The Fan-Out packaging market will grow at 19,4% CAGR 2019-24 to reach $3.8 billion in 2024, forecats Yole Developpment. In 2015, the Fan-Out market was small and consisted mostly of standard devices like BB , RF , and PMU . But after TSMC’s 2016 game-changer with inFO for Apple’s iPhone APE, market value increased 3.5x ...
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Semtech is sponsoring Digital Catapult’s Future Networks Innovation Lab, which opened in London, earlier this week. The Future Networks Innovation Lab drives potential value from networks, such as LPWANs. The opening included a demonstration by Semtech of its LoRa devices and wireless radio frequency technology in a smart building solution. The demo shows how LoRa ...
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Rockwell Automation has acquired Emulate3D whose products digitally simulate and emulate industrial automation systems. By using simulation models to improve systems planning and decision-making, followed by emulation trials that test the control system before installation, Emulate3D’s software enables customers to virtually test machine and system designs before incurring manufacturing and automation costs and committing to ...
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Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, the iconic 47 year-old Silicon Valley VC company, has raised $600 million for its 18th venture fund. “We’re returning to Kleiner’s roots,” says KP, “we believe that venture is a non-scalable, boutique craft. It requires incredibly dedicated practitioners with diverse and complementary backgrounds that span technology, operating, and investing. Above ...
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Amphenol RF has introduced the small form factor AMC4 connector series. This micro-miniature product series features the push-on coupling design and is suitable for IoT applications which require space efficient, economical designs. The AMC4 PCB jack connector offers electrical performance from DC to 6 GHz and operates at 50 ohms. This precision stamped and formed ...
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Broadcom has joined the SIA. Broadcom’s Chief Legal Officer Mark Brazeal is expected to be elected to the SIA board of directors at the association’s next board meeting on April 4. “We are thrilled to welcome Broadcom, a leading player and valued voice in our industry, into the SIA tent,” says SIA CEO John Neuffer, “the ...
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An artificial intelligence that is rewarded for exploring unknown situations has played the Atari game Montezuma’s Revenge – learning from mistakes and identifying sub-goals 10 times faster than Google DeepMind, according to RMIT University in Australia, where the algorithm was developed. “A 2015 study showed Google DeepMind AI learnt to play Atari video games like Video ...
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STMicroelectronics has announced a peak current control synchronous buck dc-dc converter that can idle at 500nA, but still deliver 400mA at 92% efficiency and 1mA at 95%. Called ST1PS01, it is aimed at keep-alive point-of-load supplies and IoT devices such as asset trackers, wearables, smart sensors, and smart meters – as well as energy harvesting. Packaging ...
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At this year’s Hannover Messe (1 – 5 April 2019), Schunk will be echoing the theme of human collaboration with robotics with a gripper that, with a gripping force of 600N, is claimed to exceed any other currently available. The company believes that mechantronic grippers that can handle heavier weights will be used in the ...
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Intel has confirmed its interim CEO, Bob Swan (pictured), as its permanent CEO. Swan had served as Intel’s CFO since 2016 and as interim CEO since last June when Brian Krzanich left after being accused of an inappropriate relationship with an employee. “When the board approached me about taking the CEO role, I jumped at the ...
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Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation (VIS) of Taiwan, in which TSMC has a major shareholding, is to buy GloFo’s Fab 3E in Singapore for $236 million. The transaction includes buildings, facilities, and equipment, as well as IP associated with GLoFo’s MEMS business. GloFo will continue to operate the facility through the end of 2019, providing a transition ...
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Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with Pimoroni, designers and manufacturers of tech accessories for Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and micro:bit boards. Pimoroni offers a selection of Raspberry Pi accessories, ranging from the company’s first product, the Pibow case, to a variety of HATs and pHATs that add almost unlimited functionality to the Raspberry Pi ...
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Renesas has expanded its RX24T and RX24U 32-bit microcontroller groups to include high-temperature types for motor-control – ‘G’ versions of both will operate from −40°C to +105°C. “Through the IoT, home appliances and industrial machinery are attaining greater functionality based on network connectivity and user interface enhancements and effective use of the limited interior space as ...
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Infineon Has added to its 1200V CoolSiC MOSFET family with the CoolSiC Easy 2B power modules which enable engineers to reduce system costs by increasing power density. In addition, they can also lower operational costs significantly. Owing to about 80 % lower switching losses compared to silicon IGBTs, inverter efficiency levels exceeding 99 % can be ...
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Osram has released a green laser for phone-based projectors, capable of delivering 140mW pulses. Although a projector also needs red and blue lasers, green is the colour that poses the greatest challenges in semiconductor laser and LED production. “Up to now, RGB laser projections for smartphones, based on a red, green and blue laser, often ...
