Comment: Supporting the next generation of engineers through the Covid-19 pandemic

Nick Hill, CEO at the engineering and design consultancy Plextek, laments the currently disadvantaged position of students affected by the Covid-19 pandemic due to exam cancellations, and shines a light at the end of the tunnel by reintroducing internships. When the history of the UK’s response to coronavirus is written, I’m confident that the cancellation of ...

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EEVblog #1324 – Oscilloscope Reference Waveforms are USEFUL

Dave shows how to use reference waveforms to capture, compare and time correlate more then one signal at a time on your oscilloscope when you just can’t hold all those probes at once.

Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1324-scope-trick-2-probes-1-hand/

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EEVblog #1323 – PCB Layout Review & Analysis

Dave analyses a PCB layout from the EEVblog forum and covers all sorts of tips for SMD layout, component placement, routing, layer stackup, controlled impedance traces, supply planes and power bypassing.

Original forum thread: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/first-4-layer-pcb-traces-on-each-layer-a-good-idea/
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Blow-out Q2 for Apple, Amazon and Facebook

Apple had calendar Q2 sales of $59.69 billion up 11% y-o-y for a profit of  $11.25 billion which was up 18% y-o-y..  iPhone sales were $26.4 billion; iPad sales were $6.58 billion; Mac sales were $7.08 billion; Services’ revenues were $13.16 billion; Wearables’ sales were  $6.45 billion. Amazon had Q2 sales of $88.9 billion up 40% y-o-y  with operating income ...

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Samsung Q2 profits up 26%; semi capex budget $12.4 billion

Samsung Electronics has reported a Q2  operating profit of $6.86 billion up 26% sequentially and 23% y-o-y. The profits growth came mainly from chips and displays. Revenue was $44.5 billion down 4% sequentially any and 6% y-oy. The company’s semiconductor capex budget this year is $12.4 billion. Earnings from Samsung’s memory business improved in Q2, ...

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NAND and DRAM to be biggest IC markets

NAND Flash and  DRAM  will remain the largest IC markets in 2020 accounting for a third of total IC  sales this year, says IC Insights. IC Insights’ Mid-Year Update to The McClean Report 2020,  ranks the 33 largest IC product categories based on their expected sales and unit shipment volumes. The five largest of these IC ...

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One in the sensing eye for Nasa’s Mars Perseverance Rover

With the successful launch of Nasa’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover from Cape Canaveral, Teledyne Imaging is highlighting that its CCDs are integrated into remote sensing instruments on board the exploratory system. The Mars 2020 mission is part of a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the Red Planet, including looking for signs of past microbial ...

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Glasgow, Milan and Delft turn time into vision

A new way of imaging – harnessing AI to turn time into visions of 3D space – has been found by researchers at Glasgow University,  the Polytechnic University of Milan and Delft University of Technology. The discovery could help cars, mobile devices and health monitors develop 360-degree awareness. Photos and videos are usually produced by capturing ...

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Memory-in-pixel technology reduces LCD power consumption

 Kyocera is presenting  MIP Technology (Memory in Pixel) as a way to lower power LCDs. All the  pixels include an SRAM resulting in a power consumption for static image down to 5µW. By the power saving pixel selection method, only the selected pixel were driven. Which is different to the line selection method As well ...

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Six pack IGBT for EV traction inverters

Infineon has introduced an IGBT power module tailored to the needs of electric vehicle traction inverters in the 80 kW to 100 kW power class: the HybridPACK DC6i. This six pack module is optimized to deliver an excellent fit of system cost and performance to hybrid and small battery electric vehicles. It combines Infineon’s  EDT2 ...

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750W medical power supply

Delta Electronics has added a 750W power supply to its MEB Series of medical enclosed power supplies – adding to existing 500W and 1,200W types. Called MEB-750A24, it comes in a 4 x 7 x 1.6inch (101 x 178 x 40mm) enclosure and provides a single 24V output with 5V 2A stand-by output. It can ...

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100µF 63V conductive polymer electrolytic capacitor in 10 x 12.5mm SMD case

Panasonic is to add a smaller case size to ZS-Series of SMD conductive polymer hybrid electrolytic capacitors. Remaining 10mm in diameter, the new case is 12mm rather than 16mm tall. “The effect of the smaller size of ZS-series is to deliver higher performance while keeping the premium PCB real estate in check with a few ...

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DCMS £30m to marry 5G and industrial ingenuity

£30m of public and private funding aims to combine industrial ingenuity with 5G technology Projects in Sunderland, Preston, Liverpool, Manchester, Brighton and Suffolk have been announced by the DcMS. The use of AI-controlled traffic lights to reduce pollution and congestion will be tested in Manchester and the potential for remote music festivals using 5G will ...

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element14 Coronavirus Design Challenge winners announced

element14 has announced the winning designs of its “Fighting Germs” Design Challenge, where participants helped to fight COVID-19 by creating projects that protect vulnerable populations and help people cope with the crisis. The Grand Prize winner, Shabaz Yousaf from the UK, created contact-less virtual buttons that are motion-sensor based, allowing the user to make selections without ...

