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Afdec August B2B slips eight points

Afdec’s August book to bill ratio fell eight points to 0.96:1. “The decline in the B2B to 0.96.1 in August is unwelcome however I believe that we’re simply returning closer to historical reporting levels, ” says Adam Fletcher chairman of ecsn (Electronic Components Supply Network),  “the polynomial trend line suggests the B2B ratio is likely ...

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CMOS image sensors on 9.4% CAGR

The CMOS image sensor market grew at a record 20% y-oy in 2017, matching the growth of the overall semiconductor market, reports Yole Développement. The CIS market was worth $13.9 billion last year and will have a 9.4% CAGR between 2017 and 201, says Yole. The main driver is smartphones integrating additional cameras to support functionalities ...

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Fujitsu cooling bath for servers

Fujitsu will begin sales of its Fujitsu Server PRIMERGY Liquid Immersion Cooling System in Japan today, with a global rollout to follow. This product is a cooling system designed to efficiently cool the entire IT devices equally by immersing it in cooling fluid. Large-scale cooling equipment is not required, so the system reduces the total ...

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Element14 adds to Essentials

element14 has added new courses to its range of free DIY learning modules, to help its members develop their skills and keep up with the latest trends and innovations within the industry. The ‘Essentials’ courses take the form of simple, self-paced learning modules covering key areas such as IoT, motor control and power management. Each module ...

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Chip-set supports DSRC and C-V2X

Autotalks, the Israeli V2X (Vehicle to Everything) specialist, has produced a V2X chipset supporting both DSRC and C-V2X direct communications (PC5 protocol) at the highest security level. The chipset supports DSRC based on 802.11p/ITS-G5 standards and C-V2X based on 3GPP specifications. In recent years, V2X diverged into two different technologies, DSRC and C-V2X, with fundamentally different ...

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Arm buys analytics outfit for $600m

As has been widely trailed in the media for several days, Arm has paid $600 million for a Californian data analytics company called Treasure Data. Softbank, Arm’s owner, is a customer of Treasure Data and a former Softbank subsidiary called SBI (it used to be called Softbank Investments) is an investor in Treasure Data. Treasure ...

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Westerham firm opens Milwaukee office

Review Display Systems of Westerham, the specialist supplier of displays, embedded systems and design solutions, has launched its company into the USA. Headed by Alan Beale, the company has set up offices in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “We are delighted to have Alan on board at this very exciting time in our expansion programme,”says RDS md Russell ...

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Element14 publishes Tech Spotlights

Element14  has announced a new series of Tech Spotlights to be published on a bi-monthly basis to help its community of engineers learn about new topics outside of their specialty. The Tech Spotlights provide user-friendly bite-sized technical updates so that engineers can quickly broaden their knowledge on topics vital to their professional development. “We understand that ...

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