Qualcomm postpones AGM and shareholder vote on composition of board for 30 days.

Qualcomm, which was due to hold a vote of its shareholders tomorrow on whether to elect six Broadcom-nominated directors which would give Broadcom a majority on the Qualcomm board, has postponed  the vote for 30 days. Qualcomm says the move is at the request of CFIUS which has been lobbied by politicians to look at the deal. ...

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Embedded World: Supermicro’s Skylake-D, IoT edge PCs and 20 NVMe SSDs in 1U

Supermicro was showing several new products amongst its existing range of servers and edge PCs at Embedded World in Nuremberg. Based on Intel’s Xeon D-2146NT 8 core 16 thread processor is the SYS-5019D-FN8TP rackmount server that, into a 1U high chassis, squeezes two 2.5in or four 2.5in drivesand up to 512Gbyte of ECC LRDIMM memory ...

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Embedded World 2018: In picture form…

Embedded World 2018 is over now, but check out these images captured from the show floor in Nuremberg. And don’t forget – for all our show coverage, simply view: www.electronicsweekly.com/tag/embedded-world/ And for all the video interviews captured at the show – from Elatec, Rohde & Schwarz, Arrow Electronics, SensiEDGE, Lattice Semiconductor, Analog Devices, Harwin and Broadcom ...

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Cypress adds Arm secure firmware to PSoC6

Cypress Semiconductor has implemented Arm’s Platform Security Architecture (PSA) Trusted Firmware-M reference example on Cypress’ PSoC 6 MCUs. “PSA is a set of threat models, security analyses, hardware and firmware architecture specifications, and an open source firmware reference implementation,” said Arm. “It provides a recipe, based on industry best practice, that allows security to be ...

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EU puts 20 year span on 5G spectrum licences

The European Parliament, the EU Council and the European Commission have agreed to set a 20 year time span on the awarding of 5G spectrum licences. The industry had lobbied for 25 years. The agreement frees up the process for getting 5G spectrum auctions underway. It is hoped they will be complete by 2020. EU ...

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D-Day for Qualcomm

The fate of Qualcomm will be decided on Tuesday. Shareholders will vote on whether to give Broadcom nominees a majority on the Qualcomm board. If they do, then Qualcomm gets taken over by Broadcom. For wireless technology, the loss of its pioneer would be a tragedy. For Qualcomm’s licensees, the result could be a mixed ...

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Record year for German disties, says FBDi

2017 was a record-breaking year for German component distributors,  according to Fachverband Bauelemente Distribution (FBDi). Q4 sales grew by 12% to 845 million Euros. Although this is 10% less than in the third quarter, it is still impressive. Considering the very stable order situation (plus 14% to 976 million Euros and a book-to-bill rate of 1.16) ...

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