Mouser has brought out a video for its Shaping Smarter Cities series in which Grant Imahara travels to Porto to investigate how innovators are using technology to help with infrastructure problems caused by rapid urban expansion — specifically massive traffic congestion. The series is supported by ADI, Intel, Microchip and Molex. With residents in Porto ...
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The LTC7103 is a 2.3A, 105V input capable synchronous step-down switching regulator. Its wide 4.4V to 105V input voltage range is designed for operation from a continuously high voltage input source or from an input that has high voltage surges, eliminating the need for external surge suppression devices. This makes the LTC7103 suitable for a ...
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Qualcomm has lost its appeal against a fine imposed on it by the EU for failing to produce information in an anti-trust case involving the UK wireless start-up Icera. Icera was sold to Nvidia in 2011 for $367 million – $100 million more than it raised in equity funding – after nine years of existence. ...
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D BCD Microelectronics, the Basingstoke semiconductor distributor has merged with Munich distributor Atlantik Elektronik.. The new company will be named BCD-Atlantik. BCD-Atlantik remains an independent company but will combine resources from both companies. BCD are 27 years old this year and Atlantik is 40. “Our merger with Atlantik Elektronik strengthens our position in ...
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Qualcomm has ben grabbing China market share, reports Digitimes, getting its Snapdragon processors into handsets at MediaTek customers Oppo, Vivo, Xiaomi, and Meizu. MediaTek’s response is reported to be a move to TSMC’s 12nm process in Q4. It is said that MediaTek’s lack of a Cat 10 modem has reduced both its market share and ...
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An Enigma cryptography machine has been bought in a Romanian street market for €100 and later sold at a Bucharest auction for €45,000. Enigma machines were distributed in Romania by Germany when Romania was on Germany’s side in WWII. Later it switched to the allies. It is assumed there may be other machines undiscovered in ...
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Lloyds, which has a 20-25% share of the cyber insurance market, says that a major cyber attack could cause over $120 billion of potential losses and that many organisations are under-insured. In a report co-authored with risk-modeller Cyence, Lloyds finds that: The WannaCry ransomware attack in May cost $8 billion across 100 countries, says Lloyds. ...
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Car manufacturers’ trade associations have asked the China government to relax some of its EV regulations. The request has come from the American Automotive Policy Council (AAPC), the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA), the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA) and the Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association (KAMA). China says it wants one fifth of all cars ...
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In Q4, Globalfoundries and VeriSilicon intend to tape out a cellular modem test chip for low-power wide area (LPWA) networks which integrates baseband, power management, RF radio and front-end, combining both Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) and LTE-M capabilities and fabbed on a 22nm FD-SOI process. LPWA technology takes advantage of the existing LTE spectrum and mobile infrastructure, ...
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The EU FP7 Si photonics supply chain development project PLAT4M has now been completed, says Leti. Si photonics has long been expected to bring substantial breakthroughs in very high speed data communications, telecommunications and supercomputing. In addition, it is one of the most promising industrial-production candidates because of its potential for large-scale and low-cost production ...
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