As the gaming PC boom continues, HP hopes to capitalise on the popularity of trendy powerhouse rigs with its refreshed Omen lineup. In an announcement today, HP revealed a “re-designed and re-engineered” gaming machine ...
Tags: Intel Core, graphics card
Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) has launched what it claims is the first gallium nitride on silicon carbide (GaN-on-SiC) front-end ...
Tags: silicon carbide
What does refresh rate mean, and how does it affect gaming? We explain 144Hz monitors and beyond, and why more hertz isn't always better (but usually is). For years, the refresh rate has been the go-to number for gamers when buying a ...
Tags: monitor, refresh rate
Canada-based High Liner Foods has agreed to acquire Rubicon Resources, an American seafood importer, for about $107m in a cash-cum-stock deal. Rubicon primarily imports frozen shrimp products that are sustainably sourced and distributes ...
Tags: High Liner Foods, Shrimp
Sexy Tesla sports cars aren’t the only vehicles that deserve the battery treatment – drayage vehicles, school buses, garbage trucks and cargo haulers are also going electric. And the ranks of those medium- and heavy-duty ...
Tags: Heavy-Duty Truck, Truck
For fiscal fourth-quarter 2017 (to 1 April), Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA (which provides core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications) has reported revenue of $642m, up 5.7% on $607.1m a year ...
Tags: Smartphone, Qorvo
For first-quarter 2017, epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has reported revenue of $94.4m, rebounding further from $93.6m last quarter and up 21% on $78m a year ago. This is above ...
Tags: LED Demand, LED industry
Apple is almost always embroiled in an acquisition rumour, and the latest predictions put Netflix – amongst others – in the Silicon Valley store window. This week, we learned that Apple now has cash reserves totalling an ...
OnePlus released an impressive handset last year in the form of the OnePlus 3, and followed it up with an even more impressive iteration, the OnePlus 3T, later in 2016. And to keep the phone fresh for 2017, the company introduced a sleek ...
Tags: OnePlus 3T, handset
Fieldbit is exhibiting its interactive field service collaboration platform for equipment manufacturers and end users at this month’s Interpack event. The Israeli software company has been into real-time augmented reality and ...
The ongoing shortage of global supply of mono-Si solar wafers is likely to remain until third-quarter 2018, according to China-based makers of such wafers. The China government, encouraging adoption of PV modules made of mono-Si solar ...
Tags: PV module, solar wafers
Libbey, one of the largest glass tableware manufacturers in the world, has reported results for the first quarter ended 31 March 2017 Net sales $173.0 million, down 5.4 percent versus prior year, or down 3.3 percent in constant currency ...
Tags: glass tableware, tableware
Pro Mach is set to exhibit expanded line of capping solutions under Zalkin brand at this year’s Interpack event in Germany, which will take place from 4 to 10 May. Zalkin produces a range of capping machinery and cap sorting and ...
GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada – a fabless developer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications – says that its transistors are being used by power ...
Tags: GaN Systems, Solar Power Inverter
The LED lighting market grew 18.1% to $47,303m in 2016, accounting for almost 60% of global lighting, according to the report ‘Global LED Lighting Market (2017 Update)’, part of Frost & Sullivan’s Homes & Buildings Growth ...
Tags: LED market, Lighting market