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Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments in 2018 increased 8% to a record high, while revenues jumped 31% on year exceeding the US$10 billion mark for the first time since 2018, according to SEMI. Silicon wafer area shipments in 2018 totaled 12.73 billion square inches, up from the previous market high of 11.81 billion square inches ...
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WorldStack raised half a million dollars in seed round investment from angel investors. “This round of funding will be used to evolve WorldStack’s intelligence platform, Providence, and expand the team to bolster the software development, intelligence operations, product support and sales areas of the business,” says COO and co-founder, Eric Flis. WorldStack is an Australian ...
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Foxconn’s plan to build an LCD factory in Wisconsin may be canned, reports Reuter’s. The announcement of the Wisconsin plant was made from the White House in the early months of the Trump Presidency. It supported the new president’s campaign promises that he would repatriate jobs to the USA, and Wisconsin was said to be ...
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In the bidding process for the Israeli datacentre connectivity company Mellanox, Intel is said to have offered $5.5-5.6 billion. Xilinx is also reported to be engaged in the process which is being run by an investment bank. Mellanox’s customers are datacentre owners and the companies which build datacentres. Xilinx is making a bid for datacentre ...
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Today, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is to announce a programme budgeted at up to £30 million to look at how technology could be used to tackle global challenges. The projects include: A partnership between leading conservation charities. Tech Hub and technology experts to reduce the level of illegal trade of wildlife ...
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Researchers at Fraunhofer Umsicht (Fraunhofer institute for environmental, safety and energy technology) have developed a ‘bipolar plate’ (explained below) for bipolar construction batteries (ditto) that is flexible and can be made on a roll-to-roll process. “We manufacture bipolar plates from polymers that have been made electrically conductive,” said Fraunhofer researcher Dr Anna Grevé. “In this way, we ...
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X-FAB, the analogue/mixed-signal and specialty foundry, has begun full volume production of its high temperature galvanic isolation semiconductor process. The technology is fully automotive qualified. Galvanic isolation electrically separates circuits in order to improve noise immunity, remove ground loops, and increase common mode voltage. It can also protect human interfaces from contact with high voltages. An example ...
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Samsung has begun mass producing the industry’s first 1TB embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) 2.1, for use in mobile applications. Phones will have storage capacity comparable to a premium notebook PC, without having to pair their phones with additional memory cards. “The 1TB eUFS is expected to play a critical role in bringing a more ...
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AMD has announced the 7th amendment to its wafer supply agreement with GLOBALFOUNDRIES see this link. ‘AMD remains an important strategic partner as we reshape our portfolio to intensify investment in the technologies that provide the most value to customers,’ says GloFo, ‘we are proud to be a critical supplier of AMD’s current-generation 14nm and 12nm ...
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In Q1, 307 million smartphones will be made down from Q4’s 383 million units, says TrendForce. The top six brands by production volume for Q1 will be Samsung, Huawei, Apple, Xiaomi, OPPO, and Vivo. Samsung will ship 70 million units in Q1, says TrendForce. Huawei, the No.2 player, is expected to ship 46 million units. Apple, ...
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Osram Opto Semiconductors is introducing its second-generation blue multi-mode laser diode, which double the range of previous LED solutions up to 600 metres. It also simplifies system design when used in the auxiliary high beam lights of vehicles. Used as a light source for auxiliary high beams, Osram’s PLPT9 450D_E A01 laser makes driving at ...
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ACEINNA today announced its new INS1000 state-of-the-art, high performance dual band RTK INS (Real-Time Kinematic Inertial Navigation System) with built-in inertial sensors for construction, agriculture and automotive applications. The INS1000 embeds ACEINNA’s 9 degree-of-freedom inertial sensor technology to achieve Automotive Dead Reckoning performance in GNSS challenged environments like urban canyons, heavily tree lined roads, tunnels, ...
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With the SPAD2L192, LASER COMPONENTS offers a solid-state CMOS sensor for Flash LiDAR applications. The single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) array has a resolution of 192 x 2 pixels. The in-pixel time-to-digital converter, which features a temporal resolution of 312.5 ps and a scale value of 1.28 μs, enables a nominal range of up to ...
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Korean scientists have found a way to make large near-perfect areas 2d single crystal hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), by using liquid gold as a substrate. This, in turn, could form a substrate for growing other 2d materials – possibly graphene or tungsten disulphide. Synthesising perfect crystalline structures is very challenging, with most methods yielding polycrystals ...
