4 Traps in Installing Capacitive Touchscreens for Auto

Capacitive sensing touchscreens are given for the "iPhone generation." But there are four key technical issues automotive manufacturers should consider when implementing them.

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Intel to Exit from Mobile SoC Business

As it proceeds with a massive restructuring plan announced earlier this month, Intel will exit the smartphone and tablet mobile SoC business by ending its struggling Atom chip product line. Intel is likely to keep its modem team.

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Silego GreenPAK Collision Avoidance

Silego Technology's highly versatile Mixed-signal GreenPAK can do a lot in a very small space. At just 6 mm2, the SLG46620V can be configured to address a wide variety of applications, even an ultrasonic collision avoidance system.

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MediaTek Expects Increase in Smartphone Shipments

MediaTek, Qualcomm's largest competitor in the smartphone silicon business, said it expects to increase shipments during the second quarter this year from the first quarter even as global growth in the segment has stalled for the first time.

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Chips for Energy Harvesting: The Next Billion-Dollar Market

Although energy harvesting has failed to take off to date, it is expected to drive $3 billion in semiconductor sales in 2020, according to Semico Research.

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Indian Fabs, the Free Market and Central Planning

Over the next year there will be an interesting test of two opposites in political thinking applied to the creation of wafer fabs.

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Radio Show Taps into Sensor Nets

Two experts share real-world experiences designing and securing wireless sensor networks for the Internet of Things.

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Smartphone Shipments Down for First Time

Smartphone shipments fell for the first time in their nearly decade-long history during the first quarter this year, according to market research firm Strategy Analytics.

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Operation Crush at Samsung

After Micron bought Elpida it was expected that the memory industry would consolidate around four players Samsung, Micron, Toshiba/SanDisk and Hynix. But, according to Bernstein analyst Mark Newman, Samsung’s strategy is to expand its shares of the DRAM and NAND markets from its current 40% to 50% each. This will hit competitors Hynix and Micron ...

Operation Crush at Samsung

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Crowd funding changing the game for chip firms

Another semiconductor company is using crowd-funding to find the investment needed to bring a product to production and into the commercial market. Lime Microsystems has started a crowd-funding campaign to bring their LimeSDR software defined radio platform into full-scale production. The company is hoping to raise $500,000 to fund the final stages of development and ...

Crowd funding changing the game for chip firms

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Amazon shows its strength

Amazon had Q1 sales of $29 billion for a profit of $513 million. Its cloud service had revenues of $2.57 billion representing about 30% of the cloud services market leaving cloud rivals Google and Microsoft trailing. The cloud business had profits of $604 million in Q1. It delivers 56% of the operating income at Amazon ...

Amazon shows its strength

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ASE 1Q16 profits fall 7%

IC packager Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) has announced net profits of NT$4.16 billion (US$129.1million) for the first quarter of 2016, down 7% on year and 17% sequentially.

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Apple beats Microsoft at their own game while Amazon primes the low end of tablet market, says IDC

First-quarter seasonality combined with an overall disinterested customer base led to an annual decline of 14.7% in worldwide tablet shipments during the first quarter of 2016. Worldwide shipments of tablets (including slate and detachable form factors) reached 39.6 million, according to preliminary data from the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker.

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Acer Asia Pacific head eyes break-even operation in 2Q16

Acer Pan Asia Pacific president Andrew Hou has pointed out that the company still saw losses in the first quarter in Asia Pacific and is looking to achieve a break-even operation in the second quarter.

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Global LCD TV shipments in 1Q16 estimated at 48.32 million units, says WitsView

There were an estimated 48.32 million LCD TVs shipped globally in the first quarter of 2016, dropping 20.9% on quarter and 6.3% on year, according to WitsView.

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MediaTek posts lower revenues and gross margin for 1Q16

MediaTek has reported gross margin for the first quarter of 2016 fell further to 38.1% while consolidated revenues decreased 9.4% sequentially to NT$55.91 billion (US$1.73 billion).

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AUO expects significant growth in 2Q16, says chairman

TFT-LCD panel maker AU Optronics (AUO) saw operations rebound in March mainly due to emerging demand arising from the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Brazil and the early May holiday sales period in the China market. AUO's business in the second quarter will significantly increase on quarter, chairman and CEO Paul Peng said at an April 28 investors conference.

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TPK reports operating loss for 1Q16

Touchscreen solution provider TPK Holding has posted consolidated revenues of NT$21.239 billion (US$653 million), gross margin of 4.67%, net operating loss of NT$357 million, net profit of NT$52 million and net EPS of NT$0.15 for the first quarter of 2016.

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China Telecom 1Q16 revenues up 6.1% on year

China Telecom has reported operating revenues of CNY86.426 billion (US$13.22 billion) growing 6.1% on year for the first quarter of 2016, according to the company.

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Coretronic expects 2Q16 projector shipments to grow over 20%

Coretronic shipped 243,000 DLP projectors in the first quarter of 2016 and expects to ship 95,000-105,000 units a month in the second quarter with quarterly growth of more than 20%, the company said at an April 28 investors conference.

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Notebook-use thermal module makers step into server applications

Notebook-use heat-dissipation module makers, including Taiwan-based Auras Technology, Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industry, Asia Vital Components and Cooler Master as well as Japan-based Furukawa Electric, are extending production to models for use in servers which is likely to trigger a price war, according to Taiwan-based thermal module makers.

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Trina Solar unveils N-type IBC monocrystalline silicon solar cell with energy conversion rate of 23.5%

China-based Trina Solar has announced that its in-house-developed N-type IBC (interdigitated back contact 6-inch monocrystalline silicon solar cell has been tested by Japan-based third-party certification organization Japan Electrical Safety & Environment Technology Laboratories (JET) to have an energy conversion rate of 23.5%, a world record for 6-inch solar cells of the same kind.

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SPIL expects higher factory utilization in 2Q16

Siliconware Precision Industries' (SPIL) capacity utilization rate for the second quarter of 2016 will rise from the first quarter, with some of its production lines, mainly those for flip-chip (FC) and wire-bonding packaging, expected to run at nearly full capacity in May, company chairman Bough Lin said at an April 28 investors meeting.

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Transcend 1Q16 net profits fall 25%

Memory module maker Transcend Information has announced net profits for the first quarter of 2016 declined 25.4% from a year earlier to NT$623 million (US$19.3 million), while consolidated revenues fell 7.9% on year to NT$5.65 billion.

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Global Lighting Technologies expects to ship 10 million TV-use LGPs in 2016

Global Lighting Technologies expects to ship 10 million TV-use light guide plates (LGP) in 2016, according to the company.

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Cypress subsidiary Deca to receive US$60 million investment from ASE

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) and Deca Technologies, a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor, have announced the signing of an agreement whereby ASE will invest US$60 million in Deca and will license Deca's M-Series fan-out wafer-level packaging (FOWLP) technologies and processes.

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Digitimes Research: Taiwan makers ship 7.35 million LCD TVs in 1Q16

Taiwan-based makers shipped 7.35 million LCD TVs in the first quarter of 2016, decreasing 28.2% on quarter and 1.7% on year. 62.2% of shipments were ODM/OEM orders and 37.8% OBM, according to Digitimes Research.

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Macronix posts another quarter of losses

Macronix International, which specializes in the manufacture of NOR flash and mask ROM memory chips, remained unprofitable in the first quarter of 2016 bringing its net value per share below NT$5 (US$0.16).

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Friday Quiz: Massive MIMO, Part 1

Massive MIMO is one of the technologies under development for 5G cellular communications. It's still in the simulation and demonstration stage, but you should start learning about it now.

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EEVblog #874 – World’s Oldest Electronics Hobbyist!

105yo Ted Wale still builds FM bugs in his lab, and carves his own PCB’s (none of this etching rubbish!)
Dave caught up with him in his backyard workshop in Cabramatta in Sydney.
Forum HERE

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Cypress to Pay $550 Million for Broadcom's IoT Business

Cypress says deal will open up new markets, give firm leadership position in consumer Internet of Things space.

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T.J. Rogers Steps Down at Cypress

Cypress Semiconductor Corp.'s CEO T.J. Rogers will retire this week from the top position he held at the company he founded 34 years ago.

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Programmable Radio for Cellular, IoT Hub, Military & "Not-Yet-Thought-Of" Applications

The FPGA and FPRF (field programmable RF) chips inside Lime Micro's SDR can address a wide variety of applications.

