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Five grim years

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The chip industry will sink another 3.8% this year, said Malcolm Penn, CEO of Future Horizons at IFS 2016 in London this morning. “I t looks like the best number for this year, by my mathematics, is minus 3.8%,” said Penn, “that’s five years in a row that the chip market hasn’t recovered.” “Why?” asked …

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100 lm/W from a ‘100W’ LED replacement light bulb

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Cree’s lighting division has created a range of high-end high-efficiency LED replacements for incandescent light bulbs. The 100W replacement, for example, achieves a highly creditable 100 lm/W – delivering 1,650 lm from 16.5W. What makes this remarkable this is the 2,700K (warm) white version, with a CRI of 85, and the bulb is dimmable – …

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God Forbid That We Should Rely On Wireless For Broadband

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A great deal of blather was caused by the particularly obtuse remarks of the head of O2 UK who said wireless would be a better way to deliver broadband than fibre. Obviously the guy’s talking his book but, even so, most people would be ashamed of expressing such a view. It’s an especially shameful view …

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Back To A $1 ASP?

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The chip industry will sink another 3.8% this year, said Malcolm Penn, CEO of Future Horizons at IFS 2016 in London this morning. “I t looks like the best number for this year, by my mathematics, is minus 3.8%,” said Penn, “that’s five years in a row that the chip market hasn’t recovered.” “Why?” asked …

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Wind River integrates VxWorks with IBM’s Watson IoT service

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Wind River has announced a VxWorks  real-time operating system (RTOS) client for the IBM Watson IoT platform. This is part of the IBM and Wind River collaboration aimed at IoT deployments amongst industrial customers – offering what the pair call ‘edge-to-cloud recipes’ designed to simplify the development of smart connected devices. “This integration marks the first …

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UltraSoC to support RISC-V

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UltraSoC, the SoC debug specialist, is to support products based on the RISC-V open-source ISA. UltraSoC is supporting the RISC-V Foundation, the non-profit corporation that directs the development and drives the adoption of the RISC-V ISA, which some call “the Linux of the semiconductor industry”. ”We’re delighted to be able to support RISC-V, and we’re …

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