Mouser Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with Bridgetek, a rapidly growing semiconductor company that develops innovative silicon solutions to enhance the way in which society interacts with technology. The Bridgetek product line at Mouser comprises multi-award-winning graphic controller ICs, performance-optimized microcontrollers, development hardware, and display modules. Each member of Bridgetek’s FT81x Embedded Video ...

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Four year-old London start-up Touch Surgery has raised another $20 million to launch an AR head-set to teach surgery to medical students. That takes the company’s total funding to $30 million. “It is early days for this technology but we are very bullish on how augmented reality and virtual reality are going to be key ...

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Q3 silicon shipments grew sequentially over Q2 reports SEMI’s  Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG). Q3 silicon wafer area shipments were 2,997 million square inches during the most recent quarter, a 0.7% increase from the record 2,978 million square inches shipped during Q2. Q3 shipments are 9.8% higher than Q3 2016 shipments and continue to ship at ...

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Kittyhawk, the drone control specialist, has announced a suite of new features for it’s Drone control Flight Deck platform. Flight Deck is an enterprise-focused piloting platform for DJI hardware. It now features real-time aircraft telemetry for the whole team with real-time video and audio streams. These new features enable commercial teams to work more collaboratively. ...

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ON has introduced a new 1/4-inch, 1.0 Megapixel (Mp) (1280H x 800V) CMOS digital image sensor claims to capture images with no artifacts in both bright and low light conditions with a shutter efficiency and signal-to-noise ratio which minimise ghosting and noise effects. Available in monochrome and colour, the sensor comes in either 5.6 mm ...

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Estonia show that the number of e-Residency applications now exceeds the yearly number of births in the country. The number of 2017 births to November was 10,269, compared with 11,096 e-Residency applications for the same period. “With over 27,000 e-Residency applications to date, we’ve seen the initiative’s popularity grow steadily since launch.” said Kaspar Korjus, ...

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The nRF52810 from Nordic Semiconductor is a multiprotocol SoC supporting Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), ANT and 2.4GHz proprietary protocols, available now at rutronik24.com. The Chip has Bluetooth 5 and an ARM Cortex-M4 CPU for even the lowest cost Bluetooth Low Energy applications. Bluetooth 5 is characterised by high throughput (2Mbps) “advertising extensions“ and improved coexistence features. ...

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Samsung has created a lithium-air battery with a capacity of 520-watt hours per kilogram of battery weight, reports the Nikkei. The capacity was enabled by thinning the separator to 20 microns – less than 10% the thinness of previous models – allowing the use of more cells. The problems are that it takes several hours ...

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