Xerox abandons bid for HP

Xerox has abandoned its $35 billion bid for HP ‘The current global health crisis and resulting macroeconomic and market turmoil caused by COVID-19 have created an environment that is not conducive to Xerox continuing to pursue an acquisition of HP,’ announced Xerox yesterday, ‘accordingly, we are withdrawing our tender offer to acquire HP and will ...

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Wafer Level Packaging sees steady growth

The Wafer Level Packaging (WLP) market is forecast to be worth over $5 billion by 2023, according to Yole Developpement.   Wafer Level Chip Scale Packaging  (WLCSP) remains a mainstream and cost-effective form factor, while the Fan-Out (FO);package market is expected Tom reach more than $2 billion by 2025. Fan-out finds increased heterogenous applications such ...

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EE leads for speed

RootMetrics recently conducted a survey of smartphone users in the Scotland which revealed while connectivity is increasing everywhere, EE was delivering the fastest speeds across. EE led with an aggregate median download speed of 34.2 Mbps. Vodafone trailed with median download speeds of 23.4 Mbps but was much faster than those of either O2 (13.1 ...

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Cable assemblies in 48 hours

Amphenol Custom Cable (ACC) has introduced various standard length cable assemblies into Digi-Key Electronics. These cable configurations have  Amphenol RF connectors and offer an assortment of options suitable for applications such as IoT, medical, drone and RFID. RF connector configurations that are included in this initial offering include BNC straight and right angle plugs, straight ...

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Covid-19 3d printable mask approved – only for MJF printers, files available

The Czech Republic has certified a 3D printed anti-covid-19 mask, as a half-mask with FFP3 safety level to EN 140:1999 when using exchangeable external filters. Designed at the Czech Technical University in Prague, by its Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC CTU), the part is called ‘CIIRC RP95-3D’ and has to be printed on a ...

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Huawei hits back at US

Huawei’s chairman Eric Xu warned the US government against its anti-Huawei measures when he presented the company’s annual report earlier today. “The Chinese government will not just stand by and watch Huawei be slaughtered on the chopping board,” said Xu, “why wouldn’t the Chinese government ban the use of 5G chips or 5G chip-powered base ...

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Melexis launches hall-effect sensor IC for electric power-assisted steering

Melexis has launched the MLX91377 hall-effect sensor IC, designed for use in automotive applications such as electric power-assisted steering. With an operating temperature between -40℃  and 160℃, the firm says the device combines high linearity with excellent thermal stability, including low offset and sensitivity drift. It’s been developed as a safety element out of context ...

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Nasa awards commercial cargo contract for lunar Gateway to SpaceX

NASA selects SpaceX to deliver cargo and other supplies to the agency’s Gateway in lunar orbit. 

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Three 200Vdc models added to TDK programmable DC PSU series

TDK has announced the introduction of three 0 – 200V, 19” wide, rack-mount, programmable DC power supplies. These additions to the firm’s Genesys+ series are available with output power levels of 5kW, 10kW and 15kW. The 200V models are designed for testing solar panels, semiconductor fabrication, battery charging, DC motor control, heaters and process control ...

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Renesas MCUs for motor inverter control

Renesas has launched the RX13T Group of 32-bit MCUs to enable inverter control of compact motors such as fans or pumps in consumer and industrial applications that previously controlled motor operation through on-off switching. This includes factory equipment where energy efficiency is a priority such as water discharge, supply pumps, or cooling fans for data ...

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Samsung to give up LCD production

 Samsung will end LCD production by the end of the year to concentrate on producing quantum dot displays. Over-production and falling demand have driven the decision. LG has already announced it will also be stopping LCD production this year. “We will supply ordered LCDs to our customers by the end of this year,” says Samsung. Saneung ...

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MagnaChip divests foundry business

MagnaChip Semiconductor of Korea has sold its foundry business to a financial consortium for $435 million turning  itself into a pure-play standard products company. $344 million will be paid in cash and applied to reducing MagnaChip’s debt and strengthening its balance sheet. The purchasing company, SPC, is owned by a project fund of which Alchemist ...

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Effects of coronavirus on electronics market segments in Q1

TrendForce has looked at the major markets in the electronics industry and come up with an assessment of how the coronavirus will affect them in Q1. Semiconductors Most clients of the global IC design companies placed orders ahead of time, with some of the orders having been fulfilled and shipped already. As such, IC design ...

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Delayed standards setting will slow 5G deployment

The progress of the 5G standards-setting programme is to be delayed which will affect the pace of the infrastructure roll-out. The responsible body – 3GPP — says it will  delay work on Stage 3 of Release 16 and that Release 17 would also be delayed. Consequently Stage 3 will not be set as a standard ...

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Microelectronic audio devices market growing at 6.6% CAGR

The market for microphones, audio ICs and microspeakers is expected to increase from $14.1 billion in 2018 to Sp$20.8 billion in 2024 with a 6.6% CAGR, says Yole Developpement. The consumer MEMS microphone market is expected to be worth $1.6 billion in 2024, up from $1.2 billion in 2018. For MEMS microphones, Knowles and Goertek are ...

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US Space Force tracks micro objects with Space Fence radar surveillance

Based in the Pacific, the Space Fence radar surveillance system is capable of detecting objects as small as a marble in low earth orbit.

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Cliff makes white FeedThrough connectors for medical equipment

Surrey-based Cliff Electronics has introduced two white nylon parts to its normally black FeedThrough connector family – various connectors that all fit through a standard XLR connector cut-out. The white ones are USB2.0 A-A and CAT5e RG45 data connectors, aimed at medical diagnostic and treatment equipment, as well as home monitoring, dental, cosmetic, IT and power-over-Ethernet products. ...

