Exar, the mixed signal specialist, is to sell its subsidiary Integrated Memory Logic Limited (iML) to Beijing E-Town Chipone Technology (“E-Town Chipone”). E-Town Chipone is consortium comprised of Beijing-based IC design and solutions manufacturer Chipone Technology (“Chipone”) and its financial partner Beijing E-Town International Investment & Development (“E-Town Capital”). iML provides power management and colour …

Exar sells unit to China

There’s many things these Californian tech billionaires do well but one supreme talent they all possess is talking bollox. When they gather at their dinner parties and conferences they come up with the most awful drivel. There’s Jeff Bezos going on about putting manufacturing on other planets. There’s Elon Musk saying we’re all living in …

Billionaire Bollox

Ledil’s Zoyra is a moulded silicone led optic that mimics a traditional light bulb beam pattern. According to the firm, it is compatible with CoB’s of over 10.000 lm with emission surfaces from 6 to 24mm in diameter, while pushing a substantial amount of light backwards. “With Zorya, there is no need for separate dome structures …

Novel optic for lightbulb simulation

It was always part of the original plan to make the BBC Micro:bit available to the general public and now it is starting to happen.

BBC Micro:bit to go on pre-order to the general public

EnSilica and Micrium have got together to port Micrium’s µC/OS-III RTOS to EnSilica’s family of eSi-RISC processor cores. “Our partnership with Micrium to port µC/OS-III to eSi-RISC, significantly strengthens and further broadens the overall eSi-RISC ecosystem,” says EnSilica CEO Ian Lankshear. Micrium’s µC/OS-III is a pre-emptive and deterministic multi-tasking RTOS with optional round-robin scheduling. It …

Micrium RTOS ported to EnSilica processor cores

A Japanese construction company is planning to develop machinery to construct buildings on the moon and Mars, reports The Nikkei. The company, Kajima, will work with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). It is said it aims to have the construction machinery ready to work on the moon in 2030 and on Mars in 2040. …

Japanese company to build construction machinery for moon and Mars

Q1 server revenues declined 2.3% y-o-y, while shipments grew 1.7%, says Gartner. “Although revenues declined, the first quarter of 2016 continued with a trend of low-level shipments growth on a global level with a variation in results by region,” says Gartner’s Jeffrey Hewitt, “the drop in revenues in light of shipment increases demonstrates that the …

Q1 server shipments fall y-o-y

Andrew W. Chesterton takes the helm.

Water Authority’s “To Quench a Thirst” series chronicles regional search for water supplies, from historical to modern times.

Under the settlement, Acme Foundry must comply with its industrial stormwater permit, pay a penalty of $28,975, and implement a Supplemental Environmental Project.