Infineon has come out with a microcontroller which uses waves in the form of bit-streams to dim and colour-tune LEDs so avoiding Philips’ patent on a technique to dim and colour-tune LEDs using PWM waveforms.
The Infineon microcontroller uses the ARM M0 core.
As well as producing…
Philips is selling its home entertainment business to Funai Electric of Japan for $200 million.
The audio business will transfer to Funai in H2 2013.
The video business will transfer in 2017.
The TV business was put into a jv with TPV of Hong Kong last year. Philips is concentrating…
The smart grid is ‘the Internet of Electrical Power’, Reinhard Ploss, CEO Of Infineon, told the Electronica Forum, while advocating a move from AC transmission to DC.
Ploss pointed out that the advent of locally generated power from wind and solar which domestic users feed into the grid means that…
With Matsushita, Sharp and Sony forecasting a Y1.3 trillion ($17 billion) combined loss for the year, you have to ask: Are the Consumer Kings on the way out?
Japanese companies have been kings of the world’s consumer electronics industry since the 1980s when they stormed the world market…
It always struck me that WiFi was the route to home networking, then Marvell tells wireline is the way forward – at least until Marvell’s managed to put wireless on the same IC as its wireline transceiver which will take a couple of years.
Home networking has always been a…
Last week was a bad one. The US reeled from its sovereign debt deal; Europe reeled from its attempts at sovereign debt deals. Those CEOs reporting alluded to macroeconomic uncertainties as they made their Q3 forecasts.
Gloomiest of all was SMIC’s new CEO, Tzu-Yin Chiu, who shaved a…
We may look back on the end of the Noughties as the time when e-addiction took hold.
Before the 60s, booze was the most popular addictive substance; in the 60s it became weed and Ecstasy; latterly it’s been crack cocaine. But there’s every reason to believe that…
Akio Morita would have understood it all right. If you bring out Japan’s first transistor radio, if you bring out the world’s first consumer-affordable video tape recorder, if you bring out the first CCD-based video camera , if you bring out the first portable music-player – then…