Q2 smartphone production will be down 16.5% y-o-y at 287 million units, says TrendForce. In Q1 production was down 10% y-o-y to 280 million units. Q1 was constrained by supply; Q2 will be limited by demand. Total production for 2020 is expected to be 11.3% down at 1.24 billion units. Production of 5G-capable phones is ...
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Panasonic have introduced a surface-mount type ZF series of Conductive Polymer Hybrid Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors. Being able to endure high temperatures of 150°C for up to 1.000 hours, the new capacitors benefit from a high withstand voltage of 25V to 63V and a low leakage current of (0.01 CV or 3µA). The nominal capacitance range ...
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Infineon has added to its CoolMOS family to support the electro-mobility market. These silicon-based, ICs can be used in both the PFC and the DC-DC stage of on-board charger systems and HV-LV DC-DC converters specifically optimized for electric-vehicle applications. The CoolMOS CFD7A is fully compatible with system voltages up to 475 V DC. Higher efficiency ...
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Insight SiP, the developer of miniature RF modules with embedded antennas, using SiP and Antenna-in-Package technology, has signed an international distribution agreement with TME of Lódź. TME has a worldwide distribution network with particular strength in Poland and Eastern Europe, and is one of the world’s fastest growing electronics distributors. From today, TME can supply ...
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Picocom has licensed and deployed the CEVA-XC12 DSP in its forthcoming distributed unit (DU) baseband offload System-on-Chip (SoC) for 5G small cells. Picocom is a semiconductor company that designs and markets products for 5G New Radio infrastructure. Along with Airspan, Intel, IP Access and Qualcomm, Picocom is a key contributor to the Small Cell Forum ...
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Congatec has announced a COM Express Type 6 module with AMD Ryzen Embedded V1404I Series processors for use across -40°C to +85°C. Called conga-TR4, it is available with optional burn-in and cold-soak stress screening for increased reliability. “The most demanding graphics and compute workloads benefit from the modules’ four cores, eight threads and eight GPU ...
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After delving into Texas Instrument’s crystal-replacing bulk acoustic wave (BAW) oscillator recently, Electronics Weekly is taking a look at an advanced version of the humble RC oscillator, reported at the International Solid State Circuits Conference earlier this year (ISSCC 2020). The work of Delft University of Technology, the 180nm CMOS oscillator has been given so ...
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Keysight announces LoadCore 5G Core Testing software, which simulates complex subscriber models.
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Announcing Q1 revenues up 15% y-o-y for a net profit up 22% y-o-y of $10.8 billion, Microsoft said: “COVID-19 had minimal net impact on the total company revenue.” ‘In the Productivity and Business Processes and Intelligent Cloud segments, cloud usage increased, particularly in Microsoft 365 including Teams, Azure, Windows Virtual Desktop, advanced security solutions, and ...
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RetroPie 4.6 has been launched with official support for Raspberry Pi 4. RetroPie 4.6 has moved to Raspbian Buster as a base for its pre-built Raspberry Pi images. Raspbian Stretch is no longer supported by Raspberry Pi Trading Ltd. RetroPie will continue to support Stretch for a while longer, but will likely stop updating binaries ...
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HiSilicon, the IC design arm of Huawei, has overtaken Qualcomm in the China domestic smartphone AP market, according to CINNO Research, a China analyst. In Q1 2030, HiSilicon had a 43.9% market share of the China AP market, says CINNO, compared to Qualcomm’s 32.8%. This represents a sharp reversal from Q1 2019, when HiSilicon had ...
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The foundry market will grow at 5-9% this year with a median of 6.8% forecasts TrendForce. In Q1 foundry clients refrained from large-scale cutbacks in orders, as clients took into account the possibility of rebounding demand in the market after the pandemic’s eventual slowdown and aimed to avoid component shortages. In addition, foundry clients’ stock-up demand ...
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For calendar Q1 (FY Q2) Qualcomm had revenues of $5.2 billion up 7% y-o-y. Qualcomm said that Q1 demand for phones was down about 21% compared to its pre-coronavirus expectations. It also warned of lower phone shipments in calendar Q2. “Our guidance for the third quarter of fiscal 2020 (calendar Q2) being based on a ...
