Oh my word, I have become obsessed. I have been trying to buy a lightweight PC for two things: A little home project involving microcontroller programming and 3D printing – so MPLAB-X and DesignSpark Mechanical. Going to shows and conferences for my day job – where USB sticks full of data are common. For various …
Gadget Watch: HTC 10 smartphone snaps dual OIS
The HTC 10 – HTC has announced its own new flagship smartphone, supporting optical image stabilisation (OIS) in both cameras
Lacroix puts French manufacturing in the Top 10
Lacroix Electronics has moved into the Top 10 European electronics subcontractors, according to Reed Electronics Research. The French manufacturer specialises in electronics subcontracting for the industrial, home automation, health, automobile, civil avionics and defence sectors. Its turnover in 2015 was €280m including intra-group sales. This represented a 21.7% increase on the previous year. Lacroix Electronics …
March Bounce For TSMC
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 …