To my shame, when I read that Osram was binning its new Solariq S 13 lighting led to the CIE2015 10° colour space, I didn’t know what the last bit of that statement meant. It turns out I am not alone, and part of the reason Osram is making this particular led is to educate …
GloFo Looks For 7nm Leadership
A pretty big shift could be about to happen in the semiconductor industry – IBM’s scientific prowess could be about to be unleashed on the market. GlobalFoundries is aiming to take industry process technology leadership at the 7nm node. For the first time, GloFo now reckons it can take industry process leadership using a proprietary, …
Raspberry Pi Hi-Fi tube amp just got better
Pi 2 Design the developer behind the 503HTA, Hybrid Tube AMP/DAC is a small Hat size Raspberry Pi add-on has upgraded the design to add new features. It has added an analogue line in the 503HTA can be used to the quality of a tube amplifier more audio sources. Standard 3.5mm jack takes in up to …
More on: TI’s unique 10MHz dc-dc topology
Texas Instruments has unveiled a dc-dc topology, for which it is claiming industry’s highest current density: 50A/cm3, for a 12V 10A 10MHz converter. The target was to shrink a high-current dc-dc converter; and the best known path to small size is to increase switching frequency to reduce the need for large inductors and capacitors. However, …
Teaching of computing in schools faces big changes
The Royal Society is commissioning a study to understand the challenges faced by teachers delivering computing and computer science and share best practice which can be adopted more widely. Professor Stephen Furber (right), from the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, will lead the research study which is part of a wider …
Teasing The Credulous
When I was in Brussels yesterday, I saw a dog driving a car. It was on a video shown by Audi. “If pets can drive that’s truly autonomous driving,” cracked the Audi guy showing the vid and it made me wonder do I have a deficient sense of humour or should not Audi be showing …
French Economics Minister Slams ST Management
ST announced a quarterly dividend of 0.06 eurocents which was 40% down on the last quarterly divi of 0.10 eurocents. Recently the French unions criticised ST management for paying out too much in divis while depriving the company of necessary investment. The dividend policy is designed to keep the share price up. Today France’s Economics …
Amazon Redshift improves throughput performance up to 2X
You can now get up to 60% higher query throughput (as measured by standard benchmarks TPC-DS, 3TB) in Amazon Redshift as a result of improved memory allocation, which reduces the number of queries spilled to disk. This new improvement is available in version 1.0.1056 and above. Combined with the I/O and commit logic enhancement released in version 1.0.1012, it delivers up to 2 times faster performance for complex queries that spill to disk, and queries like SELECT INTO TEMP TABLE that create temporary tables.
ITF2016: The Future Is Good, says Imec
Luc van den Hove, CEO of Imec, opened ITF2016 in Brussels this morning on the theme of ‘daring to take a different view’. He instanced companies which have taken a different view e.g: The company which provides the most taxi rides in the world does not own any taxis; the company which rents more rooms …
ITF2016: Imec, Infineon team for 79GHz CMOS auto radars
This morning, in Brussels, at Imec’s ITF2016, Imec and Infineon announced a cooperation in CMOS sensor chip development. Infineon and Imec are working on highly integrated CMOS-based 79 GHz sensor chips for automotive radar applications. Imec contributes its advanced expertise in high- frequency system, circuit and antenna design for radar applications thus complementing Infineon’s radar …