TI has given up on the smartphone and tablet markets for it OMAP processors and connectivity products,and is going to focus those products on the embedded processing market,says Greg Delagi,senior vice president for embedded processing at ...
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Texas Instruments has reduced the entry price for ARM Cortex-M4F microcontroller design with its Stellaris LM4F120 LaunchPad evaluation kit,costing$5. With integrated analogue and floating point capabilties,the MCU will be used for ...
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Texas Instruments has a new 6-channel LED driver IC for high-light applications such as street lights, while Allegro Microsystems introduced a product that can drive 3A and Diodes Inc. has a new driver for SSL application using mid-power ...
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Texas Instruments(TI)has released LM3463,which is a six-channel LED driver for high-power LED lighting applications.This LED driver is an addition to the already existing TI's range of LED drivers which include the eight-channel TLC5960 and ...
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Our 2013 Flex arrived right at about the same time as the summer vacation season. This pleased our staff, who managed to put a lot of road trip miles on our previous Flex test cars. Unfortunately, this latest test found that not all of the ...
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Texas Instruments has introduced its first differential amplifiers which are programmable for variable gain. The 2.4GHz LMH6881 single-channel and 2.4GHz LMH6882 dual-channel amplifiers have a 6dB to 26dB gain range. "The programmable ...
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Dallas Texas Instruments Incorporated(TI)(NASDAQ:TXN)today introduced a six-channel LED driver with dynamic headroom control for high-power applications,which accurately and efficiently drives up to six strings of LEDs.The LM3463 is the ...
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MIT researchers have found a way to observe how electrons move in the class of materials known as topological insulators. Topological insulators are exotic materials,discovered just a few years ago,in which the electrons demonstrate ...
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The new 7-in.Kindle Fire HD tablet by Amazon,starting at$199,scored a 7 out of 10 rating from iFixit for its repairability by do-it-yourselfers. The main reason iFixit didn't give the Kindle Fire HD a higher rating--a 10 indicates repairs ...
Taipei, Sept. 10, 2012 (CENS)--United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) recently announced it raked in revenue of NT$9.79 billion (US$326.6 million at US$1:NT$30) in August, hitting a 20-month high and increasing 1.9% from a month earlier and ...
A company claims it has a module which will speed up the transfer of embedded design based on TI's Beaglebone to production. Based on the Texas Instruments Sitara AM335x,the TRITON-TX48 from Direct Insight offers ARM Cortex-A8 performance ...
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The ARM Cortex-A15 will be out in handsets by the end of the year,says Laurence Bryant,director of ARM's mobile solutions group. Asked if the problems with 28nm supply would affect that aspiration,Bryant replied:"From what I hear,there ...
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STMicroelectronics is the third largest spender on R&D in the semiconductor industry and has the second highest ratio of R&D spend to sales revenue among the major players,reports IC Insights. ST came third after Intel and Samsung in ...
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TSMC will lead the foundry pack by a massive 4x margin over No.2 GloFo, says IC Insights. The top ten players in 2012 will be, says IC Insights: $bn TSMC 16.7 GloFo 4.3 ...
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Hans Camenzind,designer of the 555,has died at the age of 78. Born Swiss,he moved to the USA at the age of 24 to take an MSEE and MBA.He worked in R&D at PR Mallory and,after six years,decided he wanted to join a company which made ICs ...
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