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Bentley Uses Space Technology to Take 53-Billion-Pixel Image of Its Car

If the image was ever reproduced in standard print format, it would be the size of a football field.

PEI-Genesis Turns 70

Philadelphia-based distributor PEI-Genesis is celebrating its 70th anniversary as a supplier of custom-engineered interconnect solutions.

This Graphene Adaptation Fuels Flexible Lighting and Screens

GraphExeter, the most transparent, lightweight and flexible material there is to date for conducting electricity, can increase the brightness of flexible lights by up to almost 50%.

Vesper Demonstrates Commercial Quiescent-Sensing MEMS Device for Consumer Products

Wake-on sound microphone enables always-on listening capability at practically zero power draw.

Mouser to Sponsor 20th Annual Microchip MASTERs Conference

Global electronic components distributor Mouser Electronics, Inc. will sponsor the 2016 Microchip MASTERs Conference,an in-depth technical conference to be held August 17 to 20 in Phoenix.

Capacitors Handle Resonant Power Circuits

Illinois Capacitor’s HC and LC Series conduction-cooled capacitors are designed to reliably handle the current and voltage in resonant power circuits.

How This 3-D Printed, Autonomous AI Vehicle Will Transform Transportation

The 3-D printed EV minibus can transport 12 passengers and includes IBM Watson Internet of Things (IoT) for Automotive, totally changing the shuttle bus landscape.

Tesla Makes a Bid for Rooftop Photovoltaic Provider SolarCity

The $2.8 billion deal would give the company an end-to-end clean energy portfolio.

Samsung to Spend $1.2 Billion on Internet of Things

“Human-Centered IoT” will be the focus of this new investment.

Columbus Wins USDOT’s Smart City Challenge

The city beat out six other cities to win the $50 million in federal funding.

Sensorless Three-Phase Controller Drives Automotive Brushless DC Motors?

ON Semiconductor’s LV8907UW three-phase motor controller enables key parameters and functions to be configured via SPI interface and stored in embedded non-volatile (OTP) memory.

Electronics360 Webinar to Examine Automotive Connectivity

Automotive connectivity will be the focus of a webinar sponsored by Electronics360 scheduled for Thursday, June 30.

IDT, Cavium Team Up on Data Center Reference Design

IDT’s DDR4 memory interface solutions deployed in low-energy data center platform design based on Cavium’s ThunderX® family of Workload-optimized ARM processors.

Power Control Unit Allows Parallel Operation

The EPCOS VIP-3-TP control unit from TDK allows three reactive power compensation to be coupled for parallel operation.

Solar Cells So Thin That They Can Wrap Around a Pencil

The bendy solar cells could have future applications in wearable electronics like fitness trackers and smart glasses.

Start-up Company’s Wearable Camera Edits Video for You

NexGear has developed a new kind of adventure camera that helps users by editing hours of footage for them instantly

Why Do Engineers Care So Much About Graphene?

Graphene, graphene, graphene. Everywhere we turn there is some new engineering or electronics breakthrough involving graphene. What’s so great about graphene, anyway?