Later this month, Toshiba will start shipping a 2200V rated SiC MOSFET with embedded Schottky barrier diode (SBD) for use in 1500V DC applications such as photovoltaic (PV) inverters, electric ...
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Rohm has co-packaged a gate driver and a 650V GaN power transistor to ease the design of power supplies in servers and ac adaptors. “While GaN hemts are expected to ...
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Toshiba has picked a four-pin package for its latest third-generation silicon carbide mosfets. “Devices in the TWxxxZxxxC series are the first Toshiba SiC products to be housed in a TO-247-4L(X) ...
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A cubic perovskite α-formamidinium lead iodide known as ‘α-FAPbI3‘ would be a promising solar cell material if it did not gradually turn into useless δ-FAPbI3 at room temperature under the ...
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Photon Ventures has launched a VC fund aimed at early-stage photonic chip startups and scale ups. €60 million was raised in its first financing round with PhotonDelta as the lead ...
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The UK Space Agency is funding ten space-based projects to help mitigate environmental risks, such as water pollution and carbon emissions. The projects will use Earth observation tools and satellite ...
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EPC Space has introduced radiation-hardened gallium nitride devices for space-borne power converters and other rugged environments. There are two devices, one rated at 200V and the other at 300V: EPC7020G ...
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Cree LED has added higher efficiency high colour rendering index versions to its XHP35.2 leds, and introduced leds optimised to dim evenly when used in parallel The company has used ...
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Imec has been looking at the application of chiplets to cars. To say that cars are turning into ‘computers on wheels’ is already a bit of a cliché, it’s also ...
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Next year, Auto-talks, the V2X specialist, and Hyundai Mobis intend market their latest joint effort: Hyundai Mobis’ MTCU (Multi-functional Telematics Control Unit) connectivity modules. MTCU Gen1 supports Day-1 V2X services ...
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Distrelec, a trading brand of RS, is adding thev industrial network connectivity specialist Teltonika Networks to its portfolio. Teltonika Networks is known for its network connectivity equipment for global markets. ...
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Google has updated Flutter – its mobile UI toolkit for creating embedded graphic components from a single codebase via native Arm code – to version 3.13. The latest release sees ...
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E-peas has created a power IC that can mediate between two energy harvesters, a 5V charger, a power store and a load. AEM13920 can work from any combination of two ...
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Vehicle manufacturers have long dreamt of reducing weight by replacing heavy wiring looms with radio frequency technology. However, achieving this wireless nirvana is not as simple as it first appears, ...
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Macom has bought Wolfspeed’s RF business for $75 million in cash, and $50 million in Macom stock. Wolfspeed will keep its SiC substrate and GaN epitaxial services businesses, and sell ...
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Private equity firm Veritas Capital has made an offer to buy BlackBerry, reports Reuters. Other prospective buyers are in talks with the company which has been conducting a strategic review. ...
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Huawei and Ericsson have renewed their patent cross-licensing agreement which was last renewed in 2016.. It allows each company to access each other’s standard essential patents set by 3GPP, ...
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Astrobotic, the lunar logistics specialist, has begun work on what it describes as a high-fidelity 3D test field mimicking the topography and optical properties of the lunar surface. Basically, it ...
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Infineon recently released 650V H variants of its gen 7 IGBTs, without a lot of detail on how they differ from the rest of gen 7, so Electronics Weekly got ...
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Bel Fuse is aiming at railways and transportation with a series of dual-output dc-dc converters. RCM300 converters can deliver ±24V at 300W, with the two outputs independently regulated to deal ...
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Infineon has expanded its 7th generation TRENCHSTOP IGBT family with the discrete 650 V IGBT7 H7 variant. The devices feature a cutting-edge EC7 co-packed diode with an advanced emitter-controlled design, ...
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Cherry has announced quieter operation amongst other up-grades to its long-running MX series of keyboard switches, with the introduction of MX2A types. At the same time, it revealed a keyboard, Xtrfy ...
