Flat market for auto touch modules

Shipments of automotive touch modules are expected to increase by 1.1% to reach 64 million units, according to IHS Markit, followed by increases of 1.4% and 2.4% in 2020 and 2021. However, stronger growth will resume in 2022, with a 7.2% annual expansion. The market’s rise will continue in 2023, with shipments increasing by 7.8% to ...

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Die attach market has 6% CAGR 2018-24

The die attach equipment market will have a 6% CAGR, reaching $1.3 billion by 2024, says Yole Développement, with heterogeneous integration enabled by advanced packaging & 3D stacking pushing the development of next generation die attach equipment   Die attach equipment can be classified into two categories: die bonders and FC bonders. The total market ...

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Huawei phone sales soar

After suffering five consecutive quarters of declines, Q3 smartphone sales grew 1.2% y-o-y to 360.1 million units from the 355.8 million units of Q3 2018. While Samsung remained No.1,  the No. 2 – Huawei – was the standout performerwith shipments surging by 14.8 million units to reach 66.8 million. Shipments rose by 28% y-o-y  – ...

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EEVblog #1256 – GORGEOUS Mystery Test Gear Teardown!

Probably the most gorgeous test gear teardown yet!
A master class in modular product design and design for servicing, a mystery retro bit of test gear from the bunker that was found in a dumpster, worth US$45k new in today’s money.

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EEVblog #1255 – Apple iPad 5th Gen Screen REPAIR

Dave replaces a cracked 5th gen iPad touch screen. Content rock bottom? But child happy, and one less new iPad that needs to be manufactured.

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EEVblog #1254 – Mailbag

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EEVblog #1253 – LED Flicker 2: Electric Boogaloo

Part 2 of the LED Flicker investigation.
Modding the driver for input and output capacitance and it’s effect on power factor correction and thermal performance.

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Telit ME910G1 module with for low throughput IoT at Rutronik

Telit has added the ME910G1, an LTE-M and NB-IoT combo module, to the xE910 product family. The module is now available at Rutronik UK. The manufacturer says its lower power consumption and enhanced quality of coverage specifically tailor the module for low-data throughput IoT applications. The ME910G1 LTE UE Cat M1/NB2 module offers a power ...

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TiePie PC scopes go Wi-Fi

Netherlands PC oscilloscope maker TiePie has introduced a range oscilloscopes can be used via Wi-Fi, Ethernet LAN, USB 2.0 or USB3.0. Data acquisition is between 5Msample/s and 200Msample/s is available depending on the link type. Called the WiFiScope series oscilloscopes (WS5 and WS6 and variants, see below), they have a built-in battery and, as they are wireless, ...

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Maxim addresses automotive cybersecurity with Deepcover authenticator

Claimed to be the industry’s first AEC-Q100 grade 1 solution for automotive systems, the DS28C40 Deepcover automotive secure authenticator from Maxim Integrated Products is designed to ensure only genuine components are used for electronic systems like advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and EV batteries. Safety and cybersecurity are growing concerns in the automotive market. Manufacturers ...

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Forbidden heat makes vehicle battery charge in 10 minutes

Penn State university is claiming to be able to charge a Li-ion electric vehicle battery in 10 minutes, with enough energy to get it 200 to 300 miles. “And we can do this maintaining 2,500 charging cycles – the equivalent of half a million miles of travel,” according to chemical engineer Professor Chao-Yang Wang. This is a ...

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Renesas introduces RE family for SOTB energy harvesting portfolio

Renesas has introduced its RE family, which encompasses the company’s current and future lineup of energy harvesting embedded controllers. The RE family is based on a proprietary SOTB (silicon on thin buried oxide) process technology. The firm claims it dramatically reduces power consumption in both the active and standby states, eliminating the need for battery ...

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ADI buys Test Motors

ADI has bought Test Motors of Barcelona which specialises in predictive maintenance of electric motors and generators.   Test Motors offers products and services that detect faults in electric motors before they cause damage to production cycles and advises on how and when to repair them. The acquisition expands ADI’s portfolio of condition-based monitoring solutions capable ...

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Raspberry Pi HAT regulates and measures power

A power regulator and parametric measurement tool for Raspberry Pi has been launched on Kickstarter in the form of the Abbycus V Series. Designed by John Hoeppner the Raspberry Pi HAT is capable of generating a stable and accurate power supply from low-cost poorly regulated power supplies such as AC adapters, phone charges and others. ...

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Hyundai demo-es hydrogen fuel cell truck

Hyundai has shown off this hydrogen fuel cell powered truck at a motor show in the US. “Today, by showing HDC-6 Neptune, the first hydrogen-only concept for Hyundai Motor Company’s commercial vehicles, we will start exploring opportunities in the United States commercial vehicle market,” says Hyundai’s Edward Lee. “Furthermore, we are willing to work with ...

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Wearables to top $50bn

Sales of wearables will  total $52 billion in 2020 — an increase of 27% from the $41 billion of 2019 — according to Gartner. In 2019, worldwide wearable devices end-user spending is on pace to reach $41 billion. ASPs of smart watches are expected to decline 4.5% between 2020 and 2021. Smartwatches and ear-worn devices ...

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Renesas joins driverless car consortium

Renesas has joined the Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium (AVCC). Vehicle edge computing platforms will play a key role in achieving the required computing performance within the power, thermal, size, security, and safety constraints. A standardized technical framework is also critical in order to share, re-use and incrementally improve developments resulting from this widescale automotive ecosystem. ...

