G₂O Water Technologies has signed an agreement to test and evaluate its graphene-based water treatment filtration technology…

HERE, the road-mapping company owned by BMW, Audi and Mercedes, spent $767 million on R&D in 2016, reports Reuters. HERE was bought by the Germans for €2.55 billion in 2015. A 15% stake was sold to Intel earlier this year. Another, smaller, stake was sold to Pioneer and a 10% stake was sold to to …

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The already constrained supply of wafers is about to tighten further, reports Digitimes. 3D NAND, Chinese foundries and China memory fabs are driving 12 inch demand. LCD driver ICs, fingerprint sensors, power management ICs and CMOS image sensors are driving 8-inch demand. Wafer suppliers are in no hurry to increase capacity having been caught out …

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Globalfoundries will roll out a 12nm finfet process at its New York fab next year which is 15% denser with 10% better performance than its 14nm process. “We plan to introduce new client and graphics products based on GF’s 12nm process technology in 2018 as a part of our focus on accelerating our product and …

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The 802.11ax HEW standard provides a reliable high speed connection, serving more devices in dense environments.

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LED make Osram has revealed the prototype for its thousand pixel matrix headlight LED. By pixelating the light source, arbitrary headlight beam patters can be created, extending the concept of main/dip beam to complex beam shapes that minimise dazzle while maximising useful illumination for the driver. Sketch of Eviyos Branded Eviyos, the 1,024 pixels are …

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The FCC interconnection system is very popular, so let’s look at how using the system more widely will save money and help to reduce the overall product size

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Osram is unveiling its 1,024 pixel headlamp led at ISAL in Darmstadt this week. The pixels together cover 4 x 4mm source, and are integrated with per-pixel dimming electronics. Flux from prototypes is up to 4.6 lm/pixel, claimed Osram. There is more on this on Electronics Weekly’s main news site.

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A teacher I know is stuck, with only npn transistors in the supply cupboard and the need to create a reversible motor drive for an Arduino project. If you are an electronics professional, this blog might not be for you Reversing ‘bridges’ have four switches (relay contacts or transistors) and the diagram (right) shows how they …

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Arduino has two new boards out which deliver connectivity – the Arduino MKR WAN 1300 (LoRa) and the Arduino MKR GSM 1400. The Arduino MKR WAN 1300 delivers LoRa low-power WAN connectivity, and the Arduino MKR GSM 1400 adds global 2G/3G communications capability. Both boards measure  67.64 x 25mm and,with low power consumption, are suitable …

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