Sponsored Content: The expanding role of prototyping platforms and development boards in professional design

Sponsored Content: Raspberry Pi, BeagleBoard and Arduino have captured the imagination of students and hobbyists alike with their easy-to-use development platforms. With sales of more than 19 million for Raspberry Pi alone, and a thriving community of enthusiasts, it seems the only question remaining is if this success, built upon capability, small size, low price ...

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Tough Q1 for Samsung

Samsung’s Q1 semiconductor profit fell 64% to $3.52 billion while the whole company had a profit of $5.4 billion on sales which fell 13.5% to $45 billion. The phone business took a 40% drop in operating income for a $2 billion profit Displays made a $480 million loss. Samsung has been driving down memory prices ...

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Clock oscillators with ±5ppm frequency stability

IQD has launched a range of ultra-low frequency stability HCMOS based clock oscillators. The IQXO-923 series is available with a frequency stability of only ±5ppm over the full industrial operating temperature range of -40 to 85 degrees C. Available in either a voltage of 1.8V (IQXO-923-18) or 3.3V (IQXO-923-33) this new clock oscillator is housed ...

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Farnell widens margins

Calendar Q1 revenues at Avnet were up 1.2% y-o-y at $4.7 billion with an operating margin of 3.3%. Farnell’s operating margin was 12.4% up from 10.8% in calendar Q1 2018. “I am pleased with the strong execution we demonstrated this quarter,” said Avnet CEO Bill Amelio (pictured), “we saw continued strength in our Americas and ...

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Free software to get LoRa metro range IoT wireless up and running

Semtech has announced software building blocks to ease the development of devices with LoRa wireless links – LoRa is a low data rate wireless link with a range of over 10km. They are free, supported, open-source software and specification compliant – intended to implement the common functions that all developers of end devices, gateways or ...

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Sainsbury opens till-less supermarket

Sainsbury’s has beaten Amazon to the punch by opening the UK’s first till-less store. In Holborn Circus, the store currently processes 82% of sales digitally. Sainsbury is now waiting to see if customers go for it before they roll out the concept nationally.   Customers use an app called SmartShop Scan, Pay & Go. Customers ...

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ARM losing market share

ARM is losing share in the IP market, says IPNest. From 47.8% market share in 2016, it slipped to 46.2% in 2017 and to 44.7% in 2018. Companies ranked by semiconductor design IP revenue in 2018 (millions of dollars). Source: IPnest (April 2019). Achronix was the fabulous success story of last year growing revenues 250% ...

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