Kioxia is sampling UFS Ver. 4.0 embedded flash memories which integrate BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory and a controller in a JEDEC-standard package. UFS 4.0 incorporates MIPI M-PHY 5.0 and UniPro 2.0 and supports theoretical interface speeds of up to 23.2Gbps per lane or 46.4Gbps per device. UFS 4.0 is backward compatible with UFS 3.1. ...
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Rohm is aiming at motor drives operating on 24, 36 or 48V with n-channel mosfets rated at 40, 60, 100 or 150V to give some leeway for spikes and noise. There are two series with 13 devices all-told: nine in 5x6x1mm HSOP8 (below left) packaging called RS6xxxx, and four in 3x3x0.8mm HSMT8 packaging called RH6xxxx, ...
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Tektronix has created a automated double-pulse test set-up for GaN and SiC power supply designs, that also works with silicon mosfets and IGBTs. Called ‘WBG-DPT Solution’, it is a combination of test gear from its existing equipment portfolio, and software for that test gear, which makes measurements to JEDEC and IEC standards where applicable. “With ...
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Arm has announced its 5th generation of GPU architecture and the first GPUs to be designed on it – Immortalis-G720 for high-end phones, Mali-G720 and Mali-G620. The 5th generation is “designed as the most efficient GPU architecture that Arm has ever created [and] redefines parts of the graphics pipeline to reduce memory bandwidth enabling high ...
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2023 shipments of AI server shipments will grow 38.4% y-o-y, says TrendForce, with a total of 1.2 million AI servers equipped with GPUs, FPGAs and ASICs shipped this year. AI servers constitute nearly 9% of the total server shipments and are expected to be 15% of the market by 2026. Between 2022 and 2026 AI ...
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Omnivision is sampling a 648p LCOS panel for AR, XR and MR glasses and head-mounted displays. It is due for volume production in Q4. The panel has 3.8µm pixels in a 0.14-inch optical formats (OF). The low-power, lightweight design is suitable for glasses that can be worn 24/7. “The OP03011 supports applications like displaying notifications ...
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Arm has announced its latest architecture, the 64bit-only Armv9.2, and three grades of processor built on it that can have software switched across them on-the-fly (Arm’s big.Little concept) to instantly trade power for performance inside phones. At the top-end of single-thread performance will be Cortex-X4, then Cortex-A720 in the middle, and Cortex-A520 at the power-saving ...
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STMicroelectronics has introduced a waterproof absolute pressure sensor “with a declared 10 year longevity program”, it said. Using mems technology and aimed at the industrial market, ILPS28QSW sensor comes in a 2.8 x 2.8 x 2mm surface-mount package with a cylindrical top and a square base (‘CCLGA-7L’, see photo). This package has a ceramic substrate ...
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Recom is aiming at railway use with a family of DIP24 isolated regulated dc-dc converters that will run from between 36 and 160Vdc. Surges up to 200V can be tolerated for 1s. “Dc-dc for rail applications typically operate from 72V, 96V, or 110VDC nominal input with dips and surges,” according to the company. There are 10W ...
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NXP has added low-end to its i.MX 9 series, with Linux-capable single core Arm Cortex-A55 application processor variants, running at up to 1.4GHz, without supporting microcontrollers. The existing i.MX 93 family has two A55s and a Cortex-M33, and the high-end i.MX 95 family has up to six A55s, an M33, a Cortex-M7 and an audio ...
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Socionext has introduced the SC1260 Series radio-frequency ranging sensors for automotive applications. This new series utilizes the 60GHz frequency band and time-division multiplexing (TDM-MIMO) operation with multiple transmitting and receiving antennas that can detect the position and movement of passengers in a vehicle with maximum accuracy. The SC1260 has an all-in-one configuration that incorporates antennas and ...
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The UK Space Agency has announced a ‘Space for Everyone’ roadshow which will be going across the UK this summer, starting next month in Southampton. The agency promises an “out-of-this-world” experience, which is set to tour 10 locations across the UK, with the aim of highlighting the role of space in our everyday lives and ...
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Viasat can finally complete its acquisition of Inmarsat, following the announcement that the European Commission (EC) has unconditionally approved Viasat’s acquisition of Inmarsat. Regulatory approval has already been forthcoming from the UK and the US. The U.K. Competition & Markets Authority gave clearance on 9 May 2023 and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on 19 ...
