Cypress has appointed a CEO four months after founding CEO T.J. Rodgers announced his retirement in April. The new CEO is Hassane El-Khoury

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China’s handset vendors shipped 44% of the global smartphone volume in Q2, reports Digitimes Research. The top ten vendors with their percentages of the total China-based volume were:

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Atom is on the way back. It seems that the Intel Atom processor which was dropped by Intel when it decided to exit mobile will be back with a design optimised for drones, IoT, VR headsets, cameras and autonomous cars. The announcement is expected next week at IDF. Intel says the new Atoms will work …

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While Q2 sales of Apple phones were up in the US and EU, they were down in down in China, according to Worldpanel ComTech.

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With a homemade radio costing £30 to make, many of VW’s cars can be remotely unlocked, say researchers from Birmingham University and Kasper & Oswald in a paper to be delivered today at a cyber security conference in Austin Texas VW cars made between 1995 and 2016 are vulnerable including Skodas, Seats and Udis. Hackers …

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Jack Gifford, CEO of Intersil and founding CEO of Maxim, was one of the IC industry’s outstanding leaders. He inspired the trust of the industry’s greatest engineers, Bob Widlar refused to report to anyone else when at Fairchild, and Gifford reserved especial esteem for Fairchild co-founder Jean Hoerni. “Imagine the guy who started five companies …

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Luminaires and the LED lighting infrastructure gain more eyes with “computer vision” designs from smart city firm Eutecus Inc.

36 years ago an engineer at Toshiba was moonlighting. He was supposed to be working on DRAM development but he was also developing another, very different, memory. In 1984 the engineer gave a paper at IEDM describing a new memory which became a $25 billion a year product. In 1988, Intel put the first chip …

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The books are coming thick and fast – see also The Arduino Project Handbook and Exploring Raspberry Pi – and here’s another electronics book relevant to (proto) Gadget Masters: it’s called Electronics for Kids.

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The memory industry is becoming as exciting as it used to be in the 1980s when the Americans were fighting for their lives against the Japanese while the Koreans prepared a massive assault – simultaneously building fabs and products for the 64k, 256k and Mbit generations. 30 years on, and the leading-edge is no longer …

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