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Pin Receptacles - Backbone of your Design

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Novel Soldering Technique Using Pseudo TIG Welder

Although it claims a 100-year life, the power LED in this video comes to an early demise.

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Choosing Between 3D Printing and Injection Molding for Rapid Manufacturing

Sponsored by Proto Labs

What is the difference between rapid prototyping and rapid manufacturing, since they both appear to use the same technologies? What are the major differences between 3D printing and injection molding? After a part has been successfully prototyped, why not go straight to injection molding. What types of applications might use only a few 3D printed parts, for example?

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Cypress to aqcuire Broadcom’s IoT wireless business

Cypress Semiconductor has agreed to acquire Broadcom’s wireless product business aimed at internet of things markets in an all-cash transaction valued at $550m. This means Cypress will acquire Broadcom’s Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Zigbee IoT product lines and intellectual property, along with its WICED brand and developer ecosystem. The IoT business employs approximately 430 people and generated $189m in ...

Cypress to aqcuire Broadcom’s IoT wireless business

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Apple passes its peak in latest quarterly results

Apple’s seemingly relentless march to ever increasing sales has halted according to its latest quarterly figures. It’s fiscal 2016 second quarter (ending March 26) saw a 14% drop in quarterly sales of $50.56bn, down from $58bn last year. This represents the first fall in sales since 2003. Apple’s quarterly profits fell 22% from $13.5bn to $10.5bn. In ...

Apple passes its peak in latest quarterly results

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Electronics firms win Queen’s Awards

Many electronics companies have won Queen’s Awards, for innovation, international trade and sustainable development. Sorry if we missed you out The list is long and sometimes hard to interpret. To be added, please comment below. East region Argon Design, Cambridge, innovation: Verification of video decoders for high definition (HD 4K) video. Specialised Imaging, Hertfordshire, innovation: Kirana, an ...

Electronics firms win Queen’s Awards

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Fuel Cell Plane May Bring Zero Emission Flying in Reach

The German aeronautics and space research center DLR is currently developing a fuel cell-based research platform to explore more sustainable electrically-driven, locally emission-free passenger airplanes.

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Trade Secret Bill Boosts Protection

The Defend Trade Secrets Act is poised to bring a wealth of new protections for electronics companies that are more vulnerable than ever to trade secret theft.

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JEDEC Adds UFS Card Spec

The Universal Flash Storage (UFS) family of standards have been updated along with the introduction of a new removable memory card option for the mobile device market

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TI Tops Estimates on Automotive IC Strength

Buoyed by strong sales of automotive semiconductors, Texas Instruments delivered first quarter results that beat Wall Street's expectations.

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Xilinx Shares Decline After Light Forecast

Programmable logic vendor beats quarterly sales expectations, but excepts sales to be flat in the current quarter.

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Auto & Cloud Companies' Alliances Untangled

In the era of the Internet of Everything, big data has thrown together a roster of once-strange bedfellows, including Rolls-Royce with Microsoft, Hyundai with Cisco, Toyota with Microsoft, Amazon with the U.S. Dept. of Transportation, and BMW with Microsoft.

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Room temperature solder uses an odd state of matter

US researchers have used under-cooled liquid metal – liquid below its freezing point – for soldering wires together at room-temperature. The project started in Iowa State University as a search for a way to stop liquid metal from returning to a solid below the metal’s melting point. Lead by Martin Thuo (below), the research team ...

Room temperature solder uses an odd state of matter

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Manufacturer invests in specialist high voltage production

AWS Electronics has added a high voltage production capability to its plant in Newcastle Under Lyme. The electronics manufacturing services company, which is investing £30k in the facility, now has a manufacturing space purely for work that requires up to 50kV; high currents of up to 180A can also be accommodated. The most likely customers for the high voltage ...

Manufacturer invests in specialist high voltage production

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CambridgeIC wins Queen’s Award

Cambridge IC has won the Queen’s Award for International Trade for growth in international sales over the last three years, which have increased by 120%. The firm makes ICs for inductive angle and position sensing. “We are delighted and honoured to receive this award in recognition of our overseas sales,” said founder and director David ...

CambridgeIC wins Queen’s Award

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iPhone shipments to continue to drop in 2Q16

Shipments of iPhone devices are expected to continue to decline to around 40 million units in the second quarter of 2016 (or Apple's fiscal third quarter) after shipments dropped 16% on year to 51.19 million units in the first quarter, sources from the iPhone supply chain in Taiwan have estimated.

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SPIL 1Q16 profits shrink 38.6% in 1Q16

IC packager Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) has reported net profits of NT$1.6 billion (US$49.7 million) for the first quarter of 2016, down 38.6% from a year earlier.

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Worldwide smartphone growth goes flat in 1Q16, says IDC

Global smartphone shipments reached 334.9 million units in the first quarter of 2016, up slightly from the 334.3 million units shipped a year earlier, marking the smallest on-year growth on record, according to IDC.

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Silicon Motion posts record revenues and profits for 1Q16

Silicon Motion Technology has announced net income (non-GAAP) of US$24.3 illion or US$0.68 per diluted ADS on net sales of US$112.7 million for the first quarter of 2016. The results all hit the highest quarterly levels in the company's history.

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SPIL decides to terminate stake deal with Tsinghua Unigroup

Taiwan-based IC packager Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL) announced on April 28 that the company's board of directors has passed a resolution to terminate its strategic alliance agreement and share subscription agreement with China's state-owned Tsinghua Unigroup.

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AUO reports NT$5.58 billion in net loss for 1Q16

AU Optronics (AUO) has reported a net loss of NT$5.58 billion (US$172.53 million) for the first quarter of 2016 on consolidated revenues of NT$71.14 billion, which represents a sequential decline of 14.7%.

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Optimism over Q2

The semiconductor industry is beginning to accept that Q2 will be a good quarter. ST sees a possible 5.5% revenue increase in Q2 and UMC has forecast a 5% increase. According to Digitimes UMC sees utilisation riding to 87/89% in Q2 from 82% in Q1, and ASPs rise 1-2%. “Looking into second-quarter 2016, new product ...

Optimism over Q2

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Networking device maker Senao to hand out cash dividend NT$13 for 2015

Wireless networking/communication device maker Senao Networks plans to hand out a cash dividend of NT$13 (US$0.402) for 2015 during which it posted net profits of NT$812 million or NT$16.6 per share.

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StrongLED Lighting expects 2016 revenue proportion for ODM/OEM production to rise to over 10%

StrongLED Lighting Systems (Cayman), a LED lighting solution provider, expects the revenue proportion for ODM/OEM production to increase from 5% in 2015 to more than 10% in 2016, according to the company.

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Radiant Opto-Electronics poised to cope with impact from smartphone-use OLED, says chairman

Backlight unit (BLU) maker Radiant Opto-Electronics, viewing that OLED panels are seeing increasing use in smartphones, will use its technology to compete for orders from smartphone vendors other than Apple and enhance management to minimize any negative impact, company chairman PJ Wang said at an April 27 investors conference.

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SAS to sue solar wafer makers for patent infringement

Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) has revealed it is preparing to file charges against China- and Taiwan-based makers who allegedly have infringed on its patent No. 1452185 concerning the structure and manufacturing process of solar ingots and wafers.

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Foxconn promoting Sharp products internally

Foxconn Electronics' (Hon Hai Precision Industry) employees have recently established a team to display and promote Sharp's white goods such as dehumidifiers, air purifiers and refrigerators at Foxconn's plants, hoping to attract employees to purchase Sharp's products and help boost their sales in Taiwan and China.

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Taiwan market: Canon launches new flagship DSLR

Canon has launched its latest flagship DSLR camera, the EOS-1D X Mark II in Taiwan. Canon has also upgraded Taiwan consumers' equipment protection plan.

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Taiwan market: Smartphones sales dip in March; Samsung outperforms Apple in volume sales

Sales of handsets, mostly smartphones, totaled 672,000 units in the Taiwan market in March, a decline of 37,000 units from the previous month and 21,000 units from a year earlier period, according to a Chinese-language sogi.com report, citing data compiled by local retail channels.

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Asustek denies plans to split company businesses

Asustek Computer has refuted a rumor that the company is considering separating its Open Platform business group, which includes motherboard, graphics card, monitor and peripheral product lines, and the System business group, which includes PC, smartphone and tablet product lines, to form independent companies.

