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WHATEVER direction The General Electric Company May take in the future under the guiding hand of their new chairman  Mr.Arnold Lindley, one thing is certain – research will play a large part. So, 60 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 18 1961 The story continues: And in all the ups …

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Steve Jobs handed over to Tim Cook ten years ago last week on August 24th 2011. Since then Apple’s value has increased from $350 billion to $2.5 trillion, earning him share awards worth $750 million. Here are other metrics: While the share price went up 1000%

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Signify has introduced “the first Philips LED A-class bulbs that meet the more stringent EU Ecodesign and Energy labeling regulations that come into effect on September 1, 2021”, according to Signify. “The new Philips LED bulbs with a longer lifespan.” They will be available in 40W (below) and 60W (above) equivalents and should be producing at lease …

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Ampleon has introduced tough 1.4 and 1.6kW LDMOS RF amplifiers, designed to handle 65:1 VSWR. The ART1K6x series each include a pair (p-channel + n-channel) of mosfets. They operate from 1MHz to 450MHz in 48V Class E and 55V Class AB applications. “The maximum Vds figure supported being 177V. They can cope with a 65:1 VSWR,  …

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Is this the worst semi shortage in the industry’s history? 52 week lead-times on some parts, double and triple ordering, parts being diverted to the grey market – all the usual signs of a chip famine are with us. “I’m an old-timer and I’ve watched these feast-famine cycles since I worked for Motorola in the …

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Kioxia is on the horns of a dilemma – whether to file for an IPO or accept an offer from its  jv partner Western Digital to buy the entire company with an all-share offer of around $20 billion – about the same as WD’s market cap. Influences acting against a WD takeover are Kioxia management …

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With space debris an ever growing problem, Astroscale has announced the successful completion of Phase 3A of its ELSA-d mission (End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration). It successfully tested its ability to capture its client spacecraft using the servicer’s magnetic system, in a demonstration performed on 25 August 25. Basically, the procedure was a validation of ELSA-d’s …

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Synaptics, founded by industry legends Federico Faggin and Carver Mead, is to buy DSP Group The merger  is expected to generate annualised run rate synergies of $30 million. DSP Group operates in the Internet of Audio Things (IoAT) with growth opportunities in low power SmartVoice, unified communications & collaboration, and wireless IoT devices. Synaptics recently …

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Now on EC2 Image Builder, customers can use events to trigger an image build schedule in their event-driven architectures. Integrate your image build schedule with your events from AWS services, our SaaS partners, and custom events, via Amazon EventBridge. You can also create rules for event patterns, such as listening for a specific variable, and configure those rules to initiate image builds using EC2 Image Builder.