Avnet names two European presidents

Avnet has announced a leadership change at the top of its European organisation. With the retirement of Miguel Fernandez, the distributor has divided responsibilities for the European presidential role between EBV Elektronik head Slobodan Puljarevic and Mario Orlandi who runs Avnet Silica. The change will reduce a level off management in the distributor’s European operation. ...

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Government allocates new money for gigabit fibre broadband

The Chancellor’s Spring Statement has allocated the first wave of funding for improving broadband optical fibre communications across the country. Around £95m will come out of the Government’s £190m Local Full Fibre Network (LFFN) budget for 13 areas across the UK. This represents the government’s attempt to address the disappointing level of access to gigabit-capable ...

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Shropshire robot company wins IET award.

Small Robot Company, a British agritech start-up, today announced it has won a prestigious Horizontal Innovation Award from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the High Value Manufacturing Catapult (HVMC), sponsored by Innovate UK. The Company harnesses the power and precision of robots and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve the way that food ...

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Public LiFi demo in Bristol this weekend

For the first time anywhere in the world this weekend [Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 March] people in Bristol will experience LiFi provided by pureLiFi as part of a 5G public urban environment. During Bristol’s Layered Realities Weekend 5G Showcase researchers will demonstrate how a share of £16 million investment by the UK Government’s Department ...

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GloFo qualifies 300mm line for Si Photonics.

GF’s current silicon photonics offering built on its 90nm RF SOI process which had previously been manufactured using 200mm wafer processing, has now been qualified on  300mm wafers at GF’s Fab 10 facility in East Fishkill, N.Y The platform can enable solutions that provide 30GHz of bandwidth to support client side data rates of up to ...

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IC Insights’ 2018 memory forecasts adjusted upwards

The DRAM and NAND flash memory market growth forecasts for 2018 have been adjusted upward, by IC Insights,  to 37% for DRAM and 17% for NAND flash. The big increase in the DRAM market forecast for 2018 is primarily due to a much stronger ASP expected for this year than was originally forecast. IC Insights ...

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Mouser signs Doodle

Mouser has signed Doodle Labs’ range of  industrial Wi-Fi transceivers. Doodle Labs claims its transceivers achieve long range through high transmit power, operate efficiently in extreme temperature ranges and have high interference immunity, enabling the stable performance demanded by complex applications. The transceivers have an integrated low-noise amplifier to pick up low-energy signals from mobile ...

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