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Spansion after Cypress merger: What automotive industry can expect
Spansion after Cypress merger: What automotive industry can expect
Business news |
Past December, analog chipmaker Cypress announced to merge with Flash company Spansion. Since the latter plays a significant role in…
Green Hills adds virtualised graphics to R-Car platform
Green Hills adds virtualised graphics to R-Car platform
New Products |
For the implementation of graphics-intensive applications in the car like reconfigurable instrument clusters and dashboards, next-gen navigation systems, driver assistance…
Imec extracts 22% efficiency from crystalline silicon n-PERT solar cells
Imec extracts 22% efficiency from crystalline silicon n-PERT solar cells
Technology News |
Belgian nano-electronics research centre imec has announced that it has improved its large area n-type PERT (passivated emitter, rear totally…
Solar film air dome solution targets energy self-sufficiency
Solar film air dome solution targets energy self-sufficiency
Technology News |
German company Heliatek has installed the company's solar film, HeliaFilm, on a PVC-based membrane air dome in Berlin, Germany and…

Hot-carrier solar cells promise efficiency gains and savings
Hot-carrier solar cells promise efficiency gains and savings
Technology News |
A research team from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Columbia University have paired up polymers to recover some of the energy lost as heat by producing…
How the ‘LED lighting backlash’ could be good for the industry
How the ‘LED lighting backlash’ could be good for the industry
Market news |
The potential of LEDs is obvious. LEDs offer a low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), strong environmental credentials, extraordinarily long lifetimes, and have become roughly twice as efficient since 2012.
Will glass electrodes double lithium-ion battery capacities?
Will glass electrodes double lithium-ion battery capacities?
Technology News |
Chemists and materials scientists at ETH Zurich have developed a vanadate-borate glass that can be used as an electrode material in lithium-ion batteries which looks like having the potential to…
Partners to accelerate inkjet uptake for large-size OLED TVs
Partners to accelerate inkjet uptake for large-size OLED TVs
Business news |
In a move to make OLED TVs more affordable, inkjet printing equipment provider Kateeva has agreed a key partnership with Japan's Sumitomo Chemical Company, Ltd. a global supplier of Organic…
Spansion after Cypress merger: What automotive customers can expect
Spansion after Cypress merger: What automotive customers can expect
Business news |
Past December, analog chipmaker Cypress announced to merge with Flash company Spansion. Since the latter plays a significant role in automotive ECU units, customers in these markets were unsettled. Spansion…
Book presents an analog wonderland
Book presents an analog wonderland
Feature articles |
Bill Schweber reviews the third volume of the Analog Circuit Design series, which is a collection of application notes from Linear Technology Corp.
IoT and a tale of two sensors
IoT and a tale of two sensors
Feature articles |
When what was complex and expensive becomes complex and low cost it proliferates -- and changes things forever.
Add-on turns iPhone into thermal imaging camera
Add-on turns iPhone into thermal imaging camera
New Products |
The FLIR One from FLIR systems offers thermography and thermal imaging in pocket fomat: The device is designed as an iPhone cover with additional electronics in a small compartment at…
China to lead global video surveillance R&D in 2015
China to lead global video surveillance R&D in 2015
Market news |
The global video surveillance industry can defy conventional market logic, resist product commoditization and still grow by more than 10 percent in 2015, according to a new white paper from…
Digi-Key to host FIRST Robotics Challenge kick-off
Digi-Key to host FIRST Robotics Challenge kick-off
Business news |
Electronic distributor Digi-Key sponsored a regional kick-off event for high school students planning to participate in the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics' 2015 Global Challenge.
Hollow silica waveguide integrates mid-infrared laser-power delivery
Hollow silica waveguide integrates mid-infrared laser-power delivery
New Products |
Molex ' Polymicro Technologies MediSpec hollow silica waveguide is a speciality waveguide that integrates mid-infrared laser-power delivery and visible aiming beam alignment in a single light-weight fibre.