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Hitech, Ezswap, Benma to push lithium-battery vehicles and exchange system in China

Taiwan-based electric vehicle maker Hitech Energy has announced to partner with battery station operator Ezswap Networks and China-based Guangzhou Benma Industrial to establish battery exchange stations in Guangdong and Fujian provinces, China beginning the second half.

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Foxconn to place more investment in solar energy subsidiary in China

Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has announced to increase its investments in its solar energy subsidiary in Nanyang, China by CNY127.1 million (US$19.58 million).

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UMC looks to 5% wafer shipment growth in 2Q16

United Microelectronics (UMC) expects to post an about 5% sequential increase in wafer shipments for the second quarter of 2016, when the company's capacity utilization rate will rise to 87-89% from 82% in the prior quarter.

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Inotera swings to loss in 1Q16

Inotera Memories slipped into the red in the first quarter of 2016 with revenues falling due to falling DRAM ASPs and shipments.

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GaAs IC foundry Win Semi 1Q16 EPS hits record

GaAs IC foundry Win Semiconductors saw its net EPS climb to a record high of NT$1.41 (US$0.04) in the first quarter of 2016.

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Nanya nets NT$0.68 in 1Q16 EPS

DRAM chipmaker Nanya Technology has reported net profits for the first quarter of 2016 slid 1.1% sequentially to NT$1.85 billion (US$57.2 million). The earnings translated into a net EPS of NT$0.68.

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Apple sees iPhone shipments drop in fiscal 2Q16

Apple has announced that it posted quarterly revenues of US$50.6 billion and quarterly net income of US$10.5 billion, or US$1.90 per diluted share for the fiscal 2016 second quarter ended March 26. Quarterly iPhone shipments reached 51.1 million units, down 16.5% on year.

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Coding Challenge: Can You Improve My BMP Display?

The current time portal implementation features a slow image-to-image wipe from top to bottom; is there any way we can jazz this up?

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The Versatility of Hardware Emulation Magnifies its Return on Investment

Hardware emulation is widely considered the universal verification tool that can be used throughout the SoC development cycle.

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3D Printing Goes Mainstream

3D printing has serious uses now and promises to revitalize production by bringing creative designs and small-lot printing to many industries.

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60V LED Driver with Internal 4A Switch for Automotive Lighting

LED lighting is an important feature in today's and future automobile designs.

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Bell Labs Forecasts Mobile Capacity Crunch

A Bell Labs study says overall cellular traffic generated by IoT devices will only account for 2% of total mobile traffic by 2020, the real pick-up coming when video-enabled sensors and cameras begin to predominate.

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Marvell Shakes up Board in Deal with Hedge Fund

Chip firm commences search for CEO after burying hatchet with Starboard Value LP.

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Electronic Design’s Products of the Week (4/24-4/30)

We've rounded up some of the latest products to help optimize your applications, devices, and systems.

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The Serial Port: Still Going, but Showing Signs?

The venerable serial port is still the backbone of industrial measurements, but embedded computer boards are slowly starting to abandon it.

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Infineon Sensor to Look for 'Dark Matter'

Silicon sensor chips made by Infineon are to be deployed at CERN, the world's largest particle physics research center, in the hope of proving the existence of dark matter.

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microswitch works under water

Cyntech Components is offering a range of microswitches that are fully dust-tight and water-sealed. Designed to meet more demanding industrial applications, the Microprecision microswitches are available in various configurations to meet IEC/EN 60529 ingress protection levels of IP67 and IP68, and work over -40 to +125°C and more. “Microprecision has it covered with a range of microswitches ...

microswitch works under water

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Macom Sues Infineon Over GaN Rights

RF and microwave chip vendor asks U.S. federal court to protect patented gallium nitride on silicon technology developed by Nitronex, which Macom acquired in 2014.

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PCIM: Wolfspeed to show 20kW SiC dc-dc converter

Wolfspeed – Cree’s silicon carbide power transistor division – is to reveal just how small it can make a 20kW dc-dc converter at PCIM in Nurnberg. Alongside this will be an all-SiC 62mm half-bridge power module and gate driver combination (see below) with three-phase evaluation kit, and an on-line simulation tool for SiC power supplies called ...

PCIM: Wolfspeed to show 20kW SiC dc-dc converter

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How to Control EMI in Synchronous Buck Converters

Reducing ringing and limiting slew rate in buck converters can pay big dividends when tackling EMI issues.

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IoT Library: Mesh Networks Ideal for Smart Home Control Applications

Mesh networking is emerging as an ideal design solution for interconnecting a large number of network devices.

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Old battery tech gets new life

US researchers have stretched the operating life of aqueous zinc-manganese oxide batteries to over 5,000 cycles. The result is a rechargeable battery that cost only as much as a car battery but store more energy, according to the US Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which is grooming the technology for matching renewable energy sources to power ...

Old battery tech gets new life

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Dyson aims motor expertise at hair drying

Dyson has used its considerable motor and air-flow expertise to develop a hair dryer. Instead of the usual arrangement, the high-speed motor and fan are in the handle, and what would normally be the body of the dryer is now am annular nozzle  with a hole right through the middle – much like the firm’s ...

Dyson aims motor expertise at hair drying

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NXP Bullish on Future With Freescale in Fold

No. 1 automotive semiconductor supplier forecasts better than expected second quarter, says integration is going well.

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UMC Sees Business Returning to Normal Later This Year

United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC), the world's third-largest foundry, said that by the second half of 2016, it expects business to recover from a slump that impacted demand for communications chips starting last year.

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The Day After the iPhone Fell

Apple's iPhone slump marks a new day for a semiconductor industry searching for a driver.

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NI offers DMM in PXI Express slot

NI has introduced its first digital multimeter in the PXI Express modular test format. It is a 7½-digit DMM and 1.8MS/s isolated digitiser. The PXIe-4081 has 15ppm accuracy for DC voltage measurements up to two years after calibration. It is capable of voltage measurements from nanovolts to one kilovolt and resistance measurements from microohms to ...

NI offers DMM in PXI Express slot

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ams wins US trade secret and patent infringement ruling

Austria-based analogue semiconductor manufacturer, ams has announced that a US District Judge has awarded its US subsidiary, ams-TAOS  damages of $77m from Intersil, including $10m in exemplary damages. The decision comes after jurors in the federal Eastern District of Texas found in favour of ams-TAOS on all claims against Intersil for misappropriation of ams-TAOS’ trade ...

ams wins US trade secret and patent infringement ruling

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Sol Voltaics claims solar cell efficiency breakthrough with nanowires

Photovoltaic (PV) module efficiencies of 27% for solar energy generation is the claim of Swedish advanced materials start-up Sol Voltaics using its nanowire technology. Solar power system developers have looked at using nanowires to improve conversion efficiency, but they are notoriously difficult to align due to their high aspect ratios and material characteristics. What Sol ...

Sol Voltaics claims solar cell efficiency breakthrough with nanowires

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Ampleon claims RF transistor lifts efficiency to next level

Ampleon, the Netherlands-based power semiconductor firm, has introduced an RF power transistor designed for DVB-T UHF asymmetrical wideband Doherty amplifier applications. The company claims the RF device which is fabricated in a high voltage LDMOS process has greater than 50% power efficiency and the average DVB-T power output is 150W from a single transistor for ...

Ampleon claims RF transistor lifts efficiency to next level

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Infineon starts production of LED lighting interface IC

This month Infineon starts volume production of an LED lighting interface IC which allows designers to replace many of the discrete components used in conventional dimming schemes with a single device. Thus, it can reduce the component count and PCB space needed for dimming circuitry in LED lighting applications by up to 70%. Infineon claims ...

Infineon starts production of LED lighting interface IC

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Corning reports loss for 1Q16

Corning has reported a net loss of US$368 million for the first quarter of 2016, compared to net profit of US$407 million for the same period a year ago. First-quarter 2016 net sales reached US$2.05 billion, down from US$2.27 billion in the same quarter of 2015.

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China makers rush to produce LED filament light bulbs

Many China-based LED lighting makers, in view of fast growing demand for LED filament lighting products, have stepped into production of LED filament light bulbs or lamps, according to industry sources.

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Soft-World sets up joint venture in Indonesia

Online game developer and operator Soft-World International has announced the establishment of an Indonesia-based joint venture, PT. Maya Kartuku International, with Indonesia-based advertising agent PT. Damai Sejahtera Utama and Singapore-based financial consulting company Balius Capital Limited to promote MyCard, Soft-World's value-stored cards and credit points platform, as well as advertising services in Indonesia and other markets in Southeast Asia.

