Five-year,
$10M contract awarded for pipeline condition assessment in D.C.

Acquisition signals expansion into Eagle Ford area.

 

Celebrating little victories means a nice cup of tea as I managed to transfer an Arduino programme into an AVR ATtiny85 microcontroller. Like the people in and surrounding Raspberry Pi, clever souls in and clustered around Arduino have done all sorts of things, including worked out ways for one Arduino to programme another Arduino – …

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EnSilica, the Wokingham IP specialist, licenses its eSi-RISC processor IP to fabless touch and display chip vendor Solomon Systech.

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The price of PC DRAM modules rose 4.6% in July compared to June, reports DRAMeXchange, after rises of 10% in Q2 and 40% in Q1. DRAMeXchange expects price increases to continue  in Q3. “The DRAM market in the second half of this year will be entering the busy season with tight supply made worse by …

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Could Apple become the first public company to achieve a market cap of $1trillion? Ahead of its expected September launch date for the iPhone 8 – a phone billed to demonstrate significant innovation – Apple’s market cap is $815 billion. A compelling new phone which gains an enthusiastic market reception could push that to $1 trillion. …

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A two year-old start-up cellphone company aiming to challenge Apple and Samsung has raised $330 million in venture funding. Essential Products, founded by one of the Android OS developers, Andy Rubin, says it has signed up retailers Best Buy and Amazon and will have its $699 phone in shops for the Christmas sales season. Investors …

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Silicon Labs has announced a family of car radio receiver chips with a common software API, claiming designers can share R&D effort across multiple product lines, from low-cost, single-tuner AM/FM radios to high-performance systems with multiple tuners and antennas. Si4795x (branded Global Eagle, (right)),  Si4796x and Si4797x (together branded Dual Eagle) are analogue AM/FM receivers and …

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USB connections can be snooped, according to the University of Adelaide, which found them leaking information through channel-to-channel crosstalk.

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International researchers demonstrated THz frequency-division multiplexing with an aggregate data rate of 50Gbit/s. “We showed that we can transmit separate data streams on terahertz waves at very high speeds and with very low error rates,” said Professor Daniel Mittleman or Browns University in the US. “This is the first time anybody has characterised a terahertz …

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