Despite stronger-than-expected growth during the fourth quarter, 2012 was still a miserable year for the semiconductor market and suppliers, with only eight out of the Top 25 chipmakers managing to eke out revenue growth—but nine ...
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, together with Frans van Houten (CEO of Royal Philips Electronics), officially opened the Philips Museum in the city centre of Eindhoven. The queen symbolically switched on the lights in the museum by ...
Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA says that its EPC9005 development board featuring the firm’s 40V EPC2014 enhancement-mode gallium nitride (eGaN) field-effect transistors (FETs) – as launched in ...
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Up until now, if you liked Panasonic's take on Internet content, you had to buy one of its online-ready TVs. But now there's another, less expensive option: the company's first standalone streaming media players. You can choose between ...
Avago Technologies Ltd of San Jose, CA, USA and Singapore (a designer, developer and supplier of III-V-based analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications) has appointed Bryan Ingram, senior VP & ...
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Broadband Technology 2000 has signed a rep and distribution deal with US start-up GreenVITY, which develops powerline comms (PLC) to Zigbee and Zigbee to PLC bridge ICs. The chips conform to the HomePlug Green PHY specification supporting ...
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ESCORT Inc., designer and manufacturer of radar detector and premium automotive accessories, will be presenting its new ESCORT MobileTV? Digital Television receiver at the 2013 NAB Show in Las Vegas this week. The category leader and ...
Tags: Premium Drive Smarter, Auto Parts, Consumer Electronics, Laser Detector
A Japanese research institute says it can tell what people are dreaming about by analyzing their brain waves. The lab at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, or ATR, said Friday that its method matches the ...
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AIXTRON SE announced that it is participating as a key partner in the recently announced European Union (EU) Future Emerging Technology (FET) flagship project “Graphene”. As part of the consortium, AIXTRON will bring its ...
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The brand-new Canon Vixia HF G30 is a pricey full-sized HD camcorder, at $1,700. The high price means it has a lot of high-end features—a 3.5-inch OLED touchscreen display, wireless capability, and a 20x wide-angle zoom lens. It also ...
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Cisco is planning to buy femtocell maker Ubiquisys for US$310 million in cash and retention-based incentives, the company announced on Wednesday. Ubiquisys, which is located in the U.K., makes 3G and LTE small-cell technologies that ...
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Masimo, a provider of noninvasive monitoring technologies,announced that the East Tennessee Children's Hospital has installed its Patient SafetyNet system. The system noninvasively, continuously measures and tracks the underlying ...
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Intel, Samsung, Qualcomm are top three. Global semiconductor revenue has declined 2.6% to $299.9bn in 2012, according to a report from Gartner. The top 25 semiconductor vendors reported a 2.8% decrease in annual revenue, and accounted ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany is participating as a key partner in the recently announced European Union (EU) Future Emerging Technology (FET) flagship project ‘Graphene’. As part of the ...
In booth 1617 at the IEEE MTT-S International Wireless Symposium (IWS2013) in Beijing, China (16-18 April), AWR Corp of El Segundo, CA, USA, which supplies electronic design automation (EDA) software for designing RF and high-frequency ...
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