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Segger has added an Arm64 instruction set simulator to its latest version of its Embedded Studio integrated development environment. This follows the recently added compiler, linker, and runtime support for Arm64, which made it possible to generate and debug Arm64 programs. “Due to its complexity, Arm64 was the first architecture we ever introduced that did ...
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An Imperial College prototype quantum accelerometer has been tested on a Royal Navy ship. The accelerometer uses ultra-cold atoms, whose wave-like properties allow them to be measured accurately by lasers as they move under acceleration. Quantum accelerometers and gyros are of enormous interest for inertial navigation systems as the quantum nature of the parameters measured ...
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AMD is aiming at automotive edge sensor fusion, for the likes of lidar, radar and 3D surround cameras, with a pair of FPGAs it has just started shipping. XA AU10P and XA AU15P are automotive-qualified, certified for functional safety up to ASIL-B, intended to be used in driver assistance systems, and come with the the ...
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IQE has launched 200mm Red, Green and Blue (RGB) epitaxial wafers for microLED display qualification. MicroLEDs based upon GaN and GaAs semiconductors are a display technology that is being designed into multiple new platforms such as wearables, AR/VR headsets and large format displays. IQE reckons its GaN and GaAs epitaxy enable faster adoption of ...
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Nanusens has designed an all-digital capacitance measurement circuit to integrate alongside its MEMS sensors. “This means that both the sensor structure and its detection circuitry can be made at the same time within a chip using standard CMOS processes on whatever process node is required,” said the Devon, UK company. “As a result, ASICs can ...
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Analog Devices has created a pair of 6A buck-boost converters for automotive use. “MAX25239 and MAX25240 small-footprint 2V to 36V converters are the industry’s only 6A automotive buck-boost with integrated H-bridge switches,” according to distributor Farnell, which is stocking the parts. “They provide a fixed-output regulation voltage and an externally adjustable output voltage from 3V ...
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Custom battery pack manufacturer Alexander Battery Technologies has opened an e-mobility battery engineering and production unit on its Peterlee campus in County Durham. “The Battery Technology Centre will add engineering and service capabilities as the company begins its first projects, developing and prototyping for e-mobility customers,” according to the company. “The 1,850m2 [20,000ft2] centre complements ...
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The OPAx992-Q1 family of 40V rail-to-rail op-amps from Texas Instruments are AEC-Q100 qualified for automotive use. There are single (OPA992-Q1), dual (OPA2992-Q1) and quad (OPA4992-Q1) versions. Intended to be general purpose, the amplifiers’ differential and common-mode input ranges reach the supply rails. 115dB common-mode rejection is claimed, and the devices are rated to be used ...
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Ayar Labs, the silicon photonics interconnect specialist, has raised an additional $25 million in Series C1 funding, bringing its total Series C raise to $155 million. The oversubscribed up round was led by new investor Capital TEN. Other investors are VentureTech Alliance, Boardman Bay Capital Management, IAG Capital Partners, NVIDIA, and Tyche Partners, Applied Ventures, GlobalFoundries, ...
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At the recent Embedded World 2023, which took place in Nuremberg, Electronics Weekly‘s Group Editor, Clive Couldwell caught up with NXP and Microchip. With Brian Carlson – Director of Global Product and Solutions Marketing at NXP – he discussed software-defined vehicles, vehicle architectures and the role of MCUs. And with Ronny Tittoto – Embedded Solution ...
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iWave Systems has collaborated with Texas Instruments to create a solderable system-on-module powered by automotive-grade AM62Ax Sitara processors – which are nominally vision processors. Meeting the 45 x 45mm 622pad LGA OSM v1.1 solderable standard, the module is called iW-RainboW-G55M. Courtesy of the TI IC, it has quad 1.4GHz Arm Cortex-A53 CPU cores, an 800MHz ...
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To get the best out of GaN power transistors, which are far faster than silicon or silicon carbide transistors, microwave design techniques including RF simulation is essential, according to Cambridge start-up QPT. Final assembly, EMC screen partially lifted The alternative is to slow operation until the advantages of GaN fade away, or to risk durability ...
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In a wide-ranging interview, Lee Harrison – Product Marketing Director for Tessent Safety and Security technology – talks about how security is playing a huge part in the development of self-driving cars and key areas of innovation. Particularly, where Siemens Digital Industries Software is focused to meet the needs of the automotive supply chain, both ...
