Nokia has revealed more details about its ReefShark chipsets, using silicon developed by teams in Finland and California, USA. The chipsets can halve the size of MIMO antennae without affecting performance and also reduce power consumption in baseband units by 64%, compared to such units in use today, says Nokia. The chipsets comprise a ReefShark digital front end for LTE ...

Fanuc, Hitachi and Preferred Networks have agreed to establish a jv on April 2, 2018, to develop Intelligent Edge Systems that utilise AI technologies in edge devices in the industrial and social infrastructure field. The new company will develop these Intelligent Edge Systems by combining Fanuc’s’s technologies and expertise in machine tools and robots, Hitachi’s knowledge of control technologies and other ...

Intel doesn’t do flaws. The great Andy Grove kicked off his book ‘Only the Paranoid Survive’ with a description of the 1994 Pentium Flaw which cost Intel around half a billion dollars. Grove described how Intel went from denial, to choosing which customers should get replacements and then, when a Niagara of adverse publicity overwhelmed it, to a universal replacement ...

The consumerisation of high voltage battery packs presents challenges in power management and safety, writes Cathal Sheehan of Bourns. High-voltage battery packs are no longer exclusive to industrial installations – they are increasingly making their way into the hands of consumers in their electric vehicles and home power storage. Typically made with lithium-ion or nickel metal hydride cells, each battery needs a ...

AMD had Q4 revenues up 34% thanks to its Ryzen and Radeon processors. Q4 revenue was $1.48 billion, and full-year revenue was $5.33 billion for growth of nearly 25%. “2017 marked a key product and financial inflection point for AMD,” says CEO Lisa Su. “Our newest wave of high-performance products and consistent execution created significant momentum for our business over ...

Infineon had calendar Q4 revenue of €1,775 million for a profit of  €283 million. For 2018 it expects revenue growth of 5% plus or minus 2 percentage points. For calendar Q1 it expects growth of 4% plus or minus 2 percentage points. “Infineon has made a strong start to the new fiscal year,” says Dr. Reinhard Ploss (pictured) CEO of Infineon. ...

According to Reuters a government report issued yesterday looks at the vulnerability of satellite-based positioning systems like GPS, Glonass, BeiDou, Michibiki and Galileo. “We must take steps to increase the resilience of our critical services in the event of GNSS disruption, including by adopting potential back-up systems where necessary,” says Oliver Dowden (pictured) parliamentary secretary at the Cabinet Office responsible for ...

AVX has extended its portfolio of high-performance, low-pass integrated thin film (ITF) filters with the release of six new 8W LP Series filters in miniature 1206 chip sizes with low maximum height profiles of 0.97mm. Based on thin film multilayer technology, the SMD filters deliver excellent high-frequency performance with low insertion loss and extremely sharp attenuation in wireless applications with ...

Arrow and Cadence have launched the Cadence OrCAD Entrepreneur package for OrCAD Capture Cloud on the Arrow.com design center. The new software tool suite cuts in half the time that it takes a designer to move from design to prototype, when compared to the traditional process of manually designing and simulating across separate systems. Designers use OrCAD Entrepreneur to capture ...

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