Consumer and mobile MEMS sensor revenue declined by 3.4% in 2015 with slow growth expected to start from 2017, according to IHS Markit. While microphones and other MEMS categories grew, other categories declined – most notably, motion sensors. The three leading consumer and mobile MEMS sensor suppliers globally, based on 2015 revenue, were ST at …

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The SIA reports that semi sales for June 2016 reached $26.4 billion, up 1.1% over May’s $26.1 billion, but down 5.8% on June 2015 Q2 sales of semiconductors reached $79.1 billion during Q2 2016, up 1% on May and down 5.8% from Q2 2015. H1 sales were 5.8% lower than H1 2015 “Global semiconductor sales …

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Skeleton Technologies, the ultracapacitor specialist, has received €13 million in new investment led by FirstFloor Capital, a Malaysian venture capital investment firm specialising in funding high-growth technology companies. The Round C investment, which also includes existing Skeleton Technologies’ investors UP Invest and Harju Elekter, brings total financing to €26.7 million and will support Skeleton Technologies …

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IBM has micro-machined a structure which separates biological particles between 20 and 140nm into different size categories. Known as exosomes, these fragments of life are found in bodily fluids such as blood, saliva or urine. Determining the size (this IBM work), surface proteins and nucleic acid cargo of exosomes can indicate the presence and state of developing cancer …

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There was a time when phone competition was all about process nodes, processor speeds, battery life and memory capacity. Now it’s about beauty. Samsung has reported successful Q2 sales of its S7 model – launched in February – and what appears to be attracting buyers are its curved edges, its OLED display which allows the …

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Linear Technology has introduces a precision 32bit successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC), which also offers a 14bit 1Msample/s low latency output. “Many high performance applications, including data acquisition, industrial control and medical instrumentation, require both accuracy and speed,” said the firm. “This is often achieved by using a high resolution delta-sigma ADC and a …

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If you ask Bob Dobkin which analogue companies he admires, the list is short: “ADI”. That helps explain why he is selling the company he co-founded 35 years ago to ADI. In 1981, Bob Swanson, Bob Widlar and Bob Dobkin left National to found Linear Tech. Widlar was the greatest IC designer the industry ever …

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Planar-lighting-enabled parking-area lighting combined with linear surface-mount LED fixtures and traditional LED area lights to deliver an 81% reduction in energy usage for a hospital parking lot.

Amazon Mobile Analytics Auto Export to Amazon S3 accumulates and exports events sent to the Amazon Mobile Analytics service from your mobile and web applications into your own Amazon S3 bucket, typically in under one hour from when we receive the event. This allows you to access the full data being recorded by your application to perform additional detailed analysis in addition to the analytics automatically produced in the Amazon Mobile Analytics console, such as Daily Active Users (DAU), Monthly Active Users (MAU), Average Revenue per Daily Active User and other out-of-the-box and custom metrics. 

AWS IoT now supports Just-in-time registration (JITR) of device certificates. This functionality expands on the “Use Your Own Certificate” feature launched earlier this year by simplifying the process of enrolling devices with AWS IoT. Prior to support for JITR, the device enrollment process required two steps: first, registering the Certificate Authority (CA) certificate to AWS IoT, then individually registering the device certificates that were signed by the CA. Now, with JITR you can complete the second step by auto-registering device certificates when devices connect to AWS IoT for the first time. This saves time spent on registering device certificates and allows devices to remain off-line during the manufacturing process.