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Five year-old UK startup Core Power has raised $100 million from maritime industry sources to develop floating nuclear power plants Most of the money has come from 13 Japanese companies including Onomichi Dockyard and Imabari Shipbuilding. Core Power is collaborating in a $600 million development programme with TerraPower of the US, backed by Bill Gates, ...
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At the recent Embedded World 2023, which took place in Nuremberg, Electronics Weekly‘s Group Editor, Clive Couldwell caught up with MikroE and BrainChip to discuss their technologies in more depth. With Nandan Nayampally – CMO of BrainChip – he discussed neuromorphic computing, how it works and possible applications. And with Neb Matic – CEO of ...
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Huntsman, owner of the Araldite brand, has developed polyurethane, epoxy and carbon nanotube materials for vehicle battery construction and protection. For underbody battery protection, Rimline (=polyurethane) wet compression moulding material are low-viscosity liquid resins for low-pressure moulding of composites with a high fibre volume fraction – formulated for high-pressure mix machines. Rimline FC (foam core) ...
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Imagination Technologies has announced a series of smaller GPUs, but has not publicly released any technical details. Called CXM, at least some of them support 4K resolution, and at least some support 10bit RGBA and YUV ‘HDR (high dynamic range) operation. “CXM GPUs boast nearly 50% more performance in the same silicon area than IMG ...
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No tools are needed when locking pre-stripped flying leads into Phoenix Contact’s XPC 1,5 PCB two-part 3.5mm pitch connector for connecting wires to PCBs. “Following the principle of a mousetrap, the conductor is caught simply by inserting it into the connector,” according to the company. “Clamping contacts provide a long-term, reliable rigid and flexible connection ...
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IBM has announced a 10-year, $100 million initiative with the University of Tokyo and the University of Chicago to develop a quantum-centric supercomputer powered by 100,000 qubits. Quantum-centric supercomputing is an entirely new, and as of now, unrealized, era of high-performance computing. A 100,000-qubit system would serve as a foundation to address some of the ...
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Working for consumer brand Melitta, Trojan Electronics in Swansea has rebuilt and repaired warrany returns to create almost 500 like-new bean-to-cup coffee machines. Parts such as coffee grinders, water tanks and sensors units were harvested from beyond-repair items and used to repair other units, according to Trojan. As part of the process, which has created ...
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Yesterday, China barred Micron from selling memories to suppliers of key domestic infrastructure following a security review. China’s cyberspace regulator said that Micron had failed its network security review but did not say on what grounds. As most of Micron’s China sales are to consumer chstomers it may not hit Micron particularly hard. “We firmly ...
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Applied Materials intends to build the world’s largest and most advanced facility for collaborative semiconductor process technology and manufacturing equipment R&D. The Equipment and Process Innovation and Commercialization (EPIC) Center is planned as the heart of an innovation platform designed to accelerate development and commercialisation of the foundational technologies needed by the a semiconductor and ...
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NVIDIA today announced a supercomputer built on its Arm-based Grace CPU. It will achieve about 2.7 petaflops of FP64 peak performance and consume less than 270 kilowatts of power, ranking it among the world’s three greenest non-accelerated supercomputers. The project is being led by the University of Bristol, as part of the research consortium the ...
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Quantum Ventura, the San Jose AI/ML research house, will use BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic processor to develop cyber threat-detection tools. Quantum Ventura is creating cybersecurity applications for the U.S. Department of Energy under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. The program is focused on “Cyber threat-detection using neuromorphic computing,” which aims to develop an advanced ...
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Reactions to the UK Semiconductor Strategy hsve come from the CEOs of three UK startups – Phlux, Intinsic and Fovotec. “The £1 billion investment into Semiconductors is very welcome news and we’re pleased to see the UK double down in it’s core strength in Compound Semiconductor (the technology family commercialised by Phlux),” says Ben White ...
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Software designed to detect child abuse images on smartphones, which could be mandated by governments in some counties, can be covertly repurposed to intrude on personal privacy, according to research at Imperial college. ‘Client-side scanning’ (CSS) is an image analysis technique based on ‘perceptual hashing’, and is mooted as a way to get around the ...
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The rapid market expansion for robotics brings risks, writes Alexander Ford of intellectual property firm Withers & Rogers. Over the past decade, the robotics sector has been advancing at pace. Early-stage, experimental research projects have given way to major-scale R&D programmes aimed at finding new applications for robotics technologies in a variety of industry sectors. ...
