Rohm is claiming the smallest two-colour LED with the launch of the 1608 size (1.6 x 0.8mm) SML-D22MUW, intended for use behind seven-segment displays. “In recent years, chip LEDs are being increasingly used for numerical displays in industrial equipment and consumer devices,” said the firm. “Conventional numerical displays use a single colour to indicate numbers, …

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BAE Systems has announced a radiation-hardened single-board space computer. Called RAD5545, it has a quad-core 32/64bit QorlQ Power Architecture processor running at 466MHz and offering 5.6 Drystone Gips of processing with 512kbyte/core L2 cache and 1Mbyte x2 L3 cache on a ANSI/VITA 78.00 SpaceVPX compliant 6U-220 board. Up to 16Gbyte of DDR3 ram can be …

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There was once a hotel credit controller in Canada who decided to go travelling in Asia. Six months later he was in Hong Kong needing to replenish his cash and took a job with a local paging company. After a year the company asked him to stay on for another year. One week before the …

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WR-BTB is a family of surface-mount board-to-board signal connectors from Würth Elektronik. The plugs with coded guide are available in versions with 40, 64, 80 or 100 pins. Models with 0.8 and 1mm pitch are also available in various heights. Various male and female plugs can be combined to achieve a defined spacing between two …

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Uber’s $645 million Q2 loss was 9% less than Q1’s $708 million loss and a lot less than Q4’s $991 million loss. Q2 net revenue was $1.75 billion up 17% from Q1. Fares totalled $8.7 billion which was also 17% up on Q1. At the end of Q2 Uber had $6.6 billion cash. Uber has raised $15 …

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Lorries that are semi-autonomous will be electronically bound together in ‘platooning’ trials in UK motorways, according to the Department of Transport.

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Harting has added EtherCat connectivity to its modular industrial computing architecture (‘MICA’). “MICA’s modular open-source software makes it the ideal solution for developing edge and cloud applications in production,” claimed the firm. “Creating the EtherCat functionality as an internal function module enables MICA to deliver benefits such as protection class IP67, connectors suitable for industrial …

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HTC is in trouble and reported to have engaged advisers to discuss strategic options, reports Bloomberg. The Handset and VR operations could be sold separately. HTC’s handset business has been flagging under the assault on the China market from Huawei, Oppo and Vivo. Its VR business, represented by the Vive headset, saw it recently having …

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Qualcomm’s president, Derek Aberle, is to leave the the company at the end of the year. Aberle heads the licensing division which is embroiled in a vicious legal battle with Apple and in complex anti-trust wrangles with European and Asian governments and the US FTC. Qualcomm is saying that Aberle’s departure has nothing to do …

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PermaNet F leak noise sensors from Fluid Conservation provide water network managers with a fixed-base cellular network to monitor leakage.