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Tosh Speculation Goes Feverish

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Speculation around the sale of Toshiba’s chip business is getting a trifle fevered. The first round of bidding has produced some surprises. Broadcom and Silverlake are said to have put in a joint bid of  $18 billion. Now, Apple is said to be bidding. Back in 2008 Apple paid $278 million for Palo Alto Semiconductor …

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TR808 kick drum synthesiser

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I thought I had already written about the bass (‘kick’) drum synthesiser in the Roland TR808 but, searching the Electronics Weekly archive, I can’t find it. Hearing of the death of its inventor, Ikutaro Kakehashi, reminded me of it. The particular kick drum sound is heard on many famous synth-band tracks, and the band 808 …

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Qualcomm uses Rohde & Schwarz tester for first 5G chips

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Qualcomm Technologies has selected a RF test system from Rohde & Schwarz to test and characterise its first generation 5G RF transceiver (SDR051). Qualcomm announced its Snapdragon X50 5G modem platform in October 2016. It is designed to support download speeds of up to 5Gbit/s, initially using very wide bandwidths available in the 28GHz millimetre …

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Crowd funding sought for UK SDR basestations

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Guildford-based Lime Microsystems is to seek crowd funding to take software-defined radio (SDR) small cell and carrier-class base-stations to market. The campaign, dubbed LimeNET, will launch on 27th April on Crowd Supply. The products it intends to create are: LimeNET Mini (pictured), an app-enabled, small cell base station aimed at residential SDR applications such as IoT. LimeNET, …

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Altium takes control of sales from resellers across Europe

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Altium is returning to the direct sales channel in France and taking over all activities related to commercial Altium Designer licensing previously covered by an official reseller. The design software firm said it would offer a lower subscription price, as well as support, sales and marketing conducted in the local language. Altium has also recently …

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Linear’s SAR ADC has filtered and no latency output options

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A 32-bit successive approximation register (SAR) analogue-to-digital converter with dual outputs and digital filters to optimise signal bandwidth has been introduced by Linear Technology, now owned by Analog Devices. The LTC2500-32 provides a digitally filtered output that achieves up to 148dB of dynamic range as well as a no latency output comprising an over-range detection …

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Semiconductor materials sales grow 2.4%

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The 2016 semiconductor materials market was up 2.4% in 2016 compared to 2015, reports SEMI, in a semiconductor market which grew 1.1%. Sales of wafer fabrication materials and packaging materials were $24.7 billion and $19.6 billion, respectively. 2015 revenues were $24.0 billion for wafer fabrication materials and $19.3 billion for packaging materials. The wafer fabrication …

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