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Anglia task force prioritises inventory and support for ventilators

Anglia has formed a task force to coordinate and allocate available inventory and FAE resources for customers designing or manufacturing ventilators and other medical equipment to help address the covid-19 pandemic. The firm assures its fast-track service is resourced with a dedicated team to ensure it remains able to support all of its customers’ needs ...

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HVM Catapult heads UK ventilator consortium

The national High Value Manufacturing Catapult is leading a consortium of UK industrial and engineering businesses, including Siemens, Smiths, Thales and Ultra Electronics to design medical ventilators for the UK. Arrow Electronics, Microsoft and Dell are providing support. Called the VentilatorChallengeUK Consortium, it is lead by Dick Elsy, CEO of the Catapult, who last week deferred his retirement because of the ...

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TTI introduces local assembly of Souriau parts for faster lead times

TTI has moved the assembly of Souriau 851 bayonet connectors to its Munich facility. The distributor says the decision will strengthen its value-add, cutting lead times to a maximum of one week. Souriau’s 851 series bayonet connectors are designed for rugged applications, such as road-building equipment, machine tools and robotics, military telecommunications systems, water-measurement equipment, ...

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What will happen to UK technical standards after Brexit completes?

How will UK technical standards operate following the completion of Brexit? No one knows for sure, but who is better placed to read the runes than the British Standards Institution, which has watched over UK standards for more than a century. The short answer is that a number of standards used in the UK could ...

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Kyocera buys Showa Optronics

Kyocera is buying all of NEC’s shares in Showa Optronics Co., Ltd., an optical components manufacturer (SOC). After the share transfer is completed, Kyocera will own 93.53 % of SOC’s shares; SOC will begin operating as a subsidiary of Kyocera on June 1, 2020, under the name Kyocera Showa Optronics Co., Ltd. (KSO). With its highly advanced ...

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Toshiba launches two 80V N-channel power mosfets

Toshiba has launched two 80V N-channel power mosfets based on its U-MOSX-H process. The devices are said to be suited to power applications where low-loss operation is important, including ac-dc and dc-dc conversion in data centres and communication base stations as well as motor drive equipment.  Both the TPH2R408QM and TPN19008QM exhibit a reduction of ...

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Wi-Fi battery differential scopes for automotove

TiePie engineering has introduced three PC oscilloscopes with for automotive testing, equipped with Wi-Fi, LAN and batteries. These “WiFiScopes mark a new development of TiePie engineering, the first and industry’s only Wi-Fi-connected automotive test scopes with differential inputs”, according to the company, which last week introduced four general-purpose differential input Wi-Fi scopes. “The differential automotive ...

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UK: Do you have spare eye protection, plastic aprons or disposable gloves?

Some council social care services in the UK are short of eye protection, plastic aprons and disposable gloves. Many of our readers operate, own or work in manufacturing sites that might have spare stocks. If you think you can help, consider contacting your local social care services department or local GP practices. Please don’t turn ...

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Telcos rise to virus challenge

Following talks with the government, the UK’s major internet service and mobile providers, namely BT/EE, Openreach, Virgin Media, Sky, TalkTalk, O2, Vodafone, Three, Hyperoptic, Gigaclear, and KCOM have all agreed the following commitments, effective immediately: All providers have committed to working with customers who find it difficult to pay their bill as a result of ...

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Softbank-backed company goes bankrupt

Softbank-backed satellite manufacturer OneWeb of London has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. “OneWeb has been building a truly global communications network to provide high-speed low latency broadband everywhere,” says OneWeb CEO Adam Steckel, “our current situation is a consequence of the economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis. We remain convinced of the social and economic ...

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Raspberry Pi-powered quad NAS with Radxa SATA HAT

Radxa has announced the ROCK Pi SATA HAT, a series of SATA expansion targeting at the NAS solution for Raspberry Pi 4 and ROCK Pi 4. The ROCK Pi SATA HATs come in 3 models: Dual/Quad SATA HAT Penta SATA HAT The Dual/Quad SATA HAT is designed for Raspberry Pi 4 as well as ROCK Pi ...

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Indiegogo launch for smart wall socket

myDOQ, a smart wall socket, opens its Indiegogo campaign tomorrow. With an early bird 40% discount, over 8,000 supporters have already pre-registered their interest, says makers Lansdowne Technology. “I’m delighted by the initial response that we have received”, said Neil Rosen, Founder and CEO of Lansdowne, “we are inundated with correspondence from people informing us ...

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Segger announces Sifive Insight support for J-Link probes

Segger says its strengthening its position in relation to the risc-v instruction set architecture by implementing support for Sifive’s Insight debug/trace on J-Link probes. The company’s products are already fully compatible with Sifive’s RISC-V processor cores. The Insight support includes Sifive’s latest Nexus-based trace implementation, which enables ongoing monitoring and recording of processor instruction execution. ...

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STEM Learning organisation assists classrooms with online resources

With UK schools closed for the foreseeable future due to covid-19, classrooms have been moved online. STEM Learning, a government, charity and industry backed education provider, has made a tranche of resources available on its site to assist teachers during current circumstances. The organisation has launched an area on its website to host materials generated ...

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Google smooths Android path for emulated ARM app support

System images for Android 11 provide emulated ARM support with significantly improved performance.