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Dc-dc bucks deliver up to 5A from 3.8 to 40V

Diodes has announced a family of synchronous buck converters with integrated high-and low-side mosfets for use from rails between 3.8V and 40V, capable of delivering up to 5A from 0.8V to the input voltage, moving into LDO operation when Vout approaches Vin. There are 3.5A parts with a 75mΩ high-side mosfet and a 45mΩ low-side mosfet ...

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Xing introduces modular electric battery system for marine applications

Xing Mobility has launched its electric battery and powertrain products in the marine and boat market. The company will showcase its modularized battery pack system alongside a range of plug-and-play drivetrain accessories at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show in Florida. The Immersio modular battery system is a stackable energy solution that acts as a ...

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Calibrated 2x2mm pressure sensor works across 26 to 126kPa

Würth Elektronik has created a presents a 2.0 x 2.0 x 0.8mm MEMS absolute pressure sensor for use across 26 and 126kPa. “The WSEN-PADS absolute pressure sensor offers the possibility of preparing the measured data for various applications using activatable integrated algorithms in such a way that the programming workload for a connected controller is greatly reduced,” ...

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Jumping spider inspires novel image-based distance sensor

Harvard University has been inspired by a jumping spider to develop a novel distance sensor. The spider (family salticidae) hunts by ambushing prey, leaping onto it from a distance, and to do this it has to leap the correct distance. Unlike humans which use two-eye binocular vision (amongst other visual effects) to estimate range, the ...

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Bittware and Achronix introduce PCIe accelerator product with 7nm FPGA

BittWare has entered a collaboration with Achronix Semiconductor Corporation to introduce the S7t-VG6 PCIe accelerator card: a PCIe product featuring Achronix’s 7nm Speedster7t FPGA. The card offers GDDR6 memories with HBM-class memory bandwidth, machine learning processors and a 2D network-on-chip for high bandwidth and energy-efficient data movement, the companies claim. The Bittware Vectorpath accelerator card ...

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US mains sockets include tamper and fire protection

Schurter’s is aiming at US mains outlets with connectors that meet increased fire protection and safety standards according to UL 498 Tamper Resistant, as well as allowing compliance to UL 962 and UL 962A for household and commercial ‘furniture and furniture power distribution units’ (FPDUs). There are also high-temperature versions for datacoms equipment. The types are ...

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Farnell signs Hioki

Farnell has signed Hioki, the Japanese manufacturer of electrical measuring instruments, to a distribution agreement. This agreement makes Farnell the only high service distributor of Hioki Products in Europe and further expands Farnell’s  range of test, measurement and inspection products, providing excellent quality at an affordable price. Hioki products are widely used by electronic design ...

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U-Blox announces Nina-B4 bluetooth low energy module for long range

U-Blox has announced the Nina-B4 Bluetooth low energy module series. Based on Nordic Semiconductor’s recently announced nRF52833 chip, Nina-B4 enables a number of Bluetooth features including long range, mesh, and direction finding. The module is designed for applications in the connected industry, smart homes, buildings, and cities, asset tracking, and eHealth. The direction finding feature ...

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IDT name to vanish in Renesas re-brand

The name Integrated Device Technology – IDT – will disappear at the beginning of next year when parent company Renesas Electronics is planning to re-brand it as Renesas Electronics America. Renesas bought the San Jose analogue and mixed-signal chip maker, founded in 1980, at the end of March this year. “Since the completion of IDT acquisition, post-merger ...

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Samsung’s new folding phone concept

This is only a concept phone shown by Samsung at its developer conference but it’s a nice thing:  

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Sony to build sensor fab

Today Sony is  announcing a $918 million provision in its budget for its next fiscal year to pay for a new fab to build image sensors. The plant is to be built in Nagasaki Prefecture and is scheduled to come on-line in April 2021. The fab should increase Sony’s image sensor capacity from 100k 300mm ...

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China on a downer

China’s GDP continues its fall and will hit 6% in Q3, says IC Insights.   Figure 1 China’s 2017 GDP was 6.9% and 6.6% in 2018. IC Insights forecasts further slowing in China’s GDP growth rate to 6.1% this year (the latest IMF forecast released this month also calls for 6.1% growth this year while ...

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3D printing expertise for North-East SMEs

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) in Cleveland has joined a £2.3 million IMPACT project funded by the European Regional Development Fund to develop 3D printing processes. The project will run until the 31st March 2021 with the aim of supporting SMEs in the North East Local Enterprise Partnership (NELEP) region which covers County Durham, ...

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Panasonic adds SMT series to cap line

Panasonic  has added a long-life surface SMT series to its SP-Cap Conductive Polymer-Aluminum-Electrolytic capacitor line. Available with a rated voltage of 2.0VDC or 2.5VDC, GY capacitors benefit from capacitance values of  680µF up to 820µF and ESR characteristics of 3mΩ max. The components are able to withstand +105°C for up to 2.000 hours making them suitable ...

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More CoolGaN devices

Infineon has extended its CoolGaN  series with two devices which are available now. The CoolGaN 400 V device (IGT40R070D1 E8220)is for premium HiFi audio systems where end users demand every detail of their high resolution sound tracks and which have been conventionally addressed by bulky linear or tube amplifiers. The second device is the CoolGaN 600 ...

