UK-based electronics manufacturer Exception EMS has been acquired by Fabrinet, the global EMS company with headquarters in Thailand.

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For many people working with high end, harsh & no fail environment connector systems, Mil Spec will be the system of choice.

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Intersil claimns to have the industry’s first four-channel analog video decoder with MIPI-CSI2 output interface that supports the latest generation of SOCs and application processors used in automotive around view systems.

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Has Ultrahaptics, the mid-air touch start-up, sold a license for its haptics touch technology to Apple? I asked Ultrahaptics CEO Steve Cliffe this question at an event organised by Publitek on Bavaria’s Tegernsee lakeside last week. “I can’t reveal my licensees,” replied Cliffe, “it’s very frustrating.” An Apple license would, of course, transform the fortunes …

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ON completes its previously announced $2.4 billion cash acquisition of Fairchild.

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Avnet agrees to sell its IT system distribution and services business to Tech Data in a stock and cash deal worth $2.6bn.

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Rohm announces a 10W isolated flyback dc-dc-dc converter for industrial auxillary supplies.

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Scottish Enterprise is funding prizes of up to £10,000 to technology firms forming collaborative ventures in Scotland. Called the Collaboration Prize 2016/17, it is inviting local companies to pitch an idea for a new collaborative enterprise that will help them to access new markets. This could be a new sector or a geographical market including …

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A group of developers in the  US has used a Raspberry Pi 3 computer as the basis of a self-contained computer engineering kit, dubbed the Boolean Box, for teaching coding to 8 year-olds and up. There is a specific focus to encourage more girls to take up coding. The group of teachers have formed a startup, …

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Operators of high-performance parallel computers can now gauge their power consumption in detail as the Adept Project releases open-source energy measurement tools. Over its 3-year lifespan, the Edinburgh-based Adept project brought together experts from high-performance computing (HPC) and embedded computing to develop a suite of hardware and software tools that help evaluate and optimise system …

Read full article: How much energy is your supercomputer wasting?