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Bosch had 2019 revenues of €77.7 billion. Europe accounted for €40.8 billion, North America, for €13 billion, South America for €1.4 billion and Asia Pacific (including Africa) for €19.6 billion pounds. After shutting down production at nearly 100 Bosch locations worldwide this month, the company is systematically preparing for a gradual ramp-up of manufacturing. “We ...
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NXP has extended its MCU offering with the LPC551x/S1x family addition to its LPC5500 MCU series. The LPC551x/S1x MCU family offers developers embedded security, pin-, software- and peripheral-compatibility to accelerate time-to-market. The family leverages 40-nm flash technology for cost and performance benefits. Key features include: • Over 600 EEMBC® CoreMarks® and as low as 32uA/MHz ...
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Microchip is aiming at engineers make accurate measurements of frequency signals, including those generated by atomic clocks and other high-performance frequency references with a phase noise analyser. Called 53100A, it works up to 200MHz and characterises the phase noise, jitter, Allan deviation (ADEV) and time deviation (TDEV) – with a variety of configurations by allowing up ...
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Arm is offering deferred licence fees for startups with under $5 million in funding and offering free access to Arm IP and support to firms in the Silicon Catalyst incubator. The new scheme, called Flexible Access for Startups is an extension of the Flexible Access offer last year which, for an annual fee of S75,000 ...
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Engineers at the University of Nottingham design a PPE face shield with CE approval.
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Toshiba has launched a discrete 1,350V IGBT for voltage resonance power converters in home induction heating appliances – tabletop cookers, rice cookers and microwave ovens, for example. GT20N135SRA has a typical Vce(sat) of 1.60V (20A 25°C ambient) and a diode Vf of 1.75V “As both the IGBT and diode have improved their conduction loss characteristics ...
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Linear Labs of Texas has put its novel high-torque low-speed ‘HET’ electric motor on Kickstarter, promoting it as a direct-drive vehicle hub motor. “We’ve received hundreds of emails from individuals and smaller companies asking how they can get their hands on one of our electric motors,” said Linear Labs CEO and co-founder Brad Hunstable. “Up until now, ...
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Klaus Neuenhüskes, of Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH, considers the challenges in power delivery and heat dissipation that have to be solved to a large part by the automotive silicon vendor.
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The memory market will not reach its 2018 high of $163 billion until 2022, says IC Insights, with strong growth forecast to return to the market in 2021 (21%) and 2022 (29%). A weak DRAM market put a lid on growth in the total memory market in 2015 and 2016. But robust DRAM and NAND ...
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InterDigital, the patent collector and licensor, said yesterday that it has ended all litigation with Huawei and licensed its patents to the company. The licence is for three years and covers wireless technology patents. The two companies have been suing eachother for 15 months with Huawei alleging unfair licensing terms and InterDigital alleging breach of ...
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Imec claims to be the first organisation to develop a chip that processes radar signals using a spiking recurrent neural network. Mimicking the way groups of biological neurons operate to recognize temporal patterns, Imec’s chip consumes 100 times less power than traditional implementations while featuring a tenfold reduction in latency – enabling almost instantaneous decision-making. ...
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Siemens Digital Industries Software has upgraded its Simcenter FLOEFD software, a CAD-embedded computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tool. Simcenter FLOEFD is part of the Simcenter portfolio of simulation and test solutions. It helps engineers simulate fluid flow and thermal problems within their preferred CAD environment. The latest version offers new modules and improvements that can improve accuracy and solve rates. ...
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Infineon is bringing out a turnkey eSIM initiative for IoT devices and applications. Its OPTIGA Connect eSIM IoT offering comes with pre-integrated carrier-agnostic cellular coverage in more than 200 countries and territories. Infineon has partnered with Tata Communications to offer its customers global reach, leveraging the Tata Communications MOVE mobility and IoT platform. According to ...