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Brushless motor controller has intelligent control

Toshiba has announced a three-phase brushless motor control pre-driver IC with Intelligent Phase Control technology. The TC78B027FTG is a brushless motor controller with integrated pre-driver that can drive a wide range of external MOSFETs. The controller IC features Intelligent Phase Control (InPAC) andclosed loop speed control technologies. InPAC delivers high-efficiency drive by synchronizing the phases ...

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Noise tolerant comparators work over wide temp range

Rohm is aiming at sensor applications in automotive systems such as ECUs and power-trains with a range of noise-tolerant comparators. “Advancements in computerisation and increase of densely packed electric devices have increased the amount of noise in electric vehicles and cars equipped with driver assistance systems,” according to the firm. “However, evaluation of noise performance of ...

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Adesto joins STMicroelectronics partner program, providing NOR products

Adesto Technologies Corporation has joined the STMicroelectronics partner program to improve system operation for IoT devices through the combination of its NVM devices and the STM32 line of MCUs. Adesto is working with ST on the combination of its NOR flash memory products with STM32 MCUs. Adesto’s memories include application-specific features for high-bandwidth, eXecute-in-Place (XiP) ...

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Amazon qualifies XMOS Alexa development kit

Amazon has qualified the VocalFusion 2-microphone development kit from XMOS for use with Alexa voice services in smart TVs and set-top boxes. “Amazon is seen by many as the leader in the world of voice, and our engineering expertise will be helping to transform the way consumers interact with everyday devices like TVs,” claimed XMOS ...

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Wiltshire council expands Telensa Planet smart street light system

Telensa Planet (stylised PLANet), an intelligent street lighting system, has been selected by Wiltshire county council to be expanded with an additional 7,000 lights across the county. The established deployment controls 35,000 lights, and paid for itself in six years through reduced energy and maintenance costs, Telensa says. The controls are also being upgraded as ...

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Omron 2JCIE-EV01 evaluation board for IoT sensor system development

The 2JCIE-EV01 sensor evaluation board from Omron Electronic Components Europe is designed to help developers working on sensor systems for IoT create a prototype hosted on Raspberry Pi, Arduino or Adafruit Feather. The board is equipped with sensors for six environmental parameters, is supported by data acquisition software and features expansion connectors to interface to Omron ...

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Suite of tools addresses ASIL-D safety design

An Israeli company, Optima Design Automation has introduced two tools for automotive design. The Optima Safety platform consists of Optima-HE and Optima-SE, both based on the company’s Fault Injection Engine (FIE) and designed for fault analysis, targeting safety analysis fault injection for SoC design. The FIE uses parallel simulation and formal verification, rather than fault ...

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Colour sensor detects flicker for better photos

AMS has improved flicker detection in its range of multi-band colour sensors, intended to be used alongside camera chips in phones and tablets to allow them to compensate for artifacts such as banding. “With the wide-spread usage of LED lighting, photography increasingly suffers from flicker from the lighting source,” according to AMS. “The TCS3408 colour ...

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Farnell launches Multicomp Pro

Farnell has launched a new collection of affordable components, tools and test equipment under the brand Multicomp Pro. This collection brings products from Multicomp, Duratool, Tenma, Pro-Power, Pro-Elec and Pro-Signal under one brand, making it easier for design engineers, technicians and production facilities to identify high value alternatives, whilst assuring production-grade quality. Customers purchasing from ...

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TSMC and GloFo bury the hatchet

Globalfoundries and TSMC are dismissing all litigation between them as well as those that involve any of their customers. The companies have agreed to a broad life-of-patents cross-license to each other’s worldwide existing semiconductor patents as well as those patents that will be filed during the next ten years as both companies continue to invest ...

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Achronix and BittWare hook up on datacentre accelerator cards

Achronix and BittWare are combining to go for the fast-growing datacentre accelerator board market.

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Xilinx rules out any more revenue from Huawei

Xilinx has ruled out any further revenue streams from Huawei following the US government ban on certain semiconductor exports to the Chinese telecoms company. “Considering the continued trade restrictions with Huawei and the uncertainty presented to our business, we believe it is prudent to remove all remaining revenue expectations related to Huawei from our fiscal ...

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RS adds Pro version to DesignSpark PCB

RS Components is launching DesignSpark PCB Pro, a professional-level upgrade to its already popular free online PCB design tool, DesignSpark PCB. DesignSpark PCB is an award-winning, free-to-use electronic computer-assisted design (ECAD) rapid prototyping tool offering workflow integration; unlimited schematic size, sheets, nodes, pads and connections; part library integration; unrestricted Gerber and ODB++ file output; multi-format ...

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Renesas MCUs and MPUs support Azure

Renesas MCUs and MPUs are to support Microsoft’s Azure RTOS. The collaboration will help deliver a complete chip-to-cloud IoT solution based on Renesas  devices and Microsoft Azure IoT building blocks including Azure RTOS, Azure IoT device SDK for C, IoT Plug and Play, IoT Central and IoT Hub. One of the most deployed RTOS worldwide ...

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Vishay’s VCNL3040 sensor with smart persistence now available from TTI

The VCNL3040 integrated proximity sensor from Vishay, with a detection distance of 30cm, is now available from TTI. The sensor combines IR emitter, photodetectors for proximity, LED driver, amplifiers, ADC circuitry and proprietary signal processor in a QFN package. The sensor features a programmable interrupt feature and supports the I2C bus communication interface, offering wake-up ...

