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 The team behind Verst is joining Dropbox, in an acquisition that marks the end of the Verst publishing platform. The startup actually started life as DWNLD, a platform that transformed websites into mobile apps. It raised a $12 million Series A led by Grelock Partners before shifting focus to Verst, which launched earlier this year as a blogging platform that has traffic and revenue… Read More

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 Instagram announced this morning that it now has 25 million active business profiles, up from 15 million in July. The company throws out a lot of different statistics (back in September it said it had 800 million monthly active users, 500 million daily active users and 2 million advertisers), but this one’s significant as a measure of how many businesses see Instagram as an important way… Read More

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 Video advertising company Innovid has acquired another advertising startup, Taykey. We’ve written about Taykey as a tool that companies can use to target their ads based on the topics that their desired audience is interested in. Innovid says that by combining Taykey’s analysis with its own data about video engagement, it can show advertisers how targeting relevant content affects… Read More

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Europe export drive is target of Leeds-based tech network

A Leeds-based electronics manufacturing business has been given a boost from a successful local exporter. Daletech Electronics has received free strategic export advice from Yorkshire firm Radio Design as part of a new export network in the Leeds City Region. The advice and mentoring from Radio Design director Eric Hawthorn will help Daletech directors realise ...

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Automotive regulators handle 60V inputs

Diodes has used a simple emitter-follower design to create linear voltage regulators that work with inputs up to 60V in automotive environments. The ZXTR2105FQ, ZXTR2108FQ and ZXTR2112FQ are designed to deliver 5V, 8V, or 12V regulated outputs respectively from nominal battery supplies of 12V or 24V at up to 15mA. “These devices can tolerate battery ...

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Metal plate shunt resistors handle high currents

PSJ2/PSL2 and PSG4/PSF4 are high-power resistive shunts from KOA, with two or four terminals respectively. Added to the PS series, and being stocked in Europe by TTI, they are constructed from solid metal alloy resistance element with copper terminals for what is claimed to be superior corrosion and heat resistance, along with excellent pulse resistance ...

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Deloitte opens cybre-threat hunting service in EMEA

Deloitte is to provide cyber-threat hunting services to companies in the EMEA region using the threat-hunting technology provided by Sqrrl. Threat hunting, in Deloitte’s definition, is the active search for cyber adversaries that have slipped past other defences. With the developing sophistication of ‘low and slow’, it said, and the growing impact of data breaches, ...

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XMOS launches development kit for far-field voice capture.

XMOS has made available its xCORE VocalFusion Speaker Linear evaluation kit as part of its range of  far-field voice capture products, Based on the XMOS VocalFusion XVF3100 voice processor, the kit is designed for developers, OEMs and ODMs integrating voice user interfaces into flat, or linear consumer electronics typically found at the “edge of the ...

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AWS launches AI products

Amazon Web Services (AWS), has announced five new machine learning services and a deep learning-enabled wireless video camera for developers. Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service for developers and data scientists to quickly build, train, deploy, and manage their own machine learning models. AWS’ DeepLens (pictured) is a deep learning-enabled wireless video camera that ...

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Soitec soars

Soitec, the FD-SOI wafer manufacturer, has announced half year revenues to the end of September. Soitec grew revenues 26% at €143 million for a profit  up 139% at €22.5 million and EBITDA up to 24.4% of sales from 16.5% in H1’17. Net profit was  € 23.2 million versus € 3.1 million in H1’17 and € 8.4 million ...

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Mouser, TTI and Molex sponsor Dragon Racing Formula E team

Mouser  will sponsor the Dragon Racing team throughout the 2017–18 FIA Formula E racing season. The season kicks off December 2 and 3 at the Hong Kong ePrix doubleheader.   The 2017–2018 season marks the fourth edition of Formula E racing and the fourth-straight year that Mouser will be a team sponsor. Formula E features ...

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Yaskawa invests in GaN specialist Transphorm

Transphorm,  the 650V GaN specialist, has received a $15 million investment from Yaskawa Electric Corporation. A few weeks ago  Yaskawa revealed its  Σ-7 F servo motor relies on Transphorm’s high-voltage (HV) GaN. Transphorm intends to allocate the funds to various areas of its GaN product development. “We’ve seen the benefits of working with gallium nitride ...

