While Q2 sales of Apple phones were up in the US and EU, they were down in down in China, according to Worldpanel ComTech.

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Atom is on the way back. It seems that the Intel Atom processor which was dropped by Intel when it decided to exit mobile will be back with a design optimised for drones, IoT, VR headsets, cameras and autonomous cars. The announcement is expected next week at IDF. Intel says the new Atoms will work …

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China’s handset vendors shipped 44% of the global smartphone volume in Q2, reports Digitimes Research. The top ten vendors with their percentages of the total China-based volume were:

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Cypress has appointed a CEO four months after founding CEO T.J. Rodgers announced his retirement in April. The new CEO is Hassane El-Khoury

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Luminaires and the LED lighting infrastructure gain more eyes with “computer vision” designs from smart city firm Eutecus Inc.

The memory industry is becoming as exciting as it used to be in the 1980s when the Americans were fighting for their lives against the Japanese while the Koreans prepared a massive assault – simultaneously building fabs and products for the 64k, 256k and Mbit generations. 30 years on, and the leading-edge is no longer …

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The books are coming thick and fast – see also The Arduino Project Handbook and Exploring Raspberry Pi – and here’s another electronics book relevant to (proto) Gadget Masters: it’s called Electronics for Kids.

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36 years ago an engineer at Toshiba was moonlighting. He was supposed to be working on DRAM development but he was also developing another, very different, memory. In 1984 the engineer gave a paper at IEDM describing a new memory which became a $25 billion a year product. In 1988, Intel put the first chip …

Read full article: Fable: The Moonlighter Who Invented A $25bn Market

Award winning architectural space at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam will be able to map out different lighting areas using wireless LED lighting technology.

Smart lighting for the home can now easily flash Twitter alerts, sports scores, weather changes, and more via IFTTT.