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The German Federal Office for Information Security ( BSI) has certified the GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) Dresden site according to the latest international Common Criteria standard (ISO 15408, CC Version 3.1). In a “virtual ceremony”, the certificate was presented today to Dr. Thomas Morgenstern, SVP and General Manager of GF in Dresden, by Arne Schönbohm, President of ...
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Huawei and ST are collaborating on auto and smartphone IC development, according to the Nikkei. ”There is nothing we can say,” an ST spokesperson told EW when asked for a comment. The co-operation is said to be aimed at accelerating Huawei’s ADAS development. Huawei’s chip subsidiary Hi Silicon is far ahead of ST on mobile ...
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TouchNetix has introduced a series of ready-made touch screen assemblies for displays up to 24in. Based in Hampshire, the firm was founded to make high-reliability touch sensors that work in difficult electromagnetic environments, and has its own touch screen controller chip, branded aXiom. The ready-made assembles, branded Chrominance, are supplied as a 0.7mm glass/ITO sensor hot-bonded ...
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Yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of the Global Positioning System, better known as GPS.
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At the IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco earlier this year, Texas Instruments revealed details of its on-chip bulk acoustic wave oscillator technology, that can replace external crystals in Bluetooth and other RF transceivers. The firm is claiming better than ±30ppm frequency stability over -40°C to 85°C, package stress and 10 years ...
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Aldershot-based Fath Components, normally a maker of enclosure parts and other metal and plastic parts, has added Type FFP2 aerosol filtration face masks to its product repertoire. The company is gearing up to manufacture face masks at its main plant in Germany, planning to produce and dispatch 50,000 masks a day. “From Monday 27th April it has ...
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Following an agreement with Hongfa Europe, Anglia Components is UK and Ireland distributor for its range of electro-mechanical relays. The signing extends the distributor’s range of relay products. Hongfa Europe’s senior sales manager, Greg Ward said the company chose the distributor for its links to customers in the UK. “Anglia is a strategic local partner ...
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Aceinna has announced a triple-redundant, three-axis MEMS accelerometer and gyroscope sensor for automotive driver assistance, drones and robotics. Called IMU383ZA, the 24 x 37 x 9.5mm module is factory-calibrated across -40 to +85°C. “IMU383ZA is an improved pin-compatible version of our IMU381ZA,” according to the company. “It offers 1.3°/hr, 0.08°/√hr performance and a triple-redundant sensor architecture for ...
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ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), the four year-old leader of China’s efforts to get into DRAM, has signed a patent license agreement with Rambus, reports Digitimes. “The agreement with Rambus once again demonstrates our high attention to international intellectual property (IP) related rules and continued efforts to strengthen the company’s IP portfolio,” says Yiming Zhu, chairman ...
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Next month OmniVision is expected to sample a 64 megapixel (MP) image sensor with a 0.7 micron pixel size, enabling 64 MP resolution in a 1/2” optical format for the first time. This allows high end and high mainstream smartphone designers to create the thinnest possible phones with high resolution 64 MP cameras. Built on OmniVision’s ...
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The UK is going down a different technological route on contact tracing to the one which was agreed last weekend between a German-led consortium, a Swiss-led consortium and Apple-Google. The German and Swiss consortia had originally disagreed on whether the data collected by the app should be held on a central database or on mobile ...
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3PEAK, an eight year-old Shanghai analogue vendor, is to IPO on the tech-focussed Shanghai STAR Market, reports Digitimes. 3PEAK’s investors include Huaxin Venture Capital and Hubble Technology Investment. Hubble is wholly owned by Huawei. Huaxin is a Chinese semiconductor investment fund whose include TSMC, Toshiba, ARM and SMIC. Last July, Hubble bought 8% of 3PEAK ...
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Infineon has added new current ratings to its 1200 V TRENCHSTOP IGBT7 modules. This completes the Easy 1B and 2B portfolio, which is now offering power solutions for up to 11 kW in PIM and up to 22 kW in six-pack topologies with the latest chip technology. Customers have the choice: either to increase the ...
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STMicroelectronics has integrated common-mode filters and ESD suppression into automotive data line protectors. “These are the first common-mode filters on the market with automotive-grade qualification and automotive surge compliance guaranteed,” claimed ST. “They are not only produced and qualified according to AEC-Q101 requirements but are also designed and tested against automotive surge specifics such as ...