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1.8V chopper stabilised dual precision op-amp from Diodes

Diodes has announced its first precision op-amp, the dual chopper-stabilised AS2333, which operates over 1.8V to 5.5V (or ±0.9V to ±2.75V) and -40°C to +125°C. Typical figures are 8µV input offset, 0.02µV/°C drift over time and temperature, 120dB common-mode rejection ratio and 130dB open-loop gain. “The chopper stabilisation also addresses low frequency 1/f noise and ...

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China chips lag government targets

China’s 14th five-year plan (2021-2025) will include a 40% expansion in foundry capacity and a move to 7nm processing, says Digitimes Research. China’s IC manufacturing industry is planned to double to $34.28 billion in 2020 from 2016, and may also move 12nm to production by the end of the year after having volume produced 14nm ...

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Huawei outships everyone in smartphones

Huawei shipped more smartphones worldwide than any other vendor for the first time in Q2 2020, says Canalys.   It is the first quarter in nine years that a company other than Samsung or Apple has led the market. Huawei shipped 55.8 million devices, down 5% year on year. But second-placed Samsung shipped 53.7 million ...

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Third generation MEMS sampling at SiTime

SiTime is sampling a differential MEMS oscillator for 100G – 800G optical modules. Volume production is planned for Q1 2021. The SiT9501 is  for applications such as datacentre switches, telecom routers, edge servers, AI/graphics cards, and storage controllers. “Over the past 15 years, SiTime has developed and shipped two generations of MEMS resonators that are used ...

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Han 1A miniaturised industrial connectors serve Ethernet networks

Harting has released the Han 1A rectangular series of connectors, aimed at Ethernet-based data networks in the industrial arena. They are described as compact, lightweight and versatile connectors in a rectangular plastic housing, suitable for shielded (e.g. control cabinets) and unshielded settings. Harting says the series is particularly well suited to connecting decentralised devices and ...

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Inphi and NeoPhotonics demo OIF 400ZR coherent transceiver interoperability

Inphi and  NeoPhotonics have demonstrated interoperability of OIF 400ZR compliant coherent transceivers, operating successfully across the C-Band over 120km of optical fiber.   Transceiver pairs consisting of Inphi’s COLORZII  QSFP-DD with its Canopus 7nm Coherent DSP and NeoPhotonics 400ZR ClearLight OSFP were successfully linked. Both 400ZR coherent optics transceivers carried error-free traffic over a typical data center ...

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Optically isolated ΔΣ modulator claims industry’s highest accuracy

Renesas has brought out an optically isolated delta-sigma (ΔΣ) modulator which claims to deliver the industry’s highest accuracy compared to other 10MHz clock output optically isolated devices. It includes a precision ADC with ENOB of 13.8 bits (typ) for converting an analogue voltage input into a digital output one-bit data stream across the isolation barrier. ...

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M12 push-pull connector meets IEC standard

The push-pull version of the M12 connector with inner locking from Yamaichi Electronics is the first M12 push-pull design, which has been defined as an international standard (IEC 61076-2-012). Therefore, M12 push-pull design-ins are possible now for M12 push-pull systems, without using proprietary solutions. Yamaichi has been setting a new standard with the M12 push-pull ...

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Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceshipTwo cabin interior

Virgin Galactic, the spaceflight company which is looking to provide flights for space tourists, has shown off the cabin interior of its first SpaceshipTwo vehicle, VSS Unity, in a virtual event. The company is hoping to create demand for thousands of trips on suborbital flights. Features the passengers can expect include 12 cabin windows for ...

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CES 2021 to be virtual

CES 2021 will be a virtual event because of the coronavirus. ‘With the growing global health concerns about the spread of COVID-19, it is not possible to safely convene tens of thousands of people in Las Vegas in early January 2021 to meet and do business in person,” said CES organisers yesterday, “an all-digital CES ...

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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ride at 5pm

Tim Cook, Jeff  Bezos, Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg – the CEOs of Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook – face a virtual grilling by the US government’s House Antitrust Subcommittee at 5pm (UK time) tonight. The hearing is to determine whether they are unfairly hurting competitors. However, they are also  likely to be confronted with  allegations of allowing ...

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Arm China asks Beijing government to intervene in row with Arm UK

Arm China is asking the Beijing government to step into the row between Arm UK and Arm China. Arm UK sacked the chairman and CEO of Arm China, Allen Wu, but Wu refused to go. Wu is  is said to have hired his own security guards and won’t let representatives of the Arm China board ...

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Inside the passenger cabin of Branson’s spacecreft

This is what you get for  $250,000 – a seat with a view on board Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity for a  suborbital flight 60 miles above Earth. Virgin says it has 600 customers signed up to fly. Sir Richard is said to be going on the first commercial flight, but no date for it has been given. ...

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Ceva supports Dolby MS12 multistream decider

CEVA has announced support for Dolby MS12 Multistream Decoder for the CEVA-BX2 audio DSP. As smart TVs, over-the-top (OTT) content services and set-top-boxes evolve into multipurpose digital media receivers, the content is derived from numerous sources, utilizing a variety of audio codecs. Dolby MS12 reduces the complexity of integrating multiple audio technologies into these devices. ...

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Kit to build, train and deploy edge AI devices

ST has released a free STM32 software function pack that lets users build, train, and deploy intelligent edge devices for industrial condition monitoring using a microcontroller Discovery kit. Developed in conjunction with  Cartesiam, the FP-AI-NANOEDG1 software pack contains all the necessary drivers, middleware, documentation, and sample code to capture sensor data, integrate, and run Cartesiam’s ...

