TI has sacked its new CEO Brian Crutcher (pictured) who was appointed on June 1st. Crutcher’s predecessor as CEO, Rich Templeton is moving back into the CEO slot. Templeton took over as Chairman when Crutcher became CEO The reason for Crutcher’s dismissal was given as ‘code-of-conduct violations’. “The violations are related to personal behavior that ...
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Researchers at The University of Glasgow have created a flexible supercapacitor based on graphene foam, and have combined it with a flexible solar cell to form a power source for wearables. The capacitor uses layers of flexible, three-dimensional porous foam formed from graphene and silver. Capacitance was 38mF/cm2, according to the paper ‘Flexible self-charging supercapacitor based ...
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The EU has fined Google $5 billion for antitrust violations related to Android. The EC says that Google used Android to boost its market share in search by insisting that phone manufacturers who used Android pre-installed Google Search. “Google has used Android as a vehicle to cement the dominance of its search engine,” says Competition Commissioner ...
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Renesas has launched two PMBus compliant, fully digital DC/DC controllers that provide single output point-of-load (POL) conversions for FPGAs, DSPs, ASICs, network processors and general purpose system rails. The ISL68300 with integrated MOSFET drivers and ISL68301 with PWM output simplify designing power supplies for data center, wired and wireless communications, and factory automation equipment. The ISL68300 ...
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The Small Robot Company, the Shropshire developer of agricultural robots, has raised £50,000 on Indiegogo. The company aims to make farms more profitable, and increase yield and efficiency, through using small robots instead of tractors. Its arable farming robots Tom, Dick and Harry enable farmers to be kinder to soil, kinder to the environment, more ...
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HVM Technology, the Texas specialist in miniature high voltage power converters, has released a miniature 15kV Opto-Coupler. The OPTO-150 is a miniature; 15kV rated high voltage opto-coupler which integrates low voltage LED drivers with high voltage photo detector diodes. Typical applications for the OPTO-150 include high voltage switching, high voltage isolation, external voltage sensing, voltage ...
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CommScope has published an FTTX eBook, “Fiber to the X Fundamentals,” encompassing all aspects of outside plant fibre deployment. The entire 49-page book is available for download now. “We get so many questions from our customers – who are either deploying an FTTX network for the first time or are curious about new technologies – ...
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Vayyar Imaging and Mini-Circuits are offering educational project kits for engineers and students. These kits will introduce highly advanced practices with a focus on electromagnetic, RF and microwave technologies in university classrooms and programs The first kit includes all the elements required to build vector network analyzers and algorithms for RF devices. The kit will features ...
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