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There’s nothing quite as enthusiastic as Intel getting into a new technological area, or as hang-dog when it surreptitiously exits the field having screwed up. It’s like a puppy jumping up in expectation of a pat and slinking away bewildered when it gets a slap. “I am excited to announce that Intel Capital is targeting …
Read full article: Intel Diversifies Into Autonomous Driving
Nvidia won the crown of fastest grower in the 2016 semiconductor stakes. GPUs and Tegras boosted it 35%, says IC Insights. Not that far behind, riding the explosive growth of China’s handset market, is MediaTek which grew 29%. Poor old ST slumped to No13 in the rankings – a humiliation for a former No.3. Qualcomm …
Read full article: Winners and Losers in 2016
Microchip is in volume production of its first automotive-grade 32-bit PIC32MZ EF MCU family and a higher-speed variant operating over the industrial temperature range.
Read full article: Microchip’s first auto-grade 32-bit PIC
Linear Technology has brought out a 30A step-down µModule (power module) regulator. The LTM4647 includes the inductor, MOSFET, DC/DC controller and supporting components in a 9mm x 15mm x 5.01mm BGA package. The device’s conversion efficiency from 12VIN to 1VOUT at 30A is 87%, when delivering a full 30A continuously without a heat sink or …
Read full article: LTC launches highly integrated 30A stepdown µModule
Microlease, the UK-based test equipment rental and selling business, is the target of an agreed takeover by US firm Electro Rent. This represents a major shift in Europe’s equipment rental sector and creates a global player in Electro Rent, which itself was acquired by Platinum Equity in August. Microlease became one of Europe’s largest rental firms when …
Read full article: Microlease-Electro Rent merger creates global rental firm
It’s not electronics but room has to be found on Gadget Mater for this one – the EcoHelmet. It’s a cool design, and we have quite a few cyclists among our readership, I know.
Read full article: Cycling EcoHelmet wins international James Dyson Award
Maxim has introduced an ARM Coterx-M4F microcontroller with hardware security to protect IP, algorithms, and user data in wearables. Active power consumption is 127µW/MHz, or 32µW/MHz DMA and 3.5µW in sleep – claimed to be industry’s lowest. For sleep-wake operation there is a 5µs wake-up to 96MHz Called MAX32631, security is embodied in a ‘trust protection unit’ …
Read full article: Maxim ARM MCU adds security to wearables
UV LEDs in the 280- and 310-nm bands will enable applications including sterilization and treatment of skin diseases such as psoriasis and eczema.
The owner of the 32-story Torre Europa in a busy financial district hopes modern PoE technology draws premium tenants.
AWS Marketplace, which lists over 3,500 software listings from popular software vendors across 35 product categories, has announced that customers can now subscribe to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Application Programming Interface (API) products directly through AWS Marketplace with SaaS Subscriptions. With this feature, customers consume software directly through an API or web browser and sellers manage and update the product. Customers can now subscribe to SaaS and API products through AWS Marketplace and pay on an existing AWS bill. Following the launch of SaaS Subscriptions on AWS Marketplace, customers will be able to choose from more products than ever before and sellers will have greater access to the AWS customer base.