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CUI has announced waterproof USB connectors rated at IP67. Offering protection from moisture and environmental contaminants, USB Micro B and Type C receptacles are available, conforming to either the USB 2.0 or USB 3.1 Gen 2, depending on model. Surface mount and mid-mount SMT types are available in vertical or horizontal orientations, with several models including ...
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ST Microelectronics has introduced a development kit that allows potential users to evaluate all three or its 8pin STM8 microcontroller variants, and the no-frills board is nominally priced at $8.50. The board, called STM8-SO8-DISCO, includes STM8S001J3M3 (1kbyte ram, 128byte data eeprom) 16bit timers with three comparator outputs, three capture-compare channels, a 10bit ADC, and an 8bit ...
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For filtering three-phase and neutral on circuit boards, Schurter is offering the DKIH-4 series of four-line common mode chokes using nano-crystalline ring cores, with ratings from 10A to 40A. “The power section is increasingly being mounted on the printed circuit board with discrete components,” according to the firm. “However, due to the high integration density ...
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To make robot cars and autonomous driving a reality, we will need flexible development models
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Murata’s IR series of dc-dc converters are designed specifically for use in industrial and railway applications. Models include: IRQ100 series 100W single regulated output industry-standard quarter brick IRH150 series 150W single output IRS50 series 50W sixteenth brick IRQ and IRH products deliver regulated outputs of 5, 12, or 24Vdc, from a 3:1 input range ...
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Maxim is claiming simple route to protecting sensitive data in IoT end-nodes with a pair of security supervisor chips. Called MAX36010 and MAX36011, “these make it easier for designers to implement robust tamper detection, cryptography and secure storage while safeguarding sensitive information via logical and physical protections, without having to be security experts themselves – that ...
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Osram has released the second generation of blue multi-mode laser diodes for car headlights, doubling range in auxiliary high beams compared to with its previous lasers, to 600m, it claims. What lasers offer over LEDs as a light source is higher light output per unit area (luminance) – which then allows a slimmer smaller optical ...
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Renesas has introduced two plastic packaged, radiation-tolerant digital isolators that provide the highest isolation protection (2,500VRMS) from high voltage spikes in power supply stages and serial communications interfaces used in low Earth orbit (LEO) Small Satellites (SmallSats). Private “New Space” companies plan to launch thousands of SmallSats forming large constellations that operate in multiple LEO ...
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The latest tests conducted by RootMetrics by IHS Markit, which tests mobile network performance, confirm EE as the UK’s leading mobile operator at the UK-wide level, with the BT-owned company winning all six mobile performance categories tested. EE has now performed best in 11 consecutive rounds of testing, dating back to when RootMetrics first began ...
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This is the fifth in a series of essays from Imec on the future of electronics technology. This one is called: ‘On Martians and telepresence’. It is by Xavier Rottenberg who is scientific director and group leader for wave-based sensors and actuators at Imec. The end of the 20th century was the era when the ...
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Premier Farnell is shipping the new Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+ for same day despatch. Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3+ delivers the enhanced thermal performance and ease of use of Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ in a smaller form factor, with a choice of memory variants suitable for a broad range of embedded applications including ...
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Two criminal lawsuits initiated by US government prosecutors have been brought against Huawei in the USA The lawsuits allege that Huawei violated US sanctions on trade with Iran and with stealing trade secrets from one of its customers – T-Mobile. The lawsuits were brought just a couple of days before trade talks between the USA ...
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Intel is talking to the Israeli government about possible plans to build a $11 billion 10nm fab in Kiryat Gat, reports Globes – the Israeli financial news daily. Intel is said to be asking the Israeli government to cover 10% of the cost. If it goes through, the investment would be in addition to the $5 ...
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Vishay has announced an Rds(on) x Qg figure-of-merit of 3.1 Ω*nC for its latest fourth generation 600V E Series power n-channel mosfet, claiming that “this results in the industry’s lowest gate charge times on-resistance for devices in the same class”, said the firm, where ‘class’ is 600V mosfets used in power conversion applications. Called SiHH068N60E, its on-resistance is 27% ...
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Rohm has created a reference design for an automotive-grade wireless phone charger with NFC communication, using the Qi standard and supporting EPP (extend power profile) – supplying up to 15W. It combines Rohm’s automotive-grade wireless power transmission control IC (AEC-Q100 qualified BD57121MUF-M) with two STMicroelectronics’ chips, and NFC reader (ST25R3914) and an 8bit microcontroller (STM8A). ...
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This is the fourth in a series of essays from Imec on the future of electronics technology. This one is called: The Disintegrating Smartphone It is by Jan Rabaey of UC Berkeley – an Imec alumnus. Even until way into the nineties, a lot of people were convinced mobile telephony was nonsense. Goes to show ...
