Today XP Power launches the world’s smallest 40 Watt AC-DC open frame power supply, the company claims.

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Thanks to IDC for this one – the top five shippers of smartphones in Q2. Millions of units Samsung 77 Apple 40.4 Huawei 32 OPPO 22.6 Vivo 16.4

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Mitsubishi Electric has announced an addition to its GaN RF power transistor range. Intended for use in symmetric Doherty amplifiers in macro-cell basestations from 2.5 to 2.7GHz, MGFS53G27ET1 can deliver 220W (53.4dBm) saturated, operating from 50V. Linear gain is 18dB and drain efficiency is 74%. At the same time, at European Microwave Week in London, …

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Analogue Devices has teamed up with Escape Communications to transmit 10GBit/s over an E-band link. The idea was to create an link that could extend fibre-based Ethernet over up to 5km of free space – over a river or city, for example. Escape used ADI ADCs, DACs and RFD components to build the modem, which …

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Pipe manufacturer, GPS PE Pipe Systems, has won two new contracts to supply a range of its PE pipe systems to Thames Water for major AMP6 schemes…

The IDA has unveiled the winners of its inaugural Water Reuse and Conservation Awards, with recipients drawn from across Asia, Europe and the US.

Water storage in six key reservoirs is at 4.9 million acre-feet; 2 million acre-feet more than at the beginning of water year 2016.

DFI Tech, a US-based embedded board supplier, has developed a small form factor single computer featuring 6th Gen Intel Core i7/i5/i3 processors. Designated the M90/530 SFF embedded computer it features a dual or quad core 6th Gen Intel Core i7/i5/i3 processor and H110 chipset. The computer measures 7.9 x 7.36 x 2.11-inches. It has up to dual 32 GB DDR4 memory, …

Read full article: California computer firm goes with 6th Gen Intel processors

Lumileds is aiming at horticuture with its SunPlus series, which is binned in photosynthetic photon flux (PPF) – the plant equivalent to Lumens, measured in µmol/s. SunPlus 20 are 2 x 2mm devices aimed at greenhouses farmers wanting to supplement high bay lighting with specific wavelengths – available in in 440-460nm royal blue, 655-675nm deep red, 720-750nm far …

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Semiconductor industry bellwether TSMC had Q3 revenues which were up 17.4% on Q2. Q3 revenues were $8.3 billion. September revenues were $2.85 billion which were down 4.9% on August but 39% up y-o-y. TSMC’s YTD revenues are $21.8 billion – up 7.1% on the same period last year.

Read full article: Industry bellwether has 17.4% sequential Q3 revenue rise