Apple is to build three manufacturing plants in the USA, according to President Donald Trump.

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Make a note for your diary – Wednesday 6 September, 10:00am – for a new Electronics Weekly webinar: Combining the Power of Functional Test and Embedded System Access

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June semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings were $2.29 billion, says SEMI, which is 0.8% up on May’$2.27 billion and 33.4% up on the June 2016 figure of $1.72 billion. “Through the first half of the year, 2017 equipment billings are 50% above the same period last year,” says SEMI’s Dan Tracy, “while month-to-month growth is slowing, …

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In the next in our series on the EW BrightSparks of 2017 we highlight Daniele Capocci, a design and development engineer in the ITS test department at the Nissan Technical Centre Europe.

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The silly season has come a week early to Westminster with a silly Ministerial reaction to BMW’s electric car announcement and another silly Minister saying he’s banning the sale of internal combustion engine vehicles in 2040. It’s humiliating to see how pathetically grateful our Ministers are when someone chucks them a Brexit-friendly bone. When ARM was …

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Spotted at power exhibition PCIM in Nuremberg this year, this is a 100kW (134BHP) integrated motor/drive for electric vehicles. Called Sphinx, it is the result of a joint research venture between Infineon, Daimler, ZF, TLK-Thermo and Technische Universitat Braunschweig. Maximum current and voltage in the system are 450A and 300V.

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As expected, the Foxconn LCD plant promised for the USA is to be in Wisconsin. “Because of you we are also committed to great jobs for Americans,” Terry Gou, chairman of Foxconn (pictured) told President Donald Trump, “Mr President, the eagle flies.” Calling Gou “one of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs,” Trump said that the investment …

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Maybe it’s just me, but it can sometimes seem Android development, using Android Studio, has to be a little battle, each step of the way.

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Qualcomm, Silvair, and Silicon Labs are among the first companies to announce building-block products that are compliant with the recently announced Bluetooth Mesh standard, allowing developers of LED-based products to accelerate wirelessly-connected SSL products to market.

The European Union Scientific Committee on Health, Environment and Emerging Risks published research stating that there is no health risk for healthy humans to be exposed to LEDs in the normal use of lighting and display products.