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Mouser stocking ADI ADF5610 wideband synthesizer with integrated VCO

Mouser Electronics is now stocking the ADF5610 wideband synthesizer with an integrated voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) from Analog Devices. The ADF5610 is designed for applications such as aerospace and defense, wireless infrastructure, microwave point-to-point links, electronic test and measurement, and satellite terminals. Available from Mouser Electronics, the component is a wideband fractional-N synthesizer that generates RF ...

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Anglia expands heatsink range following distribution agreement with ABL

Anglia Components has expanded its range of thermal management components including board mount, extruded and BGA heatsinks following a distribution agreement for the UK and Ireland with Birmingham-based manufacturer, ABL Aluminium Components. David Pearson, technical director of Anglia, commented “We aim to offer customers a complete solution and the addition of ABL broadens our profile ...

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Huawei tops world patent application league table

Huawei topped the patent application table last year according to WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organisation. But Tokyo analysts Patent Result says that only 21% of the 5,405 patent applications made by Huawei last year could be regarded as highly innovative. Patent Result asseses patents by a number of criteria including originality, actual technological applications ...

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Huawei to be allowed into UK network

A decision to give 5G infrastructure contracts to Huawei will be announced before Christmas, reports the Sunday Times. The decision will be that Huawei switchgear can be used in “non-contentious”  areas of the network. Theresa May made a similar decision at a National Security Council meeting but it got leaked and created a Cabinet split. ...

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EMEA Q3 PC market up 3%

The EMEA PC market grew 3% y-o-y in Q3 with 18.8 million units shipped, says IDC. Commercial shipments were up 9.4% y-o-y while consumer shipments were down 4%. The Western European  PC market grew by 3.3% y-o-y with consumer down 3.3% and commercial up 8.3%. “Vendors were largely able to cope with ongoing component shortages ...

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China law to facilitate cryptography

China has passed a law for ‘facilitating the development of the cryptography business and ensuring the security of cyberspace and information”. The law, which takes effect on January 1st, says that the China government encourages and supports the research and application of science and technology in cryptography. Last week President Xi Jinping said China should ...

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Magnets and temperature aid rare earth recovery

Magnetic fields can make separating ‘rare earth’ materials from one another less wasteful, according to the University of Pennsylvania. Used in displays, lasers and magnets, the rare earths are chemically similar and therefore challenging to separate – they tend to be found in the earth in mixtures, and can also presented for recycling in mixtures. ...

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Load switch features slew rate control and true reverse current blocking

Diodes Incorporated has announced the introduction of the AP22913, a 2A single-channel, slew-rate-controlled load switch with true reverse current blocking for high-side load-switching applications. Single-channel high-side load switches provide an effective way of applying or removing power to a load, particularly to removable peripherals powered through a USB port. The AP22913A load switch incorporates true ...

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Infra red LEDs for eye tracking

Eye-tracking in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications are the targets Osram is aiming at with two infra-red LEDs. Eye tracking in VR and AR is there to reduce the discomfort and dizziness felt by some users when virtual and real perceptions do not match. It is implemented by analysing images from a ...

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Micron to sample 3D XPoint SSDs

In Q4, Micron begins selectively sampling SSDs made with  3D XPoint which, claims Micron, are the world’s fastest SSDs. Dubbed X100, the 3D XPoint-based drives target storage- and memory-intensive applications for the datacentre. Micron claims the technology delivers “higher capacity and persistence than DRAM, along with higher endurance and performance than NAND.” Micron’s claims for the ...

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Record Q3 at Intel

Intel had record  Q3 revenue of $19.2 billion – 6% up y-o-y -gross margin was 58.9%, operating income was $6.4 billion and net income was $6 billion,  The company is expecting record  full year revenue of $71 billion. The PC business was down 5% at $9.7 billion The datacentre business was up 4% at $6.4 ...

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Qualcomm fund to promote 5G apps beyond smartphone

Qualcomm has set up a $200 million VC fund to invest in early stage startups developing non-smartphone 5G applications. Over the next four years, the Qualcomm Ventures 5G Ecosystem Fund will support start-ups across the 5G market including those building devices, networking and communications, and applications and serviceS, US telcos expect to offer US 5G coverage ...

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Siemens software for systems simulation

Siemens Digital Industries Software is shipping its Simcenter System Analyst, a collaborative solution that allows for the creation of industry-specific applications to drive system simulation models. Simcenter System Analyst helps deploy system simulations throughout an entire company, expanding model usage to all levels of users, and helping ensure model continuity without changing the internal processes. ...

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Bare-metal switches propel OCP

Bare-metal devices in the second quarter attained market-leading growth in the datacentre switching business, with revenue rising 32% compared to a year earlier as datacentre operators increasingly embrace commoditized hardware. Global revenue for bare-metal switches handily outgrew the markets for legacy switches during the quarter, according to IHS Markit. Bare-metal switches are expected to account ...

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RS Components introduces thermal camera for automotive diagnosis

RS Components has announced the availability of a thermal camera from Flir. The TG275 thermal camera is designed to assist automotive maintenance and repair technicians, helping them to accelerate diagnostic procedures and avoid undetected problems. Combining non-contact thermal measurement and thermal imaging to help technicians troubleshoot repairs, spot potential faults and record images, the imager ...