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GaN Systems publishes manual for Class-D amplifier evaluation kit

GaN Systems has published a manual titled, “12V High-Efficiency Audio Reference Designs using GaN Power Transistors.” The technical manual was developed in response to the  launch of GaN Systems Class-D audio amplifier evaluation kit in May 2020 and from growing customer interest for designs in the 12V market for automotive, marine, powersports, and other applications ...

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GE Hits the Off Switch on Lighting Business

General Electric will no longer make lightbulbs. In May, GE announced that it is selling its lighting business to Savant Systems Inc., a seller of home-automation technology.

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Xilinx joins O-RAN Policy Coalition

Xilinx has joined the Open RAN Policy Coalition to support the development and deployment of Open RAN 5G technologies. The Open RAN Policy Coalition membership promotes Open RAN as the solution of choice for greater interoperability and security among a multi-vendor ecosystem. Xilinx has been an active member of the O-RAN alliance and a contributor ...

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Googlers googling from home till July 2021

Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai (pictured) has sent this email to all staff extending the working-from-home option until June 30th 2021: Hi everyone I’m grateful for everything you’ve been doing to deliver on our mission and be helpful to our users and each other the past few months — I know it hasn’t been easy. I’m ...

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Fan-less industrial PC has fan-cooled GPU extension option for AI

OnLogic of Vermont is aiming at industrial IoT and edge computing with a series of fan-less compact PCs. Powered by Intel’s 10th generation Comet Lake processors, the Helix HX500 Series is 210 x 51 x 154mm and flexible on power requirements – accepting between 12 and 24V at 60W max continuously, or up to 120W peak. ...

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The RISC-V rundown from DAC 2020

It has been an unusual DAC this year, as the show went virtual due to the Covid-19 pandemic. There was no exhibition floor as such, but there was a comprehensive programme of keynote speeches, presentations, tutorials and panel discussions. There was a lot of activity around RISC-V, including a presentation by Imperas Software (www.imperas.com) entitled What’s ...

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Intel’s Chief Engineering Officer leaves

Intel’s Chief Engineering Officer Venkata (Murthy) Renduchintala is to leave on August 3rd and Intel’s process development will now be headed by Ann Kelleher (pictured). Last week it was revealed that the 7nm process was a year behind schedule. Two years ago, Intel’s process guru Mark Bohr left after the 10nm process was running several ...

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ADI buys HDMI business of INVECAS

ADI has bought the HDMI  business of INVECAS. The addition gives ADI  complete audio and video solutions to address enterprise and consumer markets. “HDMI technology is in high demand for business, professional, consumer and automotive video applications,” says ADI svp John Hassett,  “the acquisition of INVECAS’ HDMI business positions ADI to deliver more complete solutions throughout ...

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Mouser stocking the Arduino Portenta H7 for IIoT

Mouser Electronics is highlighting that it is stocking the Arduino Portenta H7, which is aimed at the professional maker and industrial markets. It was launched at CES 2020 at the start of the year. The board is powered by an STM32H747XI dual Cortex-M7+M4 32bit low power MCU (you can read the datasheet), with the radio ...

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Nokia and US Cellular add 5G mm Wave in 24/28GHz bands

Nokia and U.S. Cellular are adding 5G mmWave capabilities in the 24 GHz and 28 GHz spectrum bands. U.S. Cellular will deploy Nokia’s AirScale portfolio, with Cloud RAN capabilities, to provide enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) 5G mmWave.   The Nokia AirFrame open edge solution for Cloud RAN will also be included in the deployments, enabling ...

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HiSilicon achieves nuSIM security certification for NB-IoT

HiSilicon has achieved security certification for its nuSIM-enabled NB-IoT System-on-Chip. This allows IoT devices to operate on-air without any additional SIM card or eSIM chip. The nuSIM initiative was introduced by Deutsche Telekom during Q1 2019. It allows SIM functionality to be hosted within the communications chip, thus eliminating the need for an external SIM component The security ...

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SEMI billings up 14% y-o-y

June billings of semiconductor manufacturing equipment by US producers were down 1.1% on May at $2.32 billion. Y-o-y June billings were up 14.4% on June 2019. “June billings of North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers continue to show signs of resilience as the world copes with new realities posed by COVID-19,” says SEMI CEO Ajit Manocha, ...

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Q2 wafer shipments up 8%

Q2 silicon wafer shipments rose 8% to 3,152 million square inches compared to the 2,920 million square inches shipped in Q1 and up 6% on Q2 2019, according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG). “While the short-term outlook remains uncertain due to coronavirus and geopolitical challenges impacting the broader industry, global silicon wafer shipments ...

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A low-power AI alternative to neural networks

Researchers at the University of Newcastle have implemented a non-neural-network hardware that can significantly cut the power consumption of artificial intelligence. The team trained a neural network, and their technology – a ‘Tsetlin machine’ – to recognise hand written digits from the standard MNIST data set. “Using an out-of-the-box neural network we could less than ...

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TSMC commits to renewable electricity sources

TSMC  is today committing to source 100% renewable electricity globally as part of RE100 – a global initiative led by international non-profit the Climate Group. RE100 has the support of over 240 global businesses switching to 100% renewable power.  TSMC is the first semiconductor manufacturer to join RE100.  ”As companies pursue growth, they also must take ...

