Invent for the Planet 2020 winners announced

The competition for engineering students, Invent for the Planet, has announced this year’s winning projects. The competition challenges young engineers to solve real-world issues such as microplastics in oceans, sustainable airline waste management and single use plastics. Over 800 students from 40 universities in 20 countries took part in this year’s competition, run by Texas ...

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High-performance fabric sensors survive washing machine

Re-usable flexible medical skin electrodes have been built by combining fabric and chemical engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Technical performance is similar to commercial wet gel electrodes, while convenience is comparable to dry electrodes – which are easy to use but generally provide inferior signals to wet electrodes. Four of the electrodes have been ...

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Guerrilla to introduce ten PAs

Guerrilla RF is introducing ten new ¼ W linear power amplifiers over the next two quarters as part of the company’s expansion into the cellular market. These new InGaP HBT amplifiers were designed specifically for 5G/4G wireless infrastructure applications requiring exceptional native linearity over temperature extremes of -40°C to 85°C. The first of the ten ...

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MIPS lands up in China

MIPS has ended up in China, reports Reuters. It got there via a tortured series of deals starting with Imagination buying MIPS in 2013 followed by  China-backed Canyon Bridge buying Imagination in 2017. The US government insisted that MIPS must not go with Imagination to Canyon Bridge so MIPS was sold to Diosdado Banatao who ...

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MCU is suffering most

MCUs are suffering the most among major IC product categories in the Pandemic, according to the Mid-Year Update of IC Insights’ 2020 McClean Reporton integrated circuits. The mid-year forecast shows worldwide MCU sales falling 8% in 2020 to $14.9 billion after dropping 7% in 2019, when the weak global economy lowered the microcontroller market from ...

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16.7% YoY decline for smartphones in Q2

Smartphone production of 286 million units in 2Q20, was up 2.2%, but down 16.7% YoY, says TrendForce, which is the largest quarterly YoY drop in history. Smartphone production for 3Q20 is expected to reach 335 million units, a 10.1% decrease YoY. Although this figure falls short compared with the same period last year, it still ...

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Security image sensor for 1080p mainstream cameras

Omnivision is sampling a security image sensor for mainstream, high-volume security cameras requiring 1080p resolution and low-light pixel performance. The OS02G10 offers low-light captures via a 2.8 micron pixel built on the OmniPixel3-HS architecture. Compared with OmniVision’s prior-generation mainstream security sensor, it has a 60% better SNR1 and 40% lower power consumption. OmniVision is using ...

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