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Almost 350 licences have been granted to companies in the UK space sector since July 2021, the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has announced, highlighting its work in this area. As well as the 343 licenses issued, the regulator is also monitoring more than 750 UK satellites in space, including supporting the deployment of the ...
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Murata is offering a 4V 10μF ceramic capacitor with ±20% tolerance in a 0201 – 0603M package. “They are currently the smallest MLCC products on the market to deliver such capacitance levels,” claimed the company, “representing a 65% size reduction on the 0402 – 1005M products that would normally need to be specified. ” Called ...
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Segger has added support for 64bit ARMv8-A cores to its Embedded Studio IDE (integrated development environment), now covering Cortex-A53, Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A72, for example. “We see a migration to 64bit cores, even for a typical embedded application, simply because many modern SoCs and FPGAs use them,” said Segger MD Ivo Geilenbruegge. Embedded Studio includes tools ...
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The automotive semiconductor sensor market is expected to reach $14 billion in 2028, with a 10% CAGR 22-28, says Yole Developpement. Electrification and ADAS & safety remain the main drivers that will impact sensor manufacturers growth or diminishing, depending on their market positioning. Semiconductors sensors in automotive are expected to evolve strongly in all car ...
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A joint Price Waterhouse Coopers and UK Space Agency report says the UK is the most attractive destination for private investment in space after the United States. The report – ‘Expanding frontiers – The down to earth guide to investing in space’ – highlights expected global space sector growth of up to 11% per year ...
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OMC has developed LEDs able to couple visible wavelengths into 1mm core polymer optical fibre, or 200 micron or larger glass optical fibre. “This latest product is suitable for laboratory equipment for research purposes, test and measurement instrumentation, and data communications in industrial and medical applications,” it said. They were initially developed as a custom ...
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Gemns G100 is the latest finger-powered energy harvester from WePower Technologies – in this case, a push-button with built-in wireless IoT sensor node. Around 40mm in diameter and 70mm from end to end, it is designed to mount in a standard 22mm panel hole. “G100 is an integrated, self-contained Bluetooth LE RF switch solution,” the ...
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Micro:bit Educational Foundation, BBC Education and web domain name registry Nominet are to offer 30 credit card sized micro:bit educational computers to every primary school in the UK – potentially close to 700,000 devices. The project, called ‘BBC micro:bit – the next gen’, builds on research by the Foundation and Nominet last year which found ...
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OnLogic is aiming at industrial edge applications with a server built around Intel’s Raptor Lake-S 13th generation Core processors. “Businesses are generating data faster and at higher quantities at the edge than ever, but all that information is useless if it can’t be captured, processed and acted upon,” said OnLogic v-p of product management Kim ...
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EnduroSat, a satellite data services company, has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by the investment firm CEECAT Capital, which focuses on high growth markets in Central and Eastern Europe. Existing investors, for example, the German Seed fund Freigeist Capital, also joined the round. EnduroSat is headquartered in Luxembourg but has ...
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Wisbech-based Anglia Components has been named as a top employer in the medium sized company category in the first Sunday Times Best Places to Work Awards. The nationwide workplace awards recognises good working practices for very large organisations to small companies with 10 to 49 employees. The workplace survey looks at the best workplaces with ...
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CUI Devices has introduced small loudspeakers whose fronts are IPx5, IPx7 or IPx8 rated, adding them to its IP67 waterproof speakers. “Ideal for protection against moisture and liquid ingress in harsh environments,” according to the company, “the CMS waterproof speaker models feature sound pressure levels from 85 to 108 dB and packages from 15mm up ...
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Microchip has created a set of dual-channel single-lane USB 3.2 Gen1 SuperSpeed reclocker redriver ICs for automotive and industrial cables up to 15m long. “Adding electronic components to applications across automotive, industrial and consumer industries has spurred the need for far-reaching USB cabling products,” according to the company. EQCO510 is the automotive version, qualified to ...
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Toshiba is aiming at over-temperature detection in mobile devices and home appliances with a family of ICs, intended to work with positive coefficient thermistors. Power consumption is under 12μA with 10μA of that going through the thermistor as sensing current. Lower current (<2μA) versions are planned. Inside is a current source to feed the PTC ...
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Infineon has bought the Stockholm-based startup Imagimob – the provider of ML for edge devices. Imagimob provides an end-to-end ML toolchain with a focus on delivering production-grade ML-models. Imagimob is a leading player in the fast-growing market for Tiny Machine Learning and Automated Machine Learning (AutoML), providing an end-to-end development platform for Machine Learning on ...