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EC coming out against Huawei

The EU is beginning to push for a non-Huawei 5G network in Europe. “Progress is urgently needed to mitigate the risk of dependency on high-risk suppliers, also with a view to reducing dependencies at Union level,” said the EC last week. France has followed the UK in banning Huawei switchgear in 5G networks by saying ...

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US chip industry in good shape

The US semiconductor industry is in pretty good shape, argues the Cato Institute, while the Chinese semiconductor industry is struggling to gain traction. Cato quotes Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) data which show U.S. “Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing” to have increased substantially in recent years, topping $113.4 billion in real gross output and ...

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Imec sees five semiconductor trends for the 20s decade

Imec’s CMOS boss Sri Samavedam sees five trends ahead for the semiconductor industry: Trend 1: Moore’s Law will continue for the next 8 to 10 years… CMOS transistor density scaling will roughly continue to follow Moore’s Law for the next eight to ten years. This will be enabled mainly by advances in EUV patterning and ...

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Intel 7nm six months behind schedule

Intel  said yesterday that its 7nm process is six months behind schedule. The company is looking at pushing more wafers out to foundry. “We’re going to be pretty pragmatic about if and when we should be making stuff inside or making outside, and making sure that we have optionality to build internally, mix and match ...

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New memory device built using FTJ technology

Researchers at  the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering have come up with a new memory technology based on ferroelectric tunnelling junction (FTJ) technology. FTJ devices  promise to increase data upload speed, extend smartphone battery life, and reduce data corruption. Han Wang, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the USC Viterbi ...

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SI takes gloomy view of semi market

The year has been one of gradually increasing optimism for the chip market, reports Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence. Two months ago most forecasts called for a decline in the semiconductor market in 2020, says SI. The outlook changed in June, WSTS  projected 3.3% growth in 2020. This month IC Insights revised its IC forecast for ...

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Power transistor market set for 7% drop followed by 2021 rebound

The power transistor market is expected to fall 7% in 2020 , but to rebound 7% next year and reach a new record high in 2022, says IC Insights’ O-S-D Report. After three straight years of record-high sales, the power transistor market is forecast to drop 7% in 2020 because of the economic fallout from ...

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Teledyne’s CCD image sensors capture images of Andromeda Galaxy

Chelmsford-based Teledyne e2v is highlighting the role of its CCD image sensors in successfully capturing the first light image of the JPCam camera element of the JST/T250 telescope. The system recorded the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), located 2.5 million light years away. The company has congratulated the Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón ...

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China leads in 5G deployment and 5G smartphone market

China leads in 5G base station deployment, network coverage and market share in 5G smartphones, says TrendForce. Chinese smartphone brands have a 75% share in the H1 global 5G smartphone market. Total global smartphone production is forecast at 1.24 billion units in 2020 with 5G handset production is expected to reach 235 million units, an ...

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MediaTek 5G chipset for mid-tier phones

MediaTek has announced the Dimensity 720 5G SoC for mid-tier smartphones. The Dimensity 720, is part of MediaTek’s 5G chipset family that includes range of chipsets from Dimensity 1000 for flagship 5G smartphones to the Dimensity 800 and 700 series for more accessible 5G mid-tier devices. The 7nm Dimensity 720 SoC is built with MediaTek ...

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Toshiba adds to lens reduction type CCDs

Toshiba has added two lens reduction type CCD linear image sensors. Predominantly targeted at implementation in automated optical inspection (AOI) systems, though also suitable for barcode scanners, the TCD1105GFG and TCD1106GFG are 1500pixel monochrome devices that each have a 5.25μm pixel pitch. The TCD1105GFG has a 125V/lux-sec sensitivity, whereas the TCD1106GFG’s sensitivity is 600V/lux-sec. Their ...

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UK government launches space innovation programme

A new National Space Innovation Programme will provide £15 million to support “pioneering ideas” in the UK space sector, it has been announced. The initial funding is for projects related to Earth observation, communications and international partnerships, says the UK Space Agency. “The UK space sector is a huge economic success story, growing by over ...

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Yokogawa cuts optical sensor uncertainty and boosts power range

Yokogawa has launched a more capable versions of its AQ2200 optical sensor modules. Designed to work with the AQ2200 series frame controllers, the new modules offer improved performance over the existing AQ2200-221. AQ2200-212 is a single channel sensor, complete with an analogue output port AQ2200-222 is a dual channel sensor Both offer a power range ...

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High dynamic range 30MHz to 6GHz transceiver for critical comms

Analog Devices has revealed the first product in a series of wide dynamic range RF transceivers – receiver dynamic range is -150dBc/Hz. The 30MHz to 6GHz part is called ADRV9002, and is aimed at mission-critical applications, such as first-responder radios, private LTE networks and satellites. “The difficulty for mission-critical networks to decipher complex signals increases as ...

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Softbank talks to Apple and Nvidia about Arm sale

SoftBank has talked to both Nvidia and Apple about selling all or part of Arm to them, reports Bloomberg. Apple, which was one of the founding investors in Arm, is reported to be uninterested in buying Arm outright because it would cause conflicts of interest with Arm’s customers. However Apple, as a user of Arm ...

