Chip revenues from automotive infotainment will reach grow 3% to $6.says IHS last year they grew 4%. In the next five years they will grow to $8.54bn. The slowdown this year is due to flagging sales in the aftermarket and portable ...
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The Boston Viridis ARM based servers will use the Breeze tool of Cambridge software company Ellexus to migrate x86 applications to ARM. "Our software, Breeze is being promoted by Boston and ARM as a tool to ease the migration from x86 to ...
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Samsung was the largest applicant for European patents last year. Siemens, BASF, Ericsson and Bosch were all in the top ten for applications and, for the first time, A Chinese company – ZTE – made it into the top ten. The ...
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Every month Google publishes the relative number of (active) devices running a given version of the Android platform, and the figures for the last month have just been released. The main points of interest this month are that Android 4.1 ...
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The third-party tools and software ecosystem is expanding for Atmel's ARM Cortex-A5-based SAMA5D3 microcontrollers. A5 is ARM's baby A-series-compatible core, designed as an up-grade from the ARM926 and ARM1176 with better mW/MHz than ...
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OPEL Technologies Inc of Toronto, Ontario, Canada – which develops III-V semiconductor devices and processes through US affiliate OPEL Defense Integrated Systems (ODIS Inc) of Storrs, CT – says that it has achieved Milestone 4 ...
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Video encoders will be the fastest growing segment in the market, with a growth rate of 10% per year. The worldwide video hardware infrastructure market is expected to rise from 2.8bn in 2012 to $3.8bn in 2017, according to a new report ...
Video encoders will be the fastest growing segment in the market, with a growth rate of 10% per year. The worldwide video hardware infrastructure market is expected to rise from 2.8bn in 2012 to $3.8bn in 2017, according to a new report ...
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Plymouth chip fab Plessey has introduced a family of linear regulators with inputs from 1.7 to 12V. Called PS22921 (0.5A, SOT23-5), PS22922 (1.0A, SOT223) and PS22924, (2.0A, SOIC-8), they are made on the firm's bipolar process. "Many ...
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Next month Toshiba is to sample ARM-based image recognition processors for industrial use. Mass production is planned for January 2014. The industrial image recognition processors are a derivation of its Visconti range of image processors ...
PA Consulting and Raspberry Pi have selected the finalists of their programming challenge who will present their ideas to six expert judges on 20 March. The competition was intended for school and university students to present ...
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Blue Chip Technology has designed a multicore Cortex-A9 based computer board with a dual display, CAN and Mini PC-Express peripherals in a fan-less embedded computer. Designated the RE3, it is available as a Cortex-A9 single core, dual ...
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ARM's latest version of the Keil development kit for processor-based microcontroller applications includes CMSIS-RTOS based middleware, ETB and MTB trace, CMSIS-DAP debug support and code completion with dynamic syntax checker in the source ...
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Omron has recognised the work of its UK distributor, Anglia Components. Pictured (left to right): Alex Grout (Omron), Kerry Higham (Anglia), Chris O’Neill (Omron) and Graham Bridger (Anglia). According to Alex Grout, ...
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XMOS has designed a multicore microcontroller which will cost under $3 in 100 unit quanities. The xCORE XS1-L4-64 integrates four 32-bit logical processor cores producing 400MIPS performance. “This is the price point of other ...
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