Rambus is to buy Semtech’s Snowbush IP for $32.5 million as well as additional payments based upon specific new product sales through the end of 2022. Snowbush IP, formerly part of Semtech’s Systems Innovation Group, provides serial link IP. The acquisition strengthens Rambus’ position in high-growth spaces and meets customer needs in the server, networking …

Rambus buys Snowbush IP

SEMI and SEAJ (Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan) say Q1 billings were up 3% on Q4 2015 billings but down 13% on Q1 2015 billings at $8.3 billion. Q1 bookings were 2% lower than Q1 2015 and 5% higher than Q4 2015 at $9.4 billion, Q1 billings by region in $bn are: Taiwan 1.89; Korea;1.68; …

Q-on-Q bookings and billings trending positive say SEMI/SEAJ

New from Texas So started an ad 56 years ago in Electronics Weekly’s edition of December 21st 1960. The ad continued: SILICON ALLOY PNP TRANSISTORS CLOSELY CONTROLLED BETA SPREAD HIGH COLLECTOR VOLTAGE (up to 60 V) LOW SATURATION (BOTTOMING) VOLTAGE (100 mV typical) HIGH PEAK CURRENT (100 mA) LOW Ico (0-1 jiA max.) 2S301 2S302 …

New From TI

ARM has expanded its ARM DesignStart initiative to offer simplified and expedited access to EDA tooling and design environments from Cadence and Mentor Graphics. The new partnership builds on the benefits of free access to ARM Cortex-M0 processor IP offered through the DesignStart portal. The new ARM Approved Design Partner program also provides DesignStart users …

ARM expands DesignStart – 45 sample SoCs for $16k

The phone market is changing dramatically with phablets growing well but smartphone growth slowing down. In 2014 smartphones grew 27.8%. In 2015 they grew 10.8%. But this year they’ll only grow 3.1%, says analyst IDC. On the other hand phablets, defined as devices with 5.5 inch screens or bigger, are forecast to have annual double …

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Have you considered using LiYCY Cable rather than Def-Std? It comes in grey and black and is a great alternative with non-repeated colour cores.

Only Connect: On Def-Std & Din-Std 47100 cable

Swivvel your head in this direction. Check out the cheeky animatronic activities of two undergraduates at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA).

Students get a head start with cheeky animatronics

The US Department of Energy has charted an SSL technology course intended to deliver in excess of 200 lm/W at the luminaire or lighting-system level by 2025.

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), also known as Microsoft AD, is now available in the EU (Frankfurt) Region. This makes it possible for you to use an AWS fully managed Active Directory in the cloud. Among the use cases supported by Microsoft AD, you can: 

Egypt is to build five new desalination plants to serve the drinking water needs of residents in the Sinai Peninsular.