It’s time for legislators to consider aspects of LED lighting other than energy efficiency, the industry association says in a position paper that reaffirms its push towards human-centric lighting.
Announcing the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
AWS is pleased to announce immediate availability of the new Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Mumbai joins Beijing, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo as the sixth AWS Region in Asia and as the thirteenth worldwide, bringing the total number of AWS Availability Zones to 35 worldwide.
VIDEO: Desalination news round up
Join Tom Freyberg from WWi magazine for the Desalinate newscast, bringing together the latest news from the global desalination industry…
BioAir expands, completes projects at wastewater treatment plants in California
Join Tom Freyberg from WWi magazine for the Desalinate newscast, bringing together the latest news from the global desalination industry…
DIY Raspberry Pi defence against your neighbour’s drone
Take a look at this report from US website Make, describing how to make a wireless drone-disbler using a Raspberry Pi.
Power transistor market growing at 4% CAGR
After dropping 7% in 2015 to $12.3 billion, power transistor sales are expected to stabilize and begin a modest recovery in 2016, growing by a little over 1% to $12.4 billion, says IC Insights. Power transistors—the $12 billion growth engine in the $21 billion discrete semiconductor market—have faced a choppy uphill climb since surging in …
Power Trip
One of the increasing number of things which puzzle me is what IBM is doing in semiconductors. When it sold its semiconductor business to GloFo last year, IBM said that it “expects its unparalleled semiconductor and materials research to continue to advance its capabilities in systems for years to come.” And so it has. A …
Updated: Designing led/optic assemblies gets easier
Maybe everyone else has known this for ages, but at last there is enough information on led and collimator data sheets to work out how far one should be form the other to get the specified beam. Gaggione LLC17N This was bought to my attention by optics maker Gaggione – which I had know had …
Qualcomm offers 6GHz radio chips for early 5G launch
Qualcomm has developed a prototype radio system for 5G mobile communications research and first network trials. Interestingly, this latest 5G prototype system from Qualcomm operates in the sub-6GHz spectrum bands and not in the millimetre-wave (28-65GHz) frequency bands. However, this just confirms the likelihood of a two stage introduction of 5G services over the next …
Makers make their mark with distributors
Recent company acquisitions in the component distribution sector may only be the start of things. Since selling over the internet changed the way companies and so-called “maker” designers find and buy new components, the distribution business has been turned on its head. For decades the component distribution business was straight-forward. Supply companies with components for …