http://www.electronicsweekly.com/ElectronicsWeekly.com - News, analysis, research and opinions provided by the journalists of Electronics Weeklyen-gbCopyright Reed Business Information 2006http://www.electronicsweekly.com/images/ew-logo.gifhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/14430Electronics WeeklyFri, 10 Feb 2012 16:16:00 GMT60http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/10/52914/job-of-the-week-datasound-laboratories-technical-sales-engineer.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/10/52914/job-of-the-week-datasound-laboratories-technical-sales-engineer.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comDatasound Laboratories is recruiting a Technical Sales Engineer - prior experience with Office, CRM or similar tools and an appreciation of PC hardware related interfaces would be advantageous, the company says. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:16:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/10/52949/electronics-weeklys-big-guide-to-costing-leds.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/10/52949/electronics-weeklys-big-guide-to-costing-leds.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.com Power LED makers have made great efforts to understand the needs of the lighting industry, resulting in a range of products which may look distressingly...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:08:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/10/52948/space-asiasat-signs-two-satellites-to-falcon-9-launches.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/10/52948/space-asiasat-signs-two-satellites-to-falcon-9-launches.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comOn 8 February, Asia Satellite Telecommunications (AsiaSat) announced that it had signed an agreement for the launch of Asiasat 6 and Asiasat 8 on two separate Falcon 9 launches. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:30:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/10/52950/nxp-q4-revenues-down-2011-revenues-down-loss-up-ceo-hopeful.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/10/52950/nxp-q4-revenues-down-2011-revenues-down-loss-up-ceo-hopeful.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comNXP had revenues of $931m in Q4 and $4.2bn for 2011. It has not grown in three and a half years.Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:31:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/10/52946/electrodes-control-cyborg-moth-in-flight-mit.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/10/52946/electrodes-control-cyborg-moth-in-flight-mit.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comThe US defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been running a programme to develop machine-insect interfaces for years but electrodes implanted to stimulate the brains or wing muscles of insects were not precise enough. Now Joel Voldman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and colleagues have designed a unique, flexible neural probe that can be attached directly to an insect's ventral nerve cord (VNC), which, along with the brain, makes up the central nervous system in insects.Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:50:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/10/52947/162-lmw-at-25c-from-cree-lighting-led.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/10/52947/162-lmw-at-25c-from-cree-lighting-led.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comCree is claiming 148 lm/W at 85°C (350mA) for its latest lighting LED. XT-E, as it has been named, will hit 162 lm/W at 25°C, it added. "The XT-E LED more than doubles the lumens per watt of the...Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:13:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/10/52945/new-york-drops-intel-lawsuit-on-procedural-grounds.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/10/52945/new-york-drops-intel-lawsuit-on-procedural-grounds.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comThe New York Attorney General has ended its anti-trust action against Intel on procedural grounds with Intel paying $6.5m towards the attorney-general’s legal costs. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:52:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/10/52940/wireless-factory-revenue-growth-to-fall-says-ihs.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/10/52940/wireless-factory-revenue-growth-to-fall-says-ihs.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comManufacturers of handsets and routers will see a 17% rise in revenue to nearly $400bn in 2012, says IHS. Last year the growth was 32%. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:00:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/10/52944/microsoft-to-begin-shipping-thousands-of-arm-based-windows-computers.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/10/52944/microsoft-to-begin-shipping-thousands-of-arm-based-windows-computers.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comMicrosoft will be making available thousands of ARM-based computers running Windows at around the time of MWC, says Microsoft's Windows boss Steven Sinofsky. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/10/52942/nujira-will-get-its-4g-chips-fabbed-at-towerjazz.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/10/52942/nujira-will-get-its-4g-chips-fabbed-at-towerjazz.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comThe launch of the NCT-L1100 modulator marks teh Cambridge-based firm's decison to develop a fabless business model to address the high volume, global smartphone and mobile device marketFri, 10 Feb 2012 00:03:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/10/52943/cmos-sensor-shipments-jump-31-in-2011.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/10/52943/cmos-sensor-shipments-jump-31-in-2011.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comShipments last year of CMOS sensors accounted for 92% of all area image sensors—an overwhelming share that translated into some 2.1 billion unitsFri, 10 Feb 2012 00:02:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/10/52941/iar-targets-growth-in-embedded-tool-market-in-korea.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/10/52941/iar-targets-growth-in-embedded-tool-market-in-korea.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.com"We are very happy to see how well our business is developing in Asia,” says Stefan Skarin, CEO of IAR SystemsFri, 10 Feb 2012 00:01:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/09/52937/us-government-lobbies-for-gps-spectrum-buffer.