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With 25,000 woke greens turning up in Glasgow there must be an opportunity for Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for Science, Technology, Industry and Commerce, Ed confides to his diary. My strategy is to get a few dozen people from the Department to patrol the conference halls wearing prestigious looking lapel badges inscribed “U.K. Green …
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Walter Brattain took little apparent interest in the evolution or application of the transistor after inventing it but turned to other fields of basic research and serving on Bell Labs committees. He recalled that he first realised the importance of the invention in the 1960s on a trip to Egypt when he saw a camel …
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This unpromising-looking contraption had quite an effect on the world: Moral: Appearances can be deceptive
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There’s the chip shortage, whether a domestic US chip supply chain is possible, SiFive’s new Risc-V processor, flying motorbikes and Intel process technology…
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Xilinx has been working with systems integrators to provide production-ready multimedia streaming products for broadcast and professional AV applications. Xilinx componentry includes Zynq UltraScale+ EV Multi-Processor (MP) system-on-a-chip (SoC) and Zynq-7000 SoC devices. The integrators are contributing FPGA IP, media framework software and production-ready products. The products are ready-to-ship, or ready to customise. Multimedia streaming requires …
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567,000 hard-to-reach premises across Cheshire, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Essex, Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Lincolnshire, East Riding and North Yorkshire are in line to benefit from the government’s £5 billion Project Gigabit, says the DCMS. Most of the gigabit-capable connections will be delivered through full fibre cables. In Scotland 3,600 premises in Aberdeenshire, Angus, the Highlands, Moray and …
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CapEx is on track for strong growth in 2021, says Semiconductor Intelligence. For many companies the increase should continue into 2022. TSMC expects to spend $30 billion in CapEx in 2021, a 74% increase from 2020. TSMC announced in March it plans to invest $100 billion over the next three years, primarily for CapEx. Our …
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By Steve Bush
KIWI310 is a fan-less Celeron N3350 single-board computer from Axiomtek that supports supports Linux, Android and Windows. Measuring 85 x 56mm, it has Intel’s Gen9 graphic engine built-in, plus a M.2 Key E 2230 slot for adding Intel’s Movidius Myriad X vision processing unit – the M.2 Key E slot can also host a 5G …
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Hirose is aiming MIPI D automotive applications with a 40 position PCB connector for flat flexible PCBs. Called FH75, it supports MIPI D-PHY specifications at up to 1.5Gbit/s. Pads are on a 0.5mm pitch and the connectors are 2mm high. Inside is a “two-point contact design with two independent springs that provide a wiping action …
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By Steve Bush
Vishay has introduced panel potentiometers that are stiffer to rotate, to reduce the chances of operation accidentally or though shock or vibration. Behind the panel, the bodies are 12.5 x 12.5mm, and they are modular, allowing up to seven potentiometers to be stacked on the back of a single shaft. Various switch modules can be …
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