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GTK adds to separate-wire-to-board connector range

GTK has expanded its range of fine pitch wire to board connectors with new options for discrete wire applications. There are 1.2mm pitch wire-to-board connectors with a mated height of 1.55mm, polarisation to prevent mis-mating and a surface-mount PCB header suitable for pick and place machines. There is also the 1.25mm pitch range, wich has ...

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ST sparkles

After TI reported a y-o-y  Q3 revenue drop of $1 billion yesterday, the semiconductor industry was in pessimistic mood but, today, ST, which operates in many similar market areas to TI, has come up with a sparkling set of Q3 figures. ST’s  Q3 net revenues were $2.55 billion – up 17.5% on Q2. Gross margin ...

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Renesas expands access to IP portfolio including 7nm SRAM

Renesas Electronics Corporation has announced expanded access to its IP license portfolio. Customers will gain access to IPs such as 7nm SRAM and TCAM, and standard Ethernet time-sensitive networking. Renesas is working on providing a system IP which includes processing-in-memory. These are suggested to help customers with projects like next-gen AI chips or ASICs for ...

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LTE data card addresses network appliances

Rutronik UK adds the Telit LM960A18 Mini PCIe (mPCIe) data card. It uses Advanced LTE to deliver high-speed data rates for network appliances, such as routers, mobile gateways and access points. The card is based on LTE Category 18 and achieves up to 1.2Gbps download and 150Mbps upload. It supports uplinke with 2x carrier aggregation ...

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Lattice adds support and reference designs to Sensai stack

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation has announced the availability of performance enhancements and application reference designs for its Sensai (stylised sensAI) stack. Sensai is designed to help OEMs develop AI and ML experiences for smart devices with power consumption measured in mW. Performance enhancements include support for more compact neural network models and deeper quantization support to ...

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Mini drone swarm explores building without central control, GPS, mapping or memory

Swarms of drones with limited resources can effectively search an environment, according to the Technical University of Delft, which has invented an algorithm to make it all work – without communication to a central computer. The overall aim of the project was for a group of simple robots to spread out autonomously after they are released, ...

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SiTime files for IPO

SiTime, the MEMS timing specialist, has filed a registration statement with the US SEC relating to a proposed initial public offering of its common stock. SiTime is owned by MegaChips of Japan. The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the offering have not been determined. SiTime has applied to list ...

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Samsung in mass production of 12GB LPDDR4X NAND module

Samsung has begun mass producing the industry’s first 12GB low-power double data rate 4X (LPDDR4X) UFS-based multichip package (uMCP) based on 24Gb LPDDR4X die. Samsung is introducing its 12GB uMCP solution seven months after its launch of a 12GB LPDDRX package based on 16Gb DRAM. By combining four of the 24Gb LPDDR4X chips (featuring 1y-nm ...

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Raspberry Pi-based temperature monitor

Those interested in building a Raspberry Pi-based temperature monitor can reference a Hackster.io project which uses a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B mini PC and various temperature sensors and the Initial State application and cloud service to create a system. “Temperature and humidity are vital data points in today’s industrial world,” states Hackster, “monitoring environmental ...

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64-antenna DRA for 5G mm-wave applications

Antenna Company claims to have the industry’s first 5G dielectric resonator phased antenna array designed specifically for 5G mm-wave applications. The 64-antenna DRA combines Antenna’s SuperShape and DRA technology to achieve wide-band operation over the 24-30 GHz frequency bands. The mm-wave DRA array demonstrates reduced scanning losses, lower sidelobe levels and greater maximum scan angle ...

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OmniVision claims Guinness record for smallest image sensor

OmniVision claims a Guinness World Record for “The Smallest Image Sensor Commercially Available” with dimensions of 0.575mm x 0.575mm. Derived from this imager, the company has made its CameraCubeChip – a fully packaged, wafer-level camera module measuring 0.65mm x 0.65mm, with a z-height of  1.158mm.  OmniVision developed these medical imagers to address the market demand for ...

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Toshiba launches brushless motor driver resilient to voltage fluctuation

Toshiba Electronics Europe has announced the launch of a three-phase brushless motor driver for home appliances such as air-conditioners and air-purifiers. The TB67B000AHG driver is suited for industrial applications. The high-voltage device extends and expands the existing TB67B000 series of drivers that delivers highly energy efficient motor drive and noise reduction in a single, integrated ...

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Surface mount soft grounding cubes can be reflowed

Intended to establish contact between a PCB and a metallic housing, WE-SMGS from Würth Elektronik consists of an elastic temperature-resistant foam block surrounded by a tinned copper weave. They can be pick-and-placed as well as re-flow soldered to the PCB (so Wurth sees them as an alternative to WE-SECF contact fingers), and “after compression, they then ...

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Keysight Technologies announces addition to Pathwave software platform

Keysight Technologies has announced the Pathwave test 2020 software suite. Developed on the Pathwave software platform, the test 2020 software suite is designed to streamline test data processing and analysis for 5G, IoT and automotive engineers and managers. The software provides data sharing and management between platform software tools including test automation, measurement, signal creation ...

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Absolute linear position sensor for factory automation

Balluff has introduced intelligent absolute linear position sensors. The family is called BMP and there are a variety of measurable lengths, including: 32mm (BMP0008), 128mm (BMP0002) and 256mm (BMP000J). Operating from 15 – 30Vdc, resolution is ≤1µm via IO-Link, non-linearity is typically ±250µm, repeatability ±100µm and temperature drift from the end value is ±0.3% mazzimum. There ...