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Innophase Semiconductor is targetting battery-powered cloud-connected IoT applications with multiple end-to-end (E2E) sensor to cloud products based on its Talaria TWO Wi-Fi/BLE SoC and modules. They claim to deliver 10+ year battery-operated sensor implementations featuring a lower power consumption Wi-Fi module and optimised cloud connectivity reference software. Multi-protocol Wi-Fi/BLE support from Talaria TWO enables both ...
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ST is offering SESIP Level 3 security certification in 64bit microprocessors aimed at industry-4.0, with industrial interfaces and edge AI acceleration. The first of this STM32MP2 series is the STM32MP25, available with single or dual 1.5GHz 64bit Arm Cortex-A35 cores (up to 6,000 DMIPS), running alongside a 400MHz Cortex-M33 embedded core for real-time processing. External ...
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Viasat, the U.S. communications company, has announced that the UK’s Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) has given the green light for its acquisition of London-based Inmarsat. The conclusion of the CMA’s Phase II review has confirmed its provisional findings that the proposed transaction does not raise competition concerns. This decision, an important milestone towards completion ...
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Verge Motorcycles has chosen to build the motor of its electric vehicle around the rim of a wheel, and not to have a centre at all – instead guiding the wheel through rim bearings. Versions up to 150kW (200hp) are available. The motorbike has actually been around for a while, but the company has just ...
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Programmierbare Logik & Systeme (PLS) is attempting to ease tracing during debug with software that automates trace set-up. ‘SimplyTrace’ is an extension included in its ‘UDE’ (universal debug engine) tool’s 2023 release, and initially works with Infineon’s Aurix family, Arm Cortex MCUs with CoreSight debug and trace, and PowerArchitecture devices with Nexus Class 3 trace ...
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Q2 prices of DRAM and NAND will fall as production cuts have not kept pace with weakening demand, says TrendForce. DRAM prices are projected to fall 13~18%; NAND Flash is expected to fall between 8~13%. The drop in DRAM prices was mostly attributed to high inventory levels of DDR4 and LPDDR5 as PC DRAM, server ...
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The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has selected a joint research team from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as the Phase I winner of its recent Grand Challenge. The competition, to give its full name, is Active Artificial Intelligence, or AI, Planners for Chemistry/Materials Optimization and Discovery ...
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Advantech is aiming at industrial AI with a computer that combines a 12th Gen Intel Core (i9, i7, i5 or i3) CPU with Nvidia’s L4 GPU. Two slim doors provide access for the company’s Flex I/O expansion boards Called MIC-770 V3, “this industrial edge solution is boasts 7,424 Cuda cores and 30.3Tflop/s with 24Gbyte GDDR6 ...
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Mouser Electronics and Texas Instruments have teamed up to explore the challenges of electric urban air transportation (think: ‘big drones’) in a 26 page ebook. “Over the next ten years, the urban air mobility market will mature sufficiently to make short distance, point-to-point travel commonplace and affordable in densely populated areas through driver-less air taxis,” ...
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ClearSpace and Arianespace have signed a launch contract for ClearSpace-1, the first active debris removal mission that will capture and deorbit a derelict space debris object of more than 100 kg. It will use the new European light launcher Vega C to release ClearSpace’s spacecraft into a sun-synchronous drift orbit for commissioning and critical tests. ...
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Two new industrial communications products from Brainboxes will be on the Farnell stand at the National Manufacturing Supply Chain Exhibition in Dublin. SW-514 (pictured) is a DIN rail mountable industrial four port Gbit Ethernet switch. It has galvanically isolated (1.5kVrms) Ethernet ports and automatic detection of 10, 100 or 1,000Mbit/s data transmission speed. Operation is ...
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P-Duke has announced ultra-wide input isolated 40W dc-dc converters for railway and industrial use. RED40-72xxxU converter will work over 14 – 160Vdc (11:1 range) and comes in a 2 x 1in (~25 x 50mm) footprint package. “Using just one dc-dc converter model for various supply voltages – 24, 28, 36, 48, 72, 96 or 110Vdc ...
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Amphenol RF has introduced SMA and TNC to MHF I LK locking cable assemblies on ultra-flexible 1.13 mmmicro-coax cable. These pre-configured assemblies offer vibration resistance for applications that may experience continuous shock and movement. The MHF I LK connector uses a mechanical locking feature which increases the plug retention force ensuring a reliable and stable ...