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Data Systems Consulting, Techmation form strategic cooperation to tap China automated plastic production market

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution provider Data Systems Consulting and Techmation, a developer of automated control systems for plastic injection molding machinery, on April 26 signed a strategic cooperation agreement to promote automated monitoring and management systems for plastic manufacturing processes through integration of ERP and manufacturing execution system (MES) solutions in the China market mainly. The China government is boosting intelligent manufacturing, according to the companies.

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Apple drives entire foundry sales increase at TSMC in 2015 says IC Insights

IC Insights has released its 2015 top IC foundries (pure-play and IDM) ranking. TSMC, by far, was the leader with US$26.4 billion in sales last year.

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ITTS steps into smart factory, city, logistics services

IT outsourcing and business process outsourcing service provider Information Technology Total Services (ITTS) has extended operations to Internet of Things-based (IoT) services for smart factories, smart cities and smart logistics, according to the company.

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Digitimes Research: Nichia tops LED packagers in 2015 revenues

Japan-based Nichia continued to rank the number one LED packaging service provider globally in 2015 with related revenues reaching US$2.72 billion, or about 200% higher than those generated by the second to fourth largest vendors, according to Digitimes Research.

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Tsinghua investment will not affect PTI 2016 operations

Whether or not an investment proposal by Tsinghua Unigroup obtains approval by Taiwan's anti-trust authority will not affect Powertech Technology's (PTI) operations during 2016, according to the Taiwan-based IC backend house.

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Silego adds to pFET controllers

Silage, the configurable mixed signal specialist, has announced an expansion of its pFET integrated power controller portfolio with of self-powered, 1.6 mm2, single-channel and dual-channel controllers with reverse-current protection. Designed for all high-side, 1.5 V to 5.5 V power rail applications, these new pFET power controllers achieve an ultra-stable 23 mΩ RDSON over temperature. Using ...

Silego adds to pFET controllers

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ST makes $41m loss pays $88m dividend

ST had Q1 revenues of $1.6 billion for net loss of $41 million, an operating loss of $31 million and a decline in its net financial position (cash minus debt) down to $439 million from $494 million in Q4. Cash dividends worth $88 million were paid out to shareholders. “While revenues declined sequentially by 3.3% ...

ST makes $41m loss pays $88m dividend

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Global LCD TV panel capacity in 2Q16 to grow 8.8%, says Sigmaintell

Global production capacity for LCD TV panels in the second quarter of 2016 will reach 42.6 million square meters, increasing 8.8% on quarter, according to China-based Sigmaintell Consulting.

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China 1Q16 PV installation capacity hits record, say reports

Total PV installation capacity in China in the first quarter of 2016 reached 7.14GWp, the highest quarterly level on record and consisting of 6.17GWp for PV power stations and 0.97GWp for distributed systems, according to China-based media reports.

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High-end smartphone sales decelerating, affecting IC orders

Sales of high-end smartphones are decelerating, affecting orders for ICs and other parts and components, according to sources from Taiwan-based IC design houses.

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PTI meets 1Q16 guidance; expects growth through 4Q16

Packaging and testing company Powertech Technology (PTI) saw its first-quarter results come in line with its guidance, and has given its positive outlook for the rest of the year.

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Generalplus 1Q16 profits soar over 60%

Consumer IC design house Generalplus Technology has reported net profit for the first quarter of 2016 increased 65.9% from a year earlier to NT$75.80 million (US$2.35 million). EPS for the quarter came to NT$0.70.

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EETI 1Q16 revenues rise

Touchscreen controller IC vendor Egalax-empia Technology (EETI) has reported consolidated revenues for the first quarter of 2016 increased 6% sequentially and 25.4% on year to NT$283 million (US$8.8 million).

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Realtek 1Q16 profits fall 20%

Networking IC design company Realtek Semiconductor has reported net profit for the first quarter of 2016 declined 20% from a year earlier to NT$590 million (US$18.3 million). EPS for the quarter came to NT$1.17.

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PC, handset supply chain makers conservative about prospects for 2016

Makers in the PC and handset supply chains in Taiwan are conservative about a business rebound in the second half of 2016 as well as the overall performance for the entire year amid unfavorable business news from the sectors, including layoffs at Intel and declining iPhone shipments.

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Driver-IC backend houses lower quotes to woo orders

LCD driver IC packaging and testing houses Chipbond Technology and ChipMOS Technologies have both decided to lower their quotes following in the footsteps of their China- and South Korea-based counterparts, which have already cut their prices to woo orders, according to industry sources.

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Everlight to start production at new factory in central Taiwan

LED packaging service provider Everlight Electronics has nearly completed a factory in central Taiwan and will install equipment at the end of the second quarter of 2016 and begin production in the third, according to the company.

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Memory IC design house AP Memory to debut on TSE in May

Shares of Taiwan-based memory IC design company AP Memory Technology, a joint venture set up by Powertech Technology and Elite Semiconductor Memory Technology (ESMT), will debut on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) in the second half of May.

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HTC to launch accelerator programs to foster development of VR industry

HTC has announced plans to inject over US$100 million to carry out a business accelerator program, HTC Vive X, to foster development of the virtual reality (VR) industry.

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Digitimes Research: Taiwan makers ship over 19 million LCD monitors in 1Q16

Taiwan-based ODMs, OEMs and OBMs together shipped 19.041 million LCD monitors in the first quarter of 2016, decreasing 10.6% on quarter but increasing 3.7% on year and accounting for 66.9% of global total, according to Digitimes Research.

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MIT: Changing Coal into Circuitry

ExxonMobil-sponsored MIT study asks can lump of coal become a transistor or solar cell cheaply?

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Apple iPhone Sales Slide 16%

Apple's quarterly iPhone sales declined for the first time but the company said it remains bullish on the outlook for its smartphone.

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Time Portal Tribute to Classic Science Fiction Films of Yesteryear

Can you suggest any classic science fiction movies and TV shows that should be represented via images in the Caveman Diorama Time Portal?

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MCU Guy, Meet FPGA; FPGA, Meet MCU Guy

If you have heard of FPGAs, Verilog & VHDL but don't really know "what lies beneath," or if you want to introduce someone to FPGA Space, then this column is for you.

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Wearables Pose New Security Risks

Design flaws can create security vulnerabilities in wearable devices, according to a new report from the IEEE based on a fictional WearFit device.

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The Equations and Story of the FFT

While you've probably used the Fast Fourier Transform many times in your career, you may not be aware of how it evolved from Fourier's original concept.

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Flexible film measures heat flow directly

Japanese researchers have taken a step which might lead to flexible thin-film heat flow sensors – sensors that can be built into a heat path. Heat flow, analogous to current flow, is generally inferred by measuring temperatures at two points either side of a known thermal resistance. The alternative, measuring heat flow directly, involves placing ...

Flexible film measures heat flow directly

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Only 5% of Health Orgs Operate at Peak Digital Efficiency

A new study reports only 5% of health organizations operate at peak digital efficiency.

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Electronics Rep Association Goes in New Directions

After eighty years in existence, the Electronics Representative Association (ERA) is working to make itself more relevant to our quickly changing industry.

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EEVblog #873 – World’s Most Dangerous Consumer Product!

Dave looks at possibly the world’s most dangerous consumer product, a portable electrode boiler based water heater available on ebay.
Marketed as “safe”, it is nothing less than a death trap!

EDIT: Holy crap! They sell this as a baby bath heater!

Forum HERE

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EEVblog #872 – Mailbag

Mailbag time!
Forum HERE
Death trap video HERE

SPOILERS:
Zifnu Rocket Kit on Kickstarter
PAX Instrument T400 Temperature Logger
Arris Cable Modem teardown
Mail from Claire Standish
Sinclair ZX81 Computer Teardown
3D Printed glow in the dark Delorean
Garmin Fishfinder Teardown
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Cheap Ebay $9 multimeter teardown
Sharp EL-5810 pocket scientific calculator
Dave’s uCalc project.

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Calculating An R-C Snubber

Most power supply designers have encountered ringing in switch-mode converters. This ringing can generate radiated and conducted noise, cause circuit jitter, over-stress components, and create excessive dissipation. This is often a major concern in applications such as audio, processor power, and any design that requires electromagnetic interference (EMI) qualification.