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NXP MCU supports AWS FreeRTOS

NXP has introduced an MCU-based IoT module with onboard Wi-Fi and support for newly launched Amazon FreeRTOS on Amazon Web Services (AWS) – offering developers universal connections to AWS. Amazon FreeRTOS provides tools for users to quickly and easily deploy an MCU-based connected device and develop an IoT application without having to worry about the ...

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 I’ve been thinking a lot about this important if long Medium post by James Bridle regarding the nonsensical and potentially damaging kids content on YouTube. In it he moves from video to video, finding stranger and stranger examples. Further, an exodus of advertising is hitting the service as some disgusting comments were found below videos aimed at kids and of kids. Strangers with… Read More

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 Streaming services like Spotify have turned playlists into one of the main ways to discover new music, but I’d argue that they’re missing some of the personality of traditional radio — the kind of radio where I knew not just the names of my favorite DJs, but also what kind of music they liked and random details about their life. That’s the experience that Stationhead,… Read More

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Isolated mosfet driver delivers 5A to switch 300A, or more

Power Integrations has added to its isolated gate driver family, for mosfets and IGBTs, with a 5A driver in a wide-body eSOP package. 5A is enough for switches handling 300A, or more if an external booster circuit (see diagram) is added to push the drive to 60A. “This device provides n-channel drive for both the low ...

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25V mosfet gets down to 0.58mΩ and 61nC

  Vishay has introduced a 25V n-channel power mosfet that it claims has industry’s lowest maximum on-resistance: 0.58mΩ at 10V, and lowest gate charge and gate charge times on-resistance figure of merit for devices with on-resistance below 0.6mΩ – although the firm went on to say: “the device released today is one of the only ...

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Dual output power supply goes high and low

Excelsys Technologies has introduced an output module for its CoolX range of convection-cooled modular configurable power supplies, which provides up to 600W of power from one module (occupying three slots). Initially available with a 24V output, the CmE module provides up to 25A output current capability. Target applications are those which require one higher power ...

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Ocado grocery robots pick any shape and size

Ocado, the online groceries supplier, is using robotics in its distribution centres to select grocery products from the 50,000 different items available. The new system uses a proprietary computer vision system designed by Ocado’s technology robotics research team to calculate grasping points for a given item without requiring a 3D model of the object to ...

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Industrial strategy aims to be more inclusive to focus on skills and AI, says RAE

The Royal Academy of Engineering has welcomed the government’s industrial strategy white paper, Building a Britain fit for the future, because it takes inclusive approach to address the need for digital skills and focuses on the technologies for artificial intelligence and big data. Professor Dame Ann Dowling, president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, writes: “Now ...

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Toshiba sampling 2Tb Flash chips

Toshiba is sampling Universal Flash Storage (UFS) devices  using BiCS FLASH 3D flash. The devices meet performance demands for applications that require high-speed read/write performance and low power consumption, including mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, and augmented and virtual reality systems.  The line-up will be available in four capacities: 32GB, 64GB, 128GB and 256GB. All ...

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X-Fab adds low-noise 180nm transistors for audio and sensor amps.

Aiming at sensor interfaces, semiconductor foundry X-Fab has created more low-noise transistors for users of its 180nm XH018 mixed-signal CMOS process. There are three: 1.8V NMOS, with an eighth of the nose of its standard XH018 equivalent 3.3V NMOS, with a tenth 3.3V PMOS, with half “all of which offer drastically reduced flicker noise compared ...

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Farnell sells ten millionth Raspberry Pi

Premier Farnell is celebrating  the sale of 10 million Raspberry Pi with a special offer for customers Less than six years after it first began producing Raspberry Pi computers, Premier Farnell now sells over 50,000 Raspberry Pi computers each week to makers, industry and education across the globe. Over 4 million Raspberry Pi have been ...

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X-FAB adds to low-noise transistor portfolio

X-FAB has added three new low-noise transistors to its 180nm process node:  a 1.8 V low-noise NMOS, a 3.3 V low-noise NMOS and a 3.3 V low-noise PMOS – all of which offer drastically reduced flicker noise compared to standard CMOS offerings. These transistors are mainly designed for sensor deployments which require very low-noise signal amplification ...

