British chip designer ARM has posted a better-than-expected 22 per cent rise in profits for Q3, the company has announced in its latest financial report. The Cambridge-based firm, which along with designing processors for the iPhone and ...
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The sales pitch for servers in the cloud has always leaned on the word"commodity."You push a button,and voilA,a root password is yours within minutes.The machines in the cloud may not be exactly what you would order if you were filling out ...
Tags: Joyent Cloud, commodity cloud provider, SmartOS, virtualization tool
Steve Laub CEO of Atmel believes that given the increasing proliferation of smart devices throughout the world and the role microcontrollers play in it the company's day has come. If you subscribe to the idea of intelligent devices ...
It is possible to achieve growth in the semiconductor market without a killer application,writes Steve Sanghi,president and CEO of Microchip Technology. I'm often asked by investors and suppliers to describe"the killer application"for our ...
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Maxim is staking its future on integrated analogue in the belief that sales of analogue SoCs will overtake discrete analogue sales within two years. Asked by EW what integrated analogue means,Maxim responded:'Analogue has traditionally ...
An embedded networking demonstrator with Infineon's Cortex-M4 based XMC4000 microcontroller has been designed to show how low-cost hardware with a modest memory and no operating system,can support network functions via different physical ...
Joerg Strughold,v-p of EMEA sales at Atmel tells Electronics Weekly industrial applications continue to be largest end market,followed by smartphones and tablets in the consumer market Describe your company's business in two sentences. ...
Tags: EMEA, RF, technology, application
Microchip Technology has signed a global distribution deal with Arrow Electronics. This global agreement includes Microchip’s complete line of 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit PIC microcontrollers, analogue and interface semiconductors, ...
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Everyone's talking about energy harvesting–but what exactly is it?The term is often used as a paraphrase for the whole range of low-power applications,yet the"harvesters"themselves are only one part of a larger system,writes Ingo ...
Tags: Electrical&Electronics, Energy Harvesting, battery, MEC, IPS
Atmel is sampling its first 2Mbyte embedded flash Cortex-M4 processor-based microcontroller. The SAM4SD32 runs at 120MHz operating frequency and features cache memory for accelerated code execution out of flash. "We are continuing to ...
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What you probably know about McLaren is that it makes Formula 1 cars.What you might not know,is that it designs and makes embedded processor systems. Every car in Formula 1,every US Indy car,and every US NASCAR,has an engine control ...
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On the same day that it released a Bluetooth Low Energy module,Murata announced that it has joined a European configurable radio research programme. The 20.0x13x2.4mm module,called LBCA2ZZVZE,includes a chip antenna and all the Bluetooth ...
Tags: Murata, Low Power Radio, Bluetooth Low Energy module, Texas, IMEC
Private equity is sniffing around Renesas, according to Japan's Yomiuri newspaper.Private equity companies KKR and Silverlake, which made the ill-fated takeover bid for NXP back in 2006, are reported to be in talks about investing 'several ...
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High-reliability must be combined with low power design for space systems which is why choice of an IP processor core can be critical,writes Chris RobertsChips used in space,cars and medical devices face some of the harshest operating ...
Tags: Low Power Processor, Spacecraft, electronic systems, IP processor
Texas Instruments demonstrated a ZigBee Light Link implementation at Computex Taipei and announced Golden Unit status,while Atmel announced Golden Unit compliance and an evaluation kit. The ZigBee Light Link standard promises to offer ...