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Oxford spin-out expands German silicon-perovskite solar cell fab.

University of Oxford spin-out Oxford PV has ordered more manufacturing equipment for its 125MW silicon-perovskite solar cell production line in Germany. The order adds perovskite cell-making equipment to the previously ordered (see below) silicon solar cell production line, and includes development work on both line and process integration, according to the equipment maker Meyer Burger ...

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170GHz test bed for 6G research

Test gear maker National Instruments systems has announced a 110-170GHz software-defined radio for 6G comms research, built on NI’s existing mmWave Transceiver System (MTS) and Virginia Diodes’ (VDI) radio heads. MTS has modular base-band and IF components that can be combined with programmable logic (FPGAs) to build complex RF transceiver – such as MIMO systems ...

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Harwin Gecko-MT connectors add two or four data contacts

Harwin has extended its hi-rel (“high-reliability”) connector portfolio through the introduction of mixed-layout versions of the Gecko-SL series, called the Gecko-MT series. By complementing the data contacts with two or four power contacts (in power/data configurations of either 1+8+1 or 2+8+2), the Gecko-MT products are claimed to enable significant space and weight reductions in electronic ...

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Sponsored Content: All the Buzz in Spacecraft Electronics and Electrical Systems

Powering every spacecraft and satellite are reliable electronics and electrical systems. They constitute the foundations of successful missions and services and, to demonstrate how the technology in this sphere is evolving, Space Tech Expo will showcase the very latest electronics and systems that are electrifying the industry. (Small) satellites are becoming more advanced: high-capacity data ...

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Giant floating tidal turbine for Orkney akes another step towards existence

SKF has been contracted to supply power train components for Orbital’s ‘O2’ 2MW floating tidal turbine planned for Orkney’s European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in 2020. Orbital’s earlier SR2000 has already produced >3GWh over its intitial year of testing at the same site. The Swedish firm supplied drive train parts to Orbital before, but this time the ...

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Google’s Sycamore chip makes progress towards quantum supremacy

Google is claiming significant progress towards a milestone in quantum computing, “quantum supremacy”

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Opne frame PSUs reach EN62477-1 OVC III for industrial

Cosel has introduced EN62477-1 OVC III certified open frame power supplies for industrial applications. Achieving OVCIII (over-voltage category level III) allows “designers an ac-dc power supply that complies with the isolation levels needed to connect their equipment to the facility distribution panel without the need for an additional isolation transformer,” said the firm. Other safety ...

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Intel sues Softbank subsidiary

Intel is suing Softbank-owned Fortress Investment Group for anti-competitive practices in building up patent banks aimed at interfering with manufacturing companies’ product plans, In the lawsuit, Intel alleges that Fortress, and other companies it controls, used patents they had acquired from NXP  to file legal actions against Intel claiming that nearly every processor it had ...

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Texas stars aren’t big and bright

TI cast a pall over the semiconductor market with a $3.77 billion Q3 compared to $4.26 billion in Q3 2018 and a gloomy Q4 forecast. ‘Revenue decreased 11% from the same quarter a year ago, as most markets weakened further,” said CEO Rich Templeton (pictured), “in our core businesses, analogue revenue declined 8% and embedded ...

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Imec vs Rutgers in DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge final

Today, in Los Angeles, Imec meets Rutgers University in the final of the DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge for a chance to win the $2 million first prize. Imec’s team ‘SCATTER’ finished in the top 10 after two rounds of competition—receiving $750,000 in each round—and will compete against nine other teams to find a solution to ...

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TensorFlow developers can target PowerVR GPUs

Developers working with TensorFlow will be able to target Imagination’s PowerVR GPUs directly thanks to newly optimised open source SYCL neural network libraries. The first release will be available in November 2019. The SYCL version of TensorFlow supports a very large number of AI operations and is easily user-customisable, meaning that developers using the latest ...

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Relative pressure sensor measures fuel vapour pressure down to 50mbar

Melexis has produced a relative pressure sensor IC designed for measuring very low pressures in automotive applications. The MLX90821 is a SIP to measure fuel vapor pressure as low as 50 mbar and up to 700 mbar. This makes the MLX90821 suitable for EVAP systems designed for internal combustion engine or hybrid vehicles. >Implementing fuel ...

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Falling SSD ASPs boost sales

Following a Q1 drop,  SSD shipments returned growth in Q2 as demand from the client system market boosted the performance of third-party suppliers like Kingston, says IHS Markit. Q2 SSD shipments rose to 57.9 million units up 9.7% from 52.8 million units in Q1. Q1 shipments declined by 8.4% sequentially. This shift from contraction to ...

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PCB balances supercapacitors

Advanced Linear Devices is aiming at series-connected supercapacitors with precision dual-channel automatic voltage balancers and over-voltage protectors. Called the SABMBOVP2xx family of products, they are small PCBs based around the firm’s ALD9100xx ICs, with added current-boosting output fets. ALD9100xx ICs (circuit below) include two voltage-dependant current sinks that conduct heavily above a certain voltage – acting ...

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Researchers seek dc power grid circuit breakers

Georgia Tech is to develop circuit breakers for >1MW dc power links up to 100kV – with wind farms, electric aircraft and electric ships in mind. Direct current power transmission is more efficient than AC (see below), but high-power dc is far harder to interrupt than ac – there is no current zero crossing in ...

