Western Digital subsidiary HGST today announced the its first solid-state drives (SSD) that sport a 12Gbps serial-attached SCSI (SAS) interface. The 2.5-in., enterprise-class SSD family ups the SAS interface bandwidth by 2X and boosts ...
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Plessey Semiconductors has launched its first GaN-on-silicon LED product, made in its Plymouth fab. "We can offer samples of our entry-level product and we are already discussing orders," company chief operating officer Barry Dennington ...
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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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Last night, the 11th annual Lighting Design Awards took place at the London Hilton, Park Lane. More than 740 of the country's leading lighting designers, manufacturers and architects gathered to celebrate another successful year in the ...
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A new project between two technology giants aims to develop a vision for the 'city of tomorrow', complete with innovative new outdoor lights and other advanced features. Toshiba Lighting will team up with smart meter and smart grid firm ...
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Why WestHolland? With almost 500 million residents, and a purchasing power second to none, Europe is one of the world's most important business and consumer markets. Dutch know-how and expertise in international trade and commerce make ...
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LCD panel makers in Taiwan, Japan and Korea have been suffering. Despite the growing demand for LCDs the high number of panel makers and new competition from China has resulted in tough price competition for panel makers, to the point that ...
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Total worldwide semiconductor revenue fell 2.6 per cent to $299.9bn in 2012, according to figures released today by analyst group Gartner. Intel remained the runaway market leader for the 21st year in a row with revenues of $49.09bn, but ...
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LED firm Philips introduced the Hue lighting system that consists of three color tunable LED light bulbs and a control device at the end of 2012 with a retail price of US$199/unit. The firm noted that the product will be introduced to Asia ...
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Aiming at industry, Toshiba has introduced opto-couplers guaranteed to world from -40 to 125°C. The DIP8 devices (9.6x7.6x3.6mm), TLP2955 and TLP2958, have a minimum isolation voltage of 5000Vrms and support data rates up to 5Mbit/s. ...
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Toshiba is planning to launch a 40Mbyte/s ultra-short-range wireless dongle this month, based on the TransferJet standard. TransferJet, supported by a consortium, is intended for transferring photos and video clips between phones and ...
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Tokyo-based Toshiba Corp has launched the latest addition to its TOSLINK fiber-optic transmission device line-up: fiber optic transmission modules that can send and receive signals from DC to 500kb/s with low current consumption up to a ...
Based on a study of 10,000 U.S consumers, Apple and HP earned the top spots in the computer sector of the 2013 Temkin Experience Ratings. At the other end of the spectrum, Sony and Lenovo were the lowest-rated computer makers. "Apple ...
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Samsung Electronics catapulted to the top of the optoelectronics supplier ranking in 2012 from 12th place in 2011 after it gained full ownership of Samsung LED, a 50-50 joint venture in light-emitting diodes that was created in 2009 between ...
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Toshiba has announced its first ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller with DSP extensions, a floating point unit (FPU) and a programmable servo/sequencer controller (PSC). The TMPM4440 microcontrollers are available with 768kbyte or 1024kbyte of ...
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