Japan’s corporate elite are falling like flies. Sharp falls to Foxconn, now Mitsubishi Motors, Japan’s 6th biggest car-maker, falls to French-controlled Renault-Nissan. The Renault-Nissan thing is a curious relationship in which Renault has 43.4% of Nissan’s shares – all fully voting, while Nissan has 15% of Renault’s shares – all non-voting. This gives the French …
Infineon Cool
Infineon is shipping its CoolMOS C7 Gold 650 V in a TO-Leadless package. The C7 Gold CoolMOS technology comes with 4pin Kelvin Source capability and improved thermal properties of the TO-Leadless package. This enables a viable SMD solution for high current topologies such as Power Factor Correction (PFC) up to 3 kW. The Infineon C7 …
Folk-Lore Flummoxed
Eight years ago, EW wrote: “According to semiconductor folk-lore this should be a very good year for the industry.” |”2008 is a US presidential election year, and that’s (nearly) always been a good year for the chip business.” “And 2008 is an Olympic year, which has also (nearly) always been a good year for the …
German dementia center trials human-centric lighting to improve patient wellbeing
St. Augustinus Memory Center hopes that tunable lighting from Osram can rebalance circadian rhythms.
EC2 Run Command adds document sharing capability
Today, we are excited to announce EC2 Run Command document sharing. This new capability lets you collaborate with other users on developing new custom commands. Using EC2 Run Command, you can create custom commands (called Run Command documents), share documents with other AWS users, and find documents shared with you. You can share Run Command documents privately or publish them publicly for the AWS Community to use.
Farnell element14 to manufacture the BeagleBone Black
Farnell element14 is to start manufacturing the BeagleBone Black, open source embedded system design module. The BeagleBone Black will be manufactured by Premier Farnell’s subsidiary Embest Technology. This differs from the approach to the Raspberry Pi computing modules, which are manufactured by Sony UK Technology Centre in Wales for Farnell element14 and rival distributor RS Components. David …
Automotive IC market falls
Falling ASPs offset the strong unit growth in the automotive IC market last year, resulting in a 3% decline in value, reports IC . On a worldwide basis, automotive electronics represented 8.9% of the $1.42 trillion total 2015 worldwide electronic systems market, a slight increase from 8.6% in 2014. Automotive’s share of global electronic system …
Swiss students race off with NXP Cup EMEA
Students from Haute Ecole ARC Ingénierie, Switzerland have won the Grand Final of the NXP Cup EMEA Challenge 2016.
Sharp Gets New CEO
The new head of Sharp has been chosen – assuming that shareholders approve a share isuue to facilitate Foxconn’s takeover of the company. Sharp’s shareholders have to agree the share arrangements at a meeting at the end of June which will transfer to Foxconn a 66% stake in Sharp. If that meeting is accomplished successfully …
Arduino shield goes all Siri-like
Arduino now has a standalone voice recognition and synthesiser, and apparently it doesn’t require an internet connection or cloud-based processing.