French research lab Leti is claiming a micro-LED pixelation and resolution record at Photonics West: 873 x 500 and 10μm pixel pitch.

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Flex Logix, the eFPGA licensing  specialist, has qualified several Serial I/O IP cores from CAST and SOC Solutions for use in its EFLX Embedded FPGA. Flex Logix eliminates  the need for customers to write their serial I/O code from scratch. Details including LUT counts and frequencies for specific processes are available in a Flex Logic …

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Zettler announces a latching power relay that can switch 16A at 250Vac. The AZ 7621 P has electric life expectancy of 50,000 cycles at ambient temperature up to 85°C.

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Panasonic and UMC are getting together to make ReRAM on UMC’s 40nm process. The plan is to sample next year and ship in volume in 2019. Panasonic tried this three years back in a 180nm process but the product was uncompetitive with NAND. Target markets are embedded applications in smart cards, watches, sensors etc where …

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Q4 mobile phone sales were 428.5 million up 6.9% y-o-y, says IDC. For the full year units shipped were 1.47 billion up 2.3% on 2015. Samsung shipped 81.7 million units in Q4 down 5.2% y-o-y and 311.4 million units in the year which was down 3% y-o-y. Apple shipped 78.3 million units in Q4 and …

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What do AI and IoT have in common? Answer: They both can mean anything you want them to mean. Which means, journos, analysts, VCs, Founders, CEOs, PRs and marketing men can spout endless bollox about both of them. CB Insights has produced the ‘AI 100’ – a list of private AI companies that have raised …

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Nano Dimension Technologies is to develop 3D printing of advanced ceramic materials in inkjet technology for use in the aerospace industry.

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Qualcomm and TDK complete their Singapore-based joint venture developing and manufacturing RF components for mobile devices.

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Extensive research is currently being undertaken to develop methods of preparing and marketing potatoes already peeled and packaged. So, 56 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 19th 1960. The story continues: It is reliably estimated that in a town of 100,000 inhabitants, sales would be sufficient to warrant production and …

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Could Raspberry Pi disrupt the high-quality audio industry? Well, that’s what developer/supplier Pi Supply thinks. By adding an audio HAT to your Raspberry Pi you could have high quality audio at a fraction of the cost of a traditional audio DAC. John Whiting from West Sussex-based Pi Supply, writes: “Some businesses will charge into the …

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