March distie sales up 27% on February reports ECSN.

The consolidated results reported by Authorised Distributors in the UK & Ireland for March ’18 show that Total Monthly Billings (Net Sales Invoiced less Credits) increased by 27% when compared to the previous month and increased by 6% when compared to the same month 2017. According to Adam Fletcher, chairman of the Electronic Components Supply Network, ...

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Lumileds outdoor light engines now offer 25,000 lm and 128 lm/W

Lumileds has announced the capability to produce 25,000 lm 128 lm/W light engines for outdoor fixtures from its ‘Matrix Platform‘ manufacturing service. Matrix is a bespoke lighting PCB assembly and test service, loading thermal pcbs with leds, connectors, electronics for dimming and control, and optics – with custom light guides in the latter case. “Customers ...

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XMOS signs regional distribution deal for China and Taiwan

  Embedded voice and audio semiconductor supplier, XMOS, has signed a distribution deal with Weikeng, serving China and Taiwan. The distributor specialises in consumer electronics including smart speakers, TV and TV accessories. According to XMOS, the partnership underlines the increase in demand for voice-activated control of electronic devices, and brings together the former’s far-field voice ...

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DesignSpark website opens its doors to the connected home

RS Components has added the Molex interactive Connected Home technology hub to its DesignSpark website. Designed to help customers navigate through connectivity in a typical connected home, the hub was developed by the distributor and the connector and interconnect component supplier to meet the demand for intelligent, integrated smart homes, incorporating smart appliances and thermostats, ...

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Could A Democratic Government Deny Its Citizens Access To Facebook/Google/Amazon/Twitter And Survive?

What would happen to a democratically elected government if it shut down Google, Facebook, Amazon or a dozen or so other popular sites? Well, if the row in Moscow yesterday is anything to go by, they’d be lynched PDQ. Russia is hardly a democratic country but it still got 12,000 people out on the street ...

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Analogue-rich MCU shoots for sensor nodes

Aimed at use with sensors, the Microchip PIC16F18446 is a microcontroller that includes a 12bit ADC which can autonomously implement post-processing functions like averaging, low-pass filtering, oversampling and threshold comparison. Intended for use with sensors, to save power the ADC can run with the processing core shut-down, waking the core when required. Operation voltage is ...

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Fleet of drones and AI help restore Great Wall of China

Intel is supplying its Falcon 8+ drones in a project with the China Foundation for Cultural Heritage Conservation to protect and restore the Great Wall. The drones will be able to survey the Wall’s Jiankou section, which is one of the third century BC’s structure’s most famous – and steepest – parts. The drones and ...

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