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Uber Q3 loss of $1.5bn

Uber made a loss of $1.5 billion in Q3, according to the FT, on revenue of $2 billion and gross bookings of $9.7 billion. The Q2 loss was $1.06 billion and the increase in Q3 is being attributed to lawsuits, particularly the one with Waymo over alleged stolen IP. Last year Uber lost $2.8 billion ...

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QiuckLogic adds BLE to Alexa sensor processor

QuickLogic has added Nordic’s BLE IP to  its EOS S3 Sensor Processing Platform Alexa BLE Wearables Reference Design – the first commercially available reference design that supports voice-over-Bluetooth connectivity with Amazon Alexa. QuickLogic’s Alexa BLE Wearables Reference Design combines QuickLogic’s EOS S3 Sensor Processing SoC, which features an ARM Cortex M4F-powered multicore sensor processing SoC ...

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HERE buys OTA specialist ATS

HERE, the road mapping company owned by Audi, Daimler and BMW, has bought Advanced Telematic Systems (ATS) which provides OTA (over the air) wireless software updates to connected cars. “The acquisition of ATS is a hugely important strategic investment for us to complement our portfolio as a premium automotive cloud provider,” says Ralf Herrtwich, SVP ...

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DENSO and NEC form jv for in-car connectivity

DENSO  and NEC have formed a jv called DENSO NEXT CO to develop in-vehicle information and communications equipment critical for fostering a connected environment inside vehicles, such as instrument clusters, head-up displays, and on-board communication equipment. The company will start operations on December 1, 2017. The recent cockpit innovation and advancement of connected technologies have ...

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Toshiba sampling 10TB 3.5″ HDDs

Toshiba is sampling 3.5inch HDDs with up to 10TB capacity which support up to 64 camera streams. The MD06ACA-V Series is designed for 24/7 streaming operation scenarios and is typically used for surveillance digital video recorders (SDVR), surveillance network video recorders (SNVR) and Hybrid SDVR. The HDDs have 7,200 rpm access performance. The 10TB model delivers ...

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Panasonic capacitors have high ripple current

New conductive polymer aluminium solid capacitors from Panasonic benefit from high ripple current and low ESR values Panasonic has introduced smoothing capacitors featuring a high ripple current of 5.8Amps and enabling miniaturization of switching power supplies. The SEPG series of radial lead type conductive polymer aluminium solid capacitors also benefits from very low ESR values ...

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LT3964 step-down LED driver operates from 4V to 36V

The LT3964, a dual channel, 36V, high efficiency, synchronous, step-down LED driver with internal 40V, 1.6A power switches and an I2C interface that simplifies LED dimming control. The chip operates with a 4V to 36V input range, and features two independently controlled LED drivers that switch at up to 2MHz, resulting in a highly integrated, ...

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USA concerned about China AI capability

China is five years away from overtaking the USA in AI says a report today from the US Center for New American Security (CNAS).   “China is no longer in a position of technological inferiority relative to the United States but rather has become a true peer that may have the capability to overtake the ...

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Coil on Module for secure wireless payments

Infineon is expanding its CoM (Coil on Module) portfolio for secure contactless ID documents. The new SLC52 security chip is now available, integrated with the card antenna into a polycarbonate monoblock inlay. Conventional chip packages are welded, soldered or glued to the card antenna. With the CoM package, however, the chip module communicates with the ...

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 Researchers at Duke University, OSU and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have solved one of the biggest problems with new forms of quantum encryption: quantum key distribution. QKD is the process of distributing keys during a transmission and in a way that will tell both sides of the conversation that someone is eavesdropping. The new system, which uses lasers to transmit multiple bits at once,… Read More

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 A few years ago jailbreaking your iPhone was all the rage. The cat-and-mouse game of hackers versus Apple was great fun and some of the open source products available to jailbreakers – namely the Cydia alternative app store – added amazing features and customizability to the iPhone. Some devs even launched only on jailbroken phones, thumbing their noses at Apple’s walled… Read More

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LuxLive round-up

LuxLive as usual was a vibrant show, held once again a ExCel in London’s docklands. It is a tribute to just how far LEDs have penetrated the lighting market. Sadly, Electronics Weekly did not have time to visit the many Far Eastern manufacturers there, and steered away from most of the networking technology on show ...

