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7 out of the top 10, and 10 out of the top 14 smartphone manufacturers are Chinese, according to IC Insights. Is this a great achievement or does it show China has learnt how to bend plastic round a Qualcomm or MediaTek chip-set? It would seem the latter. Apple and Samsung took 95% of the …

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Antenova, the Hatfield antenna specialist, is shipping the first antenna in a new antenna family called REFLECTOR. The first member of the family is a 2.4GHz antenna called Zenon. The new family of antennas has been engineered to operate without de-tuning on metal surfaces – or where the product housing is mainly metal – a situation where it …

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Melexis, the Belgian auto IC specialist, has a Time-of-Flight (ToF) chipset and development kit for implementing 3D vision. “The simplicity that it brings to the design process will ensure that more applications will be able to benefit from 3D TOF vision,” says Melexis’ Gaetan Koers. Previously available only as part of a development system, the …

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SEMI reports $2.27 billion in billings for semiconductor manufacturing equipment in May – up 6.4% on April and up 41.9% on May 2016. “Semiconductor equipment billings for North American headquartered equipment manufacturers increased for the fourth month in a row and are 42% higher than the same month last year,” says SEMI CEO Ajit Manocha, …

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China has ten of the top 14 smartphone companies, says IC Insights, and seven of the top ten. Samsung and Apple still lead the pack but their unit market share is slipping. In third place comes BBK Electronics with its cOPPO and Vivo brands which are the two fastest growing smartphone suppliers with each  growing …

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A team of Chinese scientists has demonstrated satellite-based entangled photon pair distribution to two places 1,200km apart on earth, making cryptographic quantum key distribution over that range possible. The experiment used two satellite-to-ground down-links with a summed length varying from 1,600 to 2,400km. “So far, entanglement distribution has only been achieved at a distance up …

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A reconfigurable device that can be a p-n diode, a MosFET or a BJT has been made by researchers at SUNY-Polytechnic Institute in Albany, New York. “We can form a single device that can perform the functions of all three devices,” says researcher Ji Ung Lee. The device is made of 2-D tungsten diselenide (WSe2), …

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Welcome the MOVE Mini Buggy, which enables users to build and code their own two-wheeled robot.

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