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Users can add un-supported MCUs to Segger’s range of in-circuit programmers following the introduction of its ‘flasher device support kit’. “Customers have the flexibility to add new devices when required, ...
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Taiwan-based server ODMs, including Quanta, Foxconn, Wistron (including Wiwynn), and Inventec, have set up production bases in countries like Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia to mitigate geopolitical risks and supply chain ...
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Google is extending its MediaPipe on-device machine learning system to support the Raspberry Pi, enabling – for example – audio classification, face landmark detection, and natural language processing tasks. Back ...
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Harwin has added four height options to its multi-directional spring contact range, which now spans from 4 to 10mm. “Although there are already many spring contacts that are suitable for ...
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Rohm has developed Hall-based magnetic detectors for vehicle use. BD5310xG-CZ types are momentary (dubbed ‘unipolar’): turning on above a fixed south pole magnetic flux density and turning off below the ...
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Danish company Vind-Vind is developing a turbulence model for the effect of wind on structures in complex environments. It will eventually include the atmosphere high above the volume of interest ...
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Diodes has announced a single-channel version of its automotive-qualified AS2333Q dual precision micro-power op-amp. AS333Q has an 8μV input offset (22μV max 25°C), consumes 17μA, and has “near zero-drift over ...
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Ten top semiconductor companies are reducing capex this fiscal year because of concerns over a supply glut and access to the China market, says Omdia. They are: Intel, GlobalFoundries, Micron, ...
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Kyocera is to consolidate product engineering and development in a new centre at its Shiga Yasu Campus. The aim of new centre is to, strengthen manufacturing capabilities through stronger collaboration ...
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The U.S. Space Development Agency (SDA) has awarded contracts totalling $1.5 billion to build and operate its Tranche 2 Transport Layer (T2TL) constellation, consisting of 72 satellites. The space craft ...
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Desco Europe distributor Inelco Hunter has announced the availability of a “No strings attached” Free ESD Static Control Survey and Report. The Report provides feedback on existing ESD Control programmes. ...
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Texas Instruments has picked the Hall effect for its latest isolated current sensor, and claims 50ppm/°C drift over temperature and ±0.5% drift over lifetime. Aimed at electric vehicle chargers and ...
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A single company is to build 1.1GWpeak of solar capacity in Germany over the next three years. Securesun, has over 50 solar part projects scheduled to be competed before the ...
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Gaggione has introduced a number of PMMA (acrylic) led collimators optimised for wide even beams over 50°, for both CoB (chip-on-board) and small-area leds. Aimed at small-area leds, LLC59V (right) ...
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Aiming at robots in complex environments, Orbbec has created a rugged industrial RGB + depth camera that streams processed images in real-time. Built inside an IP65 enclosure, ‘Femto Mega I’ ...
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In an effort to create and standardise an open api (application programming interface), multi-domain simulation framework across different industries, Accellera Systems Initiative, has announced a Federated Simulation Standard proposed working ...
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The customer spend on quantum computing will grow from $1.1 billion in 2022 to $7.6 billion in 2027, representing a 48.1% CAGR, says IDC. The new forecast is considerably lower ...
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Moxa has introduced families of Ethernet switches for industrial environments. Spread across EDS-2000 and EDS-4000, they are being stocked in the UK by Impulse Embedded. “The core difference between ranges ...
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Aaeon has put an Intel Atom x7000E processor into a 115 x 165mm industrial single-board computer capable of running three displays. EPIC-ADN9-A10-0002 has an Atom x7425E paired with a single ...
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Direct Insight, the Oxfordshire technical systems integrator and reseller of system-on-module (SoM) and other embedded systems, has launched the QS93, a miniature QFN-style system-on-module (SoM) that provides a low-power, cost-optimised ...
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Texas Instruments is previewing a 50V quad-channel single-pole analogue switch with a wide voltage range, low on-resistance and consistent on-resistance with signal amplitude. Called TMUX7612 and made on a CMOS ...
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Led by the University of Cambridge, an international team of researchers has created materials in which the spin of un-paired electrons can react with photons at room temperature. “These unpaired ...
