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Renesas Electronics Europe has announced the winners of its MCU Car Rally competition for university students, which was held on 25th February at embedded world 2016 in Nuremberg, Germany. Twenty-four teams from all over Europe, comprising some 120 students supported by their professors, participated in the challenge by each developing a functioning model rally car that included sensors and an RX MCU from Renesas.

We can all agree that, while not the sexiest of gadgets, wireless routers are very important: you need to select the right one for your requirements. Whether you work from home, spend lots of time playing online games or just stream a lot of Netflix, a good router is essential to ensure you have a fast and reliable internet connection.

Startech.com has launched Thunderbolt 3 cables – the USB-C cables that do it all. For the first time, a single cable can connect to Thunderbolt, USB and DisplayPort devices. Thunderbolt 3 cables provide four times the data and twice the video bandwidth of any other cable, while also supplying power.

M/A-COM Technology Solutions has announced the MAOP-L284CN, a silicon photonic integrated circuit integrated with lasers (L-PIC) for a 100G transmit solution for CWDM4 and CLR4 applications.To meet the explosive growth of data traffic driven by video and mobile, major Internet content providers, such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Facebook, are building hyper-scale datacenters, which require high-speed interconnect solutions that are power effi...

Content is king. And when it comes to new display technologies this mantra certainly makes a lot of sense. After all, what would be the point of getting the latest TV on the market if you just had some old DVDs to watch? Good content is what justifies a hardware upgrade. By Dr Guillaume Chansin, Senior Technology Analyst, IDTechEx.

Recent figures from the British Retail Consortium highlight the increased use of smartphones as a purchasing platform. Google's research also revealed how mCommerce needs to cater to the needs of consumers.mCommerce expert Dan Wagner outlines how traditional retailers should respond, providing an integrated service which offers both an online and instore shopping experience in order to stay competitive with their online rivals.

Following Amazon’s announcement of its new automated order service, Dash Replenishment Service (DRS), Neil Penny, Product Director, Sunrise Software, has commented on the challenges this new model could pose for service providers.

Just as video killed the radio star before it, Netflix availability is causing a decrease in spending on buying and renting movies and TV series on disc. IHS has announced key findings from its report measuring spend on movies and TV shows: Did Netflix Kill the Physical Video Market? The report found that there is a clear correlation between the regional launch of Netflix and a decline in video spending, as well as that spending on Netflix does n...

Amazon has officially entered the semiconductor market with the news that it is selling its own-brand of ARM-based chips to manufacturers.U.S. tech companies went transatlantic on more than a few occasions last year in their search for innovation, but one of the more curious cases was when Amazon headed to Israel and snapped up Annapurna Labs for a reported $350 million.

Smart mirrors are everywhere in tech companies' visions of future homes, but they never seem to show up in real homes -- at best, you might find them in fitting rooms. That just wasn't good enough for Google's Max Braun. He recently built his own smart bathroom mirror, and it even matches some of the lofty expectations set by concept videos and sci-fi movies.