Industry bellwether TSMC had a revenue bounce in March with sales of $2.26 billion which is 22.7% up on February’s sales of $1.86 billion. TSMC’s March revenue was pretty well flat with the $2.23 billion of March 2015. TSMC’s YTD revenues of $6.3 billion are 8.3% down on the Jan-March 2015 revenues of $6.9 billion. …
PC Sales Carry On Falling
The PC collapse continues. IDC reports an 11.5% y-o-y drop in unit shipments in Q1 2016 compared to Q1 2015 to 60.6 million. Q4’s y-o-y drop was 10.6%. The main reason is because people are buying mobile devices not computers. As the market declines, the top players gain market share. Lenovo now has 19.3%, HP …
LED business news: Philips and iGuzzini; Acuity, Cree, Plessey and more
In this LED business round-up, Philips announced iGuzzini as a licensee in the EnabLED SSL intellectual property program while Plessey has partnered with PhytoLux in horticultural lighting and LED sector financial results cross the board.
Military water project awarded to CDM Constructors
Contract is for the repair of a water distribution system at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in New Orleans.
Sensor system dev board has Arduino form factor
Farnell element14 is offering the Analog Devices EVAL-ADICUP360 evaluation board with an Arduino form factor, which comes with open source development tools, software examples, and hardware modules. It is intended as prototyping hardware which can also be used with third party shields. The board has a 3.9ksample/s, 24-bit data acquisition system that incorporates dual high …
Plessey deal will use LED lights for growing plants
Plessey believes it is time to grow plants under artificial LED lighting. The UK-based LED lighting technology company has signed a license agreement to manufacture and sell horticultural lighting systems developed by PhytoLux. Plessey has also taken on the operational, technical and commercial activities of PhytoLux and said it wants to provide LED plant growth …
Google and IBM servers to reduce data centre power
Google and IBM are leading a group of 200 companies have started a number of projects to address the challenges of processing and storing big data in the world’s data centres. Under the banner of the OpenPOWER Foundation, Google is developing a new server as part of the Open Compute Project. The OpenPOWER Foundation supports …
Plessey LEDs help plants grow
Plessey will manufacture and sell the PhytoLux horticultural lighting product line to deliver LED plant growth lighting solutions for the global market. “Steve and the team at PhytoLux have built an impressive record of innovation and proof of concept with the researchers and industrial growers in the UK,” says Plessey CEO Michael Le Goff, “the …
Singin’ In The Rain
An umbrella with a one transistor radio built inside the shaft has been developed by the Maruko Industrial Company of Nihonbashi Chuo-ku, Tokyo. So, 55 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of March 22nd 1961 The story continues: The radio operates on a three volt dry battery and uses the umbrella shaft …
Maxim opens low-current buck converter for always-on rails
Designers of USB Type-C small form factor devices can now create always-on rails with the ultra-low quiescent current MAX77596 buck converter from Maxim. Next-generation products that use the high data rates and increased power transfer capability of USB Type-C ports will require low-voltage supply rails to power necessary Type-C port controllers. Devices using the Power Delivery (PD) …