Vishay has introduced a 365nm wavelength leds in a 1.6 x 1.6 mm x 1.4mm surface-mount package, intending it to compete with mercury lamps in medical, industrial, and printing applications. Output of the InGaN VLMU1610-365-135 is typically 18mW at 20mA and 50mW at 60mA within 362.5 to 370nm. Life time is “up to 25,000h”, said the firm, which …

UV led replaces mercury lamps for medical and more

Sometime (most of the time?) marketing gets so overbearing that I can’t tell what something is. Take Sony’s ZD9 televisions. They have “Direct LED (Backlight Master Drive)” screens, according to the firm. Does that mean they are LCD with lots of little backlights, are they a huge RGB array of conventional leds, oleds, or what? …

Read full article: I have no idea how this TV works

Deepening understanding of centipede walking could improve robot locomotion, according to the University of Kyoto, which has been studying centipede movement for years. Its latest finding is that being on the point of instability balances straight-line and turning performance in multi-legged robots. The questions the researchers set themselves was: with all the friction created by …

Discovery means robot centipedes go fast and turn quickly

25 years ago I was passed a gem of a piece of wisdom by the then chairman and md of Intel UK, Keith Chapple. We were both sitting on a panel with Jerry Sanders at the 1991 Dataquest Conference in Marbella. I was terrified – Sanders is a formidable debater – and I think that, …

5:30 Will Come

Kemet is aiming at timing, filtering and phase-locked loops (PLLs) with a ceramic capacitor that has double the capacitance of CoG/NP0 types. Made to meet the U2J specification, the family has a linear -750±120ppm/ºC temperature coefficient – compared to zero for C0G/NP0 and non-linear for X7R – and works from -55 to +125ºC. “It also provides …

MLCC sits between NP0/C0G and X7R in size and stability

Tech firm Quest will use Cree and Cisco Power over Ethernet gear at a California facility, and will resell it as a service too in an IoT play.

This project will play an important role in converting the facility into a Water Resource Recovery Center(WRRC).

The IPL project is the 14th project in North America, and the first Platinum-awarded pipeline, to receive an ISI Envision rating award.

RFEL, the Isle of Wight signal processing specialist, is supplying one of its HyperSpeed FFT IP cores to the Arizona Radio Observatory (ARO). They are developing a new high performance radio astronomy spectrometer system where RFEL’s core forms a key component to improve sideband separation in their heterodyne receivers. To support the receiver’s wide signal …

RFEL supplies core for Arizona Radio Observatory

Intel had Q2 revenue of $13.5 billion for net income of $1.3 billion, The company generated approximately $3.8 billion in cash, paid dividends of $1.2 billion, and used $804 million to repurchase 26 million shares of stock. Net income was halved to $1.3 billion after a $1.4 billion charge for lay-offs. The PC business was …

Intel sees high single digit decline for PC market this year