Thanks to CapIQ for this one – the ten most profitable (operating margin %) IC companies in 2014: Inotera 53 LTC 46.3 ARM 40.3 TSMC 38.9 Nanya 38.3 Xilinx 32.4 Qualcomm 30.5 ADI 30.1 TI 29.9 Hynix 29.8
Elektra Awards 2016: Entry deadline approaching
There are only four days remaining to enter your company for an Elektra European Electronics Industry Award. Due to popular demand, the entry deadline for the Elektra Awards 2016 was extended by two weeks, but that finishes Friday 17 June. Entering is simple and free. We hope the deadline extension will allow you to submit the best …
MOOCs take off in a big way
MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), the free programme of study, accessible via mobile, tablet and desktop, is taking off in a big way at the University of Southampton which has just signed up its 200,000th learner. The attraction of MOOCs is that courses can be delivered to large numbers of participants in a way that …
Xilinx Zynq UltraScale gets embedded software support from Mentor
Mentor Graphics is now supporting the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC devices with its embedded tools and software portfolio. The embedded software support includes Linux and Android OS, Nucleus real-time operating system (RTOS) and Mentor’s Embedded Hypervisor. Scot Morrison, general manager of the platforms business unit, Mentor Graphics Embedded Systems division, writes: “Dealing with the complexities …
Xilinx Zynq UltraScale gets embedded software support from Mentor
US Marines test wearable tech for battery support
We like a bit of energy scavenging on Gadget Master and it seems the US Marines are conducting field trials of a device called PowerWalk, that will scavenge energy wasted during route-marches.
Egil about to land
Egil, ARM’s next Mali video processor due later in the year, has been designed to optimise performance between the various IP blocks through use of bandwidth saving technologies such as ARM Frame Buffer Compression (AFBC), writes ARM’s Roger Barker. AFBC can be implemented across the entire range of multimedia IP within an SoC and, depending …
Power analyser – Make sure you don’t blow it
Sam Foster describes the best way to use a power analyser to characterise inrush currents and properly size fuses. In the development of different technologies, many engineers encounter and have to deal with inrush currents to their devices. The reality of inrush current and the meaning of an I2t measurement will be discussed. Also, an …
NXP gets regulatory approval for RF Power sale
NXP has had its sale of its RF Power unit to Jianguang Asset Manangement (JAC Capital) from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). The divesture of the RF Power business was a condition for NXP’s merger with Freescale Semiconductor. Earlier this week NXP and JAC Capital announced they had agreed the …
Blue energy in LED lighting shortens shelf life of milk, according to Cornell researchers
LED lighting in grocery cases can degrade milk, according to researchers in Cornell’s Department of Food Science, with exposure times as short as four hours impacting product quality.
New Edge Location in New Delhi, India for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53
We are pleased to announce that we’ve added a new edge location in New Delhi, India for Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Route 53. The New Delhi location is our third edge location in India (joining Mumbai and Chennai), and brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 56.