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CIT Relay & Switch has introduced VM3 miniature and SM3 snap-action switches, aiming them at lighting, security, automation, industrial controls and gaming. “Customisable, the VM3 and SM3 offer a range of actuator lever options including pin plunger, roller levers, hinge levers and simulated rollers,” according to New Jersey-based New Yorker Electronics, which is stocking them. ...
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Amongst a flurry of announcements, On Semiconductor has introduced 1.2kV 25, 35, and 50A transfer-moulded IGBT power modules – in converter-inverter-brake (CIB) and converter-inverter (CI) configurations. Transfer-moulded encapsulation extend cycling lifetime for both temperature and power, according to On. The modules consist of six 1.2kV IGBTs, six 1.6kV rectifiers, and an NTC thermistor for system ...
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Broadcom has made an offer to the EU to get it to drop its anti-trust investigation, reports Reuters. In return for ending the investigation into its sales practices, Broadcom has said it is willing to drop ‘exclusivity deals’ whereby TV and modem customers who buy more than 50% of their requirement from Broadcom get rebates ...
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The row between a Swiss-led consortium and a German-led consortium about the right approach for a European contact tracing app has been resolved with Germany falling in with the Swiss model. The row was over where information generated by the app should be stored. Germany’s PEPP-PT system stored it centrally, Switzerland’s DPT-3 system stored it ...
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There have been 15 5G commercial launches this year, including Thailand, Hong Kong (2 operators) and Japan (4 operators), says Strategy Analytics China Mobile plans to have 300,000 5G base stations in use by the end of 2020, while China Telecom and China Unicom have brought forward the target for deploying 250,000 base stations in their ...
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Researchers reporting in the American Chemical Society’s Nano Letters have developed a hydrogel that can both cool down electronics, such as cell phone batteries, and convert their waste heat into electricity. Xuejiao Hu, Kang Liu, Jun Chen and colleagues wanted to design a smart thermogalvanic hydrogel that could convert waste heat into electricity, while also lowering the ...
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Global light vehicle sales are forecast to be down 22% to 70.3 million units this year, says IHS Markit.Though most factories in China are back to work, IHS forecasters caution that it will take time for plants to fully recover. Mainland China is expected to have a sales decline of more than 15.5% y-o-y, to 21 ...
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The Turing Pi cluster board is available for preorder from Turing Machines Inc. This Mini-ITX-sized motherboard can support up to seven Raspberry Pi Compute Modules, essentially creating a server rack. The Turing Pi board has support for the Kubernetes environment. It’s suitable for things like machine learning, cloud environments, application testing and serverless stacks. The ...
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The RF front end market will have 8% CAGR between 2018 and 2025, says Yole Developpenent. From $15 billion in 2018, the market should reach $25.8 billion by 2025. Samsung, Apple, Sony, LG, Google and ZTE all use complex RF modules from Broadcom, Skyworks, Qorvo, Qualcomm, and Murata. In the 17 selected smartphones, most of the components, ...
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Flex Power Modules has added to its range of miniature isolated DC/DC converters intended for industrial applications with the introduction of the PUB-2M series. Delivering an output power of up to 2W with no minimum load required, the high performance product is available in single or dual output options. Presented in an SMD package measuring ...
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What usable parts can you get from a dumped high end office Dell / Fuji Xerox laser printer?
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Tragedy in the EEVblog lab as the arcade machine releases the magic smoke. Claytons repair time.
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“Per Mille” is a trap for young players. “Parts Per” notation explained, along with percentage and ppm.
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Repairing a Toshiba Satellite S40-B Laptop found in the dumpster.
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A look at the $70 Juntek 2000W power supply with wireless display. Also the 3000W model, but does it have a problem? https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_dZVpwTI
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Google is making progress towards Android 11 with the release of a Developer Preview 3.
