Thanks to the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) for this one – the top ten companies for PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) patents: Huawei 3,898 Qualcomm 2,442 ZTE 2155 Samsung 1,683 Mitsubishi Electric 1,593 Ericsson 1481 LG 1457 Sony 1381 Philips 1378 HP 1310
LED business news: Philips and iGuzzini; Acuity, Cree, Plessey and more
In this LED business round-up, Philips announced iGuzzini as a licensee in the EnabLED SSL intellectual property program while Plessey has partnered with PhytoLux in horticultural lighting and LED sector financial results cross the board.
Military water project awarded to CDM Constructors
Contract is for the repair of a water distribution system at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in New Orleans.
Plessey LEDs help plants grow
Plessey will manufacture and sell the PhytoLux horticultural lighting product line to deliver LED plant growth lighting solutions for the global market. “Steve and the team at PhytoLux have built an impressive record of innovation and proof of concept with the researchers and industrial growers in the UK,” says Plessey CEO Michael Le Goff, “the …
Google and IBM servers to reduce data centre power
Google and IBM are leading a group of 200 companies have started a number of projects to address the challenges of processing and storing big data in the world’s data centres. Under the banner of the OpenPOWER Foundation, Google is developing a new server as part of the Open Compute Project. The OpenPOWER Foundation supports …
Plessey deal will use LED lights for growing plants
Plessey believes it is time to grow plants under artificial LED lighting. The UK-based LED lighting technology company has signed a license agreement to manufacture and sell horticultural lighting systems developed by PhytoLux. Plessey has also taken on the operational, technical and commercial activities of PhytoLux and said it wants to provide LED plant growth …
Sensor system dev board has Arduino form factor
Farnell element14 is offering the Analog Devices EVAL-ADICUP360 evaluation board with an Arduino form factor, which comes with open source development tools, software examples, and hardware modules. It is intended as prototyping hardware which can also be used with third party shields. The board has a 3.9ksample/s, 24-bit data acquisition system that incorporates dual high …
Toshiba sampling dual picture automotive video processor
Toshiba is sampling a dual picture video processor for high resolution automotive displays. The TC90195XBG provides support for navigation, entertainment and driver support systems that are increasingly found in cars. Volume production is scheduled for June. With increased demand for larger panels with higher resolutions, the chip supports 1920×720 at (60 frames per second (fps) …
Drones and Raspberry Pi flying high at Erle
Drone autopilot system developer, Erle Robotics has teamed up with Catuav to offer control systems for fixed-wing autonomous crafts. Erle Robotics has already developed an open autopilot shield for the Raspberry Pi which turns the tiny low cost computer module into a drone control system. Fixed-wing autonomous crafts are typically used for Earth survey missions …
Asustek Cuts Back On Intel Mobile SoC Orders
Asustek, Intel’s largest client for smartphone platforms, is reported by Digitimes to have cut back orders for Intel’s mobile ICs because of a delay on the supply of Intel’s 4G SoFIA LTE chip. The scale of the decrease in ordering Intel chips is reported to be from six million SoCs in 2015 to below five …