About a dozen startups are working on LEDs and lighting control systems in Silicon Valley. They are looking at energy efficient ways to address the global lighting market which is worth about $100 billion per annum. The solutions range across reducing costs of the LED bulbs to complete precision controlled lighting systems for offices...
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The Chennai City Corporation has conducted successful trials for using LED lamps as streetlights. As a next step, they plan to replace around 2795 streetlights with solar powered LED lamps. The reduced power consumption is expected to bring down the annual energy bill by about Rs. 30 lakhs. Read details here. via The Hindu...
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In the next ten years, market leader Phillips expects 75 percent of its global sales to be in LEDs. Phillips is set to launch solar-powered LED lighting solutions including portable solutions. Though LED lights are at a comparatively high price point of around Rs. 600, the expectation is that the buyer can recover the...
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The Finance Minister in his 2011 budget unveiled on February 28, 2011 has proposed a reduction in excise duty on LED bulbs. This could result in a price band of about Rs. 400 to 500 for an entry level LED light. The uptake of LED light in the Indian market has been slower than...
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The 2011 Consumer Electronics Show was dominated by tablets and other mobile devices, and the common theme was communication and data access anywhere anytime. From a design perspective, that translates into two main systems targets and one major constraint. The two targets are wireless connectivity and high performance graphics. The major constraint is power...
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Gartner noted that vendors are seeing an increasing demand from smaller cities in India where PC penetration has grown considerably. The company attributes that growth to rising income and declining PC prices. Indeed, while Gartner estimated that approximately 35% of India PC vendor revenue today comes from Tier III and IV cities, the company...
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Texas Instruments Inc. has announced an expansion of its Kilby Labs R&D in Bangalore, India, according to local reports. TI has been present in India for 25 years. Kilby Labs was announced in September 2008 and opened in Dallas in January 2009. The Labs is named after Jack Kilby one of the inventors of...
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…Chip sales in the Asia/Pacific region dominate, accounting for $13.48bn in July. That’s absolutely flat compared to the June rolling average. Chip sales in the Americas were up 3.6 per cent sequentially to $4.75bn, according to the SIA, and were up a minor eight-tenths of a percent in Europe. Japan ate $3.88bn in chips...
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Texas Instruments has introduced Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 board support packages (BSPs) for OMAP-L1x floating-point DSP+ARM9 processors, for Sitara AM1x ARM9 microprocessor units (MPUs), and for associated evaluation modules. … “Microsoft is excited to be collaborating with TI on its BSPs for Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3, helping developers increase efficiency when...
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via eetindia.co.in Given a typical wireless technology takes between 4 to 10 years to get from initial proposal (tire-kicking stage) to mass market adoption, it might be well worth getting on top of this IEEE 802.15.7 initiative. Visible light communications could be the next big thing for short range wireless. Check it out. Posted...
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