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SlugBot will be the world’s first robotic monitoring and bio-molluscicide treatment system for slugs, according to a UK consortium. The partners are: Crop Health and Protection (CHAP) – an agri-tech centre funded by Innovate UK Small Robot Company (SRC) – agri-tech start-up COSMONiO – deep learning computer vision start-up AV and N Lee – agricultural contracting The aim ...
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The SEMI billings figure for sales of North American chip manufacturing equipment vendors fell to a 4-month low of $2.21 billion in March 2020. The billings figure is 6.8% lower from February’s $2.37 billion, but is 20.1% higher than the March 2019 billings level of $1.84 billion. “While March monthly billings of North America-based semiconductor ...
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Xilinx had calendar Q1 (FY Q2) sales of $833 million down 2% from the prior quarter and up 12% y-o-y. Operating income was $240 million and net income $217 million. For the full fiscal year to the end of March, Xilinx had $3.2 billion of revenues, which was up 3% y-o-y, for a net income ...
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Intel had Q1 revenues of $19.8 billion, up 23% y-o-y, with a margin of 60.6% for operating income of $7 billion and net income of $5.7 billion. PC was up 14% at $9.8 billion Datacentre was up 43% at $7 billion Mobileye was up 22% at $254 million Memory was up 46% at $1.3 billion ...
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Africa needs to have a share in the semiconductor industry to secure its technological future, says a Huawei executive. Edison Xie, director of media affairs, Huawei Southern Africa region, told ITWeb that the semiconductor business offers Africa opportunities. “With a massive growth in technology hubs across the continent growing over 50% in the last several ...
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Researchers at Purdue University have found a way to turn waste polyethylene terephthalate into a battery anode. “We use an ultrafast microwave irradiation process to turn PET, or polyethylene terephthalate, flakes into disodium terephthalate, and use that as battery anode material,” said Vilas Pol, a Purdue associate professor of chemical engineering who has worked with the ...
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Smiths Interconnect’s KaStream 5000 MK II Satcom antenna system has received Inmarsat type approval for use over the Inmarsat Global Xpress network. The system is is optimised for use over the Inmarsat Global Xpress Ka-band network and supports commercial and military modems. It can be used in tail-mount, hatch-mount and roll-on roll-off installations combining the ...
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NXP and Murata have combined to deliver RF front-end modules to Wi-Fi 6 standards. The NXP FEIC comes in a chip scale package (CSP) suitable for module integration and can support various 5G smartphones and portable computing devices. It enables 2×2 multiple input multiple output (MIMO) functionality. “Murata is very pleased to work with NXP ...
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Teledyne e2v says the CCD47-20 image sensor is possibly the most used for space imaging missions
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Sensing electronic skin can be powered by the sweat in its environment, according to the California Institute of Technology. “One of the major challenges with these kinds of wearable devices is on the power side,” said CalTech research engineer Wei Gao. “Many people are using batteries, but that’s not very sustainable. Some people have tried ...
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pi-top launches Sensor Pods for use with its Raspberry Pi mini-computer in building a range of projects.
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In line with the increased interest in securing devices with authentication steps, Digi-Key Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with Fingerprint Cards. The Swedish biometric company develops sensors for payments and access devices and systems, algorithms, software and hardware. Last year, the company announced it had shopped one billions sensors and launched the Biometric ...
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Renesas has updated the ‘flexible software package’ (FSP) for its RA family of Arm Cortex-M microcontrollers. FSP version 1.0 adds security, connectivity, neural network, machine learning and motor control capabilities, as well as improving compiler, debugger, and development environments. “The security and connectivity enhancements permit developers to quickly create secure IoT endpoint and edge solutions for ...
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Hackster.io, an Avnet community, is joining forces with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and 12 leading technology companies to support the world’s developing countries in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Launching today, the COVID-19 Detect and Protect Challenge is calling on engineers to design low-cost and easily deployable software, hardware and services that ...
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Earlier today, Hynix reported Q1 revenue of $5.85 billion which was 6% up y-o-y. However its operating profit of $649 million was 41% down y-o-y. “There are a lot of uncertainties about the outlook for supply and prices for servers in the second half,” said Hynix CFO Cha Jin-seok. A slump in smartphone memory demand ...
