by 19% to $4.47 billion in the quarter to the end of July. On a GAAP basis, the company recorded gross margin of 45.4% and grew operating income by 23% to $1.26 billion or 28.1% of net sales. GAAP EPS) grew 38% to $1.17. On a non-GAAP adjusted basis, over the ...
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A great article by Jeremy Kahn on Bloomberg’s technology site asks: ‘Why can’t Europe do tech?’ Take Booking,com, it has $8 billion in revenues and would be worth $50 billion today if it hadn’t sold itself to the US in 2005 for $115 million. Take Supercell which sold control to Softbank for $1.5 billion which, ...
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Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico has created what it thinks is the most wear-resistant metal. The particular platinum-gold alloy is said to be 100x more durable than high-strength steel, making it the first alloy, or combination of metals, in the same class as diamond and sapphire, nature’s most wear-resistant materials, according to the lab. ...
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