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Roll-to-Roll Flexible Electronics to Hit 100GHZ?

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin Madison have leveraged the high carrier mobility of flexible silicon nanomembranes (NM) with the scalability of nanoimprinting lithography (NIL) to produce thin-film flexible RF transistors capable of operating at 38GHz.

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Mie Fujitsu, CSEM to Combine DDC, Low Voltage for IOT Chips

Japanese chip manufacturer Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd. and Swiss research institute CSEM SA have agreed to collaborate on Deeply Depleted Channel (DDC) technology and near/sub-threshold voltage technology for integrated circuits aimed at the Internet of Things and wearables markets.

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15 Biggest Technology Wins on Kickstarter

New technology gets people excited. A quick look at the Kickstarter funding platform proves it. Here's a look at the biggest wins, from personal 3D printers and inexpensive computers to smart bicycles and music players.

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Paying, Building 5G for Autos

Industry experts at the Brooklyn 5G Summit expect, unsurprisingly, that 5G will play a major role in the future of automotive communications. Just how next-generation cellular systems will help form autonomous or automated driver assistance is still being constructed.

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Excelera enhances sensor systems

Excelera of Barcelona is a start-up aiming to bring new capabilities to sensor systems Excelera has a chip it calls a Universal Frequency-to-Digital Converter-1 (UFDC-1) – a fully digital CMOS IC, capable of measuring frequency, period, ratio, duty-cycle, and phase shift in 16 different modes, with a relative error ranging from 0.001 to 1%. “We ...

Excelera enhances sensor systems

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High reliability has a role on trains and oil rigs

How are component suppliers responding to the needs of high reliability markets such as the oil and gas or rail sectors? Roger Tall gives a few pointers. In the oil and gas and rail industries the need to ensure high reliability is an everyday design challenge but now more is being demanded from these systems ...

High reliability has a role on trains and oil rigs

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The “Hateful Five” of PCB manufacturing

Design done, PCB laid-out and components are sourced, but the biggest challenge is yet to come getting it manufactured. David Marrakchi describes the pitfalls to avoid You just completed your last design review, got that needed approval signature, and the finish line has never been closer, or so you think. Even after your components are ...

The “Hateful Five” of PCB manufacturing


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FPGAs get Hitless I/O for in-system hardware upgrade

Lattice semiconductor has added to its MachXO3 family of FPGAs with the addition of the MachXO3L-9400 and MachXO3LF-9400 devices available in multiple packages. The new devices offer expanded I/O and logic support for control PLD applications, while increased on-chip memory improves picture clarity for low cost video bridging in large monitor applications, says Lattice. Features ...

FPGAs get Hitless I/O for in-system hardware upgrade

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Mouser adds Intel IoT partner IEI Technology

Mouser Electronics has added the product line of IEI Technology, part of the Intel internet of things solutions alliance. The IEI Technology embedded computer boards available from Mouser Electronics include the WAFER-BT single-board computer in the PICO-ITX form factor and supports an on-board Celeron system-on-chip (SoC) with DDR3L; VGA, LVDS, and iDP connectors. The HYPER-BT ...

Mouser adds Intel IoT partner IEI Technology

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SK Hynix posts revenue and profit decreases in 1Q16

SK Hynix has reported revenue and profit decreases for the first quarter of 2016, as a result of weak end-market demand and falling memory prices.

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Parade teams up with Samsung to develop eDP timing controllers for AMOLED panels

Parade Technologies has announced a collaboration with Samsung Display to deliver AMOLED panels for the tablet and notebook markets. Parade, which supplies eDP timing controllers (Tcons) for both tablet and notebook display panels, worked together with Samsung Display to developed the DP699 Tcon which is used exclusively in the new Samsung AMLOED panels. The DP699 supports the VESA Embedded DisplayPort (eDP) Standard version 1.4b and supports resolutions up to 3200 by 1800.

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Inspection service company Sporton posts EPS NT$1.80 for 1Q16

Mobile device testing service company Sporton International has reported net profit of NT$160 million (US$4.94 million) for the first quarter of 2016, up 2.87% from a year earlier. The earnings translated into an EPS of NT$1.80 for the quarter, down from NT$1.86 of a year earlier.

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Taiwan market: Sony Mobile to continue ramping up share in high-end smartphone segment

Sony Mobile Communications will continue to ramp up its share in the over-NT$15,000 (US$462) segment of Taiwan's smartphone market in 2016 although high-end smartphones' share of the overall local market is declining, according to Sony Mobile Taiwan general manager Jonathan Lin.

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Socioeconomic jv stabilises moving video platforms

Socionext, the SoC jv of Fujitsu and Panasonic, has joined with FotoNation to deliver Electronic Image Stabilisation (EIS) that delivers video stability for ‘on-the-move’ video devices, including drones, action cameras, and wearables. This EIS solution delivers an energy-efficient, GPU-free chipset that can process HD and 4K-ready video at up to 60 frames-per-second, enabling video that ...

Socioeconomic jv stabilises moving video platforms

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Taiwan market: Smartphone shipments to drop in 2016

Smartphone shipments in Taiwan are expected to drop on year in 2016 as the penetration rate of smartphones in the local market has already reached a rather high level, a market condition which is unlikely to trigger a new wave of replacement demand, according to market sources.

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XPEC and AltPlus to form partnership

Game developer XPEC Entertainment has announced it will form a strategic alliance with Japan-based mobile game developer AltPlus through cross investment.

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LeEco reportedly interested in investing in Vizio

US-based LCD TV vendor Vizio will buy back 2.435 million common shares of its stock from Taiwan-based ODM AmTran Technology, with the buyback possibly intended to introduce new strategic shareholders, and China-based online video/audio service provider LeEco (formerly LeTV) is reportedly interested in investing in Vizio, according to industry sources.

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Kinsus posts revenue and profit decreases for 1Q16

IC substrate supplier Kinsus Interconnect Technology has announced consolidated revenues fell 14.7% sequentially to NT$5.37 billion (US$166.1 million) in the first quarter of 2016, with gross margin down 5.74pp on quarter to 23.77%.

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Novatek, Realtek to deal out dividends for 2015

Taiwan-based IC design houses Novatek Microelectronics and Realtek Semiconductor plan to distribute cash dividends per share of NT$9 (US$0.28) and NT$4, respectively, for 2015.

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Toshiba adopts Cadence Innovus implementation system for memory controller design

Toshiba has adopted the Cadence Innovus implementation system for its memory controller's production design project, according to the EDA company. The tool enabled Toshiba to achieve an optimal target performance while creating a 16% smaller place and route (P&R) area for random logic with 25% lower power consumption when compared with its previous solution.

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Competition in advanced process technologies market to heat up

Competition in the market for semiconductor advanced process technologies is expected to heat up, with Samsung Electronics and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) striving for more businesses in the fabless sector by stepping up efforts to make the jump to more advanced processes, according to industry sources.

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Holtek expects 2Q16 sales to rise 15-20%

Microcontroller (MCU) IC design house Holtek Semiconductor expects to post revenue growth of 15-20% sequentially in the second quarter of 2016, thanks to the approaching peak season.

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Digitimes Research: Global user base for fixed-line access to Internet growing slower than that for mobile access

The global number of subscribers of fixed-line broadband access to the Internet increased at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.7% during 2008-2014, while the corresponding CAGR for mobile broadband access to the Internet was 35.1%, according to Digitimes Research.

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3D-Printed Bones May Be on Horizon

Researchers in China are testing a new method to 3D-print bones made from actual human or animal bone powder.

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IoT Security Spending to Skyrocket

The amount that enterprises and consumers will spend on security around the Internet of Things is projected to grow rapidly after 2020, according to Gartner.

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Gel-Coated Nanowires Yield Batteries With Indefinite Cycle Life

University researchers report inventing a nanowire-based battery material that can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times, moving us closer to a battery that would never require replacement.

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Careful IP Integration Key to First-Pass Silicon

Follow these four aspects of IP integration to allow first-pass ASIC silicon when using IP from multiple vendors.

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'Network-Ready' Dimmable LED Lighting Offers More Energy Savings

Energy Focus Inc. has developed a new generation of "network ready" dimmable LED lighting products that can be controlled via a variety of dimming control mechanisms and networks.

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IoT Sparks Clash of Carriers

The Internet of Things is pitting cellular carriers against each other and new classes of low-power wide area network providers.