Green Hills adds virtualised Graphics to R-Car platform
Green Hills adds virtualised Graphics to R-Car platform
New Products |
For the implementation of graphics-intensive applications in the car like reconfigurable instrument clusters and dashboards, next-gen navigation systems, driver assistance systems and specific infotainment systems, Green Hills Software now supports…
Tensilica processors enter their 11th generation
Tensilica processors enter their 11th generation
New Products |
Cadence Design Systems announced the 11th generation of the Tensilica Xtensa processors, the Xtensa LX6 and Xtensa 11, designed to accommodate custom processor instruction sets with up to 25 percent…
Wind River shows ECU consolidation, smartphone integration
Wind River shows ECU consolidation, smartphone integration
Technology News |
Less than a week after the CES has ended, another event is drawing the attention of automotive electronics designers. The North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit is gathering…
Shape memory alloy applied to image stabilisation for smartphone cameras
Shape memory alloy applied to image stabilisation for smartphone cameras
Feature articles |
Cambridge Mechatronics Ltd. (Cambridge, England) has announced that its shape memory alloy (SMA) technology used for low profile optical image stabilisation (OIS) has been designed into a smartphone.
Version 5.4 uprates Digia Qt’s hybrid development capabilities, and connected device boot-up
Version 5.4 uprates Digia Qt’s hybrid development capabilities, and connected device boot-up
New Products |
Qt 5.4 is the latest version of the cross-platform application and user interface (UI) development framework. It enables the creation of connected devices and applications with native C++ performance, regardless…
GPGPU and OpenCL approach boosts medical imaging throughput
GPGPU and OpenCL approach boosts medical imaging throughput
Feature articles |
Using an AMD Embedded Radeon HD 7850 GPU to accelerate medical imaging, Analogic’s BK Ultrasound bk3000 system gains a three-fold increase in data contained within each image, together with a…
Without a trace: towards eco-friendly electronics that self-degrade and vanish
Without a trace: towards eco-friendly electronics that self-degrade and vanish
Feature articles |
Researchers at Scandinavian research organization SINTEF have made progress in developing components that dissolve in water. They are made of a combination of magnesium, silicon, or silicon with a magnesium…
4-colour LED module with very high lumen output, in distribution
4-colour LED module with very high lumen output, in distribution
New Products |
Distributor Rutronik has the Osram Ostar Stage LED from Osram Opto Semiconductors. Compared with previous members of the product family, it offers more than twice the lumen output, whereas the…
Controlling light in nanoscale circuits with dramatically reduced energy loss
Controlling light in nanoscale circuits with dramatically reduced energy loss
Technology News |
Graphene has made squeezing light into tiny circuits and controlling its flow electrically is a realistic scenario — realized by exploiting so-called plasmons, in which electrons and light move together…
EMF option ensures compliance of the wireless networks
EMF option ensures compliance of the wireless networks
New Products |
An electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation measurement option enables Anritu's Spectrum Master MS271xE handheld spectrum analyzers and Cell Master MT8212E/MT8213E base station analyzers to measure electromagnetic fields. The feature is particularly…
Nano SIM card connector suits wearable devices
Nano SIM card connector suits wearable devices
New Products |
This nano SIM connector from Gradconn targts the demand for mobile connectivity combined with the desire for smaller lighter devices, in mobile devices and SIM cards themselves.
Shape memory alloy optical image stabiiser debuts in smartphone
Shape memory alloy optical image stabiiser debuts in smartphone
Business news |
Taiwanese smartphone brand InFocus has launched its latest handset, marking the debut of SMA OIS actuators developed by Cambridge Mechatronics (CML) to the consumer marketplace. This follows over three years…
Verizon Vehicle brings wireless roadside assistance, dignostics to 200 million cars
Verizon Vehicle brings wireless roadside assistance, dignostics to 200 million cars
Technology News |
Verizon has announced Verizon Vehicle, a connected-vehicle service available directly to consumers in the U.S., which aims to modernize traditional roadside assistance, virtual mechanic and diagnostics by leveraging the power…


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