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ST is looking for a better H2 than H1. “After Q1 2019, we plan to return to sequential revenue growth in the second quarter, with an acceleration in the second half of the year,” says ST CEO Jean-Marc Chery. The drivers are expected to be SiC, auto MCUs, ADAS and imaging. To support expansion, ST ...
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Intel says it will have caught up with PC CPU demand ‘as we exit the second quarter’ according to interim CEO Bob Swan. “Supply remained constrained particularly at the value end of our product range,” says Swan, “we are working closely with our customers to align demand with available supply while we add capacity and ...
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Four new projects across England to encourage more women, BAME, and neurodiverse candidates into a career in cyber security have been announced by the government The total investment for all four projects is ‘at least’ £500,000 as part of the next round of the Cyber Skills Immediate Impact Fund (CSIIF). The aim of the Fund ...
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Tektronix is to feature four areas on its stand at Embedded World, which will cover: embedded design, power electronics, automotive and education-and-research. Publically showing for the first time will be 1mV-accurate power rail probes: TPR1000 and TPR4000. Designed specifically for minimising noise, they work with up to 60V of offset. Then there is the firm’s ...
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UK-based antenna maker has created an product for wireless lighting that can be used on metal surfaces. Named Magna (part SR4I051) and aimed at industrial IoT and smart buildings, it operates in the ISM 868/915MHz bands. It uses two electrical layers, one isolated from the other, which enables an antenna to radiate on a metal ...
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Adesto, new owners of Echelon, will be promoting LonWorks and its ecosystem at Embedded World, particularly recently-approved ANSI/CTA 709.7 – LON IP protocol – that enables native LON communication over any IP (internet protocol) transport such as Ethernet and Wi-Fi, as well as interoperability with IP-based web services. With this, building and industrial automation based ...
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Heitec will present sub-rack elements based on new architectures and designed primarily for serial backplane technology and high speed at Embedded World – aiming at demanding applications and challenging environments. Its 1U HeiCool ECO fan tray is compatible with the entire HeiCool line and can be inserted into a 19 inch cabinet using standard fixings, ...
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The judges of the BrightSparks 2019 competition are already looking forward to meeting the brightest young people in UK electronics. They will use their industry expertise and knowledge to select the winners. You can nominate a contender here. They are stalwarts Clive Couldwell (group editor, Electronics Weekly), Graham Curren (CEO, Sondrel), Paul Hide (techUK’s director of market engagement and ...
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Programmierbare Logik & Systeme (PLS) is to reveal version 5.0 of its Universal Debug Engine (UDE) at Embedded World in Nuremburg. New to the tool is the development of virtualised applications for ARM Cortex-A53, by providing hypervisor awareness for Lynx Software Technologies’ LynxSecure hypervisor. “At present there is a trend to consolidate multiple applications, which ...
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Congatec will present tiny servers at Embedded World 2019 in Nuremburg next month. It has squeezed an Intel Core i7-8565U (Whiskey Lake) onto a 146 x 102mm board (nominally 3.5inch). “Compared to similar processors of the Kaby Lake U generation, the soldered Intel Core i7 processor of the 8th generation Whiskey Lake family offers quad ...
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This is the third in a series of essays by Imec on the future of electronics technology. It is called: Future Cities. It is by Jan Adriaenssens, Director City of Things at Imec. It’s all about letterboxes, fashion designers and scooters: the city of the future where you’ll definitely want to live. Living in the ...
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SEMI’s December Billings Report shows billings figure is 8.5% higher than the final November 2018 level of $1.94 billion, but 12.1% lower than the December 2017 billings level of $2.40 billion. “December billings of North American equipment manufacturers ended 2018 on a positive note,” said Ajit Manocha, president and CEO of SEMI. “Spending for logic and foundry ...
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Intel had a Q4 net profit of $5.2 billion on revenues of $18.66 billion For the full year, profit was $21.5 billion on revenue of $70.8 billion. Intel says Q4 revenue was below its October expectations due to a mix of weaker modem demand, slowdown in China, cloud customers absorbing capacity, and the weakening NAND ...
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Annual semiconductor unit shipments, including ICs and optoelectronics, sensors, and discrete (O-S-D) devices grew 10% in 2018 and surpassed the one trillion unit mark for the first time, says IC Insights. As shown in Figure 1, semiconductor unit shipments climbed to 1,068.2 billion units in 2018 and are expected to climb to 1,142.6 billion in ...
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The quest for lightweight, compact batteries in power supplies and in electric vehicle is unrelenting, but researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT in Oberhausen, have developed a flexible and thin bipolar plate material for batteries which do not require sealing, which makes them vulnerable to leakage, and which can ...
