AMOLED pushes Samsung back to No.1 in phone displays

Samsung reclaimed the No.1 slot in the global smartphone display market in Q3 as the company capitalized on record-high demand for AMOLEDs, says IHS Markit. Samsung grew is sharevfrom 21.3% in Q2  to 29% in Q3, says IHS. That was enough to drive Samsung past BOE Display to take the market lead for the first ...

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Arrow Electronics sells Mindsphere portfolio in EMEA region

Arrow Electronics has announced its appointment as the first reseller for the Mindsphere program for IIoT (industrial internet of things) technology providers in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region. Arrow will market Mindsphere hardware and software products, including Mindconnect IoT 2040 and Mindconnect Nano hardware. The program is a “cloud-based, open IoT operating ...

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Raspberry Pi’s Code Club and Aardman Animations get kids coding

A joint promotion between Raspberry Pi’s Code Club programme and Aardman Animations challenged primary school students across the globe to show off their coding skills with an animation based on the Shaun the Sheep films. The contest was open for seven weeks and any registered Code Club was eligible to enter. It closed with 683 ...

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Bridgetek branches out into end-user products

Bridgetek, the Taiwanese subsidiary of Glasgow-owned FTDI, has branched out from chip-making into end-user products – not just individual end-user devices, but complete turn-key end-user systems. Each system, all branded ‘Panl’, is built around networked displays, with some including protocol-converting hubs and interface boxes. At the heart of the displays is the firm’s novel graphics controller ...

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Singapore is the most talented Asian nation

Singapore is the No.1 country in the “IMD World Talent Ranking” of Asian countries mainly due to its high quality education. In the global talent rankings it come in 10th. The Swiss IMD (International Institute for Management Development) report evaluates the quality of a country’s talent pool as well as its efforts in developing local talent, ...

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Imec spin-off diagnoses cell blood count from a few drops of blood

A diagnostic device pictured) developed by Imec subsidiary miDiagnostics has been chosen by NASA is to check human blood samples in space. The miDiagnostics device can perform a complete cell blood count (CBC) from only drops of blood Imec will design test parameters and perform experiments in different gravity scenarios using one of miDiagnostics’ devices ...

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GNSSDO with ±1.5μs accurate holdover performance at Rutronik UK

Hong Kong X’tals is stocking its Global Navigation Satellite System Disciplined Oscillator (GNSSDO) of the K-Star series at Rutronik. The disciplined oscillator receives signals from satellites to generate one pulse-per-second output. It supports concurrent reception of signals from GPS, Glonass, Beidu and Galileo. The K-Star GNSSDO is available in a form factor of 155x165x55mm at ...

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Smart speaker exposé wins Design Museum prize

The Design Museum has named an exposé of the human labour, data privacy and environmental impacts of a smart speaker, as the winner of the Beazley Design of the Year. By Kate Crawford of AI Now Institute and Vladan Joler, ‘Anatomy of an AI System’ is both a research project and a complex diagram (extract right) ...

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Cobham Wireless launches multi-operator 4G coverage on Berlin’s U-Bahn

Cobham Wireless has announced that its idDAS (intelligent digital distributed antenna system) is now providing 4G coverage in Berlin’s U-Bahn for subscribers of all three of Germany’s major mobile operators. The news follows an initial deployment with Telefónica, which involved replacing legacy equipment with Cobham Wireless’ idDAS, and delivering 2G, 3G and 4G cellular coverage ...

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