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Capacitor stacks offer up to 220μF for PSU filtering

Knowles is saving space in power supply PCBs by offering edge-stacked ceramic capacitor assemblies. Intended for filtering in the input and output stages of switch-mode PSUs,  the parts are the ‘SV’ series. “The assemblies can be made with up to 10 chips of the same size with various lead configurations to safeguard against thermal and ...

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Hynix Q2 profit up 143%

Hynix had Q2 gross profits of $1.62 billion and net profit of $1.1 billion on revenue of  $7.2 billion. “Both the company’s revenue and operating income increased by 20% and 143% quarter-over-quarter respectively,” says Hynix said in a statement, “surging demand for server memory maintained favourable memory price while numerous factors including the increase of ...

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ST expects 17.4% growth in Q3

ST had Q2 net revenues of $2.09 billion, a gross margin of 35%, an operating margin of 5.1% and net  income of $90 million. H1 net revenues were $4.32 billion; gross margin 36.5%; operating margin 7.8%; net income $282 million The company expects Q3 net revenues of  $2.45 billion with a  gross margin of 36.0 ...

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Researchers use hard carbon for anode in sodium-ion batteries

Researchers from  Skoltech, Moscow State University (MSU), Tokyo University of Science and the University of Strasbourg have identified the type of electrochemical reaction associated with charge storage in the anode material for sodium-ion batteries (SIB). The demand for lithium-ion (LIB) batteries and the average size of storage devices are constantly growing, however this growth trend ...

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Bosch Sensortec introduces longevity programme

Bosch Sensortec is launching a longevity programme – ensuring certsin products will be available for ten years. In industrial and IoT applications, customers often require components to be available for a prolonged time period, typically ten years. This is due to long design cycles often lasting two years or more, where the cost and risk ...

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OMC transmitter LED quadruples launch power

OMC, the optoelectronics specialist from Redruth in Cornwall, has introduced an industrial fibre optic transmitter LED that, it claims, can deliver up to four times more launch power into multimode fibre for the same current versus existing transmitter devices. The  transmitter has an array of micro-optic elements that gather and focus the emitted photons, coupling more ...

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EEVblog #1322 – JBL LSR308 Studio Monitor Speaker REPAIR

Repairing a JBL LSR308 studio monitor speaker. Digital troubleshooting in a speaker? Yep, that’s a thing! How to systematically track down a fault and *know* that part has failed.

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EEVblog #1321 – SunPlower – DUMBEST IDEA Since Solar Roadways!

The SunPlower is supposed to be able to power mobile phone towers, propel boats and submarines, and fly you around in an Air-Taxi! Let’s turn flat solar panels into wind turbine blades! The laws of physics and engineering might have a lot to say about that…
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EEVblog #1322 – JBL LSR308 Monitor Speaker Repair (FULL)

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Farnell shipping pi-top [4]

Farnell is now shipping pi-top [4] – a programmable computing device to support digital making, coding and practical projects for educators and students, as well as makers and inventors. Suitable for multiple learning environments in school, at home or in the community; students can develop key skills including coding and circuit design, as well as ...

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SiFive hones Risc-V cores for more processing power and fewer watts

SiFive, provider of Risc-V processor core intellectual property, has released a suite of upgrades to its products, increasing performance, and reducing power consumption and die area. The release has been dubbed ’20G1′, as the company has switched from ‘year-month’ naming to ‘year-release’ naming: 20G1 being the first ‘general’ release of 2020 “and encapsulates nine months ...

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Harwin allows mix-and-match on Datamate Mix-Tek connectors

Harwin has made its Datamate Mix-Tek connectors more flexible – moving away from compulsory contact combinations. There is a choice of housings, designed to accommodate coaxial and power contacts. “OEMs can now purchase cable housings for these 2.00mm and 4.00mm pitch connectors without contacts fitted, rather than being restricted to a small number of pre-defined ...

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Soldering Tools Keep UAVs Flying High

Most people know them as drones and believe they are strictly used in the sky. But, their official name is unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and they can also be used in confined spaces inside or outside.

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Commercial silicon solar reaches 21.4% efficiency

LG Electronics’ latest commercial solar panel can reach an efficiency of 21.4%. It is the LG370N1C-N5, styled a ‘premium’ product by the company – an n-type monocrystalline panel producing 370W max from its 1.7 x 1m surface (irradiance 1,000W/m2, 25°C, 1.5AM). Open-circuit under the same illumination it delivers 41.8V, and short-circuit the figure is 10.92A. Maximum ...

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Binder circular connectors address harsh environments

Binder has expanded its Harsh Environment Connector (HEC) series 696, adding flange and cable variants with built-in protective conduit adaptation. The industrial circular connector specialist highlights that applications include all types of outdoor electronic systems, mobile factory technology and sectors such as agriculture and construction. binder writes: “The integrated sealing function of the protective conduit ...

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Robust growth for semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales

Sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment will increase 6% to $63.2 billion in 2020 compared to $59.6 billion in 2019, and $70 billion in 2021, says SEMI. The wafer fab equipment segment – which includes wafer processing, fab facilities, and mask/reticle equipment – is expected to rise 5% in 2020 followed by 13% growth in 2021 ...

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Hydrogen transport project saves 14 tonnes of CO2

Over 14 tonnes of CO2 was saved in a two year trial involving just 11 urban trucks and vans running on green hydrogen dual fuel. That is one result of the Low Emission Freight and Logistics Trial (LEFT) project to investigate the practical deployment of hydrogen powered vehicles in the UK. With between 20-45% of ...

