Comment: New year brings a new BrightSparks opportunity

As we glided past the 70th anniversary of the transistor in December, the value of the global chip market passed the $400bn mark. If Gartner’s predictions are to be believed these are extraordinary growth figures – up from $300bn in 2010 and $200bn in 2000. But another fact that may have been missed is that ...

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Plessey shifts from manufacturing to licence out GaN-on-Si LED IP

UK LED maker Plessey is to move to an intellectual property licensing model, following City apathy towards British manufacturing. Its Plymouth fab will now focus on R&D, and only limited production. The firm has single-handedly developed a viable GaN-on-silicon process suitable for making high-power lighting LEDs, which are already selling in Europe, the US, China ...

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Mouser signs Onion

Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with Onion and will handle Onion’s Omega2+ device, kits, and accessories, for applications such as home automation, coding education, Wi-Fi media servers, robotics, and networking. The Onion product line revolves around the Omega2+, an expandable IoT computer packed with built-in Wi-Fi connectivity, a MicroSD card slot, and a ...

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The Battle of San Diego

The Battle Royal for control of Qualcomm has experienced another skirmish with a stinging statement from Broadcom. The statement runs: “Despite the clear customer and stockholder support for the value-maximizing transaction proposed by Broadcom, Qualcomm has refused to engage with Broadcom and has instead elected to remain a standalone company, which fails to address Qualcomm’s ...

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21 US States challenge FCC decision on net neutrality

The Attorneys-General of 21 US states have started a law-suit to challenge the FCC scrapping of net neutrality. The 21 AGs called the FCC decision “arbitrary, capricious and an abuse of discretion,” The US Democratic Party says they need only one more vote to have 51 Senators comprising a Senate majority to overrule the FCC ...

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Dialog expands Silego range

Dialog is building on the range of CMICs it acquired with the purchase of Silego. The DA9313 integrates an inductor-less 10A Power Converter for best-in-class efficiency and offers master/slave operation for up to 20A output current. The high current, inductor- less power converter at incredible efficiency above 98%, powering greater than 50W in less than ...

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LTC mixer delivers 7GHz bandwidth & 20dBm OIP3

The LTC5562 is a low power, high performance active double-balanced mixer, capable of 50Ω matching over a very wide frequency range of 30MHz to 7GHz. The mixer can be used in either frequency upconversion or downconversion applications, with outstanding conversion gain of 2dB. The device runs on a single 3.3V supply rail, drawing 40mA nominal ...

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Panasonic’s integrated WiFi module

Panasonic  has  launched a Wi-Fi module which is  is a 2.4GHz 802.11 b/g/n  Wi-Fi  with integrated stack and API that minimizes firmware development and includes a full security suite. With a fully shielded case, integrated crystal oscillators and a chip antenna, the PAN9420 module combines  CPU,  wireless radio, baseband processor, medium access controller, encryption unit, ...

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Microsemi products free from Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities

Microsemi says its entire portfolio is unaffected by the Spectre and Meltdown flaws. “As a leader in security, we strive to ensure our products are immune to both existing and potential new threats or vulnerabilities,” says Microsemi CTO Jim Aralis, “as soon as news broke about Meltdown and Spectre, Microsemi immediately assessed its existing products ...

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