For automotive leds arrays, Allegro MicroSystems Europe has announced two adjustable linear current regulators.

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Thanks to Gartner for this one – the top seven shippers of PCs in Q2 Millions of units Lenovo 13.2 HP 12.3 Dell 9.8 Asustek 4.7 Apple 4.6 Aver 4.4 Others 15.4 Total 64.3

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Linear Tech has brought out two synchronous current mode buck boost converters that deliver up to 600mA of continuous output current from a wide variety of input sources

Read full article: LTC launches two synchronous current mode buck boost converters

SEMI’s July book-to-bill was 1.05. July bookings were $1.79 billion – 4.7% higher than June’s $1.71 billion, and 13.1% higher than the July 2015 order level of $1.59 billion. July billings were $1.71 billion – 0.6% lower than June’s $1.72 billion, and is 9.6% higher than the July 2015 billings level of $1.56 billion. “Monthly …

Read full article: SEMI’s July book-to-bill was 1.05

Movidius will incorporate UltraSoC’s semiconductor IP into its next-generation low-power machine vision systems-on-chip (SoCs).

Read full article: Movidius to use UltraSoC IP

The pure-play foundry market is expected to jump 9% this year, up from 6% growth in 2015, says IC Insights.

Read full article: Foundry to grow 9%, says IC Insights

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports Application Load Balancer for the Elastic Load Balancing service. You can now choose between Application Load Balancer and Classic Load Balancer when creating environments in Elastic Beanstalk. Use Application Load Balancer to deploy applications to Elastic Beanstalk that use the WebSocket protocol or HTTP/2.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports ASP.NET Core. You can now deploy applications using ASP.NET Core on Elastic Beanstalk with the AWS Management Console, the EB CLI, and the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. You use a deployment manifest to configure deployments for .NET Core applications to Elastic Beanstalk.

Israeli desalination company IDE Technologies has responded to reports suggesting a Chinese company has put in an acquisition bid for the business…

Utility Dubai Electricity and Water Authority has awarded an advisory services contract to develop a seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant at the Jebel Ali Power Station…