A warm Apple iPad can be as guilty as a cold one at disrupting an important nighttime hormone, study shows. It’s the brightness that really counts.

Power over Ethernet technology offers the inherent ability to connect and power smart luminaires, but will the commodity Ethernet cables used to carry the power suffer from losses that spoil the energy efficiency story?

As we get closer to Strategies in Light, Carrie Meadows interviews technology developer and entertainer Gray Bright about the intersection of IoT lighting technology and creativity.

After nearly a decade of mainstream use, LED lamps are still only a fraction of the discards in Europe, so they appear to live up to longevity claims. Recycling them could be a different matter.

Socionext,  the Fujitsu-Matsushita SoC jv, has developed a Neural Network Accelerator (NNA) engine, optimized for AI processing on edge computing devices. The compact, low power engine has been designed specifically for deep learning inference processing. When implemented, it can achieve 100x performance boost compared with conventional processors for computer vision processing such as image recognition. …

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Mouser has signed precision power conversion specialist Advanced Energy Industries to a global distribution agreement.. Through the agreement, Mouser will stock AE’s power portfolio, including AE’s A Series and AA Series which are miniature, PCB-mount, high-voltage, regulated DC-DC inverters. Both series of converters feature a wide input voltage range, an output current monitor, and indefinite output short-circuit …

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CTAccel, the two year-old French image processing specialist, is partnering with FPGA acceleration specialist  Accelize to make the FPGA-based CTAccel Image Processor (CIP) available on on the AccelStore marketplace. CIP is an image processing accelerator that improves server throughput and latency. “By joining the Accelize ecosystem, we are making our image transcoding expertise available to a broader audience of cloud and …

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Flex Logix has come up with a way to enable the integration of any kind and amount of RAM between tiles of eFPGA arrays using silicon proven building blocks. Caled RAMLinx, it enables customization of an eFPGA array to exactly fit customers’ needs. A patent for this approach has been granted to FlexLogix co-founders Geoff …

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In Q1, Samsung extended its lead over Intel at the top of the semiconductor manufacturers’ league table, reports IC Insights. Samsung had Q1 revenues of $19.4 billion compared to Intel’s $15.8 billion. Y-o-y, Samsung grew 43% while Intel grew 11%. Samsung went from having 5% less sales than Intel in 1Q17 to having 23% more semiconductor …

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Analog Devices is aiming at X-band and Ku-band phased-array antennas with an active analogue beam-forming chip that includes four channels of transmit and receive gain and phase control, plus a transmit/receive switch for each channel. The chip, called ADAR1000, operates in half-duplex: In receive (Rx) mode the four Rx inputs are combined to a common RF_IO pin …

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