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June 9, 2015

COMPUTEX 2015: Wrap II – New customers

Electronics design needs to cope with a combination of major brands and tiny start-ups looking to exploit its skills even where their resources are thin.
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June 8, 2015

Smart lenses getting closer to live use

Google has moved to on-body tests of the the smart-lens platform it has been developing for the past few years while the team continues to experiment with embedded LEDs that react to blinks to help warn diabetes sufferers of sudden changes in glucose levels.
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June 4, 2015

COMPUTEX 2015: Qualcomm edges Intel out of UK smartwatch start-up

Blocks' promo video says its work was 'Funded by Intel' but Qualcomm has announced that the modular watch company will be using its Snapdragon 400.
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June 4, 2015

COMPUTEX 2015: Wrap 1 – Is ‘The Internet of Things’ that helpful an idea?

Everybody knows the words. Everybody has a different definition. Did calling the next big thing 'The Internet of Things' actually create a hindrance not a help?
June 4, 2015

COMPUTEX 2015: Acer founder urges Taiwan to shift focus to software

Stan Shih says the Internet of Things is forcing Taiwan to reconsider its traditional concentration on electronics hardware.
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June 1, 2015

Server, IoT acceleration on Intel’s mind in Altera buy

Altera has agreed to Intel's offer to buy the company, with FPGAs to be integrated into Xeon processors after 2016. Atoms will join programmable logic in IoT-oriented devices.
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March 26, 2015

Xmos brings programmable networking to Gigabit Ethernet

Xmos has launched a series of microcontrollers based on its timesliced multicore architecture that adds Gigabit Ethernet interfaces.
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March 10, 2015

Douglas Adams 1: Apple Watch 0 (game in progress)

'Bling' for fashionistas and the B Ark lot. Apple Watch limps as the S1 SIP fails to offer convincing battery life. Silicon shortfall still dogs wearables.
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November 12, 2014

Chip tariff eliminated and the big winner is… China?

Not just Intel and TI but also Lenovo and Huawei have cause to welcome end to 25% import tax. And could it even help reinvigorate Chinese start ups?
October 2, 2014

Applied Micro moves away from MIPS, PowerPC in 64bit embedded push

Applied Micro is to use the ARM v8 CPU architecture it developed for data centers to keep hold of embedded-systems customers who have decided to move away from its existing MIPS and PowerPC-based processors.
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