Notable & Newsworthy

June 2015

TE Connectivity and Andretti Technologies team up to advance autosports and EVs

TE Connectivity (TE), a leader in connectivity, announced that it has been named a lead partner to Andretti Technologies, the technology incubation and advanced engineering business of Andretti Autosport. TE is the leader in connectivity and sensor solutions to the autosport industry, providing products that pe

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06/29/2015

Rebellion Racing for wins the Number 1 and 2 spots in the prestigious Privateer LMP1 Class

Mouser-sponsored Rebellion Racing captures top awards at 24 Le Mans

Mouser Electronics, an authorized distributor with the latest semiconductors and electronic components, congratulates Rebellion Racing for winning the Number 1 and 2 spots in the prestigious Privateer LMP1 Class at this month’s legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans race. Driving the Mouser-sponsored Rebellion R-One #13

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06/24/2015

Navigant predicts revenue from residential IoT to reach $70B

A recent report from Navigant Research on the global market opportunity for residential Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including forecasts for shipments, installed base, and revenue, segmented by region and device type, through 2025 is now available. As device manufacturers continue to embed communications te

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06/18/2015

California surges ahead in solar capacity

California has become the first state in the nation to top 10,000 megawatts (MW) of installed solar capacity, according to the latest U.S. Solar Market Insight Report, which was just released by GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). California has more solar assets than most nations, in

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06/17/2015

Jean-Yves Sánchez

Rechargeable calcium batteries present a potential challenge to lithium devices

Jean-Yves Sánchez researches the development of calcium batteries that can compete with lithium batteries. He is carrying out the study under the auspices of CONEX, a talent attraction program that hires experienced international researchers. The program is funded by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), th

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06/15/2015

Magnetic nanoparticles could offer alternative to rare Earth magnets

A team of scientists at Virginia Commonwealth University has synthesized a powerful new magnetic material that could reduce the dependence of the United States and other nations on rare earth elements produced by China. "The discovery opens the pathway to systematically improving the new material to outperform th

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06/15/2015

Piquet is now ranked No. 1 among the Formula-E series drivers

Mouser-sponsored Formula-E driver Nelson Piquet Jr. leads electric pack

Mouser Electronics, an authorized distributor with the latest semiconductors and electronic components, gave their support to Nelson Piquet Jr. in the recent Formula-E electric car race in Moscow. Piquet is now ranked No. 1 among the Formula-E series drivers after his outstanding performance for the Mouser-Sponsored Te

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06/12/2015

Internet of Things Comic Book

Ericsson releases Internet of Things comic book

The Internet of Things will have a profound impact in the future. Enabling anything to be connected and providing ’smartness’ to these connected things will bring value across a number of sectors in the Networked Society. But the Internet of Things, or IoT for short, is not always that easily explained. Ericsson is engage

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06/10/2015

EcoCAR 3 challenges students nationwide to design, build and optimize eco-friendly powertrains

Ohio State wins year one of North American EcoCAR 3 Competition

The U.S. Department of Energy and General Motors Co. (NYSE:GM) announced The Ohio State University as the overall winning team for Year One of the EcoCAR 3 competition, a four-year collegiate engineering program that gives students the chance to design, build, and demonstrate cutting-edge, eco-friendly automotive te

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06/08/2015

element14 community kicks off vertical farming design challenge

element14 announced the launch of its latest design competition – the Vertical Farming Challenge. Sponsored by Silicon Labs and Wuerth Elektronik, with support from the Vertical Farming Association and Green Spirit Farms, element14 will select 15 engineers to build indoor vertical gardens using technologies an

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06/08/2015

'Designer carbon' invented by Stanford scientists significantly improves the power delivery rate of this supercapacitor

Stanford's 'designer carbon' boosts battery performance

Mark Shwartz

Stanford University scientists have created a new carbon material that significantly boosts the performance of energy-storage technologies. Their results are featured on the cover of the journal ACS Central Science. "We have developed a 'designer carbon' that is both versatile and controllable," said Zhen

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06/08/2015

The strength of the merged Avago/Broadcom in the wired communications market positions it to benefit from the strong projected market growth.

IHS predicts Avago - Broadcom merger will create semiconductor powerhouse

Merger activity in the semiconductor industry moved to a new level with the announcement of the agreement for Avago Technologies to acquire Broadcom, according to IHS, a leading global source of critical information and insight. The deal, which is valued at $37 billion in cash and stock, will create a new company va

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06/01/2015

Kira and Teegan Cordova won the award for best-designed car in the battery division.

Innovation and learning at the 25th Annual Junior Solar Sprint and Lithium Ion Battery car competitions

Teegan and Kira Cordova love the original Star Trek TV series. That much is obvious. The eighth-grade twins from Ken Caryl Middle School in Littleton are wearing the uniform tunics from the 1960s show—Teegan's in red and Kira's in blue. The model electric car they're racing in the 25th Annual Junior Solar Sprin

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06/01/2015