Worldwide semiconductor sales in December were $24.7bn - up 3.8% on December 2011, says WSTS. For the year, sales were $291.6bn - down 2.7% on 2011. But European sales in December were $2.6bn - down 5.5% on December 2011. On a total ...
"HomePlug AV is used in set-top boxes in Europe and is starting in the US," Greenvity CEO Hung Nguyen. "Any lighting system needs to be interoperable with set-top boxes. HomePlug Green PHY co-exists and inter-operates with HomePlug AV." ...
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Microsemi's latest optical system linecard device is designed to address channel density issue with the uptake of 100G links. "Growth of 100G is exceeding our most optimistic predictions and, in turn, significantly bolstering the optical ...
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Canadian packaging company CCL Industries Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire the office and consumer products businesses of Avery Dennison for CDN$500 million. Avery Dennison makes a wide array of plastic, paper and multi-material ...
A slimmed down version of the Raspberry Pi has been introduced with around half the power consumption and a lower price tag that tht original board. The new Model A version of the embedded computing platform has only 256MB of RAM included ...
Imagination Technologies has announced that it is among the first to submit PowerVR Series6 ‘Rogue’ drivers for OpenGL ES 3.0 conformance with Khronos. OpenGL ES is a royalty-free, cross-platform API for full-function 2D and ...
Researchers at the University of Oxford have found a way to make wafer-sized graphene with good electrical characteristics. Grown on copper using chemical vapour deposition (CVD), the material is not mono-crystalline, but crystal ...
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The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) intends to create a standard method to evaluate the energy efficiency of ultra-low power(ULP) microcontrollers. To date, the industry has lacked a common method to test, validate, ...
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Samsung is doing to Apple in tablets what it did to them in smartphones. According to analysts IDC, Samsung’s Q4 market share in tablets was 15% and Apple’s was 44%. Last year Samsung’s share was 7.3% and Apple’s ...
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A 3D spintronics IC built at Cambridge University could increase chip density by 1000 times. The technique uses an electron’s spin to store data. This is the first time a spintronics device has been built in 3D. The chip is built ...
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Computer-on-Modules (COMs) show the way to faster Freescale QorIQ processor-based design without need for costly and time-consuming full-custom design, writes Gerhard Szczuka, product manager for Computer-on-Modules at Kontron Europe. The ...
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The CEOs of Europe’s Big Three semiconductor companies are optimistic about 2013. Each, at their earnings calls, said they expected a better end to the year than the beginning. There seems to be a commonly shared belief that Q1 will ...
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Goepel electronics will hold its annual UK Technology Day on March 14th at the Duxford Imperial War Museum. Seminars and workshop sessions will present practical information on test technologies such as embedded system access (ESA), ...
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Acal has reported a good second half of the year ending 31 March 2013. The distributor said the increase in electronics orders reported in the first half has continued into the second half rising by 9% for the four months ended 31 January ...
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Aeroflex says its E500 LTE test system is the first capacity tester to successfully hand over data services between TDD and FDD networks. According to the test firm, network operators around the world are already commissioning dual ...
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