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Ahead of the Hannover Fair (1 to 5 April 2019), Omron announced that it is collaborating with Taiwanese robotic company, Techman, to develop cobots (collaborative robots) with integrated vision systems. Designed as an autonomous system, the TM cobot will combine sensors and a vision system allowing it to judge pieces on production lines and which ...
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Tough flexible piezoelectric materials can be 3D printed to convert movement, impact and stress to electrical energy for monitoring or energy harvesting, according to Virginia Tech. The materials are elastomeric and, via a set of printable topologies, the technique allows the creation of materials generating electric charge in response to incoming forces and vibrations from ...
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An innovation hub at the University of Warwick will research future automotive supply chains, the challenges of vehicle electrification, and using and reusing resources for as long as possible. It is a partnership between WMG, a University department once known as the Warwick Manufacturing Group, and European automotive logistics firm Gefco. GEFCO today, and is ...
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Male Japanese tree frogs communicate with sound, using an internally orchestrated system that lets information get through while also permitting collective choruses and time to rest, according to researchers from Osaka University and University of Tsukuba, and borrowing the technique could reduce packet collisions and power consumption in data networks. The team listened to calling ...
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In this current period of economic uncertainty, stoked by international trade deals and the spectre of Brexit, Jurgen Von Hollen has some words of encouragement. He believes that at a time when CEOs cannot forecast 12mths ahead, the only constant is a need for a company to be flexible and creative, and this can be ...
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The Prince of Wales’ Prince’s Trust has stopped accepting donations from Huawei as part of the global shunning of the Chinese telecom maker. “At present, we are not accepting new donations from Huawei in light of public concerns,” says the Trust, “future donations will continue to be reviewed by our Ethical Fundraising Committee.” The Trust ...
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James Henderson updates us on developing an electronically-scanned radar unit operating at mm-wave frequencies.
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Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are efficient, rapidly getting more efficient, and are likely to be cheap to mass-produce, but have a lemming-like tendency for self-destruction. Now scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) think that have found one of the causes of early demise – the use of titanium dioxide ...
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It seems that Europeans are relatively positive about robots as long as they have a more or less theoretical concept in mind, but are increasingly critically when the robot is specified and personal interactions appear imminent – robots were evaluated more negatively in 2017 than five years before. This has been extracted from a survey ...
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ST had Q4 revenues of $2.65 billion, gross margin of 40.0%, operating margin of 16.8%, and net income of $418 million. ST CEO Jean-Marc Chery (pictured) commented: “ST delivered a solid performance in the fourth quarter, with net revenues and operating income increasing sequentially 5.0% and 11.5%, respectively. “Net revenues in 2018 increased by 15.8% year-over-year ...
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This is the second of a series of essays by Imec scientists on the future of electronics technology. This one is called: ‘AI systems will become our workmates. Workmates we understand and trust.’ It is by Pieter Ballon, director of SMIT – an Imec research group. Artificial intelligence, or AI is all the rage again. ...
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TI’s Q1 revenues were 1% down on Q4. Q1 revenue was $3.72 billion down from Q4’s $3.75 billion. Q1 net income was $1.24 billion up from Q4’s $344 million due to income taz. Rich Templeton, TI’s chairman, president and CEO, made the following comments: “Revenue decreased 1 percent from the same quarter a year ago ...
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The growth of China’s semiconductor industry will slow to 16.2% this year – the lowest in five years, says TrendForce. TrendForce says the China IC industry was worth $88.4 billion in 2018 and will be worth $107 billion this year. Challenges for China’s semiconductor industry include the global economic slowdown, the overall weak demand, the negative ...
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Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with Pyreos, a U.K.-based passive infrared sensor developer and manufacturer. Through the agreement, Mouser is now stocking a variety of Pyreos’ mid-infrared detectors for applications in air quality, breath measurement for medical applications, gas and flame detection, motion, and gesture. The Pyreos product line includes ezPyro digital SMD pyroelectric ...
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Toshiba is sampling what it claims to be the industry’s first Universal Flash Storage (UFS) Ver. 3.0 embedded flash memory devices. The new lineup utilizes the company’s 96-layer BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory and is available in three capacities: 128 gigabytes, 256GB and 512GB. With high-speed read/write performance and low power consumption, the new devices are suitable for ...
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Varada, the Tel Aviv data indexing specialist, raises $7.5 million in seed funding
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Dyson is to become legally head-quartered in Singapore where the company is to build its electric car, Sir James, who owns 100% of the company, is a big supporter of Brexit but the company says the move to Singapore has nothing to do with the UK leaving the E.U. Last October, Singapore signed a free ...