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TSMC implements remote working after employee tests covid-19 positive

Following one of its Taiwan employees testing positive for covid-19 on 18 March, TSMC has put a remote working policy in place for non-production line workers, Taipei Times reports. 30 other employees have been asked to enter quarantine while the infected member of staff has been taken to hospital for treatment. Additional measures include the ...

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Würth producing PCBs for ventilators to help meet covid-19 demand

Würth Elektronik is supplying the PCBs needed for the rapid manufacture of intensive care and mobile ventilators from its three production sites in Germany. In order to ensure the supply of medical ventilators for coronavirus patients in Germany, the German government has placed several orders with different manufacturers at short notice.   At the plants in ...

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100 fabs taken out of production in the last decade

100 fabs have been closed or repurposed in the last decade, says IC Insights. Figure 1 shows the number of fabs closed by geographic region while Figure 2 shows a distribution of those fabs by wafer size and year. Figure 1 Japan and North America, have accounted for most of the wafer fab closures since 2009.  ...

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US considers extending Huawei chip sales ban to foreign companies

A US proposal to tighten the screw on chip supplies to Huawei would be to control sales by foreign chip companies, reports Reuters. At the moment it is only a proposal, and President Trump has declined to implement the idea in the past but, with anti-China rancour growing in Washington, it could be revived, The ...

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Arm down in an up market

Arm’s revenues declined slightly in 2019 in a market that grew, says IPnest, reflecting similar situations in 2018 and 2017. Arm’s royalty revenue declined by 6-7%, says IPnest,  but its licensing revenues  – including physical IP – were up 13%. Companies ranked by semiconductor design IP revenue in 2019 (millions of dollars). Source: IPnest (March ...

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miDiagnostics raises €14m

miDiagnostics, which is using an Imec-invented IC technology  to bring lab-quality tests with built-in connectivity direct to the patient and clinician regardless of location, has secured a €14m investment round. The round was supported by existing shareholders as well as leading life science and tech investors Dr. Rudi Pauwels and Dr. Ir. Urbain Vandeurzen. The ...

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Double-booking could be bolstering NAND ASPs

The Q2 NAND ASP is projected to rise by 5% QoQ, boosted by enterprise SSD demand and a 2020 bit increase as low as 30%, reports DRAMeXchange. Prices may be being bolstered by OEM fears of shortages leading to double-ordering, reckons DRAMeXchange. However H2 pricing, starting as early as Q3, could head south, as buyers ...

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SMD package for 1200V Schottky diode

Infineon has expanded its CoolSiC Schottky diode 1200 V portfolio by adding six devices in a D²PAK real 2-pin package. Using SMD packages, designs can be more compact and more cost effective. Moreover, the new D²PAK real 2-pin package eliminates the middle pin to offer 4.7 mm creepage and 4.4 mm clearance distance. Compared to ...

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Electronics Manufacturers Feel Impact of Coronavirus Disruptions

BANNOCKBURN, IL—Electronics manufacturers are feeling the impact of the coronavirus on their businesses, according to a recent survey conducted by IPC.

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ICEEYE small satellites see the world in higher resolution

ICEYE unveils its capability of 25cm resolution imaging with synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) small satellites.

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U.S. Electrical Trade Associations Ensure Essential Businesses Operate

ROSSLYN, VA—The leading trade associations representing America’s electrical supply chain united to ensure that lawmakers at the state and local levels keep the power on for everyone as they make decisions related to the current COVID-19 health crisis.

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Keysight data-acquisition system with 800kSa/s sampling rate at RS

RS Components has introduced the DAQ973A data-acquisition system from Keysight, a three-slot modular mainframe unit with a choice of nine plug-in modules and a sampling rate of 800kSa/s. Keysight has re-used the measurement engine from its test and measurement equipment inside the DAQ973A for modular flexibility and universal inputs with built-in signal conditioning. The unit ...

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UPS and Wingcopter develop parcel delivery drone

UPS and  Wingcopter of Darmstadt are to build delivery drones with a range of 75 miles and a top speed of 150mph. ‘Drone delivery is not a one-size-fits-all operation,’ says UPS’s Bala Ganesh, ‘our collaboration with Wingcopter helps pave the way for us to start drone delivery service in new use-cases.’ UPS has a project ...

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Robot ankle is better than springs

A motorised ankle exoskeleton has made running easier, even easier than assistive springs Appropriately powered by a motor, the exoskeleton reduced the energy cost of running by 15% compared with running without the exoskeleton, according to Stanford University, where the research took place. Whereas if the exoskeleton was powered to mimic a spring, running was ...

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TDK adds lower power option to EZA series with 2500W dc-dc converter

TDK has introduced the EZA2500W-32048 bi-directional dc-dc converter model to its EZA series, following the 11kW variant released last year. The high voltage range now covers 260-400Vdc and the lower voltage 36-65Vdc. The operating temperature is -10 to 50°C. Double sided protective board coating and long-life dust resistant fans have also been included. The output ...

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DSP: Inverse chirp z-transform, where it works and doesn’t work

The inverse chirp z-transform (ICZT) can be used with chirp contours that perform partial or multiple revolutions on the unit circle, according to engineers at Iowa State University. Last year, Iowa State engineers Alexander Stoytchev and Vladimir Sukhoy created a closed-form solution for the ICZT, which generalises the inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) off the ...