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DigiKey is releasing the third series of its Digital City videos, sponsored by Analog Devices, exploring the “future of mobility”. Specifically, it anticipates the future of automotive technology. The first ...
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Researchers at Tokyo Tech have made a lateral ferroelectric memory transistor using a 2D material. They picked α-In2Se3, which is “renowned for high carrier mobility, tunable bandgap and strong ferroelectric ...
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Nexperia has introduced its first 5V load switch IC, which operates across 2.5 – 5.5V with 110mA to 2.5A current limiting. The 2 x 2mm NPS4053, as it will be ...
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Phasecraft, the four year-old UCL and Bristol University startup which creates algorithms for quantum computers, has completed a £13 million Series A. Investors were: Playground Global. AlbionVC, Episode1, Parkwalk Advisors, ...
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Blueshift Memory, the designer of an accelerator chip for computer vision AI-enhanced image recognition, won the Most Innovative Memory Technology award in the Memory Accelerator Architecture category at last week’s ...
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Kyocera AVX has announced a range of high-capacity supercapcitor banks with low leakage. “SCM Series supercapacitor modules are rated for operating temperatures from -40°C to +65°C and lifetimes that extend ...
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China has stymied the Intel-Tower deal by refusing regulatory approval and Intel will now pay a termination fee of $353 million to Tower. “Our foundry efforts are critical to unlocking ...
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Test Research of Taiwan has revealed its latest automatic solder paste inspection machine using 3D vision, that can also inspect bumps, flux, mini LEDs and bare boards. Called TR7007Q SII ...
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Tilbury based electric delivery lorry maker Tevva plans to merge with Arizona contract EV manufacturer ElectraMeccanica. “Tevva recently commenced deliveries of its 7.5 tonne battery-electric truck to commercial fleet customers ...
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Frore Systems is developing a thin flat device cooler that pumps an airflow without using a fan. Called AirJet, it comes in two versions: Mini 27.5 x 41.5 x 2.8mm ...
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Electromechanical components including pushbutton switches, rocker switches, and illuminated tact switch buttons for power circuits and interfaces by Marquardt are available from TME. The components are for use in general ...
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Adlink has announced a size C COM-HPC client module for Intel’s 13th Gen Core desktop processors. Called COM-HPC-cRLS, MPU options extend to the i9 with 16 performance-cores plus eight efficient-cores ...
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The global semiconductor market grew 4.2% in 2Q 2023 versus 1Q 2023, according to WSTS. The 2Q 2023 growth was the first positive quarter-to-quarter change since 4Q 2021, a year ...
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The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has opened its Extreme Computing centre, as a component of national defence research – with a focus on quantum computing. Described as a ...
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The University of Chicago has built optical waveguides only three atoms thick using molybdenum disulphide, and found them to be an efficient way to transfer light over ship-scale distances. “We ...
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Northampton-based XCAM has been awarded grant funding from the UK Space Agency (UKSA), via its International Bilateral Fund (IBF) – Phase 1, to develop next generation X-ray instrumentation for the ...
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German factory automation company Sick has introduced 3d inspection cameras that can measure down to 800nm. Called Ruler3002, 3004, 3010, the cameras work with fields of view down to 26.6mm. ...
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The UK Space Agency has announced a ‘Space for Everyone’ roadshow which will be going across the UK this summer and into September. UPDATED 11-Aug: The agency has now extended ...
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IBM has revealed an analogue in-memory IC for implementing neural networks. The device stores weights locally as analogue levels as conductance in phase-change memory, and implements analogue multiply-accumulate calculation. For ...
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Leaf Space has raised capital for a total of €20 million ($22 million) on top of a loan by the European Investment Bank (EIB) for a further €15 million through Venture Debt. The company, which specialises in ground segment services for satellite operators, said the funding would help it expand its global network of ground ...
