A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for December 5, 2016.

  A 5-inch HDMI touchscreen display for use with Raspberry Pi is available from Winstar. With a resolution of 800 x 480 the display is available with resistive and capacitive touch options. It comes with a control board with HDMI interface and a 40 pin connector for connecting to a Raspberry Pi. According to the supplier, the TFT’s 800 x 480 resolution …

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Continuing our Elektra party theme, here is another picture gallery of Elektra Awards guests, this time from he dinner itself. Can you spot yourself – or your colleagues and friends – among this year’s attendees? More pictures to follow shortly. The Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards 2016 were presented at a Gala Dinner at the …

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An alternative to batteries which could give electric cars the same range as petrol cars and the same re-charge time as filling a tank of petrol, has been developed by Augmented Optics and Surrey University. The researchers developed new polymers based on large organic molecules composed of many repeated sub-units and bonded together to form …

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Check out our final gallery of Elektra Awards guests, featuring the after show party – can you spot yourself or your colleagues? The Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards 2016 were presented at a Gala Dinner at the Grosvenor House Hotel, and here is picture gallery from after the awards ceremony. Picture Gallery: Elektra Awards 2016 – …

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A regular feature of the Elektra Awards, which last night celebrated the brightest and best of the electronics industry, is the video interview made with each winner while they are still flushed with the excitement of that winning moment… David Berman is the in-house Multimedia Producer and videographer for Electronics Weekly’s parent company, Metropolis. He …

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The joint alliance made between the De la Rue company and the French Cie. Des Machines Bull in 1959 is now marketing all and types of punched cards and computers, and reports a year of successful progress. So, 55 years ago, starts a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 14th 1961. The story continues: …

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Q3 semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings reached $11 billion, says SEMI, which is 5% higher than Q2 and 14% higher than Q3 2015. Q3 semiconductor equipment bookings were $11.3 billion which is 30% higher than Q3 2015?the same quarter a year ago and 5% lower than Q2. The Q3 billings figure by region in billions of …

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That the US is serious about stymieing China’s efforts to build a chip industry can be seen from its block on a Chinese company’s purchase of German semiconductor equipment maker Aixtron by rejecting the inclusion of Aixtron’s US business in the deal. Last month, US Secretary of Commerce, Penny Pritzker said that China’s $150 billion …

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The fabless industry will have revenues of $77.49 billion in 2016, a decline of 3.2% from 2015 caused by the maturity of many end-user markets and technological barriers, according to TrendForce. “The global semiconductor sector has matured to the point where industry participants are facing technological bottlenecks that have slowed sales revenue growth for fabless …

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