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VCs use coronavirus as excuse to exploit startups

VCs are using the coronavirus as an opportunity to exploit startups, according the Business Insider. BI quotes a startup founder saying thar his investors would only inject new funds if a lower valuation was accepted. The founder is quoted as saying: “Valuation discussions have been ridiculous; it’s like they are trying to ***** us.”  Matt Clifford, ...

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Renesas PLC IC chosen by Panasonic for railway lighting system

Panasonic has adopted Renesas’ R9A06G037 PLC IC for its railway platform lighting control system. Panasonic and East Japan Railway Company jointly developed the system using G3-PLC, a narrowband standard (10-450kHz) for outdoor use.  PLC makes it possible to transmit control signals over power lines, allowing operators to adjust the brightness and colour of lighting fixtures ...

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Home kit to determine coronavirus immunity

Amazon will be delivering millions of finger-prick coronavirus testing kits to people if they are found to be accurate in tests being done this week. The kits will go first to NHS other critical workers and will then be made available to the general public. The kits will determine whether or not a person is ...

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SIA asks US government to designate semi industry ‘essential’

The SIA has written to President Trump and government bodies asking them to designate the semiconductor industry as “essential business” allowing companies to continue to operate in spite of shutdowns. “We call on all states, provinces, and localities taking action to address the public health crisis to ensure the continued operations of the semiconductor industry ...

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Zytronic offers custom design for capacitive user interfaces

Zytronic, the Newcastle capacitive touch specialist,  can now work with customers to design and manufacture projected capacitive user interfaces that combine a “traditional” dynamic touch area with surrounding capacitive keys. Named ZyBrid VK, and based upon Zytronic’s multi-touch capable, projected capacitive technology (MPCT,  this latest development opens opportunities to improve and enhance the design of human ...

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Memory is a game of two halves

Memory purchasers will be reluctant to raise inventory levels from the end of 2Q20 onwards, affecting the price trend of memory products in 2H20, reckons TrendForce. With DRAM, the considerable preexisting gap between supply and demand is expected to persist even if demand drops. Thus, 2H20 DRAM prices will, at worst, exhibit limited growth rather ...

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Add on 400G

AddOn Networks has added a range of optical transceivers to increase capacity on the networks with 400G capabilities. Enterprises worldwide are facing huge pressures to deliver faster speeds and higher bandwidth due to the ever-increasing demands for greater internet connectivity. This transceiver –  the QSFP28-DD 2x100G – addresses these fundamental challenges by increasing network density, reducing ...

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Mellanox launches SN4000 Ethernet switches for cloud applications

Mellanox has announced the launch of its SN4000 Ethernet switches, powered by the Spectrum-3 12.8 Tbps Ethernet switch ASIC. The devices are designed for cloud, ethernet storage fabric, and AI interconnect applications. There are multiple form-factors available supporting combinations of up to 32 ports of 400GbE, 64 ports of 200GbE and 128 ports of 100/50/25/10GbE. ...

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HP Offers 3D Printing to Increase Production of Critical Devices

PALO ALTO, CA — HP Inc. and its global digital manufacturing community are mobilizing 3D printing teams, technology, experience and production capacity to help deliver critical parts in medical facilities treating patients with COVID-19.

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Image sensors have global shutters for automated vision, and are small

STMicroelectronics is aiming at 2D and 3D smart computer-vision with backside-illuminated global shutter high-speed image sensors – global shutter is the preferred mode for capturing distortion-free images when the scene is moving or when near-infrared illumination is needed, according to the company. VD55G0 is 640 x 600 pixels and 2.6mm x 2.5mm VD56G3 is 1,124 x 1,364 ...

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ESA signals progress in hunting for water on the Moon

The European Space Agency highlights identifying sources of water beneath the surface of the Moon.

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Koh Young AI systems demonstrated virtually at Altus Group

In light of the covid-19 pandemic, distributor Altus Group is using virtual demonstrations to show Koh Young’s AI products. The distributor says its seeing increased interest in Koh Young’s metrology based full 3D solder paste inspection and automated optical inspection systems which incorporate AI technology to improve production. The firm’s latest automated optical inspection system ...

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Anritsu conducts PIM analysis over fiber and present RF spectrum

Anritsu has introduced the IQ fiber master MT2780A RF and PIM analyser. The device performs passive intermodulation analysis over fiber and presents RF spectrum results derived from IQ data. The MT2780A is designed to provide field engineers, technicians, and third-party contractors a single tool for RF interference measurements and troubleshooting on LTE-based systems with CPRI front ...

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Renesas PMIC reference designs for Xilinx ICs

Renesas has announced three Power Management IC (PMIC) reference designs for powering the multiple supply rails of Xilinx Artix-7 FPGAs, Spartan-7 FPGAs, and Zynq-7000 SoCs, with and without DDR memory. Renesas has worked closely with Xilinx to offer low-risk and easy to design power solutions to accelerate FPGA and SoC design. The reference designs speed ...

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Samsung shipping EUV DRAM

Samsung says it has shipped a million 10nm-class (D1x) DDR4  DRAM modules based on EUV. The EUV-based DRAM modules have completed global customer evaluations, and will open the door to more cutting-edge EUV process nodes for use in premium PC, mobile, enterprise server and datacenter applications. Samsung says it is the first of the three major ...

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THine serialiser IC extends MIPI CS-2 transmission to 15ft

THine, the Japanese mixed signal specialist, has got  high-volume availability of  its MIPI CSI-2 serializer IC, THCV243. The chip allows engineers to extend MIPI CSI-2 transmission to greater than 15 meters with a tiny 2.1mm x 2.9mm package! It also allows the reduction of a significant number of cables between the camera and processor board by ...

