If the UK and Europe don’t get their act together on 5G regulation the industrial IoT could stall.

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Aiming at retail lighting, Osram has revealed a chip-scale LED with what it claims has the highest flux density. Called the Oslon Pure 1010, and revealed in prototype form, the 1 x 1mm device achieves a claimed 237 lm/mm² at 1A. Typical flux is 100 lm at 350mA (3,000K white) and it is said to almost …

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Bo Lojek in his incomparable History of Semiconductor Engineering tells a very funny story about the marketing of the historic 702 op amp. Bob Widlar had been working on the device with Dave Talbert without the official sanction of Fairchild management but they had approached Floyd Kvamme to see if customers might want it. The …

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Tesco has appointed Guus Dekkers as chief technology officer. Dekkers joins the supermarket giant from Airbus and he succeeds Edmond Mesrobian who is retiring. The role of CTO at Tesco has developed greatly as the supermarket firm translates rapidly evolving technological and digital capabilities into its retail operations. Dave Lewis, Tesco Group CEO, writes: “Guus …

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One to note, albeit to be filed away under the category of ‘Marketing’: Google is rebranding its Android-based wearables platform. So it’s goodbye Android Wear…

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The change reflects the industry’s new IoT lighting-and-beyond zeitgeist. Shareholder approval pending.

As the company declares it is ready to launch Li-Fi in its luminaires, a French real estate company starts putting the technology through its paces. But prime time will have to wait.

Mouser has signed Doodle Labs’ range of  industrial Wi-Fi transceivers. Doodle Labs claims its transceivers achieve long range through high transmit power, operate efficiently in extreme temperature ranges and have high interference immunity, enabling the stable performance demanded by complex applications. The transceivers have an integrated low-noise amplifier to pick up low-energy signals from mobile …

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GF’s current silicon photonics offering built on its 90nm RF SOI process which had previously been manufactured using 200mm wafer processing, has now been qualified on  300mm wafers at GF’s Fab 10 facility in East Fishkill, N.Y The platform can enable solutions that provide 30GHz of bandwidth to support client side data rates of up to …

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The DRAM and NAND flash memory market growth forecasts for 2018 have been adjusted upward, by IC Insights,  to 37% for DRAM and 17% for NAND flash. The big increase in the DRAM market forecast for 2018 is primarily due to a much stronger ASP expected for this year than was originally forecast. IC Insights …

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