China may soon have its second-proprietary 5G modem with the news from Digitimes that the Tsinghua Unigroup subsidiary  Unisoc has had its design validated by TSMC. After Intel pulled out of the 5G modem market, the USA has only one supplier – Qualcomm. With the addition of Unisoc to HiSilicon as a supplier, China has ...

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RSE of Muir and Ord  (previously Ross-shire Engineering) a subsidiary of Envoy & Partners which supplies engineering services to UK utilities, has bought a majority stake in  40 year-old Leeds switchboard and controls manufacturer Saftronics. Saftronics specialises in motor control centres, process control systems and low-voltage switchboards. It employs 110 people and operates from a 2,400m² ...

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Raspberry Pi can be used as an Alexa or Amazon Echo type of home automation device thanks to a $29 kit from the Geek Shop. The Geek Shop calls the kit ‘The Complete Raspberry Pi and Alexa A-Z Bundle’. The bundle contains four courses which demonstrate how to make a range of home automation tools. ...

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Intel replaced Samsung as the number semiconductor supplier in 4Q18 after losing the lead spot to Samsung in 2Q17. While Samsung held the full-year number one ranking in 2017 and 2018, Intel is forecast to easily recapture the number one ranking for the full-year of 2019, a position it previously held from 1993 through 2016. ...

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The global smartphone production volume for 1Q19 totaled 311 million units, showing a YoY decrease of 9%, says TrendForce. The outlook for 2Q19 indicates that smartphone demand will stabilize, and the traditional busy season for stock-up activities will arrive in the latter half of the second quarter. So global smartphone production volume in 2Q19 is ...

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Chemists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed an efficient water splitting catalyst. The catalyst comprises a double-helix semiconductor structure encased in carbon nitride. It is perfect for producing hydrogen economically and sustainably. An inorganic double-helix compound comprising the elements tin, iodine and phosphorus (SnIP) forms the core of the structure. It is ...

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element14.com is offering ten Raspberry Pi Starter Kits as prizes in its Summer Code Club Challenge, in association with educational project kit developers Kitronik. The Summer Code Club Challenge aims to empower parents, teachers and STEM ambassadors to set up summer code clubs in their local communities, helping young people access coding and digital literacy ...

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Molex’  BiPass thermal management configuration cools QSFP-DD modules up to 20W with a 15 degree Celsius change from the ambient temperature. BiPass allows higher wattage modules to be cooled and will help designers on the path toward 112 Gbps. As the industry is readying for the launch of next-generation copper and optical QSFP-DD transceivers, thermal management strategies ...

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NIssa has followed Tesla in saying Lidar is not necessary for self-driving cars. “At the moment, Lidar lacks the capabilities to exceed the capabilities of the latest technology in radar and cameras,”  says Tetsuya Lijima, general manager of advanced technology development for automated driving. Elon Musk recently called Lidar a “fool’s errand”. He says Tesla’s autonomous ...

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