Digi-Key is supporting the Student Day at the Electronica exhibition in Munich on Friday, November 11th. This is the day the international trade fair is open for engineering students to learn about the electronics industry from professional engineers. “Digi-Key’s sponsorship of Student Day reinforces our message that we are able to serve not only seasoned …

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Canonical has released Ubuntu Core 16 for IoT, with regular and reliable security updates, and app stores for intelligent connected devices. Ubuntu Core is already in use in top-of-rack switches, industrial gateways, home gateways, radio access networks, digital signage, robots and drones. “Ubuntu Core secures the Internet of Things and provides an app store for …

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Cadence Design Systems has teamed up with MathWorks to address the complexities of mixed-signal PCB design for internet of things (IoT) and automotive applications. This will bring together the Cadence PSpice analogue and mixed-signal simulator with Matlab and Simulink behavioral-level modelling and analysis in the one system design and debug environment. Traditionally PCB design required engineers to simulate their design blocks independently without …

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Within 48 hours of Wednesday’s post on automating jobs, a particularly unexpected example of this process has emerged in Switzerland. In June an innovative new coffee shop in Geneva said that customers buying a coffee would get a blow-job chucked in. Yesterday the French newspaper Le Matin proclaimed in a headline: “Geneve: Des Robots Pour …

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Lattice has been bought by Canyon Bridge for $1.3 billion, a private equity firm in Palo Alto backed by China money.

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Funding for IoT start-ups is on the decline, reports CB Insights. 2016 will see a 5% decline in the number of investment deals for IoT startups for the first time since 2012. Nonetheless the value of the funding to IoT start-ups is still expected to grow 4% this year on last. However, looked at quarter-by-quarter, …

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Microsemi is reported to be up for grabs with Skyworks the front-runner. After Skyworks approached Microsemi, Microsemi a Pointed the Bank of Montrealto,see if there are any other interested parties, say the reports. Microsemi shares have whipped up 20% on the news and it’s market cap is now over $5 billion. Skyworks’ market cap is …

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Standby power usage in many installed wireless smart LED lamps can exceed in aggregate the energy used by the lamps when powered on if the usage pattern is one to two hours per day.

More niche business for organic light emitting diodes, following Osram’s similar announcement with BMW.

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), also known as Microsoft AD, is now available in the US East (Ohio) Region. This makes it possible for you to use an AWS fully managed Active Directory in the cloud. Among the use cases supported by Microsoft AD, you can: