Electricals Warehouse

Monday, 14 March 2016

Plessey’s Stellar beam control LED module

This week Plessey is releasing its Stellar LED beam control module. Stellar is Plessey’s latest, GaN-on-silicon, LED solution with the combination of Plessey’s MaGIC low cost, high efficiency, surface-emitting LEDs with unique modular optics representing the next phase in LED lighting. “As part of our chip scale optics development we have developed a variety of ...

Plessey’s Stellar beam control LED module

from ElectronicsWeekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/plesseys-stellar-beam-control-led-module-2016-03/

Sunday, 13 March 2016

Roll Up, Roll Up: Intel Flogging Capital Assets

So why has Intel hired UBS to try and sell $1 billion worth of Intel Capital’s assets? The plan has caused investor alarm, first because it suggests that Intel doesn’t see these investments delivering required returns, second because it underscores a general perception that start-up valuations have been too high, and third because it will ...

Roll Up, Roll Up: Intel Flogging Capital Assets

from ElectronicsWeekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/shenanigans/roll-up-roll-up-intel-flogging-capital-assets-2016-03/

Friday, 11 March 2016

The Man Who Went Multi-Core 25 Years Early

Multicore has been the thing ever since the industry ran out of GHz but, 35 years ago, it wasn’t. “We were 25 years early”, says David May, Professor of Computer Science at Bristol University, Fellow of the Royal Society, co-founder and CTO of XMOS, architect of the Chameleon microprocessor which became the Hitachi SH, and, most ...

The Man Who Went Multi-Core 25 Years Early

from ElectronicsWeekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/mannerisms/yarns/461497-2016-03/

Digi-Key grows its online business in China

Digi-Key says it has seen strong double-digit growth in China during 2015, and has added a “significant” number of new customers. The online component distributor has been investing in local infrastructure and expanding its product offering in China. It has localised customer service and RMB currency options, which it says have been the driving factors ...

Digi-Key grows its online business in China

from ElectronicsWeekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/digi-key-grows-its-online-business-in-china-2016-03/

Mentor says software apps are vital for SoC emulation

Mentor Graphics says it is time to address the challenges of verifying IC designs now that a single chip can represent a complete system. The answer is in the power of the software running on a high performance hardware emulator. Mentor has long maintained that emulation is the only way to verify complex system-on-chip (SoC) ...

Mentor says software apps are vital for SoC emulation

from ElectronicsWeekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/mentor-says-software-apps-are-vital-for-soc-emulation-2016-03/

UK firm designs IoT module on open-source BeagleBone platform

A Manchester-based firm has designed a 1GHz embedded computing module with gigabit Ethernet and based on the BeagleBone Black open source platform. SanCloud is funding the launch of the module called BeagleBone Enhanced through an IndieGoGo crowd-funding campaign. So along with its AM3358 1GHz processor from Texas Instruments, the module has the BeagleBone Black feature-set – two ...

UK firm designs IoT module on open-source BeagleBone platform

from ElectronicsWeekly http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/distribution-world/uk-firm-designs-iot-module-on-open-source-beaglebone-platform-2016-03/