Cypress, Murata and Future join in $99 IoT dev board

Future Electronics is selling an IoT development kit which costs $99. Developed with suppliers Cypress Semiconductor and Murata, the Nebula board is an IoT cloud ready board for prototype development. Wireless connectivity comes from the Murata 1DX module, which integrates the Cypress CYW4343W Wi-Fi and BT/BLE combo SoC. This includes a 2.4 GHz WLAN IEEE ...

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Xilinx invests in high-end programmable chip start-up

Xilinx has invested in a California-based start-up developing high performance programmable chip platforms. The five year old firm is called Efinix and is also being backed by Hong Kong X Technology Fund (HKX), and Samsung Electronics’ investment arm in a $9.5m funding round. Efinix has developed a programmable chip-level platform, it calls Quantum, which it says ...

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Gear tooth detector for automotive speed sensing

Allegro MicroSystems announces a new three-wire differential speed sensor integrated circuit, that includes its own bias magnet for zero-speed operation. Intended for gear tooth sensing in automotive transmission systems, it can also be used in recreational vehicles, industrial equipment, white goods, and exercise equipment. ATS668 has integrated EMC protection components, and is offered in a ...

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Western Digital fighting Toshiba sale decision

Western Digital has responded to Toshiba’s announced intention to sell its memory business to a consortium led by Bain and Hynix. WD says it has three actions going through arbitration procedures which could prevent the sale taking place. Western Digital’s statement on the decision reads: “We are disappointed that Toshiba would take this action despite ...

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Toshiba samples 10TB HDD

Toshiba is sampling its 10TB MG06 Series Enterprise Capacity HDD s. The 10TB drives have maximum sustained transfer rate of 237MiB/s and an MTTF of 2.5M hours. The drive provides a SATA 6Gbit/s interface and 7,200 rpm performance. It supports emulated 512 Advanced Format (512e) technology for compatibility with legacy applications and operating environments; or ...

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Imec pushes OLED pixels to 1250 ppi resolution

Imec has developed cost-effective fine-pixel photolithography for manufacturing ultra-high resolution OLEDs. Imec, and its development partner Chunghwa Picture Tubes (CPT) ,  aimed to push  pixel density beyond 1000 ppi. Imec and CPT have verified that a novel photolithography process can allow for ultrafine OLED patterns. The proposed technique does not require using fine-metal masks to ...

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Chip market to grow 18.5%

The semiconductor market is on pace to grow 20% this years says Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence. WSTS statistics show Q2 revenues were 5.8% from 1Q 2017 and up 23.7% from a year ago. Memory is driving the market, as shown by  the quarter-to-quarter revenue change of the major memory companies. Samsung revenues (in Korean won) were ...

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Xilinx joins Linaro

Xilinx has joined the Linaro open source collaborative engineering organization developing software for the Arm ecosystem. Xilinx has joined the Linaro IoT and Embedded (LITE) Segment Group. LITE members work collaboratively in Linaro on reducing fragmentation in operating systems, middleware and cloud connectivity solutions, and delivering open source device reference platforms to enable faster time to ...

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Silicon Labs sampling single-chip 4G/Ethernet clocks

Silicon Labs is sampling a family of  multi-channel jitter attenuating clocks for 4.5G and Ethernet-based Common Public Radio Interface (eCPRI) wireless applications. The Si5381/82/86 clocks  use the company’s DSPLL technology to deliver a timing solution that combines 4G/LTE and Ethernet clocking in a single IC. The clocks eliminate the need for multiple clock devices and ...

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