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DSP cores and speech recognition for TensorFlow Lite on MCU

CEVA-BX DSP cores and WhisPro speech recognition software targeting conversational AI and contextual awareness applications now  support TensorFlow Lite for MCUs. This delivers a production ready, cross-platform framework for deploying tiny machine learning on power-efficient processors in edge devices. Tiny machine learning brings the power of AI to extremely low power, always-on, battery operated IoT ...

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Connector for optical transceiver applications

 Yamaichi Electronics has brought out a host connector for a data transmission rate of 56 Gbps PAM-4 modulation per one channel. The SFP28 connector is used in server and switch applications. It is fully compliant with the SFF-8084 and SFF-8402 standards as an interface connector to plug in a 0.8mm pitch card edge connector. This ...

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COVID-19 Workforce Health Analysis Solution for Offered for Free

SASKATOON, Canada — SafetyTek is offering its COVID-19 Workforce Health Analysis, an extension of the cloud-based Workplace Safety Engagement Platform, to organizations providing essential services.

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Ultra caps deliver 60kW for medical scanning

Skeleton Technologies is launching an ultra-capacitor module for power peak having in medical resonance imaging machines. Called SkelMod 131V, it can store 15.9Wh, with a terminal voltage up to 131V. Perhaps more importantly, peak power is somewhere around 60kW. An internal management system balances cells and offers alarm signal outputs and LED status indication. Predicted life ...

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Samsung launches PMICs for TWS (true wireless stereo) earbuds

Samsung has announced two “all-in-one” PMICs, MUA01 and MUB01, specifically designed for today’s true wireless stereo (TWS) devices. Unlike wireless headphones, TWS earbuds have no wire that connects the two earpieces. The MUA01 and MUB01 PMICs have been designed for the charging case and the earbuds respectively. The devices reportedly integrate up to ten discrete ...

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PCB assembly: avoid hot-shortness or partial re-flow

Gordon McAlpine, is production manager at PCB assembly firm Dynamic EMS, has sent in a tip on how to avoid hot shortness, also referred to as partial re-flow, where a connection has been heated close to melt temperatures causing grain boundary weakening. The risk is that components can be partially re-flow, significantly weakening their attachment, when a ...

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Ceva DSP and voice AI support Tensorflow Lite integration

Ceva’s BX DSP cores and Whispro speech recognition software for conversational AI now also support Tensorflow Lite for microcontrollers, a framework for deploying tiny machine learning on  processors in edge devices. Tiny machine learning allows AI to operate in low power, battery operated IoT devices for sensor data analytics of audio, voice, image and motion. ...

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New CEO at Nexperia

Frans Scheper (pictured), CEO of Nexperia, the former standard products division of NXP is to hand over to  Xuezheng Zhang, Nexperia’s chairman. Scheper will continue to serve as an advisor to the Chairman for a period of time to help achieve a smooth transition and provide continuity. The Board of Nexperia wishes to express its profound ...

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Aaeon Boxer-8110AI powers service robots aiming to limit disease spread

Aaeon, Taiwanese IoT and AI edge computing firm, has worked with customers to deploy the Boxer-8110AI to power automated service robots in hotels and other service industries. With the ongoing pandemic, many countries and communities have banned large assemblies and events, and advised citizens to avoid unnecessary meetings and reduce contact through practicing social isolation. ...

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Neural net accelerates IC design placement

Google has come up with a neural net that can do IC design placement in record quick time.

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MOFs could be next-gen chips

A team of researchers from Clemson University’s College of Science recently demonstrated that a novel double-helical Metal-Organic Frameworks MOF architecture, in a partially oxidized form, can conduct electricity that potentially makes it a next-generation semiconductor. MOFs consist of an array of metal ions connected by organic ligands. Atomically engineered with great precision, they possess highly ...

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Starter Kit for RX23E MCU

The Renesas Solution Starter Kit (RSSK) for developers working with the 32-bit RX23E-A MCU claims to have one of the most accurate analogue front ends (AFE) in the industry. The kit ybrings together hardware, software, and tools optimized for evaluating the MCU’s high-precision 24-bit delta-sigma (ΔΣ) A/D converter with industry-leading accuracy. The RSSK enables users ...

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Raspberry Pi AR/VR headset

Dungeon Master Dan has built  a Raspberry Pi VR/AR Headset. ‘This is a build I made using a Raspberry Pi, an IR camera, and an HDMI compatible HMD (head-mounted-display),’ writes DMD, ‘The entire build is attached to the headset meaning that I don’t have any messy wires constantly getting in my way, but it can ...

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Q1 foundry revenues up 30% y-o-y

Q1 foundry revenues are expected to be 2% down q-o-q but 30% up y-o-y, says TrendForce. TSMC is expected to see  full capacity for its 7nm  and 90% capacity utilization for its 12/16nm nodes. Samsung is increasing capacity for 5G SoC AP, high resolution CIS, OLED-DDIC, and HPC products, while expanding its EUV applications and ...

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Tower PDK for PMICs

Tower Semiconductor has a PDK for a 0.18um high-performance power management technology that reduces power consumption and die size of  PMICs. The process offers a  lower RDson with  6mΩmm², 24V operation, smaller footprint, scalable power transistors, and low production mask count, enabling performance and cost advantages. This offering enables scalable IC operation of up to 24 ...