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Ditronix has released the an IoT power monitor board for mains and solar energy, and a software development kit to go with it. Called ‘IPEC’, it provides three phase (3P3W, Y or Δ), split-phase, or three-channel single phase monitoring, and has an expansion ports that can be configured for DAC, PWM, MPPT (peak power tracking) ...
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Eaton has introduced a pair of 500F sealed supercapacitor banks, replacing its earlier XLR-16R2507-R, according to component distributor Rutronik, which is stocking the new parts. They are: The 16.2V XLR16R2507B-R, which can store up to 18.2Wh and deliver up to 38.6kW or 2.19kA peak (9.6kA shorted, 121A continuous). Maximum ESR is 1.7mΩ and 5.2mA leakage ...
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Infineon is aiming its latest mosfets at automotive ECUs (electronic control units) with 24 to 72V power rails. “In addition to passenger cars, two and three-wheelers as well as light vehicles are increasingly being electrified,” said the company. “To address this, Infineon is complementing its OptiMOS 5 portfolio of automotive mosfets in the 60 V ...
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Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) is to set a higher standard for the electrical output of motorway charging points by 2030, reports the Nikkei. The new standard will be 90W – more than double the average output of EV chargers currently used at highway service areas. For high traffic areas and other ...
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Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) has secured a €30m investment from KKR. It will help enable its upcoming integrated first stage test and complete its launch pad at SaxaVord Spaceport in Scotland, said the Bavarian company. The first flight for the RFA ONE rocket is scheduled for 2024 Q2. Having successfully completed its upper stage hot ...
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Chomerics is aiming its latest thermal interface gel at thin heatsink bonds. GEL 50TBL (TBL – thin bond line) offers 5W/m.K bulk thermal conductivity and, “at a minimum bond line thickness of 0.05mm, the apparent thermal conductivity exceeds 10W/m.K”, according to the company. However, “the material is primarily for thin bond lines and is not ...
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Asus is aiming at industrial IoT with 64bit quad-core Arm single-board computer. Called Tinker Board 3N, it is built around a Rockchip RK3568 processor (4x Cortex-A55 , v8 architecture) and Asus describes it as ‘NUC-sized’ and 4 x 4inch and 100 x 100mm – exact dimensions have eluded Electronics Weekly so far. Linux Debian, Yocto ...
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Bourns has introduced a series of gas discharge tubes for protecting equipment against high-voltage surges. The bidirectional GDT28H series has devices with breakdown voltages from 1 to 3.3kVdc, and all are 8mm in diameter and 6mm long, with out without axial leads. Picking the nominally 2kV GDT28H-200 as an example, breakdown is between 1,600 and ...
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Toray Industries says it has developed a film that can efficiently absorb millimetre wave band electromagnetic waves employed in 5G communications and elsewhere. The film delivers an absorption capacity of at least 20 decibels (99%) for millimetre waves and makes it possible to select absorption frequency. It is one-fifth the thickness and one-tenth the weight ...
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Around 100 DRAM, NAND flash memories and selected DRAM modules from Intelligent Memory are now available from Mouser Electronics, following the signing of a global distribution agreement. Founded in 1991, Intelligent Memory changed its name from Pacific Force Technology in 2003 and manufactures DRAM components as well as DRAM modules (SDRAM to DDR4) and also ...
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PIP49R-MLRK1 is a rugged military-grade server from Swiss manufacturer MPL, built in half-size 19in rack rack form. Within is a conductive cooled Xeon E-2276ME 9th generation CPU, and the fanless unit can be operated in environments from -40°C to +60°C given a suitable thermally conductive environment. Screening for +85°C operation is possible. Up to 64Gbyte ...
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CEVA has added two IP cores to fill-out its NeuPro-M family of neural processing units, and boosted its architecture with for generative AI algorithms. “NeuPro-M NPU architecture and tools have been redesigned to support transformer networks in addition to convolutional neural networks,” according to the company. “This enables applications leveraging the capabilities of generative and ...
