For National STEM Day Today, RS Components is sending Dr. Lucy Rogers, Ph.D. on a mission to find the engineering edge in sometimes little-known, but important, places. As a follow-up to its “History Makers” podcast, RS Componentsand its online engineering community,DesignSpark, are debuting on National STEM Day (November 8) a new podcast, The Engineering Edge, hosted ...
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Cornish optical firm OMC is looking to cut the cost of custom moulded backlights for customers seeking medium quantities. The scheme is called ‘Mouldshare’, and it does what it says on the tin – a single moulding tool is made to manufacture parts for multiple customers. “In general, setup costs for standard moulded backlights are ...
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Solid State Disks (SSD) has launched HotBackup, a solid state ‘live host’ backup for use in process and mission critical legacy computer systems in the telecommunications, semiconductor manufacturing, industrial process control, engineering and manufacturing, oil and gas, mil/aero and media post-production industries. Utilizing twin CompactFlash cards, HotBackup is presented to the host system as a ...
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Bill Gates has warned against US government paranoia about China. Gates suggested at the New York Times DealBook Conference that Huawei could follow the example of Microsoft and provide source code to the US government which would allay fears about its products. When the event moderator said that the US government was unlikely to see ...
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Smartphone shipments increased 0.8% y-o-y in Q3 after seven quarters of decline, says IDC. 358.3 million smartphones were shipped during the quarter, which was up 8.1% from the previous quarter and enough to return the industry to positive growth. India led emerging markets in total, which together were responsible for propelling worldwide growth, mainly from ...
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After ending its US custom core design effort for Exynos processors, Samsung is expected to return to using Arm cores. “Samsung has decided to transition part of our US-based R&D teams in Austin and San Jose,” says Samsung. It is thought that around 290 jobs will be lost. It is believed that Samsung has not found external ...
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More than 50% of smartphones sold worldwide in 2023 will use AMOLED, says IHS Markit, up from about 30% in 2019. Total AMOLED shipments are forecasted to rise to 825 million units in 2023. Due to their advantages in flexibility, image quality and power consumption, AMOLEDs are rapidly claiming market share from the TFT-LCD, long ...
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Global small- to medium-size LCD panel shipments are estimated to drop from 2020 to 2024, says Digitimes Research, while large-size ones will continue growing through 2020, but start slipping in 2021. Global small- to medium-size LCD panel shipments are estimated to drop from 2020 to 2024. Global large-size LCD panel shipments will fall at a ...
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