The Q1 smartphone market grew 7.8% q-o-q to 289.4 million units, says IDC. It was the third consecutive quarter of market growth, Top 5 Companies, Worldwide Smartphone Shipments, Market Share, and Year-Over-Year Growth, Q1 2024 (Preliminary results, shipments in millions of units) Company 1Q24 Shipments 1Q24 Market Share 1Q23 Shipments 1Q23 Market Share Year-Over-Year Change 1. Samsung 60.1 20.8% 60.5 ...

Last year, China shifted its focus to thermal imaging technologies, and securing 50% of  the 2023 worldwide market, reports Yole Developpement. While Chinese players are focusing on volume-driven segments, longstanding players appear to be prioritising higher-margin market segments. The race for smaller pixels continues and prices have shrunk considerably at the microbolometer level, increasing the market size Chinese market leaders ...

Insight SiP, the miniature RF module developer, has launched its ISP5261 Wi-Fi 6 module. This module acts as a fully functioning Bluetooth® LE and Wi-Fi radio node, capable of a long autonomous operation on battery power. It can form the core of an autonomous IOT device requiring Bluetooth LE and Wi-Fi connectivity. The device uses Insight SiP’s proprietary  “Antenna-in-Package” techniques. ...

To contain nuclear fusion reactions which occur at temperatures of the order of 350 million deg.F,  intense magnetic fields  are required. So, 64 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 26th 1950. The story continued: Experience up to now  has shown that to produce and sustain such fields requires enormous amounts of power and an extremely ...

There's a new devboard in town: welcome the BeagleBoard.org BeagleY-AI, which promises to add "4 TOP/S of Edge AI acceleration to a fan-less computing platform".

  Andrew Lacey is to fill the newly-created COO position at Integrated Graphene, a company built around a carbon-based electro-active material it brands ‘Gii’. “Andrew will be responsible for developing Integrated Graphene’s global manufacturing capabilities, enabling commercial quantity international selling of Gii into North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific regions,” according to the company. A chartered engineer by ...

Last week, Germany sent an advance team of 20 soldiers to Lithuania, laying the groundwork for the recently discussed establishment of a permanent brigade in the country. The brigade will support the already existing so-called NATO Enhanced Forward Presence in Lithuania, which rotates its personnel regularly and was made up of soldiers from Germany, Belgium, Czechia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway ...

Last week Belgian fabless chip company Melexis announced a unique inductive sensing IC that includes a tiny transformer, drive circuit and sense circuit, so Electronics Weekly decided to have a closer look. No permanent magnet, external or internal, is needed, and external magnetic fields are rejected. MLX92442 only requires a nearby electrically conductive object for triggering. It comes in either ...

Samsung has been awarded $6.4 billion in direct funding under the Chips and Science Act. The company is investing $40 billion in Texas to make 4nm and 2nm chips. “This announcement will unleash over $40 billion in investment from Samsung, and cement central Texas’s role as a state-of-the-art semiconductor ecosystem, creating at least 21,500 jobs and leveraging up to $40 ...

Historically, component temperature has been correlated with reliability, with early studies relating field failure rates to steady-state component temperature. More recently, physics-based reliability prediction has related failure rates of electronic assemblies to the magnitude of temperature change over an operational cycle (power-on, power-off, power-on…) and rate of temperature change, both of which are influenced by steady-state operating temperature. Electronics failures ...