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Austrian ac-dc power supply and dc-dc converter manufacturer, Recom, has been added to Waldom Electronics’ line card. Recom is also part of Waldom’s Excess Inventory Management Solutions, whereby manufacturers send excess inventory to the wholesale distributor which it sells to its network of distributors to make a range of products available at reduced minimum order ...
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Korean 5G ORAN equipment maker Contela has picked Picocom of Bristol UK to supply NR/LTE baseband silicon. PC802 ICs will be used with Picocom’s related PHY software in Contela’s Open RAN ‘distributed units’ (O-DUs) and ‘radio units’ (O-RUs). “Contela is confident in its ability to deliver Open RAN wireless products to its customers and help ...
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Britishvolt buyer Recharge Industries of Australia has failed to make the final payment on its proposal to buy the failed company out of administration and has consequently defaulted on the deal, say administrators EY. “The sale to the buyer had not completed as the final amount of deferred consideration was due to be paid ...
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Lexium is a cobot from Schneider Electric, intended to work alongside humans without a cage or other exclusion. Cobots – collaborative robots – need to be inherently safe around people, and as such need to be lightweight, move at moderate speed, not be too strong and have no sharp edges. “Traditional industrial robotic systems must ...
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Infineon Technologies is aiming at automotive motors with driver ICs that combines gate drivers, a 60MHz Arm Cortex-M3 microcontroller, a 2Mbit/s CAN (FD) interface, a UART with LIN support, and motor current and voltage sensing. TLE988x are two-phase (H-bridge) devices TLE989x are three-phase devices “The ICs are AEC Q-100 qualified, making them ideal for automotive ...
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Yamaichi Electronics has added optional CPA (connector position assurance) to its automotive Y-Lock Pullforce board-to-cable connectors for battery management and cell contacting. Found in Y-Lock Version 4, the CPA is located on the stiffener side and latches with the connector when actuated. “The FFC-FPC can only be released after the CPA has been unlocked,” according ...
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Hua Hong, the Shanghai foundry, raised its target amount of $2.96 billion on the Shanghai exchange this morning. The company sold 24% of its issued share capital half of which went to 30 strategic investors. The company had its IPO in Hong Kong in 2014 when it raised $332 million. The foundry is seen as ...
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The Y-Lock Pullforce connector system from Yamaichi Electronics is especially suited for battery management or cell contacting systems in the automotive industry and will now be extended by version V4 with Connector Position Assurance and integrated contact protection for the FFC/FPC. The Pullforce System (Non-ZIF) of the Y-Lock features the intelligent One-Push locking mechanism, which ...
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Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and the Tokyo University of Science have created a solid-state electric double layer neuromorphic transistor, claiming it to be the fastest yet, and proving its computational ability by training it to convert waveforms. “The team measured the speed at which the transistor operates by applying pulsed voltage to ...
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The University of Sheffield is leading a government-funded project to address the semiconductor skills shortage in the UK with Devon-based Bay Photonics and Phlux Technology of Sheffield by improving knowledge of semiconductors in the the general public, and particularly pre-higher education students. “The project is called ASISST – addressing shortages in semiconductor skills training – ...
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Apex Dynamics has expanded into hypoid gearboxes with its BKM Series of high precision hypoid gearboxes which offer high torque, superior accuracy, excellent radial load capacity and low backlash in a design compatible with any motor. Hypoid gearboxes are a type of spiral bevel gearbox. In contrast to traditional bevel gearboxes, they have non-intersecting axes, ...
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Amphenol RF has introduced embedded antennas supporting 8.5 GHz and cellular 4G/5G-FR1 frequencies along with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth/BLE and LoRa, UWB and GNSS. Embedded RF antennas are suitable for IoT and smart devices due to their compact size and durable construction. By surface mounting the chip antenna directly on the PCB, with SMT solution, the need for ...
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Navitas is claiming it can deliver 3,200W from a 40 x 73.5 x 185mm (544cm3) data centre power supply, which is 5.9W/cm3 and almost 100W/in3. Called CRPS185, it has a 1U CRPS (common redundant power supply) form-factor. Inside, the architecture starts with an interleaved CCM (continuous conduction mode) PFC (power factor corrector) and continues into ...