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Micro-electronic inspections utilizing infrared thermography

Sponsored by Fluke

Whether you are designing or performing quality control testing on individual components or complete assemblies—or simply troubleshooting—the use of an infrared camera with the proper optics is crucial for the detection or measurement of small thermal differences or thermal profiles on these devices.

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President Obama embraces IoT

US President Barack Obama was given a demonstration of German IoT technology for smart factories when he visited the the Hannover Messe exhibition with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. President Obama and Chancellor Merkel were given a taste of Industrie 4.0 by Harting on its stand at the exhibition. They saw the Rinspeed “Etos” car, in ...

President Obama embraces IoT

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Atomic memory bids to store US Library of Congress in a speck of dust

A new data storage system uses single atoms as computer bits, and could hold the contents of the US Library of Congress in a cube just 100 micrometres across – little more than a speck of dust. Researchers have been trying for years to develop data storage using single atoms as bits – the 1s ...

Atomic memory bids to store US Library of Congress in a speck of dust

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Finally, a Marketer Who Understands Engineers

Smart Marketing for Engineers shows that it's possible for a non-engineer to understand how engineers think.

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Can Incandescent Bulbs Make a Comeback?

Research using a re-radiating nanostructure around a planar incandescent surface may give the classic but inefficient light source a second chance.

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Raspberry Pi gets 8Mpixel camera module

Two camera add-ons for the Raspberry Pi 3 now offer 8megapixel resolution. An integrated image sensor also enables the computer board to capture 3280 x 2464 pixel static images. The Raspberry Pi Camera v2 and Raspberry Pi NoIR Camera v2 modules which measure 25mm x 35mm x9mm are available from element14. The v2 cameras have ...

Raspberry Pi gets 8Mpixel camera module

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VersaSense’s IoT platform uses LTC SmartMesh networking IP

VersaSense’s MicroPnP IoT platform, based on Linear Tech’s SmartMesh IP embedded networking, delivers low-cost, zero-configuration wireless sensing and actuation. MicroPnP is an IoT hardware and software platform that reduces the total cost of ownership for sensing and control systems. It delivers: Plug-and-play identification of sensors and actuators at 10 million times lower power than USB. ...

VersaSense’s IoT platform uses LTC SmartMesh networking IP

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Scottish photonics start-up gets £1.2m funding

Edinburgh-based photonics start-up company Optoscribe has secured £1.2m in venture capital investment to fund its manufacturing plans. Optoscribe was founded in 2010 as a spin out business from Heriot Watt University, and has developed 3D photonic components for use inside communications systems in the datacoms, telecoms and mobile phone markets. The company plans to produce ...

Scottish photonics start-up gets £1.2m funding

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Digitimes Research: Car-use image sensor market to grow to US$900 million by 2020

Sony is the largest CMOS image sensor vendor worldwide and its products mainly go to the consumer sector. Weakening demand for smartphone has impacted the business's recent performances, but Sony has been strengthening its car-use image sensor technology after acquiring Toshiba's image sensor plants in Oita, Japan. With growing popularity for driving assistance systems, Digitimes Research expects demand for car-use image sensors to pick up and reach a scale of US$900 million worldwide by 2020.

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Taiwan solar cell makers to stay in US anti-dumping review after JA Solar withdrawal

Taiwan-based solar cell makers who have considered withdrawing their applications for the US Department of Commerce (DOC) to review the anti-dumping tariffs imposed on them since December 2014 will change their rminds after seeing a major concern removed, according to industry sources.

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Taiwan market: Microsoft launches Lumia 950 smartphone

Microsoft has launched its Windows 10-based high-end Lumia 950 smartphone in Taiwan and will initially push the device into the enterprise sector.

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Digitimes Research: Samsung Display, LG Display actively promoting PID panels

Samsung Display and LG Display have been actively promoting PID (public information display) applications for digital signage, shipping large Ultra HD panels and transparent panels, and forming international partnerships via mergers or joint ventures, according to Digitimes Research.

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TSMC hires Merrill Lynch senior analyst, says report

A senior analyst with Merrill Lynch has been hired by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to play a role in the pure-play foundry's business strategy development, according to a recent report by Taiwan's Central News Agency (CNA).

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HTC to hold Vive strategy, ecosystem conference in Beijing

HTC will hold a conference on strategy and ecosystem for HTC Vive in the China market in Beijing on April 26. Company chairperson and CEO Cher Wang will host the meeting.

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Demand for IC solutions from China robot markers increasing

China-based hardware makers have rushed into the development and manufacture of robot products, offering an opportunity for Taiwan-based chipset vendors to ramp up their shipments to the sector, according to sources from Taiwan's IC supply chain.

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TS Solartech to expand production capacity in 2H16

TS Solartech Sdn Bhd, a Malaysia-based crystalline silicon solar cell maker in which Taiwan-based Solartech Energy holds a 42% stake, will expand annual production capacity from nearly 300MWp currently to 500MWp in the second half of 2016, according to Solartech.

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Samsung Display leads in 1Q16 smartphone panel shipment, says Sigmaintell

Samsung Display was largest maker of smartphone panels, shipping more than 80 million panels, in the first quarter of 2016, according to China-based Sigmaintell Consulting.

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Taiwan university develops aluminum ball bonding technology

While copper wire is considered a cheaper alternative to gold wire for ball wire bonding used in semiconductor packaging, a process based on aluminum wire has been developed by Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) to further reduce production costs.

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Taiwan March manufacturing production index up on month, down on year, says MOEA

Taiwan recorded a manufacturing production index (2011 as base year) of 108.51 for March 2016, increasing 26.39% on month but decreasing 4.16% on year, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) on April 22.

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North American semiconductor equipment industry posts March 2016 book-to-bill ratio of 1.15

North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted US$1.38 billion in orders worldwide in March 2016 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.15, according to SEMI. A book-to-bill of 1.15 means that US$115 worth of orders were received for every US$100 of product billed for the month.

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Sinbon Electronics nets NT$1.41 per share for 1Q16

Connector and cable assembly maker Sinbon Electronics has released its financial report for the first quarter of 2016, recording consolidated revenues of NT$3.323 billion (US$102 million), growing 10.52% on year, gross margin of 24.98%, up 2.53pp, net operating profit of NT$415 million, up 56.50%, net profit of NT$308 million, up 29.11%, and net EPS of NT$1.41.

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Fab Tool Book-to-Bill Rises

North American manufacturers of semiconductor capital equipment posted a book-to-bill ratio above parity for the fourth consecutive month in March, according to the SEMI trade group.

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Max Faces Cease-and-Desist Order

Alas poor exclamation mark, I knew him, Horatio

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Carriers Creep to Virtual Networks

AT&T and Verizon reported progress on virtual networks while engineers hammer out a standard interface for network accelerators.

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DARPA Awards GPS-Beating Sensor Development Contract to HRL

U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awards HRL Laboratories $4.3 million contract to develop vibration- and shock-tolerant inertial sensor technology.

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Samsung Details Foundry Roadmap

Officials from Samsung Semiconductor Inc. detailed the company's foundry roadmap, which includes expanding FD-SOI production and offering low-cost alternatives to existing FinFET technologies.

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IDT Backs WiGig Chip Vendor Peraso

Funding round worth $20 million marks second time in two weeks that venture capital has smiled on the semiconductor industry.

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UltraSoc Leap into top 100

UltraSoC, the provider of semiconductor IP for on-chip analytics, performance optimization and hardware-based security, has been named by Mishcon de Reya and City AM, in the 2016 Leap 100 list of companies to watch. Now in its second year, the Leap 100 provides a guide to the UK’s most exciting, fast-growth companies. Businesses are selected ...

UltraSoc Leap into top 100

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EEVblog #871 Find Aliens With Your Raspberry Pi!

Dave shows you how to get the distributed computing platform BOINC and the SETI@Home project running on your Raspberry Pi.
How many MIPS per Watt is the Raspberry Pi 2 compared to Dave’s dual processor Xeon machine?
And the awesome Paul Horowitz
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Download SETI@Home for your machine

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Primax reports increased earnings for 1Q16

PC peripheral and mobile device component maker Primax Electronics has reported net profits of NT$400 million (US$12.38 million) for the first quarter of 2016, increasing 9% from a year earlier. The earnings translated into an EPS of NT$0.91 for the quarter compared to NT$0.85 of a year earlier.