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Upbeat semi forecasts for H2

TSMC has guided 2020 sales growth of +20% y-o-y or higher (vs its previous outlook in the high teens) despite the loss of HiSilicon’s business. The 2020 capex budget has been raised from $15~16 billion to  $16~17 billion. The 2020 capex upgrade is due to better-than-expected demand for 5nm processes that began mass production in 2Q20. Apple ...

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AMS looks for $10bn revenues by 2026

The former Austria Micro Systems, now AMS, is targetting revenues of €10 billion in 2026, according to Reuters. The target includes revenues gained through acquisitions. Last year AMS had revenues of €1.9 billion and this year it has bought 69% of Osram which had 2019 revenues of €3.6 billion. This year, the combined AMS-Osram revenues ...

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GloFo releases Open Access iPDK libraries for 22nm FD-SOI processes

GLOBALFOUNDRIES  has released OpenAccess iPDK libraries optimised for its 22nm FD-SOI) platform. The open-standard based iPDK offers the same level of functionality and performance as PDKs designed for specific vendor tools, while helping enable interoperability and compatibility among different design tool suites. Tools including: the Custom Compiler solution from Synopsys; Tanner software solutions from Mentor; PathWave ...

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Dialog and TDK integrate power sequencing device

Dialog and  TDK are integrating Dialog’s GreenPAK technology with TDK’s µPOL power devices to create, they claim, the world’s first single-integrated system power sequencing device. Traditional discrete solutions currently available on the market require an extensive array of components, which reduces board space availability, impacts system reliability and drives up manufacturing costs. Combining Dialog’s scalable, flexible GreenPAK ...

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Applied launches supply chain initiative

Applied Materials is to create a more sustainable and just supply chain for semiconductor and display manufacturing. SuCCESS2030 (Supply Chain Certification for Environmental and Social Sustainability) will optimise material and parts selection, procurement, packaging, warehousing, transportation and recycling. Under the SuCCESS initiative, Applied’s assessment of supplier performance and capabilities will now require the following shared ...

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Vector network analysis from Rigol

Rigol Technologies has added a vector network analyser mode to a family of spectrum analysers, adding an N suffix to its RSA3000 and RSA5000 instruments. “The RSA5000N and the RSA3000N deliver the same performance and feature set as the current spectrum analyser models, but adds VNA capability as a standard feature,” according to the company. “With ...

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More on: CGD, the UK’s GaN power transistor maker

Last week, it was announced that Cambridge GaN Devices (CGD) will lead a €10.3m European project (‘GaNext’) to develop fast-switching intelligent GaN power modules. But who is this small UK company that has been trusted to lead a consortium that includes semiconductor giant Infineon? The answer is: a fabless GaN power transistor maker built on ...

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MCU has dual Cortex-M4 and Bluetooth LE 5.2

Maxim is aiming its latest MCY at coin cell powered Bluetooth Low Energy 5.2 wireless communication – 27.3μA/MHz operation is available at 3.3V when executing from cache, or 1.2µA at 3.3V in the lowest power mode. Called MAX32666, and part of the company’s Darwin family, it has dual 96MHz Arm Cortex-M4 cores, both with their own ...

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Shortwave infra-red image sensors for industry

Sony has announced two short-wavelength infra-red (SWIR) image sensors with 5μm pixels for industrial equipment, that also image in visible light too – with digital outputs to make them compatible with equipment set-up for visible light CMOS cameras. They are based on the company’s SenSWIR technology, with photodiodes formed in an indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) ...

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1500 pixel linear CCD for automated optical inspection

Toshiba has introduced a pair of linear CCD image sensors for automated optical inspection and  barcode scanning. Both are monochrome and have a 5.25μm (pitch) x 50μm pixels stacked edge-on to form an array ~7.9mm long. TCD1105GFG has 125V/lux-s sensitivity and 90 dynamic range, plus built-in electronic shutter. TCD1106GFG has 600V/lux-s sensitivity and 400 dynamic range. Dynamic ranges ...

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Small fanless Nvidia Arm PC packs a punch for AI

Aaeon is aiming at edge AI with a box PC built around an Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX processor with a 64bit hex-core Arm processor, 384 Cuda cores, 48 Tensor Cores and two Nvdla engines capable of running multiple neural networks in parallel – delivering up to 21Top/s. All this in a rather small box – ...

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Farnell adds Portenta H7

Farnell has added the Portenta H7, the latest offering from Arduino, to its range of single board computers. The device targets growing demand from enterprise, small medium business (SMB) and professional makers for low-code modular hardware systems to support IoT development. The Arduino Portenta family provides low-power boards designed specifically for industrial applications, artificial intelligence (AI) ...

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Synaptics buys DisplayLink

Synaptics has bought video compression specialist DisplayLink for $305 million in an all-cash transaction. The deal is expected to close in Synaptics’ first quarter of fiscal year 2021, subject to customary closing conditions, and be financed from existing cash on hand. Synaptics expects the transaction to add approximately $94million in annualised sales and be immediately accretive to non-GAAP ...