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AI chip maker Hailo has introduced a 208Top/s PCIe processor card for implementing neural networks, and an entry-level version of its Halio-8 IC. The PCIe cards, called ‘Hailo-8 Century’, execute at 400frame/s/W on the ResNet50 benchmark model, said the company, and the highest-performance version can run the same benchmark at 10,000frame/s. Versions start at 52Top/s, ...
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The latest report from DMASS Europe delivers confirmation that the inevitable slowdown after a overheated market has arrived for the IPE (interconnect, passive and electromechanical) component sector, although semiconductors are still thriving. In Q2, the IPE sector dropped 7% to €1.56bn although the broader European components distribution market grew by 10% while the semiconductor sector ...
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Infineon is to invest €5 billion to expand its 200mm SiC fab in Kulim, Malaysia.The planned expansion is backed by customer commitments covering about €5 billion of new design-wins in automotive and industrial applications as well as about €1 billion in pre-payments. The investment will lead to an annual SiC revenue potential of about €7 billion by ...
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Micsig Technology is aiming at mains and high-voltage GaN power supply development with a series of optical fibre isolated oscilloscope probes, with bandwidths up to 1GHz and risetimes down to ≤350ps. This kind of probe has no electrically-conductive path between probe tip and scope. Instead, the scope end of the probe and the probe’s head ...
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Today, technology minister Paul Scully will chair the first meeting of the government’s Semiconductor Advisory Panel which has been formed to boost the UK semiconductor sector, harness domestic semiconductor strengths, ensure a secure supply of chips, and protect national security. Co-chairs are Scully and Jalal Bagherli, former Dialog CEO. Members are: · Amelia Armour – ...
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Infineon had FY Q3 (calendar Q2) revenues of €4.089 billion, for a profit of €1.067 billion, at a margin of 26%. For FY Q4 (calendar Q3) it expects revenue of around €4 billion with a margin Segment of around 25%. For FY 2023, it expects revenue of around €16.2 billion with an margin of about ...
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Sales of PON equipment for FTTH deployments, cable broadband access equipment, and fixed wireless CPE will show a 0.2% CAGR 2022-2027,says Dell’Oro. “After three consecutive years of tremendous broadband network expansions and upgrades, 2023 is expected to show a return to normalized levels of spending,” says Dell’Oro vp Jeff Heynen, “after 2023, spending is expected ...
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Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have added its NPL-Sr1 optical frequency standard (pictured) to the mix for determining International Atomic Time (TAI). “Reaching this milestone represents a significant achievement for the team and stems from a huge effort from many people over many years,” said NPL head of time Professor Helen Margolis. “I ...
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Mouser has set up a resource centre focused on AI containing articles on topics, such as Deploying Edge-Based AI Using KriaSoMs, An Edge Impulse Use-Case for Healthcare and Cancer Detection, and An Edge Impulse Use-Case for Healthcare and Cancer Detection. The content stream grants access to free educational content, such as eBooks, blogs and articles, ...
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The Space Foundation has released its 2023 Q2 report showing the annual growth of the global space economy reaching $546 billion. The U.S.-based nonprofit organisation said this represented an 8% growth for the space industry. Within this, commercial growth – accounting for 78% of the total space economy – was recorded at nearly 8%, reaching ...
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Chiba University has found a way to cut blocks of diamond into thin wafers along a difficult but desirable crystal plane using lasers. The ‘100’ plain leaves a surface that is relatively easy to planarise and etch for semiconductor use, according to the Chiba researchers, but diamond wants to crack along its 111 plane, so ...
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Advantech’s industrial-grade isolated RS-232 to RS-422 or RS-485 converter is now available from the company’s e-store. With no change to associated computer hardware or software, the device, called ADAM-4520A, transparently converts RS-232 signals to RS-422 or RS-485. It “allows users to take advantage of RS-422 and RS-485 on systems originally equipped with RS-232”, said Advantach. ...
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