Nokia’s re-entry into the handset business sees the launch of a phone with a battery which lasts a month and has 22 hours of talk time with a 1200mAh battery.

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HIPPEROS adds hardware acceleration, fast multicore IPC and mixed criticality scheduling, to its multicore RTOS for high performance embedded systems.

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Analogix has produced reference designs paring MediaTek’s Helio  X30 10-core processor with Analogix’s ANX7625 SlimPort transmitter to provide DisplayPort over USB-C at 4K Ultra-HD resolution for smart devices. The ANX7625 is an ultra-low power, single-chip bridge from the MIPI and USB 3.1 interfaces of the application processor to DisplayPort over USB-C, simultaneously performing the necessary …

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ARM’s owner Softbank is reported by CNBC to be spending up to $4 billion on a US workspace-sharing start-up called WeWork. The deal is said to be that Softbank will invest an initial $2 billion and may subsequently invest another $2 billion. WeWork is backed by Chinese investor groups Hony Capital, backed b Legend Holdings, and …

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Rambus announces a mobile payments platform to enhance payment security, aiming to reduce operational costs and increase revenue for retailers.

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The government is to give £17 million to universities to support research into robotics and AI. “Innovation is at the heart of our Industrial Strategy,” says business secretary Greg Clark, “by investing in dynamic fields such as robotics and AI, we will help put the UK at the forefront of global innovation.” HMG says that …

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The BeagleBone Black Wireless has on-board 802.11 b/g/n 2.4GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and there are also two new capes (Display and Wireless) from the BeagleBone team.

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The static induction transistor was responsible for getting Yamaha into semiconductor manufacturing. Invented by a professor at Tohoku University, Jun’ichi Nishizawa, SITs had the advantage over other transistors in that, when used as audio amplifiers, they didn’t tend to deliver tinny output at higher frequencies. The SITs performed very like vacuum tubes but, as with …

Read full article: How Yamaha Got Into The Semiconductor Business

Here are the top ten most popular articles on ElectronicsWeekly.com in the last week, with Blu Wireless, quantum mechanics, the iPad2, visualising AI in action and MIPS figuring prominently…

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