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At Mobile World-Congress 2016, Huawei launched the Huawei MateBook, a 2-in-1 device designed to meet the evolving demands of today’s modern business users.

STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, has revealed the latest generation of its highly miniaturized 6-axis MEMS inertial modules with ultra-low-power design that strengthen the smartphone’s emerging role as an “always-on” personal assistant and enhance user experiences for digital cameras, wearables and remote controls, game consoles, drones, and virtual reality.

Digimondo launched low power wide area networks (LPWAN) over Nuremburg, Hamburg and Berlin and will demonstrate the Nuremburg network performance during the tradeshow by wirelessly tracking public transportation vehicles across the city.

With 10 Gigabit Ethernet at front and PCIe 3.0 via the backplane, with three separated DRAM channels and Freescale’s high-performance QorIQ processor the new CompactPCI Serial SBC G52A comes with everything needed to convince in data and computing intensive applications.

The first live demonstrations of Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) solutions in licensed spectrum will be on display at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the GSMA announced today.

Global sales of smartphones to end users totaled 403 million units in the fourth quarter of 2015, a 9.7 percent increase over the same period in 2014, according to Gartner Inc.

Acromag’s new 6U VME 4th generation Intel Core single computer features a FPGA-based VME to PCle-bridge that are specifically designed to extend the life of the VME system requiring low-power without sacrificing high performance.

U-blox, a global leader in wireless and positioning modules and chips, announces the release of NEO-M8U, the industry’s first Untethered 3D Dead Reckoning (UDR) module.

The study of gravitational waves is one of a number of research areas from ‘Pople’, a high performance computing (HPC) cluster which is the latest addition to the Faculty of Science at The University of Western Australia.

MICROSOFT and Rambus researchers are collaborating to explore the future memory requirements for quantum computing.

AUSTRALIAN engineers have proven that a quantum version of computer code can be written and manipulated using two quantum bits in a silicon microchip, allowing silicon-based computers to also be quantum computing devices.

ASIA Pacific PC shipments dropped 1.7 percent in the third quarter of 2015, showing the market for both desktops and notebooks continue to be weak, despite new manufacture releases.

AUSTRALIAN engineers have cleared the final hurdle to making silicon quantum computers a reality, by building a quantum logic gate in silicon for the first time.

MOORE’S Law, the theory that has held more-or-less true for the semiconductor industry since it was first formulated, has turned 50.

element14 Pty Ltd has added two new product series from Infineon to its high-voltage portfolio of MOSFETs.

A PAPER authored by University of Sydney Associate Professor Philip Leong has been recognised as one of the most significant research works in the field of reconfigurable computing.

CSIRO will cool Australia’s largest supercomputer by pumping cool groundwater through the heat exchanger.

NEW cloud computing algorithms may make high performance computing networks cheaper and more energy efficient.

IBM received a record 6478 patents in 2012, topping the annual list of US patent recipients for the 20th consecutive year.

WHEN the Raspberry Pi launched last week, all 10,000 of its pre-order units sold out within minutes, and both Premier Farnell (element14) and RS Components were overwhelmed by the traffic.