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dc-dc converters power SiC output stages

Recom has introduced two 2W dc-dc converter series designed to power SiC mosfets. “One of the challenges of driving SiC mosfets is the high frequency and high voltage at which they are switched,” said Recom. “High potentials between the control and power side of an application can wear down isolation barriers, eventually causing them to fail.” ...

dc-dc converters power SiC output stages

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VR hardware to soar past US$2 billion mark in 2016 says IDC

Worldwide shipments of virtual reality (VR) hardware will skyrocket in 2016, with total volumes reaching 9.6 million units. Led by key products from Samsung, Sony, HTC, and Oculus, the category should generate hardware revenues of approximately US$2.3 billion in 2016. While VR will drive nearly all of the hardware volume in 2016, augmented reality (AR) hardware is forecast to ramp up over the next few years. According to the first worldwide AR/VR forecast from IDC, the combined device markets will see hardware shipments surge past 110 million units in 2020.

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Acer has no plans to make VR devices says CEO

Commenting on Acer's new Predator series products' support for virtual reality (VR) devices, Acer CEO Jason Chen has pointed out that the company's latest gaming products will be able to connect with the four current major VR platforms: Facebook's Oculus, HTC's Vive, OSVR and StarVR, but Acer has no interest in making VR products.

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Pegatron reshuffles executive positions

Pegatron, in response to vice chairman Ted Hsu's departure to join Asustek Computer as chief strategy office, has decided to reshuffle its executive positions including CEO, COO, CTO and R&D director, with new executives to come into office on July 1, 2016, according to the company.

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Memory module maker Apacer to reduce capital by 33%

Memory module maker Apacer Technology will reduce its capital by NT$496.9 million (US$15.37 million) or 33% to NT$1.009 billion, aiming to shore up its return on equity (ROE) ratio and the profitability per share, according to the company.

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VIA subsidiary Xander raided for making fake transactions

Taiwan's District Prosecutors Office raided the headquarters of Taiwan-based channel distributor Xander, a subsidiary of VIA Technologies, on April 21 as some of the company's executives and workers are suspected of having made fake transactions with companies they established to make its financial results look better and embezzling nearly NT$100 million (US$3.1 million).

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Taiwan market: Taiwan Mobile to adjust 4G service pricing

Taiwan Mobile (TWM) will adjust rates for its 4G services by the end of April, under which the gap of different tariffs will widen and the entry-level price will be reduced, according to company president James Jeng.

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Acer unveils gaming notebooks 2-in-1s Chromebooks in New York

Acer unveiled new gaming notebooks, 2-in-1 models and Chromebooks in New York on April 21 to specifically meet expected back-to-school demand in the third quarter of 2016.

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Asustek new CSO expected to initially focus on enhancing competition with Gigabyte MSI

Vice chairman Ted Hsu for ODM Pegatron will return to Asustek Computer as chief strategy officer (CSO) and is expected to strengthen competition initially with Gigabyte Technology for motherboards and Micro-Star International (MSI) for gaming notebooks, Asustek's largest competitors in these sectors, according to industry sources.

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Friday Quiz: Oscilloscope Tricks Part 3

The last of three consecutive weeks of oscilloscope questions based on a series of articles.

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India market: Government-procurement price for LED bulbs to expected fall to INR44

For the India government's procurement of LED light bulbs, open-bid prices for an LED light bulb are expected to drop to INR44 (US$0.662) in the second half of 2016, according to industry sources.

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HTC ties up with Dassault Systemes to develop business VR solutions

HTC has signed a strategic partnership agreement with 3D software solution provider Dassault Systemes, and together the two firms will aim to develop business-use virtual reality (VR) solutions, according to HTC.

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Taiwan March unemployment rate down on month up on year says DGBAS

Taiwan had 455,000 jobless citizens in March 2016, equivalent to an unemployment rate of 3.89%, down 0.06pp on month but up 0.17pp on year, according to statistics released by the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) on April 22.

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Manufacturing overcapacity constrains industrial robot market growth in China IHS says

The China market for industrial robots reached an estimated US$1.3 billion in 2015. This market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 20%, reaching US$3.3 billion in 2020, according to IHS.

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Powerchip nets NT$4.64 in 2015 EPS

Foundry chipmaker Powerchip Technology has reported net profits of NT$10.28 billion (US$318.7 million) for 2015 with EPS coming to NT$4.64. The year also marked the third consecutive year that the company generated net profits of more than NT$10 billion.

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TSMC orders equipment for NT$2.29 billion

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has purchased a batch of machinery equipment and intangible assets from Hermes Microvision (HMI), Fortrend Engineering, Kilopass Technology and Applied Materials for NT$2.29 billion (US$71 million).

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UWB rides again in Insight-SIP module

UWB rides again with an interesting application in time-of-flight measurement enabled by the Sofia-Antipolis RF packaging specialist, Insight-SIP, which is celebrating its 10th birthday today with a party for 100 people in the South of France. UWB is a relatively new departure for Insight-SIP which has based most of its product portfolio on Bluetooth LE ...

UWB rides again in Insight-SIP module

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X-Gene 3 delivers heavy-lifting server performance

Applied Micro’s new server SoC X-Gene 3 has 32 ARMv8-compatible CPU cores in a single socket to deliver performance competitive with mainstream high-end Xeon E5/ E7 processors in a similar TDP envelope. With eight DDR4 memory channels, X‑Gene 3 beats Xeon E5 in memory bandwidth, making it suited to hyperscale workloads, such as in-memory databases, ...

X-Gene 3 delivers heavy-lifting server performance

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SEMI b-to-b strengthens

SEMI’s March book-to-Bill ratio was 1.15 – up on February’s 1.05. March bookings were $1.38 billion – 9.4% higher than February’s $1.26 billion, but 0.9% lower than the March 2015 order level of $1.39 billion. March billings were $1.20 billion – 0.5% lower than in February, and 5.3% lower than the March 2015 billings level ...

SEMI b-to-b strengthens

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Time Portal Scenes of the Past Present & Future

Wanted: Images showing things like alien landscapes, post-apocalyptic scenes, and weird, wonderful, and beautiful visions of the past, present, and future.

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AMD Licenses X86 to China JV

AMD struck a joint venture partnership to provide next-generation x86 server technology to a China partner for $292 million.

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Mie Fujitsu CSEM to Combine DDC Low Voltage for IoT Chips

Japanese chip manufacturer Mie Fujitsu Semiconductor and Swiss research institute CSEM have agreed to collaborate on Deeply Depleted Channel technology and near/sub-threshold voltage technology for integrated circuits aimed at the Internet of Things and wearables markets.

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Lead Partner Pulls Out of India Fab Plan

After years of inactivity the Indian government's long-running project to build two wafer fabs in the sub-continent appears to be in jeopardy.

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Designing High Reliability Components in Airborne Systems

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With over 20 years in the Aerospace and Defense industry, Sean has supported development and upgrade programs for platforms such as the C-130 Hercules, MQ-9 Reaper, B-2 Spirit, F-16 Falcon, U-2 Dragon Lady and the X-47B. He is a multi-engine fixed wing pilot, has owned an aviation company, worked for two major Defense Contractors and the Johnson Space Center. He has experience in the development, test, launch, installation and certification of avionics, turboprop engines, airframe electronics, satellites, guidance systems and various payloads.

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This webcast will address the challenges of using electronic components in aviation applications. Concerns about reliability, single event effects and expanded environmental performance are ever present in the industry. Suitable components for this market require quality and reliability that approaches space grade levels. This webcast will provide solutions that will help engineers in making the best design decisions for their application.

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GSA Forum: China lacks pre-requisite for semiconductor success

China is looking for self-sufficiency in ICs but lacks a fundamental pre-requisite for growing a chip industry. “China is not encouraging freedom of thought and that’s something you need if you want innovation,” Wally Rhines, CEO of Mentor Graphics, told this week’s GSA European Executive Forum in Munich. China has a $23 billion government fund ...

GSA Forum: China lacks pre-requisite for semiconductor success

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NI's mmW Radio Speeds 5G Research

National Instruments announced a software defined radio for the millimeter wave spectrum. The transceiver system that can transmit and/or receive wide-bandwidth signals at 2 GHz real-time bandwidth, covering the 71-76 GHz spectrum. The system comes with accompanying software.

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Qualcomm Posts Strong Results Inks Licensing Deals

Fabless chip giant showing progress in reaping royalties from China, South Korea.