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Low clamping voltage, high surge TVS devices protect USB Type-C PD in smartphones

Low clamping voltage, high surge transient voltage suppressors (TVS) from Alpha and Omega Semiconductor (AOS) are designed for Vbus protection. The AOZ8621UNI series of six TVS are suitable for USB Type-C Power Delivery (PD), in laptops and smartphones and any application using the PD protocol that can deliver up to 100W. The series covers a ...

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Softbank readies $9.5bn bail-out for WeWork

SoftBank has offered a $5 billion debt package to WeWork which is set to run out of cash in mid-November. On top of that Softbank will offer $3 billion to buy out existing WeWork shareholders and bring forward to this year  a $1.5 billion investment in WeWork which had been scheduled for next year, reports ...

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Rensselaer pioneers lighting-based ToF sensing

The LESA Centre at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York has pioneered and patented lighting-based Time of Flight sensing for privacy-preserving and occupant position measurement. Lighting-based Time of Flight (ToF) sensing plays an essential role in technologies ranging from safe, autonomous self-driving cars to SMART phones with facial recognition capabilities. Using the same concept, LESA’s precise ...

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US DoD invests $170m in SkyWater fab

SkyWater Technology, the only US-owned pure-play foundry which operates an old 200mm Cypress fab in Bloomington, Minnesota, is to receive a $170 million investment from the US Department of Defense (DoD). SkyWater will be expanding its Trusted Foundry facility to add clean room area and supporting infrastructure to enable Strategic Rad-Hard and other complementary technologies. The initial ...

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Imec develops thin-film monolithic NIR and SWIR image sensor

Imec has developed a thin-film monolithic image sensor that captures light in the near-infrared (NIR) and short-wavelength infrared (SWIR). Based on a monolithic approach, the process promises an order of magnitude gain in fabrication throughh  put and cost compared to processing today’s conventional IR imagers, while at the same time enabling multi-megapixel resolution. To date, infrared ...

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Mouser, Molex publish automation e-book

Mouser and Molex have published an e-book about the  changes taking place in industrial automation. The  e-book, Connector & Antenna Solutions for Industry 4.0, covers topics in industrial automation, including digital twinning, deep learning, and neural networks. The book also spotlights the Molex Industrial Automation Solution (IAS) 4.0, as well as Molex products such as Ultra-Fit ...

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Low-cost force feedback human interface from the University of Bristol

Seeking to improve the way humans interact with computers and remote robots, the University of Bristol has created hand-manipulated robot arms with force feedback. Whilst expensive versions exist today – the joysticks of fly-by-wire aircraft are an example, the university claims that its offering, branded Mantis, is “a lightweight, affordable and simple solution for everyday ...

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Arm helps Softbank to a tax-free year

Arm helped its owner Softbank reduce its tax bill to zero in a stratagem which Japan’s taxman is looking to shut down for the future, reports the Nikkei. The tax trick is to transfer a subsidiary’s core business to the parent, sell off the company for a cheap price to a subsidiary and then set ...

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SK Telecom and ID Quantique in Q4 QRNG push

SK Telecom and ID Quantique of Switzerland plan to boost sales of Quantum Random Number Generator technology in Q4.  SK Telecom and ID Quantique plan a strengthened QRNG product lineup for applications including self-driving cars, data centres, and mobile devices. The lineup includes a QRNG chipset (4.2mmX5mm) for self-driving cars; QRNG equipment for data centers; ...

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Non-combustible, flexible, li-ion battery developed

A non-combustible, flexible lithium-ion battery has been designed by a team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. The team developed a  new class of “water-in-salt” and “water-in-bisalt” electrolytes (WiS and WiBS) that, when incorporated in a polymer matrix, reduces water activity and elevates the battery’s energy capabilities and life cycle while ridding ...

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Renesas adds proactivity to R-Car Consortium

Renesas has launched its R-Car Consortium Proactive Partner Program. The program adds a new level to Renesas’ current R-Car Consortium, enabling customers to quickly identify and engage with the partners whose solutions will help them accelerate their innovation for the future mobility market. In 2005, Renesas established the R-Car Consortium as an open platform environment ...

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NVMe/TCP acceleration at 200Gb/s

Mellanox, the datacentre interconnect specialist, has announced acceleration of NVMe/TCP at speeds up to 200Gb/s. The entire portfolio of shipping ConnectX adapters supports NVMe-oF over both TCP and RoCE, and the newly-introduced ConnectX-6 Dx and BlueField-2 products also secure NVMe-oF connections over IPsec and TLS using hardware-accelerated encryption and decryption. These Mellanox solutions empower cloud, telco ...

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Poll: Readers’ Choice for Elektra 2019 Consumer Product Innovation award

Please take part in our poll and have your say on the destination of an Elektra 2019 Award. For the Consumer Product Innovation category, sponsored by Avnet, we are looking to readers to express their choice.

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U-Blox M9 meter-level positioning technology features GNSS chip

The U-Blox M9 global positioning technology platform, targeting automotive, telematics, and UAV applications, is now available. Using the GNSS chip, UBX-M9140, the M9 technology platform and the Neo-M9N, the first module based on the platform, can receive signals from up to four GNSS constellations (GPS, Glonass, Beidou, and Galileo) concurrently, in order to achieve positional ...

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Cadence 3D-IC packaging integration flow certified by Samsung Foundry

Cadence Design Systems’ 3D-IC advanced packaging integration flow has achieved certification for the Samsung Foundry MDI (multi-die-integration) packaging flow based on the 7nm low power process (7LPP) technology. The reference flow was developed in close collaboration with Samsung Foundry to provide mutual customers with a full planning, implementation and analysis flow for 3D multi-die packages. ...

