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China is aggressively recruiting semiconductor engineers and execs, reports headhunters TrendForce, leading to a boost in salaries across the entire semiconductor industry. With a number of new fabs set to start production in H2 2018, China is looking for veteran semiconductor people, particularly memory specialists, to run them. Memory specialists are particularly required because Yangtze …

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Sharply higher memory prices pushed Micron Technology to calendar Q1 revenues of $4.65 billion for net income of $894 million. The increase in the company’s revenues of 17% for calendar Q1 compared to calendar Q4 2016 was due primarily to a 21% increase in DRAM ASPs and an 18% increase in NAND sales volumes. “Strong …

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The biggest night in the electronics calendar, the Elektra Awards, returns to the iconic Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, on Wednesday 6 December.

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Recom has introduced a three-pin 2A switching regulator that is pin-compatible with linear regulators in TO-220 packages and operates at up to 96% efficiency – and therefore doesn’t need a heatsink. Part of the R-78B series, it comes in a 11.5 x 8.5 x 17.5 mm SIP3 package, making the power density up to 17.5W/cm³, said Recom. …

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Ethernet is now being used for real-time communications in industrial automation networks and Rahman Jamal from National Instruments explains the pros and cons of the OPC-UA and TSN protocols Which tasks and functions do OPC-UA and TSN (time-sensitive network) protocols fulfil respectively in industrial systems? Rahman Jamal: TSN and OPC-UA operate at different (and compatible) …

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Giovanni D’Amore discusses approaches to characterising both dielectric and magnetic materials using impedance analysers and specialist fixtures. We are used to thinking about technological progress in terms of mobile phone model generations, or semiconductor manufacturing process nodes. These provide a useful shorthand, but overshadow progress in enabling technologies, such as those in materials science. Anyone …

Read full article: Measuring critical material properties of capacitors and inductors

Samsung has said that the 4 million recalled Galaxy Note 7 mobile handsets will be recycled and processed in an environmentally-friendly manner. The mobile phone maker said  that recalled devices shall be considered to be used as refurbished phones or rental phones where applicable. All salvageable components, such as semiconductors and camera modules, shall be detached for test sample production purposes. Samsung also …

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ARM has brought out an Embedded Linux Education Kit to train students and future engineers on Linux development.

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