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LG Electronics has unveiled the world’s first rollable smartphone at CES, the world’s biggest consumer electronics and technology expo, leading the competition for the next display form factor in the handset market, following the success of Samsung Electronics’ foldable smartphones.
Xiaomi has been added to a US blacklist that will restrict American investment into the company, as the outgoing Trump administration ratchets up tension with Beijing by intensifying its crackdown on Chinese corporate interests.
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What’s the difference between EMF and voltage? A closer look at the issue.
Automakers around the world are shutting assembly lines because of a global shortage of semiconductors that in some cases has been exacerbated by the Trump administration’s actions against key Chinese chip factories, industry officials said.
Tomsk State University (TSU) researchers, with colleagues from the Institute of High Current Electronics (IHCE) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, have developed a monomeric coating that can protect electronics equipment from rust and changes in temperature of -196° to +130°C.
TPCA identified five key developments that will continue to affect the PCB industry and subsequent development trends.
Ucamco will include an industrialized IPC-DPMX import in its upcoming Integr8tor and UcamX releases.
UP Media Group seeks abstracts for the PCB West technical conference.
Wired declared these 12 products to be the best things they saw at this year’s virtual CES consumer tech showcase.
Eric Fossum, inventor of the CMOS image sensor, talks to Mike Konrad on the Reliability Matters podcast.
There are several tried and true techniques for reducing EMC in isolated systems, and many come with no additional cost.
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