Circuit boards that are almost entirely biodegradable have been developed by researchers at the University of Glasgow, electroplating circuitry onto compostable substrates – including chocolate. Instead of conventional circuit boards that are sent to landfill, adding to the problem of electronic waste, the team has developed a method to print zinc-based electronic circuits on environmentally-friendly surfaces such as paper and ...
ADI called a cyclical recovery in the chip market as demand returns. “Against a backdrop of global trade volatility, our performance reflects the ongoing cyclical recovery,” said ADI CEO Vincent Roche (pictured) at the company’s results call. ADI forecast current quarter revenues at $2.75 billion – higher than market expectations and in line with a similar better-than-expected current quarter forecasts ...
Intel is reported to be looking at off-loading its Network and Edge Group (NEX) to concentrate on PC and data centre, reports Reuters. Plans include both selling the unit and putting it into a partnership with another company. It is said that Intel has already talked to other companies about this plan. In April it sold 51% of Altera to ...
What is your p(doom) figure? Those cheerful chappies in California are asking eachother this question. The figure is a percentage of perceived likelihood of something awful happening as a result of AI. It seems to be another way of asking people whether they’re an optimist or a pessimist and putting a number on the intensity of their beliefs either way. ...
Thanks to TrendForce for this one – the top six DRAM suppliers in Q2:
BrainChip, the Australian spiking neural network specialist, started shipping evaluation boards last month. The board complements the Company’s Akida Development Environment (ADE) for Early Access Partners (EAP) that have developed Akida compatible networks. The ADE is a development environment that allows potential customers to design a neural network as a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and utilize the ADE workflow to ...
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On 12th January 2017 the Candidate SVHC list increased by 4 to 173. This is the list change that was expected in December. For more details see https://echa.europa.eu/candidate-list-table Directive Decoder – Peter Wheeldon, Head of Global Product Compliance, Farnell element14 See also: REACH SVHC List changed See also: REACH – Notification of SVHC’s
Germany is about to implement a new EMC Directive. This will incorporate Directive 2014/30/EU regarding the electromagnetic compatibility of equipment into German law.
Be aware there was (and may still be) a missing sentence in the consolidated version of EU ROHS in the EU website.
