According to a recent report, the global mar-ket for return-able trans-port pack-ag-ing (RTP) will grow at a CAGR of 6.1% over the next few years. By 2017, Priority Metrics Group projects the global RTP market to reach $6.75 billion. The ...
Texas Instruments (TI) announced today it will begin shipping wireless charging chips this year that support multiple protocols, allowing a wider range of mobile devices to be charged using competing standards. The first multi-mode chips ...
Ikon Semiconductor and Texas Instruments introduced new SSL driver ICs designed specifically for retrofit lamp applications at the Strategies in Light conference. Although socket saturation will come in LED-based retrofit lamps as we ...
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Orbit Research and the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) today announced the introduction of the Orion TI-84 Plus, the world's first fully accessible handheld graphing calculator. Based on the popular TI-84 Plus model from Texas ...
Lynskey Performance is introducing a five-model line of U.S.-made titanium frames that will retail for $1,100, the company announced. Previously, the company's least expensive frames sold for more than $2,000. The Silver Series of ...
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Samsung was by far the 300mm capacity leader in 2012 having about 61% more 300mm capacity than second-place SK Hynix, says IC Insights. Intel was the only other company that held a double-digit share of 300mm capacity at the end of 2012. ...
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Texas Instruments has developed an ARM Cortex-M0 that can sleep on zero power and wake in 400ns, intended to run on harvested power. Key to the chip is ferroelectric RAM (FRAM) non-volatile logic (NVL), where the state of flip-flops is ...
ISSCC 2013 - 60th Anniversary Held every year in February in San Francisco, the IEEE's International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) is the world showcase for innovative circuit design. This is the 60th conference, and year's ...
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Birefringence, a property of a crystalline material describes how within the material there are two distinct indices of refraction. Birefringent materials are used to create polarising filters or interference colours. Krystian Roleder, ...
The Reusable Pack-ag-ing Asso-ci-a-tion (RPA) is seek-ing input from sup-ply chain pro-fes-sion-als to help mold its new vir-tual reusable pack-ag-ing forum, called Con-nected Com-mu-nity. When launched, the com-mu-nity will pro-vide a ...
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Texas Instruments has off-line, phase-dimmable, constant-current lighting controllers which can be retrofitted to a range of LED bulb types, including E14, GU10, A19, PAR20/30/38, MR16 and AR111. The TPS92075 is available in a 6-pin ...
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Nujira says the first 4G LTE smartphones to use its power efficient RF technology will be on the market next year. “In the past it was an aspiration to get envelope-tracking (ET) technology designed into volume handsets, now we know ...
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Performance, Ride & Handling 3 Comfort & Interior 4 Quality & Design 2.5 Value & Features 2.5 Green 2.5 There are iconic nameplates in the motoring industry, and there is the Nissan Patrol. In its 60 years and five generations, ...
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Efficient Power Conversion Corp (EPC) of El Segundo, CA, USA has made available the EPC9004 development board, featuring the firm’s enhancement-mode gallium nitride on silicon (eGaN) field-effect transistors (FETs) for power ...
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Based on the ARM Cortex A9 and A15 processors Texas Instruments (TI) has launched the TPS65090, the single-chip, front-end power management unit (PMU) chip which it is claimed can extend the battery life of tablets and other portable ...
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