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Webinar: IoT KnowHow – Securing Your Connected Technology

Electronics Weekly joins with Chipless Ltd to discuss the IoT and security in a webinar entitled 'IoT KnowHow: Securing Your Connected Technology'

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EnSilica co-processor lightens the ADAS processing load

EnSilica’s eSi-ADAS RADAR Imaging Co-processor seeks to solve the problem of RADAR data overload and resolution by doing it in a dedicated co-processor to enable tracking of potentially hundreds of objects to be made in real time. It is claimed to have up to 20x lower power requirements than today’s lower resolution systems and lower ...

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Lack of options holding back European tech start-ups, says Index

European start-ups are not motivating their employees by giving them sufficient equity, says VC company Index Ventures in a reprt called Rewarding Talent. It could explain why Europe doesn’t produce world-beating start-ups on the same scale as the USA. “We believe that a fresh approach to employee ownership is key to creating European tech giants ...

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Nissan gives boost to the internal combustion engine

Of the various options for the technological development of transportation, transformational improvement of the internal combustion engine has remained unconsidered. Until now. Nissan has developed a car engine (pictured) which has a variable compression ratio system which significantly increases power. The engine has a maximum thermal efficiency of around 40% – double the usual level ...

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 I’ve been thinking about token sale marketing lately mostly because it’s been so bad. I’ve gotten hundreds of emails asking me to be an ICO advisor or evangelist or influencer primarily because the ICO marketing techniques come to us straight out of the spammiest corners of affiliate marketing. I’ve gotten emails from founders who have been promised “posts on… Read More

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 Board games are a blast. They’re cheap to buy, fun to give, and amazing to play. We’ve chosen twelve of our favorites that you can add to your stack of games this Holiday Season. Some pit you against each other; others have you working together to save the world. Order in, crack a few beers (or seltzers) and have a blast! Read More

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 Marvel and Netflix’s latest show The Punisher stars Jon Bernthal as the bloodthirsty superhero. Bernthal first took on the role in the second season of Daredevil, but now he’s the headliner in a story exploring the aftermath of war and a broader government conspiracy. In the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Original Content podcast, hosts Darrell Etherington and Anthony Ha… Read More

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NI ups power rating of PXI chassis

NI has introduced a PXI chassis with a higher power rating of 58W per slot. This represents a 50% increase in power and cooling per slot compared to previously released NI PXI Express chassis. Fan noise has been reduced in the 38W cooling mode with a 13dB improvement compared to the previously released PXIe-1085 chassis. ...

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Qualcomm issues 5G licensing terms

Qualcomm has issued the terms on which it will license FRAND patents for 5G. They are: ‘Consistent with Qualcomm’s Fair, Reasonable and Non- Discriminatory (FRAND) commitments, European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Intellectual Property Right (IPR) policy and industry practice, Qualcomm’s cellular standard essential patent licensing program is based upon licensing mobile handsets that fully conform ...

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Fujian Jin Hua equips Jinjiang fab

China DRAM start-up, Fujian Jin Hua Integrated Circuit, is moving fab equipment into its Jinjiang fab (pictured) with the intention of running first silicon in Q3 2018, reports Digitimes. The fab is to make DRAM on a 32nm process supplied by UMC. It is being initially equipped to run 60k wpm. It is spending $5.3 ...

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Melexis brings out miniature FIR sensors

Melexis has brought out a family of miniature far infrared (FIR) sensors for use in multiple applications where accurate temperature measurement is required. The MLX90632 family is based upon Melexis’ established FIR technology that utilizes the fact that every object emits heat radiation. The ultra-small integrated thermopile CMOS IC is a complete solution in a ...

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How Industry 4.0 could add value, with the digitization and networking of the industrial value chain and its products

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Budget has not addressed Brexit fears of tech sector

If the Chancellor hoped to woo the tech sector with £500 million support for AI and handouts for broadband, 5G and smart cities he will be disappointed. The tech sector may find it difficult to see the positives in Philip Hammond’s ‘tech-boosting’ Autumn Budget. The tech sector seems to be unimpressed and it still has ...

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Degree apprenticeships build links with industry

The University of Hertfordshire is launching an engineering degree-level apprenticeship programme. Trainee engineers will be able to combine work and study, from September 2018, with an Engineering Degree Apprenticeship. The University is offering engineering courses in mechanical, manufacturing, automotive, aerospace or electronic engineering. Degree Apprenticeships are a pathway to gaining a degree-level qualification, while also ...

