64.3 million PCs were sold in Q2 – 5.2% down from Q2 2015, says Gartner and the seventh consecutive quarterly decline. “All regions except North America experienced a PC shipment decline,” says Gartner’s Mikako Kitagawa, “PC shipments in Latin America are expected to fall below five million units for the second quarter of 2016, which …

Q2 PC sales down 5.2%

Icera was a shining start-up star. “We started off with a passion to be a big European-based chip company, a company which could go public, a company that was sustainable,” said its CEO Stan Boland inn 2006 when the company was three years old, “the biggest and most challenging chip market is wireless. Particularly cellular. …

The Shining Star Which Crashed

The same technology behind the Pokémon Go craze has a future in LED lighting.

Volunteers to monitor threats to water for 15 million people.

Evoqua was selected to support this project with a boiler feedwater make-up system. 

After raising 3.25x its crowdfunding target, FTDI Chip has now announced the full availability of the CleO product (and accompanying accessories) through its distribution partners, as well as directly via the company’s website. FTDI Chip will also give engineers complete access to a comprehensive development resource, which has step-by-step tutorials and projects, plus a series …

FTDI Chip launches Cle0

5G is hovering on the doorstep. There will be one 5G capable city in every EU country by 2020, say the operators. But what will EU 5G be like? 16 years after the 3G auction most people are relieved to get a 3G signal. As for 4G, to call it elusive would be flattering it. …

Blackmail

There was once a company founder who was most embarrassed when the US House Ways and Means Committee reported that he was the best paid man in the USA. The Committee quoted other notable earners like Walter Chrysler founder of Chrysler, Sam Goldwyn, the cowboy comedian Will Rogers and Alfred Sloan. But the company founder …

Fable: The Man Who Was Embarrassed By The Size Of His Pay Packet

Infineon has bought the Wolfspeed Power and RF division of Cree for $850 million. The deal also includes the related SiC wafer substrate business for power and RF power. “Joining forces with Wolfspeed represents a unique growth opportunity, says Infineon CEO Reinhard Ploss, “Wolfspeed’s and Infineon’s businesses and expertise are highly complementary, bringing together industry …

Infineon buys Wolfspeed

There is plenty of talk about IoT in general, but case studies of real-world implementations are less common. You may want to check out this free Intel whitepaper about using a single board computer to speed up DNA Sequencing.

Real world IoT implementations – Single Board Computer speeding up DNA Sequencing