IBM is to buy Linux OS specialist Red Hat for $34 billion. It is IBM’s biggest ever acquisition. IBM’s own market cap is $114 billion. “The acquisition of Red Hat is a game-changer, “ says IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, “IBM will become the world’s No. 1 hybrid cloud provider, offering companies the only open cloud ...
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Aiming at automotive, Rohm has introduced a buck-boost dc-dc chipset, claimed to provide the lowest current consumption with good transient response for ECUs (electronic control units) for cluster panels and gateways used in start-stop vehicles. Unusually, one of the chips (BD8P250MUF-C) is a buck converter, and the other (BD90302NUF-C below right) is a totem pole ...
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IoT comms firm Sigfox has launched Access Station Micro, a weather-resistant Basestation and gateway for the low-power long-range IoT communication system. It includes an integrated antenna and power-over-Ethernet capability. “It can be installed within minutes and connect to Sigfox’s Cloud via existing Internet access or cellular networks,” said the organisation, which is aiming the unit for ...
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Leti’s sensiNact IoT middleware will be the core of a platform under development in an EU-Korean project that will empower decentralised AI applications at the edge. Decentralisation from the cloud to the edge is a key challenge of AI technologies applied to large heterogeneous systems, including ensuring timely and effective responses that are critical (e.g. ...
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TI has introduced a temperature sensor family that offers ±0.1°C accuracy across a wide temperature range and helps simplify system design for industrial and medical applications. The TMP117 is the first single-chip temperature sensor to offer similar performance to platinum resistance temperature detectors (RTDs) while reducing design complexity and power consumption. For medical applications, the ...
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Pickering Interfaces of Clacton-on-Sea has launched a family of programmable resistor modules with 2.5W, 5W or 10W power handling capability at 100V or as limited by power. Models 40-251/2/3 target applications that require accurate medium-power programmable resistance such as a programmable load for the testing of ECUs and fuel level sensing. These ECUs are commonly ...
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Intel had Q3 revenue up 19% y-o-y at $19.16 billion. The company forecasts revenues of $71.2 billion for the full year which will probably not be enough to retake the chip crown from Samsung. In H1, Samsung had $40 billion chip sales compared to Intel’s $33 billion. Intel’s PC business had revenues of $10.2 billion; ...
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UK test equipment maker Pico Technology has introduced validation standards for vector network analysers, that can be “optionally be used to validate the accuracy of a network analysis test setup and its calibration before, during or after a sequence of measurements is made”, said the firm. TA430 (insertable M-F) and TA431 (non-insertable F-F) – pictured ...
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An MIT survey has revealed global ethical preferences when it comes to autonomous vehicle safety, and some regional variations. Over 200 million participants from over 200 countries quizzed themselves on versions of a ‘trolley problem’ ethical dilemma – where the vehicle must opt for one of two potentially fatal options in an impending accident – ...
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Following beta testing, Segger has added its new linker and ‘link-time optimisation’ (LTO) to the latest release build of Embedded Studio for ARM and Embedded Studio for Cortex-M. “The new product version delivers programme size reduction, achieving 5-12% reduction over the previous version on typical applications,” said the firm. “These savings are the result of ...
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