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Bel Power Solutions has announced a series of power supplies that offer Titanium level efficiency (up to 96%) for server, storage and networking. The TEC series is built to meet Intel’s Common Redundant Power Supplies (CRPS) standard, and the first models are rated to deliver 2.2, 2.4 or 2.6kW. 800W, and 1.3, 1.6 and 2kW versions ...
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Researchers at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in Korea have developed injectable bio-electrodes with pre-settable lifetimes. “In recent times, conductible hydrogels have attracted great attention as bioelectrode materials owing to their flexibility, compatibility, and excellent interaction ability,” according to the Institute. “However, the absence of injectability and degradability in conventional conductive hydrogels limits their ...
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EPC is aiming at eMobility, forklifts and high-power drones with a 150Arms brushless motor driver design using its GaN power transistors. Documents for EPC9186, as it will be known, are not available yet, but the company promises operation from 14V to 80V for “applications such as electric scooters, small electric vehicles and agricultural machinery” in ...
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Nasa has selected five companies to take part in the Space Weather Next Lagrange 1 Series (L1 Series) Coronagraph (COR) Phase A Study, for contracts totalling approximately $6m. The aim is that the L1 series will “extend continuity and resiliency” of real-time solar imagery and solar wind measurements. The contracted companies are: Johns Hopkins Applied ...
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Texas Instruments is aiming at electric vehicle traction inverters with a functional safety-compliant isolated gate driver for silicon carbide mosfets and IGBTs. Called UCC5880-Q1, it is in pre-production and the full data sheet has not yet been made public. One novel feature that has been revealed is that the device has two parallel high-side drivers ...
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Microchip has used silicon carbide power transistors in an electronic fuses demonstrator for electric vehicle batteries. “The demonstrator can detect and interrupt fault currents in microseconds, 100 – 500 times faster than traditional mechanical approaches,” according to the company. “The fast response substantially reduces peak short-circuit currents from tens of kilo-amps to hundreds of amps, ...
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Texas Instruments has releases an RS-485 transceiver that can be pin-programmed to suit networks with different bus voltage, logic voltage, network length and throughput. Called THVD1424, it includes switchable on-chip 120Ω termination resistor, slew rate control, and both half-duplex (two-wire) and duplex (four-wire) modes – allowing a single PCB type to be created that can ...
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Melexis is encouraging innovation and drawing on the rich pool of local technology graduates at its newly-opened Innovation Lab. Positioned in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel, the Melexis Innovation Lab is the latest addition to the Belgian company’s site in Bevaix, near Geneva. The lab was opened in December 2022 and is a centre for ...
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Maxar Technologies has been bought by the U.S. private equity firm Advent International, alongside minority investor British Columbia Investment (BCI). The space technology company, which builds communications and Earth Observation satellites, has now gone private and will no longer be listed on the New York Stock Exchange (and it will also be delisted from the ...
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Ten IC designers working for Graphcore have been recruited by Meta, reports Reuters. “We recently welcomed a number of highly-specialized engineers in Oslo to our infrastructure team at Meta. They bring deep expertise in the design and development of supercomputing systems to support AI and machine learning at scale in Meta’s data centers,” Meta spokesman ...
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IQD is introducing a range of crystals housed in 4-pad SMD ceramic packages 3.2 x 2.5 mm (CFPX-180) and 2.0 x 1.6 mm (IQXC-42) with the extended operating temperature range of -40 to 125 °C. The CFPX-180 is available in a range of frequencies from 12.0 MHz and the IQXC-42 from 16.0 MHz, with various ...
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Premo has released a four-phase toroidal common-mode choke for EMC noise suppression in electric vehicle on-board chargers up to 22kW. 4CMCN065R0-32H measures 59mm in diameter, 41.5mm (plus pins) high and ~200g, and is nominally rated at 32A. All the windings have the same number of turns (8), but the one intended for the neutral of ...
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Infineon Technologies has integrated 600V GaN HD-GIT (hybrid-drain-embedded gate injection transistor) manufacturing into its production line. “The portfolio of discrete and integrated power stage devices provides designers with the necessary flexibility to meet their specific needs for industrial applications complying with JEDEC standards JESD47 and JESD22,” said the company. Available in DSO-20-85, DSO-20-87, HSOF-8-3, LSON-81- ...
