Anglia expands heatsink range following distribution agreement with ABL

Anglia Components has expanded its range of thermal management components including board mount, extruded and BGA heatsinks following a distribution agreement for the UK and Ireland with Birmingham-based manufacturer, ABL Aluminium Components. David Pearson, technical director of Anglia, commented “We aim to offer customers a complete solution and the addition of ABL broadens our profile ...

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Huawei tops world patent application league table

Huawei topped the patent application table last year according to WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organisation. But Tokyo analysts Patent Result says that only 21% of the 5,405 patent applications made by Huawei last year could be regarded as highly innovative. Patent Result asseses patents by a number of criteria including originality, actual technological applications ...

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Huawei to be allowed into UK network

A decision to give 5G infrastructure contracts to Huawei will be announced before Christmas, reports the Sunday Times. The decision will be that Huawei switchgear can be used in “non-contentious”  areas of the network. Theresa May made a similar decision at a National Security Council meeting but it got leaked and created a Cabinet split. ...

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EMEA Q3 PC market up 3%

The EMEA PC market grew 3% y-o-y in Q3 with 18.8 million units shipped, says IDC. Commercial shipments were up 9.4% y-o-y while consumer shipments were down 4%. The Western European  PC market grew by 3.3% y-o-y with consumer down 3.3% and commercial up 8.3%. “Vendors were largely able to cope with ongoing component shortages ...

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China push into crypto

China’s government is pushing hard for the country to take a lead in cryptography with government demands for an accelerated adoption of blockchain and crypto-currencies. China has passed a law for ‘facilitating the development of the cryptography business and ensuring the security of cyberspace and information”. The law, which takes effect on January 1st, says ...

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Magnets and temperature aid rare earth recovery

Magnetic fields can make separating ‘rare earth’ materials from one another less wasteful, according to the University of Pennsylvania. Used in displays, lasers and magnets, the rare earths are chemically similar and therefore challenging to separate – they tend to be found in the earth in mixtures, and can also presented for recycling in mixtures. ...

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Load switch features slew rate control and true reverse current blocking

Diodes Incorporated has announced the introduction of the AP22913, a 2A single-channel, slew-rate-controlled load switch with true reverse current blocking for high-side load-switching applications. Single-channel high-side load switches provide an effective way of applying or removing power to a load, particularly to removable peripherals powered through a USB port. The AP22913A load switch incorporates true ...

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Micron to sample 3D XPoint SSDs

In Q4, Micron begins selectively sampling SSDs made with  3D XPoint which, claims Micron, are the world’s fastest SSDs. Dubbed X100, the 3D XPoint-based drives target storage- and memory-intensive applications for the datacentre. Micron claims the technology delivers “higher capacity and persistence than DRAM, along with higher endurance and performance than NAND.” Micron’s claims for the ...

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Record Q3 at Intel

Intel had record  Q3 revenue of $19.2 billion – 6% up y-o-y -gross margin was 58.9%, operating income was $6.4 billion and net income was $6 billion,  The company is expecting record  full year revenue of $71 billion. The PC business was down 5% at $9.7 billion The datacentre business was up 4% at $6.4 ...

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