Water Planet has appointed Thomas Wilson as senior vice president of business development, to help drive the company’s growth strategy.
OLED TV comes of age
It looks like OLED TVs have at last got great. Or, at least, that is the impression I have after looking at Trusted Review’s report on the LG OLED65E6. It is awfully expensive, at almost £5,000, but it proves the technology is capable of great image delivery in a huge (64.5in) screen. And hats off …
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ARM sparkles
ARM’s Q2 revenues grew 17% on Q2 2015 to £267.6 million with pre-tax profit up 5% to £130 million. “ARM is continuing to invest in products that will support our partners’ roadmaps as they develop next-generation technologies such as 5G networks, autonomous vehicles and the Internet of Things,” said CEO Simon Segars, “our recent acquisition …
Wafer shipments at record level
Q2 wafer area shipments reached their highest quarterly recorded level at 2,706 million square inches, up 6.6% increase from 2,538 million square inches in Q1. “Silicon shipment growth continues to gain momentum resulting in a quarterly volume shipment high,” says Dr. Volker Braetsch, chairman SEMI SMG and svp at Siltronic, “although year-to-date shipments are effectively …
ADI to buy LTC for $14.8bn
Analog Devices (ADI) is to buy Linear Technology for about $14.8 billion. “Growth has been hard to come by in the industry over the past several years,” said ADI CEO Vincent Roche, ‘those who have the balance sheets are using them.” 58 million new ADI shares will be created and $7.3 billion borrowed to pay …
ST expects strong Q3
ST had Q2 revenues of $1.7 billion up from $1.6 billion in Q1 but down from the $1.76 billion of Q2 2015. There was an operating profit of $28 million compared to Q1’s loss of $33 million. Auto and discretes had revenues of $721 million up 7.5% on Q1; analogue snd MEMS did $376 million …
Even reputable companies can have IoT security flaws
Security company Rapid7 has found multiple security flaws in Osram’s Lightify remote-controlled lighting system. “Practical exploitation effects ranging from the accidental disclosure of sensitive network configuration information, to persistent cross-site scripting [XSS] on the web management console, to operational command execution on the devices themselves without authentication,” said Rapid7, whose lead researcher Deral Heiland discovered the …
Tosiba sampling 64-layer 3D NAND
Today, Toshiba starts sampling a 64-layer 3D NAND memory. The Chip has 3-bit-per-cell technology and has a 256Gbit (32GB) capacity. next on the development roadmap is a 512Gbit (64GB) device, also with 64 layers. The new device succeeds the 48-layer BiCS FLASH, and delivers a 40% larger capacity per unit chip size than 48-layer stacking …
Loon or Drone?
Which comes first – the drone or the loon? It looks like Google’s Project Loon will bring the internet to the internet-deprived before Facebook’s Project Aquila, but there’s many a slip ‘txixt cup and lip. Loon, of course, uses balloons and Aquila uses drones. Loon kicked off its service in New Zealand three years ago …
Medical dc-dc converter drives IGBT and SiC mosfet gates
Murata has announced the MGJ1 1Watt dc-dc converter series for driving high and low-side IGBTs and SiC mosfet gate circuits. With isolation up to 5.2kVdc, output combinations include: +15/-5, +15/-9 or +19/-5V. Input choice is +5, 12 or 24Vdc. “The MGJ1 provides optimised voltages for powering gate drives for best system performance and efficiency. …