Renesas develops blood pressure evaluation kit

Renesas is selling a blood pressure monitoring evaluation kit including a pressure sensor, arm cuff, pump, electronically controlled valve, LCD panel, and a reference board that incorporates an RL78 MCU-based ASSP  that includes analogue functions required for blood pressure measurement. Reference software and graphical user interface (GUI) development tool are also part of the new evaluation ...

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Intel closes New Devices Group

Intel is closing down its New Devices Group, which developed AR  and  wearables. “Intel is continuously working on new technologies and experiences. Not all of these develop into a product we choose to take to market,” said Intel. Intel’s  AR spectacles, Vaunt, will not now be marketed. “We are going to take a disciplined approach ...

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Qualcomm to start job cuts

Qualcomm is reported by Bloomberg to be about to cut 1,500 jobs in California. The company has 33,800 full-time and temporary employees. Severance packages have been offered. “Qualcomm is conducting a reduction of our full-time and temporary workforce,”  says a spokesperson. During its fight with Broadcom, Qualcomm told investors it would make $1 billion in cost ...

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UK and India ink tech deal

The UK-India Tech Partnership, established yesterday between Theresa May and Indian PM Narendra Modi is expected to identify and pair businesses, venture capital, universities and others to provide access routes to markets for British and Indian entrepreneurs and small and medium enterprises. The UK will initially invest £1 million to pilot the approach and potentially ...

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Semi packaging materials market reaches $16.7bn

The semiconductor packaging materials market reached $16.7 billion in 2017, report SEMI and TechSearch International. While slower growth of smartphones and personal computers – the industry’s traditional drivers – is reducing material consumption, the slowdown was offset by strong unit growth in the cryptocurrency market in 2017 and early 2018. Flip chip package shipments into ...

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Nano-C raises $11.5m

Nano-C has closed an $11.5 million funding round of which Ray Stata, the co-founder and chairman of Analog Devices, invested $3 million. Nano-C is the company providing the new materials (carbon nanotubes and fullerenes) to Nantero for NRAM memory, Merck for Solar, Irresistible Materials for EUV photo-Resist, and a major display company to be announced. ...

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UHF harvester powers retail tag over 2m gap

US energy harvesting firm Powercast has developed a battery-free retail price tag that can be changed from 2m away using a hand-held UHF programmer. Key to the tag is the firm’s PCC110 UHF-to-dc harvestign chip and an Eink display that only needs power to change, retaining its display after power is removed. “Powercast developed the ...

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Two-channel power system monitors current, power and energy

LTC2972  is a 2-channel power system manager, featuring current, power and energy monitoring around an intermediate bus and point-of-load (POL) converter. Monitoring circuit board power and energy use is a prerequisite for managing, optimizing and reducing their consumption in order to lower server rack and data center cooling and utility costs. The LTC2972 relieves the ...

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Plessey gets UK greenhouse lighting design-in

Sterling Suffolk will install Plessey LED grow lights in its 54,400m² greenhouse. The model is the Hyperion 1750, Plessey’s latest, and has a maximum light output of 1,750 micromole/s (equivalent to a 1kW SON-T, the incumbent discharge lamp technology – Plessey introduced the 1000 micromole/s Hyperion 1000 in 2017, equivalent to a 600W SON-T. All ...

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