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Q4 surge for CMOS image sensors

Q4 sales of CMOS image sensors were 38% up q-o- q at  $5.746 million, says Yole Developpement. 2019 revenue growth was 25% but, this year, growth is expected to slow down to 7%.

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RS Components adds Fluke thermal imaging cameras with asset tagging

RS Components has added Fluke’s Tis20+ and Tis60+ handheld infrared thermal imaging cameras to its portfolio. Designed for one-handed fixed-focus image capture, the infrared imagers are suitable for engineers and technicians with less experience in thermal imaging. The manufacturer claims they allow accurate non-contact temperature measurement from a safe distance to reveal invisible thermal issues ...

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U-Blox IoT chipset certified by AT&T for LTE-M IoT applications

U-Blox has completed AT&T’s chipset verification process for the UBX-R5 multi-band low power wide area (LPWA) chipset platform to operate on the carrier’s LTE-M network for the Internet of Things. The chipset features end-to-end device security, data security, and access control management. The cellular chipset platform, supporting LPWA LTE-M and NB-IoT technologies, is designed for ...

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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover achieves record climb on Mars

The Curiosity Mars Rover sets a record for the steepest terrain it's ever climbed on Mars

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Sponsored Content: How to Select the Right 3D Printer

Phil Hutchinson, element14 Community Senior Specialist at Farnell, considers how to select the right 3D printer.

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Imec signs JDP with Park Systems

Imec and Park Systems, the Atomic Force Microscopy and Metrology specialist, have signed the 2nd Joint Development Project (JDP) within 4 years to increase the development efforts for future generation in-line AFM metrology solutions. Dr. Luc Van den hove (President & CEO, Imec) and Dr. Sang-il Park (Chairman & CEO, Park Systems) The official signing ...

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6-10 weeks to reduce corona cases, says Gates

Coronavirus cases could be on the way down within six to ten weeks of countries taking shut-down precautions and instituting testing procedures, says Bill Gates (pictured), who led the fight to eradicate polio and has pledged $100 million to tackle the coronavirus. Asked during  a Reddit Q&A session Gates how long the coronavirus crisis would ...

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Fabless revenues fell 4% in 2019

Fabless revenues fell 4.1% in 2019 and are unlikely to grow this year, reports TrendForce. The top three IC fabless companies – Broadcom, Qualcomm, and NVIDIA – all saw decreased revenues last year. Broadcom was affected by the U.S. Entity List policy and saw a 7% revenue decrease YoY. Second-place Qualcomm faced fierce competition from ...

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February phone sales take record y-o-y fall but H2 could see upswing

In February, smartphone shipments were down 38% y-o-y – the biggest fall in the history of the market, says Strategy Analytics. Units fell from 99.2 million phones in February, 2019, to 61.8 million in February, 2020. “Despite tentative signs of recovery in China, we expect global smartphone shipments overall to remain weak throughout March, 2020,” ...

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Hyperscalers driving server market

The worldwide server market continued to grow in Q4 with revenue increasing 5.1% and unit shipments growing 11.7% year over year, according to Gartner. In 2019, worldwide server shipments declined 3.1% and server revenue declined 2.5% compared with full-year 2018. “The market returned to growth with a very strong fourth quarter result, largely driven by ...

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Centimetre-level positioning from multi-constellation GNSS receiver

Septentrio is starting high-volume production of a multi-constellation and multi-band receiver module delivering centimetre-level positioning to technologies such as robotics, automation, smart wearables and telematics among others. Called mosaic TM-X5 it aims to make high-performance positioning accessible to volume applications. The GNSS receiver has a multi-frequency multi-constellation  capability receiving  every existing and future signal from ...

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Coronavirus Pandemic Leads to Shortage of Alcohol-Based Fluxes

The coronavirus pandemic is leading to shortages of more than test kits, ventilators and, um, toilet paper. Due to the huge increase in demand for hand sanitizer, there is a now shortage of isopropyl alcohol—a key ingredient in some fluxes.

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EPC Epower stage IC family launched for high-density compute

EPC has announced a 80V, 12.5A power stage IC, part of its Epower family, designed for 48V dc-dc conversion in high-density computing applications and motor drives for e-mobility. The EPC2152 is a single-chip driver plus eGaN fet half-bridge power stage using proprietary GaN technology. Input logic interface, level shifting, bootstrap charging and gate drive buffer ...

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Rockwell Automation Announces New Acquisitions

MILWAUKEE, WI — Rockwell Automation, an industrial automation and digital automation provider, announced two acquisitions, one domestic and one international, that will be finalized in the coming months.

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Oxford University and King’s College London are developing ventilators

Engineers, anaesthetists and surgeons from the University of Oxford and King’s College London are building and testing prototype ventilators that can be manufactured using techniques and tools available in well-equipped university and small and medium enterprise (SME) workshops. The team, led by Oxford Professors Andrew Farmery, Mark Thompson and Alfonso Castrejon-Pita and King’s College London’s Dr Federico ...

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Selection panel decides the Class of 2020 EW BrightSparks

The selection panel to decide the Class of 2020 for EW BrightSparks has made its decision.

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NXP i.MX processors with 1 or 2 Cortex-A72 cores stocking at Mouser

Mouser Electronics is now stocking the i.MX 8Quadmax and 8Quadplus applications processors from NXP Semiconductors. The multi-core applications processors are suitable for applications in automotive infotainment, advanced industrial human machine interface (HMI) and control, heads-up displays, and machine vision and tracking devices. The i.MX 8Quadmax and 8Quadplus enable multi-OS platform deployment through full-chip hardware virtualisation ...