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3GPP tester goes sub-6GHz for early 5G

Rohde & Schwarz has a test instrument which can be used for validation of radio devices using the sub-6GHz 3GPP 5G new radio (NR) protocol. 3GPP’s 5G NR protocol will ultimately support frequency ranges up to 52.6GHz, but initial 5G designs will use frequencies below 6GHz with a focus on 3.5GHz. For these sub-6 GHz ...

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Computer modules fast-track ARM Cortex A53/A72 processors

Single board computer firm Congatec is now offering Qseven and SMARC standard modules with 64-bit NXP i.MX8 processors. These are based on the new ARM Cortex A53/A72 based processors. These processors integrate up to four cores and along with graphics for up to four independent displays. Since the modules are designed for the extended ambient ...

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Anglia grows small order split reel offering for prototyping

Anglia Components is extending its small order split reel service to cover more stock items. The distributor says customers can order low volumes for design and prototype phases on commodity surface mount parts in small quantities supplied in cut tape format.  Up to ten breaks can now be shown for each part. The distributor is ...

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Toshiba sampling constant current 2-phase stepping motor

Toshiba is sampling a constant current 2-phase stepping motor driver for automotive applications and a range of general uses, including adjusting the mirror for projection of heads-up displays, motorcycle valves and valve / damper controllers in HVAC applications. Production is scheduled to, start in July 2019. The TB9120FTG IC provides PWM 2-phase constant current control from ...

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Thermal simulation compromised by hardware limitations

29% of thermal engineers are having to compromise the accuracy of their simulations due to hardware limitations, according to The State of Thermal, a survey of over 170 thermal engineers conducted by simulation software vendor 6SigmaET. Thermal simulation is integral to the design process for electronics devices – and yet a quarter (24%) of thermal ...

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£5m hardware security R&D centre launched at Queen’s University Belfast

Hardware security and the threat of cyber attacks is the focus of a £5m multi-university research initiative in the UK. Its hub will be the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT), which was launched at Queen’s University Belfast this week. The Research Institute in Secure Hardware and Embedded Systems (RISE) aims to tackle the problem ...

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Glasgow University works with local firms on silicon photon detectors

CST Global, the Glasgow-based  III-V opto-electronic, semiconductor foundry, is collaborating with the University of Glasgow and Gas Sensing Solutions on a project to fabricate active matrix, single-photon GaAs devices. The project will develop light-weight, monolithic, mid-wave infrared (MWIR) imagers, capable of detecting a single photon of IR light. These are primarily used to image gasses ...

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Investment in computer teaching welcomed by Microsoft

Chancellor Philip Hammond’s bid to improve the teaching of computing in schools has been welcomed by the tech sector following today’s Budget speech, The Chancellor plans to triple the number of fully-qualified computer science teachers from 4,000 to 12,000. Cindy Rose, UK CEO, Microsoft, comments: “We welcome the announcement by the Chancellor to triple the ...

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Autumn Budget 2017: AI, EVs and STEM

The Chancellor Philip Hammond has presented his 2017 Autumn Budget to Parliament.

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Toshiba adds 11 transistor arrays with DMOS FET outputs

Toshiba is adding 11 products to its line-up of new-generation transistor arrays equipped with DMOS FET outputs, capable of delivering high-voltage, large-current drive up to 50V/0.5A. The new devices expand the 37 products that are already part of the TBD62xxxA series, which have found application in areas including motors, relays, LEDs, and level shifters for ...

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 The story of AppLovin‘s acquisition has taken another turn. We first reported that the mobile ad startup was in acquisition talks in August of last year, and the announcement came a month later: AppLovin would sell a majority stake Chinese private equity firm Orient Hontai Capital. Today, however, CEO Adam Foroughi revealed that the deal is (sort of) off. Instead of an outright… Read More

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SEMI billings decline for fourth consecutive month

SEMI reports October billings of $2.02 billion which is 1.8% lower than September’s $2.05 billion, and is 23.7% higher than the October 2016 billings $1.63 billion. “Equipment billings dipped in October, the fourth consecutive monthly decline during this record spending year,” says SEMI CEO  Ajit Manocha, “in spite of this seasonal weakness, we expect equipment ...