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The correlation between IC market growth and global GDP growth, has been tracked by IC Insights. Figure 1 depicts the increasingly close correlation between worldwide GDP growth and IC market growth through 2018, as well as IC Insights’ forecast through 2023. Figure 1 Over the 2010-2018 timeframe, the correlation coefficient between worldwide GDP growth and ...
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Huawei wants to go where it is welcomed, the company’s chairman Liang Hua (pictured) told the Davos World Economic Forum yesterday. ‘We would transfer the technology partnership to countries where we are welcomed and where we can have collaboration with,” said Liang. Asked whether Huawei could leave the UK, where it has a $3 billion investment ...
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This is the first in a series of Imec essays on the future of electronics technology. It looks at the subject of health. The title of this first essay is: “By 2035 you will ‘manage’ your health like a bank account.” It is by Peter Peumans, svp life sciences at Imec. How can we live a ...
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Toshiba has announced an automotive chip that can bridge between PCIe and two Ethernet standards: Ethernet AVB and Ethernet TSN, to connect central processors to telematics, infotainment and driver assistance systems, as well as sensors, at up to 1Gbit/s. Called TC9562XBG, “it’s not just a simple hardware-bridge between PCIe and Ethernet”, Toshiba Electronics Europe told ...
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From HellermannTyton, come two families of cable tie mounts which can operate at up to 105°C, which are now available in Europe through TTI. SolidTack MB are for flat surfaces FlexTack are for curved and bent surfaces (2D curves, not 3D), without resorting to thick layers of glue. “These self-adhesive mounting bases feature a high-performance acrylic ...
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The European Space Agency has given the Ariane Group a one year contract to develop plans for a moon base that could be used for mining. The project will ‘examine the possibility of going to the Moon before 2025 and starting to work there’, says ESA. The plan is to eventually mine regolith. ‘As ESA ...
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Hailo, the Israeli AI start-up, has expanded its Series A funding to $21 million. Chinese VC firm, Glory Ventures, led the expansion joined by existing and other new investors. The investment will enable the company to expand its target markets into China and Hong Kong, complementing its existing markets in Europe, North America, Japan and ...
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Taiwanese single board computer maker Aaeon has launched a hex-core industrial mini-ITX motherboard using ‘8th generation’ (Coffee Lake) Intel Core processors hyper-threading – fewer cores are also available. Called MIX-H310A1, “increased core count and the refined graphic engines meet the requirements for graphic-intensive and high-performance computing applications in machine vision, kiosk and robotics,” said the ...
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Kaia Health, the two year old health app start-up, has raised a $10 million Series A led by Balderton Capital. The investment will be used for Kaia’s US rollout, including a new office in New York City, and fund further clinical studies. Kaia’s back pain app has been adopted by over 250,000 individuals as well ...
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LORCA, the government-backed cybersecurity programme, is partnering with the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA), City of New York, and the New York Economic Development Corporation to help cybersecurity companies scale internationally. The GCA is a global, collaborative non-profit dedicated to reducing cyber risk with an extensive network of dedicated partners around the world. The partnership with the City ...
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The European Space Agency has given the Ariane Group a one year contract to develop plans for a moon base that could be used for mining. The project will ‘examine the possibility of going to the Moon before 2025 and starting to work there’, says ESA The plan is to eventually mine regolith. ‘As ESA ...
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Contract prices of server DRAM are expected to fall by more than 20% QoQ in 1Q19, reports DRAMeXchange. The main reason for the steep price fall lies in the difficulties in reducing inventory. The DRAM suppliers’ fulfillment rate has improved from 90% in 4Q18 to 120% in 1Q19, indicating an oversupply in the market. Currently, ...
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Resilience Energy aims to give customers the hardware, software and contracts they need to produce, store and sell renewable energy, and an app to monitor the system’s performance. Customers will be able to sell excess electricity on the spot market and excess battery capacity to the National Grid to help balance the grid’s energy supplies. This ...
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STMicroelectronics’ DM6 600V mosfets contain a fast-recovery body diode to bring super-junction technology to full-bridge (and half) phase-shifted zero voltage switched (ZVS) converters – and other applications that need a robust diode to handle dV/dt. “Leveraging ST’s carrier lifetime control technology, the mosfets have reduced reverse-recovery time [trr] to minimise power dissipation in the diode ...
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Diodes has announced a family of low-power dc-dc buck converters that can deliver 2A from between 3.8V and 32V. Output voltages between 0.8 and Vin are possible. Efficiency can be 88% at 5mA out, with quiescent as low as 22µA. The devices are: AP63200: 500kHz, PWM/PFM, variable out, can operate as LDO (100% duty) AP63201: ...
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WARR Hyperloop did it again – the team from the Technical University of Munich won the Hyperloop Pod Competition for the third consecutive time.
