SSD market segment boasts hundreds of products supplied by hundreds of companies. That is why, it's quite difficult for a start-up manufacturer to storm into this industry and offer really unique, worthy and high-end item. Despite such conjuncture, Chinese company CoreRise Electronics Corp. has developed and released its own SSD which can rival the renowned products in performance and design. With the aim to attract as much attention to its Comay Venus Pro 3, the manufacturer took care of the product's design and technical peculiarities. Comay Venus Pro 3 is a flagship line which is represented by models of 60 GB to 480 GB volume capacities.



Design and Specifications


Comay Venus Pro 3 is delivered in a small card box which contains SSD itself, brief user manual, and SATA cable. The manufacturer did not provide for SSD installation into 3.5 inch bay due to the lack of sliding components. The casing is made of thick aluminum alloy. The cover hides planar high-end capacitor …

LG smartphones developed on Windows Phone platform didn’t live up to the corporate management and developers’ expectations. The sales volume of such devices leaves much to be desired. In contrast to such statistics, LG smartphones developed on Android platform enjoyed wide popularity among huge customer audience.


In view of such conditions, LG management team has taken a decision to call a halt to the production of devices on Windows Phone and produce devices on Android by leaps and bounds. Such statement has been made by the corporate representatives during the official meeting dedicated to the announcement of data on sales volume for the previous quarter.



LG smartphone developers and sales department team confirm that the level of sales of devices produced on Windows Phone was inconsiderable as compared to the level of sales of devices on Android. It is believed that smartphones on Android contributed great mite to the improvement of the overall company’s …

The Microchip Technology Co. has presented a new family of eight-bit PIC microcontrollers with core-independent peripherals. Among common features of these models one can highlight the presence of the internal frequency generator (32 MHz) and the memory boot partition security mechanism meant for protection from the faulty rerecording. Moreover, there is a secure device information area (DIA) storing the device unique identifier and calibration constants. The just-launched controllers are supported by the Microchip MPLAB Xpress with MPLAB Code Configurator (MCC) framework.



This line of products offers 13 samples possessing 2 Kbyte of RAM and up to 28 Kbyte of onboard flash. The specialties are incorporated into PDIP, SOIC, DFN, UDFN, UQFN and SSOP cases with an 8–48 pin count. The number of ADC and I/O channels has increased.


Presentation samples as well as stock-produced items are already available. Wholesale prices start with $0.33 per unit.