2016-11-30 - Akshat Jain, Ranajay Mallik

Cut standby drain to increase energy efficiency

A typical household appliance consumes standby power in the 0.5W to 5W range. Reducing that unwanted energy consumption can help…

2016-11-30 - Akshat Jain, Ranajay Mallik

Getting standby power below 50mW

Here's a system developed with STMicroelectronics' VIPer0P device to help you cut standby power in a typical application to below…

2016-11-21 - None

DataWind launches second manufacturing unit in Hyderabad

The facility has the capacity to produce 20 lakh tablets and phones in the first year.

2016-11-16 - Intersil

Intersil buck-boost chargers give a 5V-20V reverse-boost

Intersil's ISL9238 and ISL9238A buck-boost battery chargers add 5V-20V reverse boost and can fast-charge mobile battery packs with up to…

2016-11-09 - Microchip Technology

Low-power PEPS solution features 3D immobiliser

The ATA5700 and ATA5702 enable features such as automatic “walk-away locking” of the vehicle in a range up to 10…

2016-11-09 - CMOSIS

48MP CMOS image sensor supports 8K resolution

The CMV50000 is a 35mm format 48MP sensor with 7920 x 6002 4.6µm sized pixels using the patented 8-transistor pixel…

2016-11-02 - ARM

ARM rolls out chip cores for low-power VR apps

Mali-V61 is a multi-standard video processor with VP9 encode, while Mali-G51 graphics processor extends Bifrost architecture to mainstream devices.

2016-10-31 - IDC

Chinese smartphone vendors log triple-digit growth in Q3

Chinese vendors are delivering value-packed devices that offer consumers top-shelf features at a fraction of the cost.

2016-10-28 - Julien Happich

Ultrasound proximity solution captures Xiaomi’s heart

Besides eliminating holes on a phone's screen, Elliptic Labs' ultrasound proximity solution eliminates common issues with hardware proximity sensors.

2016-10-24 - Rick Merritt, Junko Yoshida

Cat M1, NB1 standards prep for 2017 rollout

The Cat M1 standard delivers up to 380Kbits/second over a 1.4MHz channel. NB-1 handles up to 40Kbits/s over 200kHz channels.