Italmatch Chemicals has acquired Sudamfos Do Brasil, a leading Brazilian distributor of phosphonate, phosphates, and other speciality chemical products, through new company Italmatch Do Basail Partipicoes.

According to ten famous sources, Bitcoin is: “a techno tour de force” Bill Gates. “an Enron in the making,” Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, “a fraud,” Jamie Dimon “a remarkable cryptographic achievement,” Eric Schmidt “a mirage,” Warren Buffett. “evil,” Paul Krugman “a huge, gigantic scam,’ Jordan Belfort (the ‘Wolf of Wall Street’) ‘pretty cool,” …

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SiFive is teaming up with Flex Logix to make EFLX eFPGA available for the SiFive Freedom Platform as part of the DesignShare program. The availability of Flex Logix IP through DesignShare eases time to market and removes traditional barriers to entry that have blocked smaller companies from developing custom silicon. “The addition of Flex Logix’s …

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Alibaba filed for more Taiwan patents in Q3 than any other foreign company, says the island’s Ministry of Economic Affairs. It is the third quarter in a row that Alibaba has been the top patent applicant. Second was Qualcomm with 135 applications and third was Intel with 110. Applied Materials Inc was fourth with 108 …

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The SIA says semiconductor sales reached $107.9 billion in Q3, marking the industry’s highest-ever quarterly sales.

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The perpetrator of yesterday’s New York terror attack was a Uber driver. We are horrified by the senseless act of violence,” said Uber, “our hearts are with the victims and their families. We have reached out to law enforcement to provide full assistance.” Uber said  Sayfullo Saipov had passed a background check. He has been …

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Coilcraft’s has introduced a series of current sense transformers, operating up to 40A over 400Hz to 1MHz, and offering 4,000Vrms isolation voltage between the sense and output windings, using insulation reinforced to UL 60950-1. To minimise power loss, the resistance of the sense coil is very low: 840μΩ in all versions of the series, dubbed CST2020. …

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Dishwasher-safe keyboards that are anti-microbial and easy-to-clean are available from Diamond Electronics, and mouses to go with them. They are intended for clinical and home use in medical systems, clean industrial applications, food processing, semiconductor manufacturing, laboratories, point-of-sale systems and public areas. The iMTC range are sealed and water-proof to IP68, and meet medical approval …

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For developing mobile device chargers to the Qualcomm Quick Charge 4 Class A standard, Diodes and Weltrend Semiconductor have announced a 27W reference design. “Quick Charge 4 is the latest fast-charging specification from Qualcomm, offering up to 20% faster charging, up to 30% greater efficiency, and running 5% cooler when compared to Quick Charge 3.0,” …

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China’s two big DRAM potential contenders – Yangtze River Storage and Fujian Jinhua IC – are getting a local competitor. Digitimes reports that GigaDevice Semiconductor and Hefei RuiLi IC Manufacturing are to combine to spend $2.7 billion on developing a 19nm DRAM process. Hefei is to put up 80% of the $2.7 billion and GigaDevice …

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