Pure, the digital radio company, has today announced the appointment of Sir Hossein Yassaie as Chairman.

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ARM’s server aspirations seem to have fallen on stony ground since Softbank snaffled the company last year. At that time it was thought to be a weird move for a company to pay $32 billion to kill off ARM’s pre-eminent advantage of being an independent supplier of cores. ARM’s success derived from the fact that …

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The Royal Academy of Engineering has launched its own engineering manifesto as the political parties campaign for next month’s general election.

Read full article: Engineering community enters UK election debate

The Q1 smartphone market entered a ‘super-cycle’ says IHS, with y-o-y increases for the first time in two years. The increase was all led by the Chinese manufacturers who recorded startling gains. While Samsung was up 0.1% and Apple down 0.8%, OPPO was up 67.3%, Vivo was up 56.3 % and Huawei up 21.7%. Q1 …

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 Intersil has introduced a PMIC  that delivers 91% efficiency at 1.1V output voltage for application processors, GPUs, FPGAs and high-performance system power. The PMIC’s low RDS(on) MOSFETs and programmable PWM frequency allows designers to use fewer low-profile external components, enabling a 50mm2 power-supply that is 40% smaller than competing solutions. The ISL91211 triple/quad output PMIC is …

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    The English language programme Cobol is to be used in the International Computers and Tabulators 1301 computer.   So, 57 years ago starts a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of  October 12th 1960   Cobol is thought to be the most versatile common language programme developed so far. It includes some twenty verbs …

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Uber is allowed to carry on working on self-driving car technology but Waymo’s lawyers can inspect all Uber’s work on LIDAR, ruled Judge William Alsup, in the Waymo-Uber case yesterday. The judge ordered Uber to return to Waymo the 14,000 files taken from Waymo by former employee Tony Levandowski. Judge Alsup told Uber to do …

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The semiconductor market grew 2.6% last year to $343.5 billion, says Gartner. The top 25 companies collectively grew 10.5 %. “The semiconductor industry rebounded in 2016, with a weak start to the year, characterised by inventory correction, giving way to strengthening demand and an improving pricing environment in the second half,” said says Gartner’s James …

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SSL applications ranging from healthcare to educational to office settings can leverage tunable LED technology for impacts including increased worker productivity and enhanced wellbeing.

Today we are announcing the availability of CloudWatch Metrics for Amazon Virtual Private Network (VPN) connections. Each VPN connection now collects and publishes a variety of tunnel metrics to Amazon CloudWatch. These metrics will allow you to monitor tunnel health, activity, and create automated actions.