The market for PCs and tablets will fall 2% this year following the 8% fall last year, says IC Insights. The markets for PCs and tablets continue to fall as more users delay replacement purchases and increase their reliance on smartphones for mobile-computing applications and access to the Internet. Worldwide shipments of PCs and tablets …
ADI adds processors to SHARC
ADI has added ADSP-SC57x and ADSP-2157x processors to its series of single-chip multicore SHARC processors. The devices advance the audio experience by enabling superior sound quality and more cost-effective and reliable audio systems. The new processor platform meets automotive temperature ranges without the need for costly, bulky heat sinks or fans, which saves space in …
LoRaWAN brings IoT to Rome
Rome-based telecoms operator Unidata has adopted the LoRaWAN technology platform to deploy a low power, wide area network (LPWAN) in Italy. This follows news that Orange is deploying LoRa wide area wireless networks for smart cities in France. Unidata will also promote the IoT wireless technology with a demonstration lab in Rome LoRa technology supplied …
The Mirage
The chip industry has been known to get ahead of itself and, back in 2007, a TSMC exec told a forum on 450mm wafer development that “the industry should begin seeing momentum perhaps by the end of this year.” The exec argued that: “When production capacity of the latest wafer size accounts for more than …
Metasurface converts sunlight to heat for electron emission
Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Exeter have created a metasurface that strongly absorbs light across the solar spectrum but minimises emission of thermal radiation. It uses uses amorphous carbon as an inter-layer between thin gold films with the upper film patterned with a 2D periodic array using focused ion beam etching. Gold is a first step, …
GPUs bring scalable processing to machine vision
The industry should machine vision technology more user-friendly because this cutting-edge field has dramatic and positive potential for embedded applications, writes Stephen Turnbull. At its core, machine vision is simply leveraging the information available in an image to make a decision about what to do next with the object in the image. A simple pass/fail …
Bluetooth 5 standard promises to quadruple range, doubles speed
The next version of Bluetooth has been announced. As well as increasing the range and speed of transmissions, the next release – dubbed simply Bluetooth 5 – will also increase its broadcast messaging capabilities, for beacon operation and location services. The Bluetooth SIG promises Bluetooth 5 will quadruple its range to up to around 400m …
Bluetooth 5 standard promises to quadruple range, doubles speed
Amazon CloudWatch Events Available in the South America (São Paulo) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) Regions
The Amazon CloudWatch Events service is now available in the South America (São Paulo) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) regions.
New Amazon EC2 Spot Console Now Supports Spot Fleet and Spot Blocks
Today, we are introducing a redesigned EC2 Spot Requests console , which now supports Spot fleet and Spot blocks , features which simplify and streamline how you use Amazon EC2 Spot instances. Previously, Spot fleet and blocks were available via the AWS CLI and SDK tools only.
TI brings out powertrain motor drivers
TI has brought out two automotive motor drivers that support high-performance powertrain applications – the DRV8305-Q1, a three-phase brushless DC gate driver, and the UCC27211A-Q1, a high-current half-bridge gate driver. For powertrain applications such as transmission pumps or engine cooling fans, the DRV8305-Q1 features a smart gate-drive architecture with programmable slew-rate control that allows easy …