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Meg Whitman resigns

Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman, the only woman to be CEO of two Fortune 500 companies, is to leave HP Enterprises at the end of January. HPE’s president, Antonio Neri becomes CEO on Feb. 1. Whitman oversaw the split of HP into HPE – the data centre business and HP – the PC and ...

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 John Lasseter, the chief creative officer of both Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, is the latest media executive to face allegations of inappropriate behavior. In a memo to employees, Lasseter acknowledged “missteps” and said he will be taking a six-month sabbatical. Read More

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 Physicists at MIT have developed and released a $100 muon detector that you can build at home, allowing you to sense deep space bombardment on something that looks like a TV remote. The CosmicWatch is basically a little box that can detect high-energy cosmic rays as they hit the Earth’s atmosphere and decay into muons. Muons hit the Earth in a “light drizzle” say the… Read More

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 A company called Confido raised a small ICO by selling special CFD designed to allow “safe and trustless cryptocurrency payments. According to ICODrops they raised their goal of about $400,000 and quickly disappeared, taking the cash with it. The site is currently a parked web server that points to nothing. The apparent founder and former eBay employee, Joost van Doorn, posted a message to… Read More

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 Dabbl is giving users a straightforward reason to interact with ads — the ads earn them money in the form of gift cards. For example, when I signed up for Dabbl this morning, I was presented with a menu of several different campaigns. The first one that I chose was from Oreo, where I answered a bunch of questions about how I feel and what I know about Oreo products. The whole thing… Read More

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Maxim senses breathing, pulse, blood oxygen and more for wearables

Maxim is aiming at medical wearables with a set of chips for sensing various vital signs. In particular, its chips are aimed at wearables that meets US Fedral Drug Administration (FDA) sensing specifications – so far, said Maxim, no wearables have achieved FDA approval. MAX86141 is an autonomous dual-channel (for two photodiodes) optical pulse oximeter ...

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Nvidia Cuda opens door to fast DSP in PCIe PCs

Nvidia’s ‘Cuda’ graphics processors, with their high bandwidth PCIe interface, have opened the door to fast, but simple, instrumentation-grade DSP, according to Spectrum Instrumentation. Spectrum is a maker of digitisers – effectively low-noise multi-channel ADCs, some PCIe-based. Cuda is an Nvidia parallel number-crunching technology, that allows direct PCIe peripheral to GPU interaction without the host ...

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Infineon in mass production of 600V CoolMOS MOSFETs

Infineon is in production of 600V CoolMOS  high-voltage Superjunction MOSFETs. The 600 V CoolMOS CFD7 completes the CoolMOS 7 series. This new MOSFET addresses the high power SMPS market for resonant topologies. It offers industry-leading efficiency and reliability in soft switching topologies like LLC and ZVS PSFB. This makes it a perfect fit for high ...

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ARM and NanoGlobal working on molecular data analysis IC

Nano Global, the Austin Texas molecular data company, is working with ARM in a chip in a chip which  can be used in the recognition and analysis of health threats caused by pathogens and other living organisms. The first IC to be delivered from the collaboration is scheduled for 2020. The chip will leverage advances in ...

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Siemens to buy Solido

Siemens is to buy Solido Design Automation, the Saskatchewan specialist in variation-aware design and characterisation software for the semiconductor industry. Variation-aware design and characterisation has become fundamental in designing complex ICs which combine analogue and mixed signal circuitry. Verification software needs to deliver confidence in the simulation results while avoiding time- and resource-intensive analysis methods, and ...

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Marvell buys Cavium

Marvell is to buy Cavium for $6 billion. Last year Marvell co-founders Weili Dai and her husband Sehat Sutardja were forced out of Marvell. They founded Marvell in 1995 and were accused of accounting irregularites which were unproven. The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) awarded them the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award. This is the ...

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Samsung to overtake Intel to become 2017 No.1

After 24 years as No.1 semiconductor vendor, Intel will lose its crown to Samsung this year, reports IC Insights. Intel became No.1 in 1993 and was expected to match TI’s record as the only chip company to be No.1 for 25 successive years, but this year’s soaring memory prices will give Samsung the crown. ‘Samsung ...

