Next week, Xiaomi is expected to announce its own ARM-based mobile processor called Rifle. Rifle is the answer to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor line but is not expected to be a rival to the upper echelons of the Snapdragon line-up. Not for a while anyway. The initial Rifle is expected to be targeted at the mid …

Rifle aimed at Snapdragon

Current sensing with 1MHz bandwidth and 1.2mΩ insertion resistance is claimed by Allegro MicroSystems for its latest Hall-based sensor. Response time for the ACS730, as it is to be called, is 210ns. Being Hall-based, the sensed current path is electrically isolated from the measurement circuit so the IC can sense high-side current without an additional isolation …

Hall current sensor reaches 1MHz bandwidth

A new range of Bluetooth tracking devices are launching today, with Wistiki aiming to bring a social element to object tracking functionality. There’s also a style angle in that the French startup company has teamed up with French designer Philippe Starck to make the devices aesthetically pleasing. Wistiki is serving up three different shapes, each one …

Gadget Watch: Wistiki launches Philippe Starck Bluetooth tracking devices

General-illumination lighting products will emerge in the coming months that utilize Samsung chip-scale-package (CSP) LEDs while the company is now supplying LEDs for smartphone camera-flash applications based on silicon-substrate technology.

Professionals across North America kicked off Drinking Water Week today by highlighting the theme “Your Water – To Know It Is To Love It”.

Updated Urban Water Management Plan balances supplies and demands over two decades.

e gathering system and surrounding facilities (“EVX South Texas”) will be underpinned by a fee-based, 15-year agreement that includes a 72,000 acre dedication in La Salle, Frio, and Atascosa Counties,Texas.

Russian Asic firm Elvees NeoTek has taped out a mobile computing and video analytics system on chip device which is based on a PowerVR and MIPS processors from Imagination. According to King-Smith, executive vice-president, marketing, Imagination, Elvees has technological strength in “what we see as a key and growing market, and where we feel the …

Russian mobile processor firm uses MIPS and PowerVR cores

Has Intel given up on mobile processors? It’s long been urged by Wall Street that it should. This time last year J P Morgan said mobile processors were a “money pit” for Intel while Morgan Stanley said intel needed $8-10 billion of mobile revenues to break even which “seems unachievable.” Morgan Stanley estimated Intel’s mobile …

Intel’s Mobile Dilemma

Another blow to the IoT is the US Supreme court’s decision that the police can search, via the internet, any computer within US jurisdiction. It is probably only a matter of time before our government passes a similar law. And, of course, the definition of what is within a country’s jurisdiction can be extended pretty …

The Knock On The Door