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Infineon had calendar Q1 (FY Q2) revenue of €4.1 billion for a profit of €1.1 billion and a marginnof 28.6%. The outlook for the next quarter is sales of €4 billion and a margin of 26%. For the full FY the company expects revenue of $16.2 billion (plus or minus €300 million) for a margin ...
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Satlantis Microsats, a provider of high-res optical payloads for small satellites, has bought a controlling interest in SuperSharp Space Systems, a University of Cambridge spin-off specialising in thermal infrared payloads for Earth Observation satellites. The size of the investment was undisclosed, with the UK Secretary of State having already approved the transaction, back in March. ...
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XL180 a power supply with a 2 x 3in footprint from N2Power, that delivers 180W with convection cooling only – so no fan is required for operation up to 50°C. “They are available in a choice of three different packages to suit diverse requirements: XLO open-frame, XLE enclosed and XLD DIN rail,” according to Luso ...
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Neutrik is aiming at reliable mains connections with a series of locking three-conductor single-phase power connectors, with what the company calls CBC (circuit-breaking capability) for IEC 60320. PowerCon XX, as they are known, cover cables with outer diameters between 6mm and 16mm, and wire gauges of 12 to 16AWG (2.5 to 1.5mm2): NAC3FXXA-W-S (blue) or ...
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Distributor Live Electronics is stocking a range of push-in wiring switches and indicator lamps from Japanese manufacturer IDEC. “By comparison with traditional screw-in connectors, the devices reduce wiring times, making them ideal for new and refurbished control panels and machine builds,” according to Live. “The push-in products ensure reliable connections that withstand shock and vibration, ...
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Claimed to be the smallest ever, a bright sub-wavelength silicon LED has been fabricated for use in a high-resolution lens-less holographic microscope, according to researchers at SMART in Singapore, the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology. This form of microscope does not have conventional optics (see diagrams), but uses maths to reconstruct an image of ...
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The Elektra Awards 2023, which are organised by Electronics Weekly, have officially opened for entries from both companies and individuals in the electronics industry. The date of the awards is Wednesday 29 November, taking place at the Grosvenor House Hotel in central London. Electronics Weekly‘s group editor Clive Couldwell urges people to enter and help ...
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Infineon is aiming at wireless charging at up to 50W with a wireless power transmitter development kit. Called REF_WLC_TX50W_N1, it consists of the reference board, firmware and software utility called the ‘wireless charging configuration utility’. The design is a Qi-compatible transmitter, with an MP-A2 type transmitter coil, that delivers 50W to Infineon’s own receiver (REF_WLC_RX50W_N1) ...
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USB instrument maker Pico Technology has re-written the host software for its head-less vector network analysers to run on PCs, Macs and Linux computers, and Raspberry Pi. Dubbed ‘PicoVNA 5’, and replacing the Windows-only PC-only ‘PicoVNA 3’ software, it “will run at speed on Linux, Windows and macOS, and PCs, Macs, and embedded systems, including ...
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The UK government’s DASA (Defence and Security Accelerator) has demonstrated three telexistence technologies at its BattleLab as a result of the Telexistence: Phase 2 competition. It had made £1.3 million available for “telexistence” innovations as part of a competition for commercial proposals, launched in January 2022. The three projects that had been selected from Phase ...
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Q1 semiconductor sales were fell 8.7% q-o-q and 21.3% y-o-y to $119.5 billion, says the SIA. March sales were 0.3% up on February’s. “Semiconductor sales continued to slip during the first quarter of 2023 due to market cyclicality and macroeconomic headwinds, but month-to-month sales were up in March for the first time in nearly a ...
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ELECROW has released a Raspberry Pi Pico Advanced Kit, designed for people who already have some electronics knowledge and programming skill but want to learn or explore the Raspberry Pi’s capabilities. It includes a Pi Pico (optionally), 32 sensor modules, a smart car kit (including basic frame and wheels) and information about 32 Raspberry Pi ...
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Atomera, the materials and technology licensing company, has licensed ST to install Atomera’s Mears Silicon Technology (MST) into its facilities and authorises ST to manufacture and distribute MST-enabled products to its customers. MST is a quantum-engineered material that enhances transistors to deliver significantly better performance in semiconductor devices, while shrinking die sizes and reducing cost ...
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OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, is reported to have raised $300 million at a valuation of $27-29 billion. VCs said to gave invested include: Tiger Global, Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and K2 Global which has only ine partner – Ozi Amanat. MS already has a €10 billion investment in the company. ...
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