A year on from the launch of the BMW M4 Coupe, BMW M Division is presenting an initial preview of a high-performance model for use on the road and, above all, on the race track: the BMW Concept M4 GTS. The move sees BMW M Division once ...
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The new SFH 7060 sensor from Osram Opto Semiconductors is designed to measure pulse rates and the oxygen saturation level of blood. It offers excellent signal quality and low energy consumption. The main applications for this component ...
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For full-year fiscal 2015 (ending 2 October), Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) has reported record revenue of $3.26bn, up 42% on fiscal 2014's $2.29bn. For the fiscal ...
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For its fiscal second-quarter 2016 (ended 3 October 2015), Qorvo Inc, which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and aerospace/defense applications, has reported revenue of $708.3m, up 5.2% on $673.6m last ...
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US-based snacks manufacturer Snyder’s-Lance will acquire snack food and culinary nut company Diamond Foods for approximately $1.91bn, which includes $640m of debt. The parties signed a definitive agreement in this regard under ...
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J&J Snack Foods will launch a range of new products ranging from soft pretzels melts to frozen beverages and equipment at the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) Show in Las Vegas from 11 October to 14 October. A new "Mix It ...
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Acuity Brands announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Acuity Brands Lighting, completed the previously announced acquisition of Distech Controls Inc., a leading provider of building automation and energy management solutions that allow ...
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The printing industry is changing tracks: These days, more and more specialist firms are switching from the traditional analog approach to digital printing procedures, preferring in particular the use of inkjet printers that increasingly ...
The new Opel Astra is setting standards in efficiency, design, connectivity, with technologies from higher segments – and for the total cost of ownership. In order to make full use of this brand-typical strength, the Opel engineers ...
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Fresh meat provider J&G Foods has installed its fifth Repak RE20 form, fill and seal vacuum packaging machine Repaks for the production of vacuum and modified-atmosphere packages (MAP) from flexible and semi-rigid materials, as well as ...
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) has developed an n-type gallium nitride (n-GaN) tunnel junction (TJ) intracavity contact to reduce threshold current and increase differential efficiency in its m-plane III-nitride ...
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Since the beginning of 2015, the flame-retardant polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) Ultradur B4450 G5 (halogen-free) from BASF has been used in the mass production of the MiniSKiiP Dual power semiconductor modules from the company SEMIKRON. ...
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Moissanite maker Charles & Colvard Ltd. recently introduced its first colorless (D, E, and F grade) moissanite stones. The stones are part of a new collection called Forever One, which joins the company’s Forever Brilliant ...
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Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University has been studying ways to improve the performance of p-type gallium nitride (p-GaN) in terms of hole density and contact resistance with nickel/gold [Bo-Sheng Zheng et al, J. Appl. Phys., vol118, ...
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Team Sportia Ab of Sweden and its majority owner SGN Sportia of Finland have joined Sport 2000 International, greatly extending the reach of Europe's second largest buying group for sporting goods retailers in the Nordic countries. Team ...
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