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Melexis chip improves car cabin lighting

Melexis, the Belgian automotive IC specialist, has a LIN-to-LIN gateway that overcomes the limitation of  16 devices on a typical LIN bus. Each MLX81120 connects as a LIN slave on the main LIN bus and is controlled directly from the vehicle’s Body Control Module (BCM). The new device allows for up to 16 LIN RGB ...

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TJ wins Cypress battle

TJ Rodgers has won his battle with Cypress over the constitution of the board. TJ, who resigned as CEO last year from the company he founded in 1982, brought an action against Cypress calling for the removal of two directors Ray Bingham and Erc Benhamou. Bingham resigned in June. At a subsequent election Dan McCranie ...

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Farnell and TraceParts offer CAD files

Farnell and TraceParts are offering CAD designs for 10,000 TE Connectivity products available to customers to download in multiple formats. Content provided within the library includes high-resolution images, technical documentation, attribution, features and benefits along with descriptions to assist customers with their design selection. “We are always seeking new ways to help our customers design ...

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IC integrates sensors, logic and memory using CNTs and RRAM

A 3D chip which combines sensors, logic and memory using carbon nanotubes and RRAM has been made by Stanford University researchers. The chip has 1 million RRAM cells and 2 million CNT FETs built on top of eachother and connected by ultra-dense wires. Logic made from carbon nanotubes can be an order of magnitude more ...

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Imagination increases revenues, reduces losses

Imagination saw a 19% y-o-y increase in revenues in its financial year to the end of April (FY 2017) to reach £145.2 million. FY 2017 operating profit was £7.79 million up from the FY 2016 loss of £26.7 million. However tax and the costs of discontinued businesses and financing costs ended in a net loss of ...

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Samsung runs silicon at $13.5bn fab

Samsung has started up production at its $13.5 billion fab in Pyeongtaek The first product is 64-layer, TLC, 2.5V 256Gbit 3D NAND. Initial production is 70-80,000 wpm but Samsung emphasises that this is just the start and the fab’s capacity will be increased over the next two years. Samsung calls it the world’s biggest fab ...

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Microsoft expected to sack thousands

Microsoft is expected to announce thousands of worldwide lay-offs this week as the management seeks to transition the company from developing software for PCs and servers to developing software for cloud services where Amazon is the dominant player. Microsoft is having considerable success with Azure cloud services software. In Q2, Azure sales grew 93% on ...

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May chip sales soar 22.6%

May semiconductor sales were up 22.6% on May 2016 at $31.9 billion, reports the SIA, it was the largest y-o-y growth sincevSeptember 2010. May sales were up 1.9% on  April’s $31.4 billion. All major regional markets had y-o-y increases of more than 15% in May, with the US leading the way with growth of 30.5%. ...

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