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Flex Logix has announced that MorningCore Technology, a subsidiary of China telecommunications giant Datang, is licensing EFLX4K eFPGA for TSMC’s 12nm FinFET Compact technology (12FFC) process and the EFLX Compiler for programming the eFPGA. The application involves wireless communications. MorningCore is also licensing additional seats of the EFLX Compiler so some of their customers can program the chip ...
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Panasonic has introduced a Halogen-free multi-layer circuit board material Called MEGTRON6. Its capacity and speed are suitable for at 5G systems. There is a growing need for environment-friendly halogen-free material for circuit board materials used in communications infrastructure equipment. Conventionally, the use of non-halogen flame retardants entailed increased transmission loss, particularly in the high-frequency range. ...
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AI is being over-promised, says Federico Faggin (pictured) who put the 4004 into silicon gate MOS, delivered the 8008 and designed the 8080 before founding Zilog and designing the Z8 MCU and Z80 CPU and then going on to co-found Synaptics with Carver Mead. “The fundamental problem is that, because of the recent successes, people ...
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Automation will increase employment says a report called ‘Humans Wanted: Robots Need You’ by the Manpower Group. Manpower found that 87% of 19,000 employers surveyed in 44 countries were planning to increase the size of their workforce as a result of automation. Instead of reducing employment, organizations that are automating create the most jobs, the ...
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2D materials could be better catalysts for lithium-air batteries than 3D, say researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago. “Currently, electric vehicles average about 100 miles per charge, but with the incorporation of 2D catalysts into lithium-air batteries, we could provide closer to 400 to 500 miles per charge, which would be a real ...
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Staff shortages are the top emerging risk which companies face, according to Gartner’s latest quarterly Emerging Risks Survey. The survey of 137 senior executives in 4Q18 showed that concerns about talent shortages now outweigh those around getting ready-for-new-data-privacy-laws and cloud computing which were the top two risks in the Q3 survey. 63% of respondents ...
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HUBER+SUHNER is launching its LISA Double Access fibre management system. Due to the fragility of fibre cabling, deploying a comprehensive yet simplistic structured fibre management system is crucial to the successful operation of a datacenter. Based on the existing LISA system, the H&S’ LISA Double Access configuration is a high-density and modular cross-connect fibre management ...
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People involved with the collapsing Bitcoin currency are turning to scams to keep funds flowing into the crypto-currency. One trick is using a fake BBC News webpage to persuade gullible punters to buy Bitcoins. It is being spread by email. Another trap were ads claiming that Dragons Den stars Peter Jones and Deborah Meaden were backing ...
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To meet demand for Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) IoT connectivity, Gemalto has announced a platform of Cinterion IoT Modules based on the Qualcomm 9205 LTE IoT modem. The modules are designed to support LTE-M and NB-IoT connectivity with optional 2G fallback from a single, ultra-small IoT module. Ready for the latest 3GPP specifications (Rel 14), ...
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Dual-output isolated DC-DC converters in the R1DX series by Recom offer a choice of ±5V, ±9V, ±12V or ±15V bipolar outputs. The converters are now available from Dengrove Electronic Components. The open-frame, surface-mount power modules measure 15.2mm x 10.7mm and are 8.0mm high and capable of driving capacitive loads of up to 1000µF. Their size and capacitance ...
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TSMC expects a 14% drop in Q1 revenue to $7.3/7.4 billion citing big inventories in smartphone ICs caused by dropping smartphone sales H2 smartphone launches could retrieve the situation but, for now “the inventory in the supply chain is quite a lot”, says TSMC chairman Mark Liu said at a post-earnings conference. The 14% drop expected ...
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Baidu’s Edgeboard (pictured), an edge acceleration computing device which is part of the Baidu Brain AI Hardware Platform initiative, is to use the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale MPSoC. “The flexible EdgeBoard we built based on Xilinx is designed to enable developers and engineers to quickly leverage Baidu-proven technology or deploy self-defined models, enabling faster deployment,” said ...
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We are looking for the brightest and most talented young electronics engineers in the UK and the cut-off point for entries is now Thursday 28 February.
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element14 has donated 250 micro:bit devices to support coding in the classroom, providing teachers around the world with the tools they need to facilitate a range of inspiring education projects. ‘The Great micro:bit Education Giveaway’ was launched in August 2018 and invited STEM educators to submit a proposal for a project they would like ...
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The US government is to vote on a bill that would ban the supply of components to Huawei and ZTE. The move follows a US ban on supplying components and equipment to China’s aspirant DRAM maker Fujian Jin Hua. Teo US Senators and two Congressnen from both main parties have introduced the bill which would ...
