Intel is to stop supplying sales data to the WSTS. Last year AMD left the WSTS. With Intel leaving WSTS, and other companies likely to follow, then, without reliable sales statistics, estimates of semiconductor market size and estimates of product markets will be guesswork. “It will be pure conjecture,” says Malcolm Penn, CEO of analysts Future Horizons, “everything will be ...

Edinburgh start-up Visible Light Communications (VLC) is focussing on using flickering LEDs instead of WiFi for broadband communications.

Speeds of up to 500Mbits/sec have been achieved for the technology, called Li-Fi, but the first product from VLC – a consumer transmitter – will deliver data at 100Mbits/sec using VLC’s SIM-OFDM technology and optical spatial modulation.. It is due for launch next year. The technology was invented by Edinburgh University’s Harald Haas. “At the heart of this technology is ...

Element14 has introduced the STM32F2-based DEVKIT1207 evaluation kit with STMicroelectronics Embedded World in Nuremberg this week. The kit is a complete development environment for STM32F207IGT6 devices with a range of hardware peripherals on the board and an industrial-level 3.5 inch LCD with resistive touch screen. Micrium’s uC/OS RTOS has been ported to the board and element14 has also ported FreeRTOS for LwIP Ethernet applications. From the ...

First demonstration of SINA Multilevel Workstation using LynxSecure 5.0 shown at RSA 2012 SAN FRANCISCO and NUREMBERG, GERMANY – 28 February 2012 – RSA and Embedded World Conferences-LynuxWorks™, Inc., a world leader in the secure virtualization market, and German IT security specialist secunet Security Networks AG today announced that they have ported the Secure Inter-Network Architecture (SINA) Multilevel Workstation on ...

Raspberry Pi, the £25 educational computer from Cambridge, will be distributed globally by RS Componentsand Premier Farnell, and the Model A has been given a RAM boost to 256Mbyte, writes Steve Bush.

Tiny educational computer Raspberry Pi is to be distributed by RS Components and Premier Farnell (aka element14).Premier Farnell’s CEO Harriet Green sees the start of something big:”At element14 we take very seriously the need to encourage more young people to take up technology and IT courses at schools and universities across the world and this is one reason why I ...

Thanks to the World Health Organisation for this one – the ten most drunken countries on earth.

AdaCore has announced the release of its Ada development environment at Embedded World, as well as a new version of its CodePeer static analysis tool. Called GNAT Pro 7.0, the development environment implements the upcoming Ada 2012 language revision and includes a new testing tool called GNATtest. “The most important enhancements in Ada 2012 relate to the concept of contract-based ...

MSC is demonstrating Wi-Fi system-in-package modules from  H&D Wireless at Embedded World 2012 in Nuremberg this week. The Wi-Fi system-in-package (SiP) modules are intended for use with Atmel’s ARM and AVR microcontrollers. They support 802.11b/g and are connected with the microcontroller via Secure Digital Input Output (SDIO) or Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI). Both the HDG104 and HDG204 devices feature a low power consumption of only 0.4 mW in power save ...