Lightwave Logic, which is developing photonic devices and non-linear optical polymer materials, has bought the polymer technology intellectual property assets of BrPhotonics Productos Optoelectrónicos of Brazil. The acquisition advances Lightwave Logic’s patent portfolio of electro-optic polymer technology with 15 polymer chemistry materials, devices, packaging and subsystems patents. It further strengthens the company’s design capabilities as it ...

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The University of Roehampton has released its latest Roehampton Annual Computing Education Report (TRACER) which provides an analysis of the provision of GCSE and A-level computing qualifications in schools in England, considering factors such as student gender, ethnicity and geographic spread.  Removal of GCSE ICT and failure to approve equivalent qualifications looks likely to result ...

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The  LTC6952, LTC6953, LTC6955 and LTC6955-1 are a family of low jitter, high performance clock generation and distribution devices supporting JESD204B subclass 1 clocking applications up to 7.5GHz. These products are ideal for high-speed data converter clocking applications, with a scalable architecture to provide thousands of synchronized low jitter clocks, each with a complementary SYSREF signal. ...

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Guerrilla RF has added two devices to its family of low-current, low noise amplifiers and linear drivers. Both are tunable over 100 to 3800 MHz with a typical bias condition of 3.3 volts and 15 mA. The devices integrate low noise figure, good linearity and low-loss bypass functionality into our small DFN-6 (1.5mm x 1.5mm) application ...

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With the SensorShield-EVK-003, ROHM is offering a new sensor shield expansion board equipped with eight sensor boards designed for use with existing open platform MCU boards such as Arduino and mbed. The SensorShield-EVK-003 is the latest sensor evaluation kit offered by ROHM. The updated kit bundles eight sensor boards with various sensors produced by the ...

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Broadcom has laid off about 1,100 employees and will very likely lay off more. “Management is in the process of further evaluating our resources and business needs and may eliminate additional positions, which would result in additional restructuring costs,” says the 10-Q regulatory filing in which Broadcom announced its lay-offs. The current lay-off follows Broadcom’s  ...

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Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence has looked at this year’s forecasts for the industry and has come up with this analysis. In February 2018, projections ranged from 5.9% from Mike Cowan to our 12% at Semiconductor Intelligence. Forecasts released in March to June range from Gartner’s 11.8% to our 16%. The latest forecasts average an increase ...

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