IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard on Thursday announced new Pavilion Sleekbooks, which the company is pitching as laptops that are cheaper than ultrabooks but competitive in weight and thickness. The new Pavilion Sleekbooks will come in ...
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Fabless semiconductor firm RFaxis Inc of Irvine,CA,USA,which designs RF semiconductors and embedded antenna solutions for the wireless connectivity and cellular mobility markets,says it will start volume production of its ...
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Simply choosing the cheapest LED components has its risks and a better approach is to take a system-level perspective, aiming for the most cost-effective design, writes Mark Pinkney, divisional marketing manager, Anglia Lighting LED ...
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Design of Glasgow's semiconductor laser with monolithically integrated dynamic polarization control.Researchers at the University of Glasgow have developed a technology that allows the manufacture of semiconductor lasers and associated ...
Tags: high speed polarization-controlled laser, polarisation control device
Toshiba Electronics and Panasonic Industrial Devices have teamed up in Europe to offer a Bluetooth module for industrial,automation,medical,personal sport and fitness equipment. The module will combine Toshiba's single chip TC35661 ...
Tags: Electronics, Design, Manufacture, Bluetooth
NXP is using a DSP and measurement of both output current and voltage to push 2.6Wrms through phone speakers. The product,called TFA9887,is a single chip intended to replace standard audio amplifier ICs in phones. Loudspeakers inside ...
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Lime Microsystems has signed an agreement with the strategic investment firm In-Q-Tel,which specialises in supporting technology used by the US Intelligence Community. The UK-based multi-band,multi-standard transceiver chip firm has ...
Tags: Lime, US, Radio Technology, CIA, In-Q-Tel, multi-band, transceiver
Xilinx says it's shipping Artix 7 FPGAs which are an alternatives to Virtex chips but are smaller and lower cost for portable medical,had-held radio and small base-station manufacturers. With the first Artix-7 shipments to customers,that ...
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US-Italian"Hark!"group develop novel practical photon source with positive implications for high speed optical communications. Two of a kind:Photon pair generation,in which input pump photons spontaneously create pairs of ...
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Photonics researcher wins€1M Krupp prize 04 Jul 2012 Christian Koos'work focuses on hybrid integration methods to combine silicon waveguides with organic materials. Prize-winner:Christian Koos'work focuses on hybrid integration ...
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22 June 2012 Fujitsu develops first high-output,single-chip 10GHz transceiver using GaN HEMT At the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium(IMS 2012)in Montreal,Canada(17-21 June),Fujitsu Laboratories of Kawasaki,Japan presented what ...
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
4 June 2012 Handset RF device market to grow from$3.8bn to$5bn in 2016 As handset RF front ends(containing gallium arsenide)are becoming increasingly sophisticated in the 4G era,they cost$9-11 for 4G devices,which is twice that for 3G and ...
Recently Prizmatix(http://www.prizmatix.com)released Ultra High Power LED-405nm Light Source for Fluorescence Microscopy Based on a single monolithic chip Ultra High Power LED(>32Watt)Light source provides excellent homogenous ...
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At the IEEE Photonics Society Optical Interconnects Conference(OIC 2012)in Santa Fe,NM,USA,OneChip Photonics Inc of Ottawa,Canada,which develops and manufactures optical chips and transceivers based on monolithic photonic integrated ...