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TSMC is world’s most valuable chip company

TSMC has become the world’s most valuable chip company with a market cap of $313 billion. Samsung is worth $261 billion Nvidia $257 billion Broadcom $125 billion TI $124 billion Qualcomm $103 billion Hynix $59 billion Micron $57 billion NXP $34 billion MediaTek $32 billion Infineon $30 billion ST $28 billion        

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Airbus wins milsatcom contract for Skynet 6A

Airbus Defence and Space has signed a contract with the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) to extend the Skynet satellite fleet with Skynet 6A, supporting military communications systems. The value of the contract for the new satellite is reported to be £500 million. The agreement covers the development, manufacture, cyber protection, assembly, integration, test and ...

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Applied cracks bottleneck

Applied Materials has  introduced a new technology that claims to remove a critical bottleneck to continued 2D scaling in foundry-logic nodes. Applied’s Selective Tungsten process technology removes the contact resistance bottleneck that impedes transistor power and performance scaling in advanced foundry-logic<. The technology gives chipmakers a new way to build transistor contacts, which are the ...

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Imec spawns CrowdScan

CrowdScan, a spin-off from imec and the University of Antwerp, has developed a system that measures the density of a crowd in real-time using a wireless sensor network. Based on six years of research at the University of Antwerp and imec, CrowdScan has developed a system to measure crowd densities without using camera images, mobile phone data or other privacy-sensitive information. By transmitting low-energetic radio waves (868 MHz), CrowdScan measures the average signal attenuation of a wireless sensor ...

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1,000μF tantalum capacitors are small with low ESR

Vishay is offering two options for high value of surface-mount capacitors with low equivalent series resistance. T55 series: 3.3μF to 1,000μF over 2.5V to 63V for power management, battery decoupling and energy storage TR3 series:  0.47μF to 1,000μF over 4V to 75V for decoupling, smoothing, bulk energy-storage and filtering “T55 series vPolyTan surface-mount polymer tantalum chip capacitors has ...

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Varta starts building new Li-Ion battery factory

Today, Varta is laying the foundation stone for the expansion of its lithium-ion production site in Nördlingen. The development will be funded as part of a the Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) programme and Bavaria is contributing €32 million euros for R&D  at the Nördlingen site, with the German federal government contributing another ...

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Samsung reported to have low 5nm yields

Samsung Foundry has low yields on its EUV 5nm process which could delay Qualcomm’s latest chip-sets, reports Digitimes. However Samsung had not expected to get to get ASML’s EUV equipment for the 5nm line installed until the end of June, so the process is at a very early stage.  It had not been thought that Samsung ...

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Japan asks TSMC to build a fab there

Japan has approached TSMC to build a fab in Japan in collaboration with local chip manufacturers, reports the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri. The idea is to boost the capabilities of the local IC companies and to give Japan access to the latest chip technology for national security applications.  Ironically, 14 years ago Japan was talking about ...

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Pencil-paper-on-skin electronics

University of Missouri engineers have demonstrated that pencils and paper can be used to create on-skin electronic devices. ‘On-skin electronics are usually fabricated by patterning conventional inorganic materials, novel organic materials, or emerging nanomaterials on flexible polymer substrates,’ say the researchers, ‘consequently, the state-of-the-art on-skin electronics usually suffer from expensive precursor materials, costly fabrication facilities, ...

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Noise algorithm boosts quantum computer performance

Researchers from the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo, IBM, Technical University of Munich, and the University of Technology Sydney have created an algorithm to solve a problem on a noisy quantum circuit that has a constant depth, meaning it has to solve the problem within a set upper limit of steps. ...

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EEVblog #1320 – Premature Oscilloscope Triggering

Don’t be caught out by embarrassing premature triggering! Dave demonstrates how and why your oscilloscope may trigger before it’s supposed to, and how to solve it.
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NASA pushes back James Webb Space Telescope launch date

NASA has set a new date for the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, from French Guiana: 31 October 2021. The original date – March 2021 – has been affected both by the Covid-19 pandemic and also technical issues. The decision was based on a recently completed schedule risk assessment of the remaining integration ...

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ESA’s SpaceDataHighway gains its second satellite, EDRS-C

The European Space Agency’s European Data Relay System has gained its second data-relay satellite, EDRS-C. The ESA describes this system – dubbed the “SpaceDataHighway” – as the most sophisticated laser communication network ever designed. EDRS-C helps Earth-observing satellites to transmit large quantities of date to Europe in near-real time. This is the second operational node ...

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Kyocera offers long-term availability of displays for medical applications

Kyocera is offering seven years availability of displays for medical uses. The standard displays Are: 5,7‘‘, 10,4‘‘ as well as 12,1‘‘. Additionally, there are also special sized displays with 6,2‘‘ (640 x 240 Pixel) for narrow application fronts available. The displays are available long-term and insensitive to radiation effects due to their metal housing. For ...

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2-phase bipolar stepping motor driver for automotive

Toshiba has introduced a constant-current 2-phase bipolar stepping motor driver, which is designed for automotive use, and is claimed to streamline motor system implementations. It delivers a sine-wave output signal (with up to 1/32 incremental steps supported) while requiring only a simple clock input. The need for a sophisticated microcontroller unit (MCU) or dedicated software is ...

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USB-C Video interfaces have HDMI.2 and DisplayPort

Synaptics is sampling a family of USB-C-based video interfaces which incorporate the HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.0. Called Cayenne, the family targets travel docks, dongles, video-hubs and protocol converters. Cayenne supportS 8K and 10K displays, and backward compatibility to support existing 4K and older displays. The Cayenne family supports all the video (DP1.4) ...

