57 years ago, in an age when people were fascinated by the potential of computers, this was the cartoon in  Electronics Weekly’s issue of November 2nd 1960            

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Imec has designed and fabricated a 16,384-electrode, 1,024-channel micro-electrode array (MEA) for high-throughput multi-modal cell interfacing. The chip offers intracellular and extracellular recording, voltage- and current-controlled stimulation, impedance monitoring and spectroscopy functionalities thereby packing the most cell-interfacing modalities on a single chip, and being the only one to enable multi-well assays. With this new chip, …

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Texas has introduced two families of wide-VIN synchronous DC/DC buck regulators optimised for EMI and thermal performance. The  5-A and 6-A LM73605/6 and 2.5-A and 3.5-A LM76002/3 step-down voltage converters feature an optimized pinout and thermal coefficient to simplify the process of achieving EMI compliance and higher reliability for rugged industrial and automotive power supplies. …

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Wolfspeed has extended its family of 50 V transistors and introduced an unmatched, gallium nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistor (HEMT). The device was created for the growing ultra-high frequency (UHF) radar market, in which defense, public safety and land mobile radio applications seek to upgrade performance and component lifecycle availability by implementing GaN RF …

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Broadcom CEO Hock Tan came out fighting yesterday with a feisty appearance on CNBC’s Squawk Box programme. Tan took a crack at Qualcomm’s business practices which have left it with heavy fines from national regulators. “The last three years, we realised Qualcomm was hit with fines which are more than what they made in profit …

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Weightless SIG has named Applus+ as its official testing and certification laboratory for wireless devices which use Weightless connectivity technology. Applus+ will additionally provide development support services to Weightless technology adopters as part of its new IoT Lab offering. Professor William Webb, CEO of the Weightless SIG commented “Applus are an excellent partner for Weightless, …

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The new, easy-locking connector from binder cannot be mis-mated. While this is not a revolution in terms of connectors that can’t be mis matched (think of the D-Type connector) it is none the less extremely helpful.

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DRAM revenue grew by 76% YoY in 2017, and is expected to increase by more than 30% in 2018, says DRAMeXchange “PC DRAM prices set by the top three suppliers in January were on average $33, showing a 5% increase from the previous month,” says Avril Wu, research director of DRAMeXchange. In the server DRAM …

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I have been trying to work out how to use the the timers within 8bit AVR processors through the Arduino IDE, but in modes not covered by the IDE. Lots of people have put up code, often two or three lines, but I have had trouble getting the code to work properly. In particular, the …

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Urban Control, part of the DW Windsor Group, agrees to acquire Enlight to broaden technology arsenal and provide a Brexit hedge.