Antenova, the Hatfield antenna manufacturer, is announcing three brand new flexible printed circuit antennas to cover the 3G, 4G and LTE bands. They are the company’s first flexible antennas for 4G and LTE. Together, this set of three antennas offers options for all of the world’s 4G and LTE bands, as well as a choice …
SSTL completes Galileo satellite deliveries
Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) in Guildford has completed its batch of Galileo satellite deliveries for Europe’s answer to GPS. The 22nd Galileo navigation payload, the last under Galileo Full Operational Capability (FOC) works orders one and two to OHB System in Bremen, the prime contractor. SSTL made the original GIOVE-A Galileo test satellite. Then it …
Rohde & Schwarz says LTE-Advanced uplinks ready for the network
Rohde & Schwarz claims its TS8980 RF conformance test system has been used in the first validation for both LTE-Advanced uplink carrier aggregation (UL CA) and LTE-Advanced Pro uplink 64QAM (UL 64QAM). According to the test firm, this is an important step for extending the bandwidth and features of LTE mobile networks. Carrier aggregation and …
Rohde & Schwarz says LTE-Advanced uplinks ready for the network
Folk-Lore Flummoxed
Eight years ago, EW wrote: “According to semiconductor folk-lore this should be a very good year for the industry.” |”2008 is a US presidential election year, and that’s (nearly) always been a good year for the chip business.” “And 2008 is an Olympic year, which has also (nearly) always been a good year for the …
Infineon Cool
Infineon is shipping its CoolMOS C7 Gold 650 V in a TO-Leadless package. The C7 Gold CoolMOS technology comes with 4pin Kelvin Source capability and improved thermal properties of the TO-Leadless package. This enables a viable SMD solution for high current topologies such as Power Factor Correction (PFC) up to 3 kW. The Infineon C7 …
German dementia center trials human-centric lighting to improve patient wellbeing
St. Augustinus Memory Center hopes that tunable lighting from Osram can rebalance circadian rhythms.
EC2 Run Command adds document sharing capability
Today, we are excited to announce EC2 Run Command document sharing. This new capability lets you collaborate with other users on developing new custom commands. Using EC2 Run Command, you can create custom commands (called Run Command documents), share documents with other AWS users, and find documents shared with you. You can share Run Command documents privately or publish them publicly for the AWS Community to use.
Sharp Gets New CEO
The new head of Sharp has been chosen – assuming that shareholders approve a share isuue to facilitate Foxconn’s takeover of the company. Sharp’s shareholders have to agree the share arrangements at a meeting at the end of June which will transfer to Foxconn a 66% stake in Sharp. If that meeting is accomplished successfully …
Swiss students race off with NXP Cup EMEA
Students from Haute Ecole ARC Ingénierie, Switzerland have won the Grand Final of the NXP Cup EMEA Challenge 2016.
Automotive IC market falls
Falling ASPs offset the strong unit growth in the automotive IC market last year, resulting in a 3% decline in value, reports IC . On a worldwide basis, automotive electronics represented 8.9% of the $1.42 trillion total 2015 worldwide electronic systems market, a slight increase from 8.6% in 2014. Automotive’s share of global electronic system …