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Bare board cost: the effect of HDI and layer count

As we did earlier in the year, we had an opportunity to post an article on the ARM Connected Community site, an information-sharing forum for those interested in ARM. Our post, the Effect of HDI and layer count on bare board cost, appeared yesterday.
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Fast as lightning! That would be Li-Fi.

I’ve been hearing a lot about Li-Fi lately, which is getting plenty of hype in the tech press. And why wouldn’t it be getting hyped? It promises to be 100x faster than standard Wi-Fi speeds. Which would make it pretty darned fast.
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“Power Plants”

Swedish researchers “have developed a way to create electronic circuits inside living plants.” One of the researchers involved has dubbed the results "power plants." Technology sure does keep getting more and more interesting.
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Driverless cars: not quite ready for winter weather

This is Upstate New York, so it’s too early to call game over with respect to snowfall. It’s only late February, after all, and we’ve been known to have snow in May. Still, the corner has been turned. But when it comes to handling snow, the corner hasn’t been turned quite yet for self-driving cars. As I learned when I saw an article on Bloomberg a couple of weeks back.
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Dissolvable Electronics. (Wow!)

One of the most interesting articles I've come across recently was from Ars Technica on dissolvable electronics, which someday soon will be used for health monitoring...With so many flashy consumer gadgets out there, it’s sometimes easy to lose sight of the many really profound uses that emerging technology is put to.
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See you at Photonics West

We'll be at Photonics West next week in San Francisco, showcasing our new infrared-enhanced CCD camera, the MityCCD-H11501, as well as our MityCAM sCMOS-based cameras. If you're going to be there, stop by Booth 630 to check them out.
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“Enabling Technologies for Industry 4.0”

With so much focus on the consumer aspects of the Internet of Things, it’s always good to see something about what’s happening in an industrial setting. So I was very happy to run across a post on TI’s site, “Smart factories of the future - Enabling technologies for Industry 4.0,” by Ahmed Bahai, which I've summarized in this post.
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The three embedded market trends you should be considering

Last week, we posted an article on the ARM Connected Community site. Our post wasn’t ARM-specific, but was rather our take on the trends we’re seeing in the embedded market (including ARM, of course). Anyway, I thought you’d be interested in what we had to say, so we’re running the article here, as well.
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The Growth of the Internet of Things

You hear a lot – make that an awful lot – about the Internet of Things (IoT) these days. From both a professional and personal point of view, I find this all very exciting. Thus, I was interested in a recent article on Forbes by Louis Columbus, had an excellent roundup of IoT forecasts and market size estimates.
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CES 2016 – in case you missed it

Early January always means the Consumer Electronics Show, held each year in Las Vegas. I always enjoy reading about it, and one of the sources I looked at this year was William Wong of Embedded Design. Here's my summary of what caught his eye.
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