Samsung Electronics partly halted some semiconductor production at its Hwaseong chip complex in South Korea after about a minute-long blackout on Tuesday afternoon, the company announced on Wednesday. Some DRAM and NAND flash chip production lines were stopped after electricity was cut due to a problem with a regional power transmission cable, and a full ...
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Osram is offering replaceable LED lighting modules to car makers. Designed to the requirements of ECE standard R128, the hand-replaceable sources are available in red, yellow and white. They are branded ‘XLS’ for exchangeable LED light sources. The parts are LR5, LY5 and LW5 respectively, with LR5 and LY5 intended for indicator and tail light light guides, LR5 also ...
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Osram is offering replaceable LED lighting modules to car makers. Designed to the requirements of ECE standard R128, the hand-replaceable sources are available in red, yellow and white. They are branded ‘XLS’ for exchangeable LED light sources. The parts are LR5, LY5 and LW5 respectively, with LR5 and LY5 intended for indicator and tail light light guides, LR5 also ...
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Aaeon has announced the Com-WhuC6 Express module, built to the compact type 6 form factor of 95x95mm. The Com-WhuC6 is designed to operate in applications including automation and mobile operations. The Com-WhuC6 is powered by Intel’s i7/i5/i3 and Celeron Ult series processors (formerly Whiskey Lake). The module also features two DDR4 slots for up to ...
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Meeting its deadline of having 5G in 20 cities before 2020 by the skin of its teeth, O2 switched on 5G in 13 new cities on December 31st. The new additions were: Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Liverpool, Newcastle, Bradford, Sheffield, Coventry, Nottingham, Norwich, Bristol, Derby and Stoke. By the end of 2020 O2 plans to have ...
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Expenditure for IC manufacturing equipment in China is is expected to increase to $14.9 billion in 2020 from $12.9 billion in 2019; says SEMI. China accounts for nearly 25% of equipment spend expenditure in the sector making it the world’s second largest semiconductor equipment market. For 2016-2020, the expenditure for semiconductor equipment in China is ...
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Japan’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) – an agency of the Defence Ministry – has used microwaves to zap drones, reports the Nikkei. ATLA put seven commercially available drones – three medium-size devices and four small ones – into a room shielded from ambient radio waves. A prototype “high-power microwave generation system,” was used ...
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CES is almost upon us – opening its glitzy doors on Tuesday. Here’s a taster: Waydoo Flyer ‘flying surfboard’ A surfboard/electric jet ski drone with a propeller below the water – the Waydoo Flyer costs US$6,495/UK£4,964/AUS$9,456). The Flyer has a wireless Bluetooth hand-held controller for steering and toggling between five different speeds (up to 28mph ...
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Huawei expects 2019 revenues to rise 18% on 2018 to $121.72 billion, 1.5% lower than the 19.5% growth in 2018 over 2017. Huawei is the world’s biggest supplier of switchgear and second biggest supplier of smartphones. Reuters calculates Huawei Q4 revenue at $23.28 billion up 3.9% y-o-y. Huawei shipped 240 million smartphones in 2019, a ...
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NGK Insulators of Nagoya, Japan, has started mass production of “EnerCera Coin,” a coin type cell in the “EnerCera” series of power sources for IoT devices. NGK is sampling a heat resistant type cell which it claims to be the first li-ion battery that can operate at 85 degrees Celsius. NGK is also sampling a ...
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