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Cutting Antenna Design Time

A time-saving algorithm may help designers of the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antennas, which have become necessary for all the different frequencies a worldwide 4G (and 5G) mobile phone must receive.

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China's Chip Patent Growth May Be Short Lived

A big spurt in semiconductor patent grants in China may not be sustainable, according to an analysis of the data by a intellectual property expert.

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GSA Forum: IoT an aspiration more than a business.

Predictably, the IoT was not neglected at this week’s GSA European Executive Forum in Munich. Wally Rhines, CEO of Mentor Graphics, summed up the industry’s dilemma with IoT: “We haven’t yet got into whatever the IoT is going to generate,” he told the conference. Udo-Martin Gomez, CTO of Bosch Sensortec, said that Bosch has set ...

GSA Forum: IoT an aspiration more than a business.

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ARMs plumbers

ARM has bumped up its R&D budget by 42% as it pushes into markets beyond mobile. Asked what it would be spent on, ARM evp Pete Hutton told EW: “Networking, IoT, servers and hiring a lot of engineers – a lot is being spent on software, benchmarking – all the boring plumbing.” With Qualcomm, AMD, ...

ARM’s plumbers

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Rohde & Schwarz forms skills partnership with Swansea University

Rohde & Schwarz has secured the contract with Swansea University to equip the College of Engineering’s electronic teaching laboratories on the Bay Campus. The company has equipped 66 workstations in three labs with oscilloscopes, digital multimeters, power supplies and function generators. The contract was awarded following a European tender process. The total value of test ...

Rohde & Schwarz forms skills partnership with Swansea University

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China market: ZTE launches two new smartphones

ZTE has announced two new smartphones, the ZTE A910 priced at CNY1,299 (US$201) and the ZTE V7 Max starting at CNY$1,799, according to a China-based tech.163.com report.

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Rising industrial PC market to stabilize in 2018 says IHS

While the global market for industrial PCs has experienced ups and downs in recent years, it is forecast to pick up in 2016 and will start to stabilize in 2018. The key reason for the increase in short-term growth is an expected improvement in the outlook for process industry investment and the continued use of industrial PCs in applications outside the established areas of industrial automation. Global revenues from industrial PCs are forecast to grow at a CAGR of 6% from 2014 to 2019, reaching US$4.3 billion, according to IHS.

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Asustek chairman refutes rumor about feeling tired about his work

Asustek chairman Jonney Shih has responded to market speculation the he has invited Pegatron Technology vice chairman Ted Hsu to become Asustek's chief strategy officer in preparation to eventually have Hsu succeeded to the chairman position, is because Shih feels tired about his work. Shih said he has always enjoyed his work and inviting Hsu to join Asustek is mainly for the long-term benefit of the company.

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China market: LeTV launches 3 new smartphones to ship15 million smartphones in 2016

LeTV has launched three new smartphones, the Le 2, Le 2 Pro and Le Max 2, at a product launch conference in Beijing, China and said it will expand its operations in markets including India, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong and the US, hoping overseas sales to ramp its overall smartphone shipments to surpass 15 million units in 2016.

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Nvidia appoints new VP for Sales and Marketing in Asia Pacific

Nvidia has announced that its Asia Pacific vice president of Sales and Marketing Francis Yu will retire and the company will appoint Vodafone Global Enterprise's ex-Asia Pacific vice president Raymond Teh to take over his position.

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China Mobile posts 1Q16 revenues of CNY177.5 billion

China Mobile has released its unaudited financial report for first-quarter 2016, recording consolidated revenues of CNY177.5 billion (US$27.14 billion), up 8.70% on year, and pre-tax profit of CNY23.9 billion, up 0.42%.

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Taiwan March export order value up on month down on year says MOEA

Taiwan received export orders worth US$36.62 billion in total in March 2015, increasing 32.4% on month but decreasing 4.7% on year, according to statistics released by the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) on April 20.

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LeTV unveils LeSEE electric vehicle

China-based LeTV has hosted a new product launch conference, showcasing its latest smartphones and LCD TVs. At the show, LeTV also showcased its LeSEE electric vehicle for the first time.

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Vendors to release 2-in-1s with stylus in 3Q16

Rising demand for 2-in-1 devices has increased the adoption of stylus support by brand vendors. In addition to Microsoft and Apple, Huawei, Acer, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Dell and Asustek Computer are also planning to release 2-in-1 devices with a stylus for the third quarter.

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Taiwan attracts foreign direct investment of over US$1.2 billion in January-March says MOEA

Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) approved 741 foreign direct investment projects (except from China) with a total value of US$1.225 billion in January-March 2016, respectively decreasing 13.13% and increasing 1.58% on year, according to MOEA statistics released on April 20.

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MediaTek Labs announces availability of new development platform for RTOS

MediaTek has announced its MediaTek LinkIt development platform for RTOS and the platform's first hardware development kit (HDK). This platform is the first from MediaTek delivering a common tool chain and set of APIs for multiple chipsets, offering developers the ability to create a range of IoT devices using one common software development kit, the MediaTek LinkIt SDK v3.

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Foxconn-invested B2B online shopping platform commences operations

A Foxconn-invested B2B business website, ibuyplastic.com, which is based in China, came online recently. The B2B platform aims to facilitate sales of more than 500 plastic parts and components from 18 companies to more than 3,000 clients initially, according to a China-based 163.com report.

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Phison to post sequential revenue growth through 3Q16 says report

NAND flash controller IC supplier Phison Electronics is expected to enjoy sequential revenue growth through the third quarter of 2016, and see monthly shipments reach a record high during the quarter, the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) cited market watchers as saying in a recent report.

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China white-box players eye VR robot business opportunities

With virtual reality (VR) becoming a hot topic in the IT industry, China-based white-box players have been aggressively releasing inexpensive head-worn VR devices and home-care robots, and even formed a supply chain ecosystem specifically for VR products. Currently, the retail channel in Shenzhen is filled with related products. However, sources from the upstream supply chain have pointed out that white-box VR devices have quality issues which are likely to affect sales.

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Handset supply chains in Taiwan China face inventory losses

Makers in the handset supply chains in Taiwan and China are becoming more conservative about building up inventories for parts and components due to intensifying competition in the China market as a result of the release of the iPhone SE, according to sources from Taiwan's handset supply chain.

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Digitimes Research: Shipments of Oculus Rift CV1 delayed on shortage of lenses

Shipments of Oculus' first virtual reality (VR) device, the Rift CV1, will be delayed to August due to a shortage of parts. While Oculus is reluctant to reveal which components are in short supply, Digitimes Research's sources indicate that there is a shortage of its customized Fresnel lenses.

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Sanan Optoelectronics to put 50 MOCVD sets into use at end of 2016

The largest China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Sanan Optoelectronics, despite global overcapacity for LED chips, will begin operation of 50 new MOCVD sets at the end of 2016, and this is likely to push down LED chip prices, according to industry sources.

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Programmable Crystal Oscillators Cover 0.67 - 170MHz

Seiko Epson is extending its line of programmable crystal oscillators with the SG-8101 series and SG-9101 series, both operating in an extended temperature range of -40 to +85 degrees C (a top-end limit of 105 degrees C).

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Lattice Claims Lowest Cost per I/O FPGA with MachXO3-9400

Lattice Semiconductor has expanded its MachXO3 family of FPGAs with the addition of the MachXO3L-9400 and MachXO3LF-9400 devices available in multiple packages.

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Harvest Electricity from Magnetism

Researchers have demonstrated an "inverse" spin-Hall effect, which converts magnetic spin into electrical current in the presence of pulsed microwaves.

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AMS Breaks Ground on N.Y. Fab

AMS AG broke ground on a wafer fab in upstate New York today, joining the ranks of advanced manufacturers in the region. The Austrian company aims to start volume ramp of high-performance analog wafers by the second half of 2018.

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Free PCB CAD: The Ultimate List

The lower end of eCAD offers many new options, including many free ones: take a look.

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Companies Unite On Semester-Long MCU Curriculum

Imagination Technologies, Microchip Technology and Digilent have launched the Connected MCU Lab, a new course developed through the companies' respective university programs.

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Better than Paper: eWriting

The eWriting revolution is taking off in some new directions that allow users to take pen-and-paper-style advantage of our ubiquitous handhelds.

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MIT AI Researchers Hit Breakthrough on Threat Detection

New artificial intelligence platform offers 3x detection capabilities with 5x fewer false positives.

from EETimes: http://ift.tt/1StIuiy
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