Last Saturday over 300 former staffers at TI’s Bedford held a re-union at the fab site which operated from 1960 till 1993 and was once Bedford’s biggest employer. “Working at TI was like being part of a family, we were family and testament to that fact is seeing all these old faces here today,” Ken Sanders, the ...
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Plessey has revealed its first GaN-on-silicon HD monolithic micro-LED with an active silicon backplane. “This is a momentous milestone in the development of our monolithic micro-LED display technology,” said Plessey director of epitaxy Dr Wei Sin Tan. “To the best of our knowledge this is truly a world first, and we are extremely proud of ...
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Contemporary Controls has come up with the BASPi series of building automation controllers powered by Raspberry Pi. The first design is a 6-universal input, 6-relay output, BACnet server, Sedona-programable board which mounts on top of the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO header as a HAT. With the installation of the free BASpi firmware and the HAT/daughterboard, you ...
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US electronics production has been showing steady growth while China’s is decelerating, says Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence (SI). The three-month-average change in US electronics production versus a year ago (3/12) in March 2019 was 6.2%, the 12th consecutive month of growth above 5%. China electronics production is decelerating, with March 2019 3/12 growth of 8.2%, ...
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Imec has developed a compact highly-sensitive 140GHz MIMO radar system. The MIMO setup is demonstrated for gesture recognition, supporting intuitive man-machine interactions. The ultra-fine resolution of this radar allows the detection of micro-skin movements related to vital signs serving applications like non-contact driver monitoring or patient monitoring. Key differentiators of imec’s 140GHz radar-on-chip prototype system ...
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Pervasive Displays (PDi), the e-paper display specialist, has a new line of compact black, white and yellow displays ranging in size from 1.54 to 4.37-inches. E-paper displays (EPDs), commonly found in e-readers, have been growing in popularity across a range of sectors, thanks to their extremely low power requirements and easy readability in challenging lighting ...
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Infineon extends its CoolSiC Schottky 1200 V G5 diode portfolio with the release of a TO247-2.
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Artificial intelligence has allowed a hummingbird-inspired robot to manoeuvre like the real thing, according to Purdue University, which is searching for a way to make smaller drones. Due to the way conventional aerodynamics work, according to the university, drones can’t be made infinitely smaller as they can’t generate enough lift to support their weight – but ...
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Agile Analog, a two year-old Cambridge analog IP company, announces it has closed its latest Pre-A funding round with Delin Ventures, firstminute Capital and MMC Ventures for $5 million. Agile Analog will use the funding to expand the existing engineering team in Cambridge and deliver analog IP products to a wide range of waiting customers. ...
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Imagination has joined SiFive’s DesignShare ecosystem, giving system designers easy access to its PowerVR GPU and neural network accelerator (NNA) IP cores. The PowerVR GPU will be the first fully-featured GPU supporting the Vulkan applications programming interface (API) available via the DesignShare ecosystem. DesignShare reduces the upfront costs of acquiring IP for System-on-Chip (SoC) prototyping. Imagination’s PowerVR Series8XE GPU ...
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