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The Sun has come up in China, says Molkenkopf

Qualcomm’s China business is back to the same level it was a year ago, Qualcomm CEO, Steve Mollenkopf (pictured) told CNBC yesterday. “The sun has come up in China with respect to how they’ve returned to a normal state,” said Mollenkopf. Qualcomm gets about half its total revenues from China. “At the end of  January ...

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Intel delivers 90% of the time

After months of shortages, Intel CEO Bob Swan (pictured) has posted an open letter on the company’s web-site saying that Intel’s deliveries are 90% on-time. “I am equally inspired by the deep commitment of our teams to sustain our manufacturing, assembly, test and supply chain operations in Oregon, New Mexico, California and Arizona, as well ...

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Cambridge RF Mesh specialist adds cellular connectivity

CyanConnode, the AIM-listed Cambridge specialist in narrowband RF Smart Mesh Networks, has added cellular capability to its Omnimesh platform. Omnimesh is an open standards platform and it is currently being applied to the future-proofing of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) communications for utilities. The Omnimesh cellular products deliver end-to-end communication across both public and private carrier networks. ...

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Small-footprint USB-C controller

ST has made a small-footprint addition to its USB-C controller family designed and certified for pure 5V sink-only applications. All mandatory features to use the USB-C connector as a 5V universal power plug are integrated, allowing designers to implement USB-C charging solutions quickly and easily without studying the standard or writing code. USB-C is rapidly becoming ...

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Relaunched Maplin focuses on enthusiasts, Raspberry Pi and Arduino

In 2018, consumer electronics retailer Maplin went into administration, shuttering 200 locations. Last year, the company quietly re-emerged with an online-only business model. EW spoke with CEO Ollie Marshall about the firm’s renewed focus on the hobbyist and enthusiast community. Marshall explains that “In the latter days, the company tried to focus more on mainstream ...

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Harwin reaches out across Europe

The connector company, Harwin, has added New Jersey-based Powell Electronics to its network of distributors. Specialising in mechanical and electro-mechanical products, Powell also has an office in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands. The agreement includes hi-rel connector products, such as the Gecko, Datamate and M300 ranges and will also include cable assembly. Products will be available direct ...

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Battery powered 100MHz scope has plenty of interfaces

Saelig is stocking two- and four-channel battery-powered portable oscilloscopes from Shenzhen-based Micsig. There are three models in the STO1000E PLUS series: STO1102E PLUS 2-channel 100MHz STO1152E PLUS 2-channel 150MHz STO1104E PLUS 4-channel 100MHz Each includes a 70Mpoint memory, 1Gsample/s sampling (single channel only), 130,000wfm/s refresh rate and a 7.5Ah Li battery. They have an 8″ (#200mm) touch screen with ...

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ST to slash production in France

ST has agreed to cut production at its French plants by up to 50% according to the French unions. The unions involved are the CFE-CGC and the CFDT. The head of the CFDT union, Eric Potard, said that workers will stay at home on a rotating basis and keep all their pay whether they work ...

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Google eyes 5G, foldable screens with Android 11 Developer Preview 2

Google has passed another milestone to the release of Android 11 with a Developer Preview 2, which is for application developers only.

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Toshiba announces TLP5231 dual output IGBT/mosfet driver

Toshiba has announced an IGBT/mosfet gate driver equipped with additional built-in functionality. The TLP5231 is aimed at applications including industrial inverters, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), power conditioners for solar energy and motor controls. The pre-driver has a pair of outputs designed to drive external p-channel and n-channel mosfets used for current buffers. This allows the ...

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X-Fab expands SiC Capacity, adds in-house epitaxy capabilities

X-Fab Silicon Foundries SE is offering SiC foundry services at the scale of silicon, running both processes on the same manufacturing line. The pure-play foundry has added internal SiC epitaxy capabilities to its offering, meaning more of the process chain is accessed through a single source.  The firm says growing demand has necessitated it expand ...

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Current constraints on consumer spending could stoke electronics demand in H2

The current constraints on consumer spending could lead to a boom in spending on electronics products later this year, suggests Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence. The National Bureau of Statistics of China reported combined January and February 2020 production of mobile phone units was down 34% from a year ago, and the total value of Chinese ...

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US companies have 55% semiconductor market share

Propelled by 51% share of IDM sales and 65% share of fabless sales, U.S. companies captured 55% of the total worldwide IC market in 2019, says IC Insights. Figure 1 shows U.S. companies held 55% of the total worldwide IC market in 2019 followed by the South Korean companies with a 21% share, down six ...

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Samsung to keep spending

Samsung Electronics will stick with its investment plans despite the coronavirus, and intends to take process technology leadership in the foundry business away from TSMC. “High technology will be more important in the foundry market,” said Samsung Electronics CEO Kim Ki-nam (pictured) yesterday, “in that sense, Samsung’s foundry has never been behind Taiwan, and in ...

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Current spending restrictions could stoke consumer electronics demand in H2

The current constraints on consumer spending could lead to a boom in spending on electronics products later this year, suggests  Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence. The National Bureau of Statistics of China reported combined January and February 2020 production of mobile phone units was down 34% from a year ago, and the total value of Chinese industrial production ...

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UWB transceivers send 1 kb of data in 50µs,

Spark Microsystems of Montreal is sampling a series of low power UWB wireless transceiver ICs for short-range wireless connectivity. Production is planned for Q3. The SR1000 transceiver series offers an extremely low latency symmetrical bi-directional data link coupled with ultra-low power consumption and provides high quality of service in order to support the uninterrupted low ...