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/09/52937/us-government-lobbies-for-gps-spectrum-buffer.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comUS government officials are proposing to develop a buffer around the spectrum allotted to GPS signals, an L-band zone that is highly sought after by the broadband community.Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:24:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/09/52939/uk-vc-investment-grew-in-2011.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/09/52939/uk-vc-investment-grew-in-2011.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comVC investment in the UK is alive and well, according to Ascendant, the technology-focussed investment company, with 2011 showing a growth in investment over 2010. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:13:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/09/52936/agilent-webcast-introduction-to-emiemc-challenges-and-their-solution.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/09/52936/agilent-webcast-introduction-to-emiemc-challenges-and-their-solution.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comAgilent is running a Webcast on EMI/EMC challenges, and how to deal with them. It is aimed at signal integrity engineers and high speed digital engineers of multigigabit links who are running into effects previously only seen in RF and microwave circuits.Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:51:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/09/52935/apec-20mhz-switcher-allows-pcb-inductors.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/09/52935/apec-20mhz-switcher-allows-pcb-inductors.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comSemtech has launched a 20MHz buck converter that can use inductors formed from PCB tracks. This follows on from an announcement that Peregrine Semiconductor plans to use silicon-on-sapphire to reach a similar switching rate. Semtech revealed its...Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:34:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/09/52934/conexant-launches-new-audio-processor-with-usb2.0.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/09/52934/conexant-launches-new-audio-processor-with-usb2.0.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comThe 800Mips digital signal processor (DSP) is based on the firm's new audio processing architecture, which it says lays the foundation for future chip developmentsThu, 09 Feb 2012 09:58:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/09/52933/nerve-probe-controls-cyborg-moth-in-flight.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/09/52933/nerve-probe-controls-cyborg-moth-in-flight.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comGovernment spooks want cyborg insects to snoop on their enemies. Biologists want to tap into the nervous systems of insects to understand how they fly. A probe that can be implanted into Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:31:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/09/52932/nujira-launches-4g-handset-chip-to-cut-power-by-50.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/09/52932/nujira-launches-4g-handset-chip-to-cut-power-by-50.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.com“4G handsets may need to be charged two or three times a day, which will have a catastrophic impact on user adoption,” said Tim Haynes, CEO, NujiraThu, 09 Feb 2012 09:00:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/09/52930/iqe-buys-into-us-solar-firm-and-gets-exclusive-supply-deal.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/09/52930/iqe-buys-into-us-solar-firm-and-gets-exclusive-supply-deal.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comCardiff-based wafer supplier IQE is to buy a 9% share of solar cell maker Solar Junction, and gear up to supply Solar Junction with wafers. "Solar Junction holds the world record...Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:47:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/09/52931/dialog-wins-voip-chipset-design-in-with-vtech.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/09/52931/dialog-wins-voip-chipset-design-in-with-vtech.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.com“Our close working cooperation has helped us extend our relationship with this second product line,” said Jalal Bagherli, CEO of DialogThu, 09 Feb 2012 00:05:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/09/52929/3-axis-gyroscope-brings-dead-reckoning-to-cars-says-st.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/09/52929/3-axis-gyroscope-brings-dead-reckoning-to-cars-says-st.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comIn many cases dead-reckoning systems ar eused to compensate for loss of satellite signal with GPS, and so can be used for monitoring motion, distance travelled and altitudeThu, 09 Feb 2012 00:01:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/08/52923/researchers-turn-the-heat-on-hard-disc-storage.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/08/52923/researchers-turn-the-heat-on-hard-disc-storage.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comPhysicists have discovered a new way to record data that could make future hard drives hundreds of times faster than existing technology - all you need is a little heat.Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:58:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/08/52928/dc-dc-converter-at-20mhz-from-sos.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/08/52928/dc-dc-converter-at-20mhz-from-sos.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comSilicon-on-sapphire could yield 20MHz DC-DC converters, claimed San Diego SoS specialist Peregrine Semiconductor, best known for its RF chips. With SoS processes, the usual semiconducting silicon wafer is replaced with...Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:27:00 GMThttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/08/52927/dram-market-settles.htmhttp://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2012/02/08/52927/dram-market-settles.htmeditorial@electronicsweekly.comThe DRAM market has settled down, says DRAMeXchange, with Q4 revenue growing 1.7% in Q4 over Q3 at $6.45bn. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:24:00 GMT