BIEA launches youth STEM competition to tackle plastic pollution

The British International Education Association (BIEA) launched its third annual youth STEM competition at a conference at the Royal Institution on the 15 January. This year’s competition is titled “STEM (Stop) the tide of plastic pollution”. EW reporter Alex McCarthy attended the conference to find out how the organisation plans to encourage more young people ...

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What’s occurring, COM-HPC?

Caroline Hayes finds out the progress being made for the latest high-speed embedded computing standard, COM-HPC As the industry prepares for the computing demands of increased connectivity in vehicles, factories and homes, the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG) is able to provide an update on the standard computer on module (COM) standard that will ...

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Competition: Win a Samsung T7 Portable Touch external SSD

We’re running a short survey in collaboration with Samsung about innovation in the electronics industry. Answer the questions and enter your details to be placed in a draw to win an external SSD! The T7 Touch is a pocket-sized, external solid state drive that weighs 58 grams and boasts AES 256-bit encryption, giving you the ...

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Oscilloscope enhancements and new analyser

Embedded World 2020: Among the established products on display, Rigol Technologies will be highlighting additions to its oscilloscope portfolio and a new real-time spectrum analyser at the show in Nuremberg (25-28 February). The MSO8000 digital oscilloscope has been added to the company’s UltraVision II range which is characterised by its Phoenix chipset architecture and with ...

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USA swears in First Chief of newly created Space Force

Air Force Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond, as first chief of space operations, has officially become the highest-ranking military leader of the newly created U.S. Space Force. He was sworn in by US Vice President Mike Pence in a ceremony at the White House last week. The Space Force’s responsibility is described as training, equipping ...

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Bus switches from Diodes rereleased in smaller packaging

Diodes has announced its family of quad- and dual-channel 4:1 and 2:1 bus switches are now available in a 3x3x0.65mm package. The package is designed to enable increased PCB density and reduce product dimensions when developing PC notebooks and tablets as well as networking and telecommunications equipment. Discrete logic devices, such as bus multiplexers and ...

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Mouser adds GigaDevice’s non-volatile memories for embedded applications

Mouser has signed a distribution deal with GigaDevice. The Chinese company supplies SPI NOR, SPI NAND and parallel NAND flash memory products for embedded applications in the automotive, industrial, mobile computing, networking and infrastructure and consumer markets. Included in the portfolio available from Mouser is the GD25 SPI NOR flash memory family. It is available ...

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Creating eye-catching signage?

Aiming at digital signage, vending and retail, Display Technology has introduced Litemax’ Circle LCD, a round 23.6inch diameter display. Called SCD2365-Y, it has an MTBF of 100,000 hours and is sunlight-viewable at 1,000cd/m2. Claimed contrast is 600:1, and the resolution is 1,920 x 1,920 – presumably only across certain diameters (=596.16mm). Viewing is across 178° horizontally and ...

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ACF controllers for designing AC/DC power adapters

Silanna Semiconductor says that its SZ1101 and SZ1105 fully integrated active clamp flyback (ACF) controllers for designing high-power-density AC/DC power adapters are now fully qualified and in production. The SZ1101 33W version is suited for designing mobile phone travel adapters, while the SZ1105 65W version is suited for designing compact adapters for powering notebooks, video ...

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Apple buys Xnor

Apple has bought Xnor.ai – a Seattle startup pursuing tools for edge AI, according to geekwire.con. Apple is said to have paid around $200 million for Xnor  which has raised $14.6 million. Xni was incubated at Paul Allen’s Institute for AI calked A12 m. it specialises in image recognition tools for mobile devices. Xnor was ...

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