Apple is to build three manufacturing plants in the USA, according to President Donald Trump.   President Trump told the Wall Street Journal that he’d talked to Apple CEO Tim Cook (pictured) about manufacturing in America. “I said you know, Tim, unless you start building your plants in this country, I won’t consider my administration ...

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Element14  has announced winners of its ‘Upcycle it’ design challenge. Sponsored by Intel, element14 challenged 15 community members to Upcycle an unwanted or waste product to give it a new or enhanced lease of life. The application areas for this challenge and ability to use unlimited components to complete an original electronics-based project offered true ...

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LG says it is putting $7 billion into OLED production plants. LG is putting $870 million into its jv plant in Guangzhou, China to make OLEDs in a foreign factory for the first time. The Guangzhou plant currently makes LCD panels and the intention is to use it to make 65 inch and bigger OLED ...

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A re-hab centre for hackers has opened in Bristol in an experiment which could be extended across the country. The camp has been set up by the National Crime Agency (NCA). The idea is to divert potential cyber-criminals into useful cyber-security work. The first seven attendees are people caught engaging in cyber-crimes like defacing websites, ...

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Infineon will  enter the packaged silicon microphone market with samples of  high performance, low noise MEMS microphones in Q4. Volume production starts in Q1 2018.. The analogue and digital microphones are based on Infineon’s dual backplate MEMS technology with a 70 dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and a  distortion level of 10% at a 135 dB ...

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Q2 silicon wafer area shipments were up 4.2% on Q1, says SEMI’s Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG). Total Q2 silicon wafer area shipments were 2,978 million square inches up from the 2,858 million square inches shipped in Q1. New quarterly total area shipments are 10.1% higher than Q2 2016 shipments and are at their highest recorded quarterly ...

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Samtec, the Indiana interconnect specialist, Has brought out a 14 Gbps FireFly FMC Development Kit to evaluate and develop  Samtec’s FireFly optical engines.   The 14 Gbps FireFly FMC Module provides up to 140 Gbps full-duplex bandwidth over 10 channels from an FPGA to an industry-standard multi-mode fiber optic cable. Samtec’s 14 Gbps FireFly FMC ...

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The LTC7150S is a 20V, 20A monolithic synchronous buck converter with differential VOUT remote sensing. The device’s phase lockable controlled on-time constant frequency current mode architecture eases compensation and is ideal for high step-down ratio applications that operate at high frequencies while demanding fast transient response. The LTC7150S uses Silent Switcher2 technology, including integrated bypass ...

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Marvell has launched an automotive gigabit Ethernet switch. The switch is designed to prevent malicious attacks or compromises to the data streamed in-and-out of the vehicle. These industry-leading security features are paramount to ensure the safety of the vehicle and its occupants. This switch has been purpose-built to address the increasing risk cybercrime represents to ...

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