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Partner chip adds high-grade security to IoT MCUs

Maxim has introduced a partner security chip for microcontrollers. Called the DS28E38 secure authenticator, it includes security keys created on-die by a ‘physically un-cloneable function’ (PUF), which the firm is branding ChipDNA. “We looked at existing PUF designs – we would have bought one, but they fell short,” said Maxim v-p of security business Dan Loomis, who ...

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 You’re sitting down to a nice meal and your aunt, always one step ahead, mentions she wants to start investing in Bitcoin. You freeze, a drip of gravy plopping off the ladle. It’s your time to shine. You got this. First, you know that the state of crypto is very, very good. This has been a banner year for cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin rose from $738 a year ago to $8220 as of this year.… Read More

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 Swiss watchmakers have long resisted the siren call of ecommerce. While many of their products sold online – you can find everything from Swatch to Breguet on the “grey market” – there were no official online channels for many brands. Until now. Omega, a Swiss watchmaker whose wares now grace the wrist of James Bond, just started selling online, joining Panerai and… Read More

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Ignore IoT security at your peril, and everyone else’s too

Take IoT security seriously, however daunting this might be, is the message of Dan Loomis, v-p of security business at chip-maker Maxim. And he would say that wouldn’t he, because he was talking at the launch of a new security chip. But what he said is important for anyone designing an IoT product, regardless of ...

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Worldwide electronics production is increasing strongly, except in Taiwan.

China’s production of electronics equipment has grown 13.8% so far this year, says Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence, which is heading to be the largest annual growth for six years.   Last year China’s electronics production increased by 10%.   In the USA, year-to-date electronics production is up 5% – the strongest growth in 11 years. ...

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ARM profit carries on falling

ARM had a Q3 EBITDA profit of £73 million down from the £82 million of Q2, the £216 million of Q1 and the £133 million of Q4 2016. 26 licences were signed in Q3, down from 41 in Q2 Licensing revenues slipped from £112 million in Q2 to £91.2 million in Q3. Royalty income rose ...

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Synapse Design buys Tech Vulcan

Synapse Design has bought IC design house Tech Vulcan of San Diego which gives Syynapse 45 engineers and a second design center in California. Tech Vulcan provides SOC VLSI design services ranging from RTL design, functional verification, physical design, test vector development to ATE testing and product commercialization. Pradeep Mishra, Tech Vulcan, CEO, says Synapse ...

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Chancellor to announce funds for AI, 5G, EVs etc

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is set to announce financial support for a raft of technology projects in the Autumn Budget on Wednesday: £75m for artificial intelligence £400m for electric car charge points £100m to boost clean car purchases £160m for next-generation 5G mobile networks across the UK £100m for an additional 8,000 fully-qualified computer science ...

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Sports day bonus for Mediatek

Mediatek is to hand out $5.3 million in bonuses to its 16,000 employees at its 20th anniversary company sports day, Those hired before May last year get $400. Those hired before September get $330. Mediatek’s Q3 profit was $168 million, up 129% on Q2 but 35% down on Q3 2016.

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 Ten years ago this week, Amazon released the first Kindle. It was big and clunky and kind of ugly, with an awkward physical keyboard and 250 MB of on-board storage. It sold out in less than six hours and would remain that way until the following April. Amazon, it seemed, was really onto something. Read More

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 We are now walking through a media desert. While access to content is astronomically high, the content that we read is dead, lifeless, and derivative. Yes, I see the irony in posting my criticism of the state of online media on, well, online media, but I want to explore how we got here and what we can do about it. We begin in about 1983. The education necessary to interact with media of that… Read More

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9ns minimum on-time enables 2MHz high-ratio dc-dc converter : 2.5V from 60V

A 9ns minimum on-time has allowed Rohm to offer a 60Vto 2.5V dc-dc converter – a 24:1 step-down ratio – that runs at 2MHz, claiming this to be a world first.Worst case minimum on-time is 20ns. Called BD9V100MUF-C, the BiCDMOS chip includes output mosfets and is aimed at 48V automotive systems. 2MHz operation keeps it ...

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 Justice League, the DC cinematic universe’s answer to The Avengers, is finally here. It comes at the end of a terrific year for superhero movies. Logan was genuinely great, while Wonder Woman‘s success should have demolished any lingering Hollywood skepticism about action movies directed by and starring women. Plus, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and Thor: Ragnarok were pretty… Read More

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