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Lithium ion cells don’t need cobalt

A cobalt-free high-energy lithium-ion battery is possible, according to the University of Texas at Austin. The cathode is made from 89% nickel, then manganese and aluminium, part of a group of alloys dubbed NMAs. They were compared with high-nickel (both also 89%) cobalt-inclusive alloys from groups called nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC) and nickel-cobalt-aluminium (NCA), described as “the cathode materials of ...

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Frequency analysis can help reveal deep fake images

German researchers have found a way to identify deep fake images by converting them to the frequency domain using the discrete cosine transform. The team, from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Casa (Cyber security in the age of large-scale adversaries), point those sceptical about deep fakes to the website www.whichfaceisreal.com – a website whose data set was ...

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Display Technology adds touch option to fire tested monitors

Display Technology, the UK subsidiary of Fortec Elektronik, offers  a touch screen option for the BLO-Line monitors that are certified for fire protection. Integrated touch control is usually ruled out for fire monitors as the fire-protection glass used in the monitors is constructed in such a way that a PCAP touch sensor will not function ...

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ST buys BeSpoon and the cellular IoT connectivity assets of Riot Micro.

ST has bought UWB specialist BeSpoon and the cellular IoT connectivity assets of Riot Micro. “Cellular IoT and UWB technologies are key wireless connectivity solutions that will enable a next wave of IoT connected objects and innovative applications,” says Claude Dardanne (pictured) President of ST’s MCU and Digital ICs Group, “these acquisitions complement ST’s existing wireless ...

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SMIC shares soar 245%; raises $6.6bn

SMIC shares soared 245% on the Shanghai STAR market earlier today as SMIC issued 1,685,620,000 shares raising $6.62 billion. Before the sale it was said that China’s state-run funds would be buying in the share sale. The money raised is said to be going into process improvement. SMIC’s best process is 14nm. However SMIC warned ...

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Single digit growth for IC market

After dropping by 15% last year, the  IC market is expected to show single-digit growth in 2020, says IC Insights. Figure 1 shows the 1Q/4Q IC market direction indicator that IC Insights developed 23 years ago. Figure 1 From 1984-2019, the average seasonal sequential decline in the 1Q IC market was 2%. In 1Q20, the ...

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Government looks for more cyber protection for smart devices

The government has today published proposals for a new law that will help protect smart device users from cyber criminals. The proposals, drawn up by the Department for DCMS and supported by the NCSC, detail the government’s plans to raise the security standard for all consumer smart products sold in the UK. As a first ...

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Bizen transistor commercialisation expedited

The commercialisation of Bizen, the transistor being productised by Search For The Next (SFN) of Nottingham, is set to benefit from investment in new process equipment which will expedite its development. One wafer run is being produced every month by manufacturing ally, Semefab, and initial analysis is very positive for both power and digital circuits. ...

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ASML Q2 revenues leap 35%

ASML had Q2 revenues up 35% sequentially at €3.3 billion for a profit of €800 million and a gross margin of 48.2%. “Our second-quarter sales came in at €3.3 billion, a strong growth of over 35% compared to Q1. The gross margin came in at 48.2%, a significant improvement compared to Q1, primarily due to ...

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eevBLAB #77 – TV Packaging Technology is INTERESTING

Only Dave can think that TV packaging boxes are interesting enough from a product design perspective to make a video about them.

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Automated Youtube Backup Alternatives

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Power Integrations automotive dc-dc chip for emergency inverter power

Power Integrations is aiming at automotive motor drive safety power supplies with a custom version of its InnoSwitch3 power converter chip. These supplies, also known as emergency PSUs or back-up PSUs in the automotive world, according to Power Integrations’ product marketing manager Edward Ong, are necessary for the main traction inverter to pass ISO26262 functional safety ...

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BioAsteroid launches Edinburgh University into biomining experiment

The University of Edinburgh is joining forces with Kayser Space, under the auspices of the UK Space Agency (UKSA), to carry out experiments around astroid mining. Dubbed BioAsteroid, the biomining experiment will use a collection of 12 automatic culturing devices fitted with a layer of material on which the bacteria will be grown in the ...

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Apple wins case against Irish €13bn back tax order

The EC order that Apple pay €13 billion to Ireland has been over-ruled by the EU’s General Court. The EC can now appeal the decision to the ECJ. The case arose from the very low tax rate which Ireland imposed on Apple. The EC argued that the low tax rate amounted to illegal state aid. ...

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Graphcore delivers world’s most complex processor

Graphcore, the Bristol AI processor company which has raised over $450 million in funding, has announced the second generation of its flagship IPU chip, the GC200. With 59.4 billion transistors on a single 823sqmm die, Graphcore claims it is the most complex processor ever made. It is made on TSMC’s 7nm process and integrates 1,472 ...

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Teleydyne Imaging technology central to ESA Copernicus missions

More details have emerged about UK involvement in two ESA Copernicus missions: Teledyne will supply infrared detectors and and NIR CMOS and CCD sensors to the Earth Observation missions. The two missions – CHIME and CO2M – incorporate image sensors at the heart of the planned instruments and they will use Teledyne Imaging’s technology. CHIME ...

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