Smart IoT valve allows remote gas cylinder management

42 Technology is helping to develop a concept smart gas cylinder valve for Linde Gases that will use IoT technology to allow gas cylinders to be managed remotely. Called EVOS DCi, it uses cloud data setvices to store data, allowing users to see where cylinders are located, what they contain, and how full they are. There ...

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Toshiba launches bi-directional ESD protection diode

Toshiba has introduced a new bi-directional electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection diode DF2B7ASL which is mainly targeting interface protection in applications with minimum footprint requirement such as portable equipment. As the DF2B7ASL features a snapback characteristic, it can provide low clamping voltages, which together with the low dynamic resistance of the diode ensures superior protective performance ...

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Comment: Technology is no longer a fast-track to riches

Since data transfer speed is no longer a guaranteed path to profit, share traders plan private ‘super networks’. A high speed fibre-optic and wireless link connecting Chicago with Tokyo on the far side of the Pacific Ocean is due to go live this year. Called Go West, this is no ordinary communications link. It will ...

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IC market to grow 21% this year, says Penn

At IFS2018 in London this week, Future Horizons’ CEO Malcolm Penn delivered a state of the industry report. “Eght years of benign global economic growth has seen the long-awaited global economic recovery finally gain traction, with the IMF increasing its GDP forecast twice during the year,” said Penn. “This was contrary to all previous post-Lehman ...

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Soitec revenues up 25%

Soitec, the SOI wafer specialist, had nine months revenues of €218.9 million 25% up on the first nine months of FY’17. “We continued to deliver strong revenue growth during the third quarter of the fiscal year,” says Soitec CEO Paul Boudre, “growth mainly came from the sharp increase in our new innovative Digital 300-mm products, ...

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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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