Fujitsu Laboratories and the Fraunhofer successfully test a method using high-bandwidth signal transmission in the range of 1Tbps.

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Rohm will show matrix-style LED headlamp controllers at Electronica in Munich in November. Matrix headlamps use an array of LEDs to allow arbitrary beam shapes to be produced – dip, main, anything in between, and anti-dazzle dark spots withing beams. “Matrix/Pixel LED dynamic front lights and dynamic sequential turn indicators mark the latest developments in …

Read full article: Electronica: Rohm gets into LED headlights

The AMP Group announces an additional standard, gigaAMP, aimed at establishing common mechanical and electrical specifications for the development of advanced power conversion technology for distributed power systems.

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‘Making IoT work for us’ was the title of our IoT event and a notable theme that was the promising development of IoT for smart buildings.

Read full article: IoT Design 2016: Smart Buildings good: Smart Homes bad

Intel teams up with London-based IoT services company Telit Communications

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The chip industry will sink another 3.8% this year, said Malcolm Penn, CEO of Future Horizons at IFS 2016 in London this morning. “I t looks like the best number for this year, by my mathematics, is minus 3.8%,” said Penn, “that’s five years in a row that the chip market hasn’t recovered.” “Why?” asked …

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Linear announces 100V to 30V bi-directional two phase synchronous buck or boost controller

Read full article: 250A bi-directional converter for 12/48V dual-battery automotive

The first thing to say this month is that it was too early for “Nougat” – version 7.0 of Android – to make an appearance in the platform stats.

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Wind River has announced a VxWorks  real-time operating system (RTOS) client for the IBM Watson IoT platform. This is part of the IBM and Wind River collaboration aimed at IoT deployments amongst industrial customers – offering what the pair call ‘edge-to-cloud recipes’ designed to simplify the development of smart connected devices. “This integration marks the first …

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The chip industry will sink another 3.8% this year, said Malcolm Penn, CEO of Future Horizons at IFS 2016 in London this morning. “I t looks like the best number for this year, by my mathematics, is minus 3.8%,” said Penn, “that’s five years in a row that the chip market hasn’t recovered.” “Why?” asked …

Read full article: Back To A $1 ASP?