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ST’s STHVDAC-253C7 digital controller for tunable capacitors claims to shrink the size, BoM, and power consumption of antenna-tuning circuits for stabilizing smartphone RF performance. Using the STHVDAC-253C7 with ST’s STPTIC capacitors for impedance matching and frequency tuning is claimed to almost eliminate the effects of environmental variations, resulting in stronger signal reception, fewer dropped calls, ...
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Seldon, the machine learning deployment specialist, today announced a £2.7 million funding round led by Amadeus Capital Partners alongside Global Brain Corporation, Techstars and other existing investors. Seldon’s open-source machine learning deployment platform makes it easier and quicker to manage, serve and optimise machine learning models at scale. The platform is built on cloud-native technologies ...
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Yesterday CERN put forward a proposal for a bigger, more expensive version of the Large Hadron Collider. The ‘Future Circular Collider’ (FCC), as CERN calls it, would be an electron-positron machine in a 100km circular tunnel compared to the LHC’s 27km tunnel. It would cost about $10 billion and start operating in 2040. In a second ...
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When it comes to cars, electric motors can be incredibly light, efficient and powerful, writes Professor Peter Wilson of the University of Bath
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Small Robot Company, the Shropshire agritech start-up, has raised £1.2 million on Crowdcube equity crowdfunding platform. It reached its initial funding target of £500,000 within minutes of its launch thanks largely to support from the farming community. Investors included Matt Jones, Principle Designer at Google AI; Mark Ellingham, founder of the Rough Guides; and Andrew ...
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Infineon has redesigned the product portfolio of 60 mm thyristor/diode modules with pressure contact technology. The new Eco Block family addresses the demand for cost-efficient larger modules for battery chargers, static and bypass switches and windmills. Additionally, the modules are suitable for soft starters as well as rectifiers for drives and uninterruptable power-supply (UPS). Due ...
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Nano-C, the Massachusetts nanostructured carbon specialist, has received a $2.4 million Emerging Technology Fund loan from MassDevelopment, the State of Massachusetts’ development agency. Last April it raised $11.5 million of which $3 million came from ADI co-founder and chairman, Ray Stata. Nano-C will use the loan proceeds to upgrade its manufacturing facility in Westwood and ...
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Imec and other CARDIS project partners have developed a prototype medical device based on silicon photonics for the screening of arterial stiffness and for the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases such as arterial stenosis and heart failure. A clinical feasibility study with 100 patients has been successfully completed by INSERM at the Georges Pompidou European Hospital ...
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The monthly contract price of 8GB DRAM modules stayed at around $60 in December, while 4GB modules are around $30, reports DRAMeXchange. In the Q1 contract discussions between the DRAM suppliers and OEMs a general consensus has emerged that prices of 8GB modules for Q1 contracts will be around $55 or even lower. This implies ...
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With the UAI 1206 chip fuse, Schurter is offering a pulse and temperature resistant fuse with slow release characteristics, aimed at applications in which aging resistance and maximum reliability have the highest priority. It has been specifically developed for automotive applications, and meets requirements according to AEC-Q200, including the highest AEC-Q200 requirements regarding mechanical shock ...
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RS Components joins the government’s 5% Club, a group of employers that aims to have 5% of the workforce in ‘earn and learn’ positions, such as apprenticeships, sponsored students and graduates on formal training schemes in a period of five years from joining the initiative. The distributor joined in 2018 and has already established 18 ...
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Power module firm Flex has added thermal simulation to its Power Designer software. “The thermal model in the latest release, Flex Power Designer 3.0, enables designers to simulate thermal behaviours in their power system designs. For example, this makes it possible to calculate hot spot temperature and overall system efficiency,” according to the firm. Designers ...
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STMicroelectronics has put plenty of analogue features and DMA (direct memory access) into its latest 8bit 8pin microcontroller. Dubbed STM8L050, alongside two comparators, it has four-channel 12bit ADC and a low-power real-time clock (RTC) with programmable alarm and periodic wake-ups. Either external or internal clock at up to 16MHz is supported. There is an integrated ...
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Allegro MicroSystems Europe has released a family of magnetic sensors for automotive transmissions, claiming that they are its most advanced yet. Called A19520, A19530, and A19570, they come with ASIL B certification and measure speed and direction information. “Until now, there have been no transmission speed sensors available designed to a certified ISO 26262 design ...
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The University of Edinburgh and University of Southampton lead the way when it comes to helping generate EW BrightSparks, confirming their strong heritage wthin the electronics industry. We are in the final stages of collecting entries for the 2019 programme, in partnership with RS Components, and it is interesting to view the 2017 and 2108 ...
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