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Department of Energy Report Takes the Pulse of LED Savings

Thursday, May 16, 2013

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) just released a report that details the savings gained from switching over to energy efficient LED lighting by the U.S. market. The report, entitled Adoption of Light-Emitting Diodes in Common Lighting Applications, breaks down the 2012 cost savings of the following categories of lighting. Indoor lamps (residential) Indoor luminaires [...]

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Intel talks about new Atom CPU

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

by Jim Harrison Intel has announced the Silvermont micro-architecture for Atom CPUs with a 22 nm Tri-Gate SoC manufacturing process targeting low-power requirements in markets from smartphones to the data center. Silvermont is said to enable, on a variety of standard metrics, ~3x peak performance or the same performance at ~5x lower power over the [...]

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CEC Sets Workshops to Discuss Appliance Efficiency Request for Information Responses

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Last month, I wrote about the California Energy Commission’s (CEC) invitation to participate in the 2012-2013 Appliance Efficiency Rulemaking Request for Information (RFI) by submitting data on products that the state is considering for efficiency standards (click here to read the blog). The information submittal deadline is May 9th. The commission isn’t wasting any time [...]

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U.S. EPA Shines Light on Latest Lamp Specification Draft

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Earlier this month, the U.S. Environmental Agency (EPA) distributed the latest draft of their ENERGY STAR® Lamps Version 1 program specifications. The new specification, in development since mid- 2011, is intended to replace the existing CFL and LED ENERGY STAR program specifications. Draft 4 includes a number of changes from the previous draft: Updated definitions [...]

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U.S. Proposed Battery Charger Standard Moving Forward

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has just published a new Federal Register notification regarding its March 2012 notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) on efficiency standards for External Power Supplies (EPS) and Battery Chargers (BC). While many stakeholders were hoping for a final decision on the proposed efficiency levels by now, the DOE’s latest notification [...]

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Altera announces new products

Monday, April 15, 2013

by Jim Harrison Altera has announced an upcoming FPGA product line base on flash memory and using a 55nm TSMC process. Vince Hu, VP of marketing, made this announcement along with a few others, at a Globalpress Connection event. The new FPGAs will not need external program load and will target medium density, low cost [...]

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Embedded World – Nuremberg

Thursday, February 28, 2013

By Jim Harrison In traversing the various isles at this huge show, one can’t help but think this is a true engineer’s paradise. This is a true EE’s show with no consumer stuff and nothing that would interest anyone but EEs. There is also serious overload here. There must be a hundred different makers of [...]

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