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Drone radar database made public for UAV hunters

A database of drone radar cross sections has been made public to help those developing countermeasures. ‘We measured drone radar cross sections at multiple 26-40GHz millimetre-wave frequencies to better understand how drones can be detected, and to investigate the difference between drone models and materials in terms of scattering radio signals,” said researcher Vasilii Semkin ...

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UK-RAS launches creative competitions to spur early interest in robotics

For this year’s UK Robotics Week, UK-RAS has launched two creative competitions based around drawing and story-writing. The contests are open to key stage 1 & 2 children respectively, and prizes including programmable robot kits and experiment kits are up for grabs. For the “Draw a robot” competition, children in key stage 1 (five to ...

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Rutronik and Laser Components sign global distribution agreement

Rutronik has entered into a global distribution agreement with German optoelectronics firm Laser Components encompassing all of the manufacturer’s products. Laser Components’ product range includes photodiodes, IR components, lasers, laser modules, fibre optics, and optical components. These products are used in industrial applications, primarily for positioning and marking in the medical, industrial, and laser systems ...

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Industrial PCs get Gen 9 and Xeon E processors

Kontron has upgraded its KISS V3 family of industrial rack-mount PCs, moving to 9th Gen Intel Core i7/i5/i3 or 2nd Gen Xeon E processors with up to eight cores on a FCLGA1151 socket with C246 chipset. Called KISS V3 CFL, they come in 1U, 2U and 4U formats. “Thanks to their resistance to high temperatures as ...

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Oxford University develops rapid, simple coronavirus test.

Oxford University’s Engineering Science Department and the Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research (OSCAR) have developed a rapid testing technology for the corona virus. The new test is much faster and does not need a complicated instrument.  Previous viral RNA tests took 1.5 to 2 hours to give a result. The research team has developed ...

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Farnell introduces Rohde and Schwarz NGP800 power supplies

Farnell has added Rohde & Schwarz’s NGP800 series of power supplies to its portfolio. The series is made up of five 2- and 4-channel models operating at either 400W or 800W, suited for both bench-top and automated test systems.  They have a 5” touch display that enables synchronising outputs, performing waveform tests and logging data ...

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Abingdon startup has coronavirus vaccine

Four year-old startup Emergex of Abingdon plans to start testing a coronavirus vaccine within two months. In January Emergex raised $11 million in a funding round led by Vickers Ventures. Emergex has an unusual methodology for creating vaccines. Traditionally vaccines are developed using live viruses which need to be grown on a host which can ...

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Renesas RE family adopted as main controller of Casio G-Shock watch

Renesas has announced its RE family controller is the main controller of the Casio G-Shock watch GBD-H1000 with heart rate monitor and GPS functionality. The watch is equipped with an optical sensor that measures heart rate by detecting changes in the blood flow under the skin; a triple sensor that measures compass bearing, barometric pressure/altitude, ...

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Trace and debug for RISC-V IP

SiFive has announced hardware trace and debug for RISC-V processor IP. Called SiFive Insight, it is “industry’s first combined trace and debug solution for the freely-available, open-specification RISC-V ISA”, said SiFive. it is intended to “meet customer demand and expectations for the capability to access, observe, and control products deploying SiFive’s RISC-V Core IP portfolio”. ...

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Cotonavirus pushing up DRAM and SSD ASPs

Q2 server DRAM ASPs will rise 20% q-o-q and Q2 SSD prices will rise 10-15% q-o-q, says DRAMeXchange. Driving DRAM demand are the US JEDI contract and the demand for teleworking services. Supply of server DRAM is now tight and inventory levels at both suppliers and customers are low. The demand for teleworking and cloud ...

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Ray tracing acceleration standard settled

The Khronos Group, an open consortium of industry-leading companies creating advanced interoperability standards, announces the ratification and public release of the Vulkan Ray Tracing provisional extensions, creating the industry’s first open, cross-vendor, cross-platform standard for ray tracing acceleration. Primarily focused on meeting desktop market demand for both real-time and offline rendering, the release of Vulkan Ray ...

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V2X evaluation kit gets WiFi-5 pre-certification

Autotalks, the Israeli V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) specialist, has completed Wi-Fi 5 pre-certification for its evaluation kit based on its 2nd generation V2X chipset. Autotalks dual-mode (DSRC and C-V2X) chipset recently achieved this milestone for its dual-band Wi-Fi (2.4GHz and 5GHz) supporting standards 802.11a/b/g/n/ac. The testing was done by an authorized test laboratory of the Wi-Fi Alliance, using ...

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L-Band suite of coherent optical components

NeoPhotonics has brought in an L-Band suite of coherent optical components, including its 64 GBaud L-Band High Bandwidth Coherent Driver Modulator (HB-CDM), 64 GBaud L-Band Intradyne Coherent Receiver (ICR) and ultra-narrow linewidth L-Band tunable laser Micro-ITLA. Together with NeoPhotonics standard C-Band coherent components, these new products enable customers to double the capacity of optical fiber ...

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Eyeware and Melexis collaborate on driver monitoring systems

Eyeware and Melexis are collaborating on a driver monitoring system. The system uses Eyeware’s attention-monitoring technology, which is enabled by Melexis’ MLX75027 3D time-of-flight sensors with VGA resolution, for eye gaze and head tracking, even in sunlight. The 3D time-of-flight cameras are claimed to overcome the limitations of infrared-based tracking technology. The company has developed ...

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