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MIT teaches robot arms a new gripping trick

MIT has found a way for robot arms to change the point at which they grip an object by gripping loosely, and letting it slide as it is pushed against a wall or other solid object. The challenge is not trivial, as that object can not only be pushed straight against the surface, but can ...

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Tunnelling transistor offers logic and power on the same easy-to-make IC

Only eight lithography masks to create a low-power custom logic chips, compared with 20+ for CMOS, is the claim of Nottingham-based fabless chip start-up ‘Search For The Next’ (SFN). As such, production lead time is reduced – the target is two weeks by December 2020, according to company CEO David Summerland. Using just those eight layers, he ...

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Murata claims highest power-density with PQU650 series

Murata has announced the PQU650 series of open-frame, 650W-rated ac-dc power supplies. The firm claims its PQU650 series offers the highest power-density product on the market, with forced air- and convection-cooled ambient ratings. The power supplies offer standard features including wide output voltage adjustment range, auxiliary power rails and a high transient capability. Measuring 6×4″ ...

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ADI employee outreach initiatives boost STEM in Limerick

Analog Devices’ STEM outreach programme is initiated and run entirely by employees at all levels of the organisation. From the company’s robotics competition, to introducing its in-house designed “superhero story” book to both English speaking schools and as gaeilge (in Irish) to Gaelscoileanna, to inspiring local teenagers to participate in the Young Scientist exhibition, to ...

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Nu Quantum raises £650,000 pre-seed round

Nu Quantum, the Cambridge quantum photonics startup, has achieved a £650,000 pre-seed investment round.  The over-subscribed round was led by Amadeus Capital Partners, with participation from IQ Capital, Ahren Capital, Cambridge Enterprise and Martlet Capital, the investment arm of Marshall of Cambridge Group. The raise follows eight years of research at the Cavendish Laboratory at ...

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sureCore PowerMiser now on Samsung 28nm finfet process

sureCore, the Sheffield low-power SRAM IP specialist, says its  PowerMiser  low power SRAM IP is now available for designs targeting the Samsung 28nm FDS process. “As the low power IC design and SRAM IP standard products leader, we’re responding to more and more enquiries about the low power consumption capabilities of silicon-on-insulator technology,” says CEO Paul Wells. ...

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FPGAs with NIST CAVP certification

Lattice is sampling its MachXO3D FPGAs for secure system control which have received the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program (CAVP) certification. CAVP validates that critical MachXO3D cryptographic algorithms are compliant with Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), the U.S. federal government’s standard for cryptographic software. By complying with both the ...

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$99 LoRa development packs

ST has introduced two $99 ready-to-use development packs that enable designers to utilise LoRa’s long-range, low-power wireless IoT connectivity for tracking, positioning, metering, and other applications. The two packs provide a complete LoRaWAN development chain including gateway and end-node boards, firmware, and tools, leveraging ST’s convenient and proven STM32* Nucleo evaluation boards. Catering separately for regions ...

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NEC to launch Raspberry Pi-based MediaPlayer

In February, NEC is to launch a MediaPlayer for digital signage based on Raspberry Pi. The MediaPlayer software comes pre-installed on NEC´s Raspberry Pi Compute Module at no additional charge, delivering customisation suitable for digital display boards in retail, digital menu boards, leisure and corporate communication applications. The SoC MediaPlayer can be integrated inside any ...

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TDK Ventures makes second investment

TDK Ventures, the VC arm of TDK set up last July, has made its second investment. The investment is in Wheels, an operator of  e-bikes. Wheels was founded by brothers Joshua and Jonathan Viner as a shared electric micromobility platform that connects dockless electric bicycles. The Wheels e-bike is an e-bike with a seat with ...

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Japanese lab demonstrates 1Pbit/s data switching

The Japanese National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has developed and demonstrated the first large-scale optical switching test bed capable of handling one petabit per second optical signals – that is 1015bit/s and “equivalent to the capacity to send 8K video to 10 million people simultaneously”, according to the lab. Low-loss MEMS optical ...

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RS Components meets harsh-environment standards with steel connectors

RS Components has introduced the TE Connectivity Amplimite D-subminiature range of stainless steel connectors, which combine salt spray resistance with RoHS compliance, without the use of toxic cadmium plating. Designed to meet the performance requirements of MIL-DTL-24308, Amplimite D-subminiatures are suitable for electronic and industrial design engineers working on military and aerospace projects such as weapons ...

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TSMC boosts capex by $5bn

TSMC has upped its 2019 capex from $10-11 billion to $14-15 billion. The company forecasts a 10% rise in Q4 revenue, to between $10.2 billion and $10.3 billion, up from $9.4 billion a year ago. Q4 gross margin is expected to be 48%-50% – up from  47.7% in Q4 2018, Q3 showed a 13.5% rise ...

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GaN FET aids vehicle lidar systems’ accuracy

A 15V gallium nitride (GaN) FET has been added to the eGaN offering from Efficient Power Conversion (EPC). The automotive-qualified EPC2216 is designed for lidar applications in self-driving cars and can also be specified in other time-of-flight (ToF) systems, such as facial recognition, healthcare, warehouse automation, drones, mapping and smart advertising systems. The 26mΩ, eGaN ...

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