5G limps along

There have been 15 5G commercial launches this year, including Thailand, Hong Kong (2 operators) and  Japan (4 operators), says Strategy Analytics China Mobile plans to have 300,000 5G base stations in use by the end of 2020, while China Telecom and China Unicom have brought forward the target for deploying 250,000 base stations in their ...

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Hydrogel cools electronics while converting waste heat into electricity

Researchers reporting in the American Chemical Society’s Nano Letters have developed a hydrogel that can both cool down electronics, such as cell phone batteries, and convert their waste heat into electricity. Xuejiao Hu, Kang Liu, Jun Chen and colleagues wanted to design a smart thermogalvanic hydrogel that could convert waste heat into electricity, while also lowering the ...

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Raspberry Pi-based server rack

The Turing Pi cluster board is available for preorder from Turing Machines Inc. This Mini-ITX-sized motherboard can support up to seven Raspberry Pi Compute Modules, essentially creating a server rack. The Turing Pi board has support for the Kubernetes environment. It’s suitable for things like machine learning, cloud environments, application testing and serverless stacks. The ...

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RF front end market has 8% CAGR to 2025

The RF front end market will  have 8% CAGR between 2018 and 2025, says Yole Developpenent. From  $15 billion in 2018, the market should reach $25.8 billion by 2025. Samsung, Apple, Sony, LG, Google and ZTE all use complex RF modules from Broadcom, Skyworks, Qorvo, Qualcomm, and Murata. In the 17 selected smartphones, most of the components, ...

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SMD isolated DC/DC converters

Flex Power Modules has added to its range of miniature isolated DC/DC converters intended for industrial applications with the introduction of the PUB-2M series. Delivering an output power of up to 2W with no minimum load required, the high performance product is available in single or dual output options. Presented in an SMD package measuring ...

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UK consortium to build anti-slug agri-robot

SlugBot will be the world’s first robotic monitoring and bio-molluscicide treatment system for slugs, according to a UK consortium. The partners are: Crop Health and Protection (CHAP) – an agri-tech centre funded by Innovate UK Small Robot Company (SRC) – agri-tech start-up COSMONiO – deep learning computer vision start-up AV and N Lee – agricultural contracting The aim ...

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