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BOSCH BME280 SENSOR COMBINES PRESSURE, HUMIDITY AND TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT

Bosch Sensortec announces a world first in sensor technology: the BME280 Integrated Environmental Unit combines sensors for pressure, humidity and temperature in a single package. This unique sensor has been developed to support a broad range of emerging high performance applications such as indoor navigation, home automation control, personalized weather stations and innovative sport and …

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Screens become speakers, smartphones can lose micro-speakers

Redux (London UK) has followed earlier announcements of its surface-wave-based haptics technology with a version specifically targeted at the smartphone, with which it aspires to “kill off smartphone micro-speakers”. The company’s surface audio tech from Redux transforms a smartphone screen into a loudspeaker, and also provides haptic feedback. This will, Redux believes, open new design …

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Spreadtrum single-core ARM processor targets low-end smartphones – See more at: http://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/components/microprocessors-and-dsps/spreadtrum-single-core-arm-processor-targets-low-end-smartphones

Communications, the China-based mobile chip supplier, is targeting the low-end smartphone market which is now seen as the key high-growth smarttphone market. Spreadtrum is using a single core Cortex-A5 CPU to keep design costs low and it is in volume production of its SC7710 chipset. “The mass market opportunity in smartphones is the entry level smartphone buyer, that is …

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