Back to Arm for Samsung’s Exynos

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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AMOLED taking over phone market

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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LCD on a downer

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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3D printed conductors inside 3D printed solids offer little resistance

Engineers at Rutgers University are claiming 11.8μΩ.cm for conductors printed inside plastic structures, created by printing a novel silver ink and exposing it to high intensity light. The ink has both silver nano-wires and silver nano-spheres within it. These are fused using ‘intense pulsed light sintering’ with a xenon lamp, that is brief enough not to ...

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Inorganic perovkite solar cell lasts longer

Perovskite solar cells can be made in open air and “last for months rather than days with a solar conversion efficiency slightly above 12%” according to Rice University if some of the Pb is replaced with indium. The switch also reduces defects that skew the cell’s bandgap. “From our perspective, this is something new and ...

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Pickering Electronics 10W reed relay with 4x4mm pcb footprint

Pickering Electronics has extended its 4mm2TM product family with the Series 122 reed relay. Used in high speed test systems, occupying a PCB footprint of 4x4mm, Pickering claims the relay provides the highest packing density currently available. The relay measures 12.5mm in height and can operate from 3V or 5V. Its contacts are rated with ...

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Taoglas and U-Blox bring centimeter-level positioning to IoT

Taoglas has developed a centimeter-level GNSS positioning solution using the U-Blox ZED-F9P and an L1/L2/E5 GNSS receiver. The Edge Locate positioning module simplifies the development and deployments of IoT solutions that depend on high precision positioning information. Featuring the U-Blox ZED-F9P GNSS module with concurrent reception of GPS, Glonass, Galileo, and Beidou on multiple frequency ...

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Power boost to Components Bureau’s lineup

An agreement between Components Bureau and Artesyn covers the UK and Ireland, adding the latter’s high power modular and programmable power supplies to the distributor’s range, which includes AC/DC power supplies and DC/DC converters from a selection of manufacturers. Artesyn’s power offering ranges from products of 3W to hundreds of kW, for use in a ...

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Laser hacks hacks smart-speaker from 100m, opens house doors

University researchers have remotely gained control of a home smart speaker using a laser. The hack worked at a range of 110m, and would have been further if the team had had more space. All that was needed was a 5mW laser (little more than pointer-power) and a telescope (actually a telephoto lens). 60mW was sufficient ...

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