The inventive Sinclair gene rides again as Sir Clive’s nephew, Grant Sinclair, launches a build-your-own pocket games machine. Grant’s product is called POCO, standing for Pocket Raspberrry Pi Gaming Kit. It includes a Raspberry Pi motherboard, a wide-angle camera, loudspeaker, touch screen and control pads. About the size of a smartphone, POCO allows users to ...
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TSMC has advised customers for 8-inch wafers to use multiple sources, reports Digitimes, because demand looks like exceeding supply right through 2019. Last week TSMC said it was looking to build a new 8-inch fab in Tainan. The last time it built an 8-inch fab was 15 years ago The demand is coming from customers ...
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Foxconn is said to be planning a $9 billion foundry in Zhuhai (pictured). The city of Zhuhai is putting up most of the money. Foxconn, its subsidiary Sharp and the city are expected to form a jv to build and run the fab. Initial products are expected to be 8K TV chip-sets, and imaging and other ...
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Mobile Semiconductor has announced a 22nm FDX ULP (Ultra Low Power) Memory Compiler. The Memory Compiler offers an Ultra-Low Power mode at 0.65V that is useful to a wide range of wearable and battery powered devices. The 22nm FDX ULP joins their expanding 22nm FDX Memory Compiler family that currently covers a wide range of ...
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ROHM claims to have launched the industry’s smallest contactless current sensor, the BM14270MUV-LB. It achieves minimum power loss (no heat generation) in an ultra-compact size, making it ideal for industrial equipment and consumer devices that detect operating conditions via current, including battery-driven drones, solar power systems, and servers in data centers requiring high power. In ...
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NTT Communications is to buy a majority stake in the French virtual mobile network company Transatel. Transatel, established in 2000, has deployed a data MVNO network compliant with Embedded SIM (eSIM) technology to address three key market segments: Consumer Electronics, Automotive and Industrial IoT (IIoT). Its SIM 901 platform claims to deliver secure, global cellular connectivity ...
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