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Within the framework of a new European H2020 project, nine research institutes and eight industrial partners across the whole value chain are collaborating on innovative solutions to produce silicon photovoltaic (PV) modules with higher performance, lower cost and better environmental profiles compared to commercially available modules. The HighLite project, coordinated by imec, a partner in ...
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ST made a few concessions to the virus in its earnings report yesterday but nothing particularly drastic. After a good Q1 with sales up 7.5% y-o-y, followed by the generally expected Q2 glitch, ST is expecting full year revenues of $8.8 to 9.5 billion. Last year’s revenues were $9.56 billion. The second half is the key. ...
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IC unit shipments will register their first-ever back-to-back annual decline in 2020, says IC Insights From 2013 through 2018, IC unit shipments were on a respectable growth path with an 8% increase logged in 2013, a 9% jump registered in 2014, a 5% increase displayed in 2015, a 7% increase shown in 2016, a double-digit ...
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Piotr Lazarek from Dulwich College was awarded the Young Scientific Instrument Maker Award at The Big Bang Fair. Piotr in year 12, wowed the judges with his project ‘BMS for Solar Powered UAV’s’. As part of the project, Piotr sensed an opportunity and decided to design such a device, initiating a project and then a ...
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Bosch Sensortec has launched a barometric pressure sensor for smartphones, wearable and hearable devices. The BMP390 delivers altitude tracking in smartphones as well as wearable and hearable devices. The sensor can measure height changes below 10 cm. Accurate altitude detection helps to localize ...
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Spectrum Instrumentation has added digital inputs to a series of analogue LXI/Ethernet-digitisers, to increase synchronous acquisition to eight analogue channels plus eight digital channels plus three multi-purpose I/O lines – 19 channels in total. Four models are available in the digitizerNetbox family: 5Msample/s DN2.591-08 20Msample/s DN2.592-08 40Msample/s DN2.593-08 125Msample/s DN2.596-08 The option to add eight digital channels changes the name ...
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Google has received back from Samsung the first working samples of its proprietary phone processor Whitechapel. Whitechapel was designed with Samsung to go on its 5nm process. The chip is said to have an 8-core Arm processor and will be optimised to run Google’s ML technology. It will also be geared to improving Google Assistant. ...
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Cliff Ortmeyer, Global Head of Technical Marketing at Farnell, considers the benefits of AI running at the edge of a network.
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Power Integrations has added GaN parts to its InnoSwitch3-MX range of ac-dc mains power supply chips, intended for use in TVs, monitors and appliances up to 75W without a heatsink. This is part of a programme for the company, which is gradually rolling out GaN transistor higher-power versions of its various InnoSwitch3 ICs – see ...
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Seren Hopkins (pictured top right) from Pontypridd High School was honoured with the Young Scientific Instrument Maker Award at The Big Bang Fair. Seren in year 12, wowed the judges with her project ‘Auto-inflatable car roof-tent’. As part of the project, Seren created a 1/3 scale prototype for a pneumatically powered, automatic, inflatable car roof ...
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Vicor has hit 96% efficiency in an isolated regulated 270V-28V dc-dc converter with an output power rating of 1,300W – all in the company’s 142 x 36 x 9mm ‘Via’ package. It is called DCM5614. “Providing power density of 451W/in3 at a weight of 178g, the DCM5614 supports airborne, shipboard and UAV systems where power density, weight ...
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A collaborative environment helps build vital soft skills such as co-operation and leadership.
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TI had Q1 net income of $1.17 billion compared with $1.22 billion in Q1 2019. Revenue declined to $3.33 billion from $3.59 billion in Q1 2019. Analysts were expecting the company to report revenue of $3.17 billion. Embedded processing revenues declined 18% y-o-y while analogue revenue fell 2%. “With a COVID-19 recession likely upon us, ...
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ST had Q1 net revenues of $2.23 billion, gross margin of 37.9%, operating margin of 10.4%, and net income of $192 million or $0.21 diluted earnings per share. “In the first quarter of 2020, net revenues increased 7.5% year-over-year, led by higher sales of our Imaging products and growth in Analog and Microcontrollers, partially offset ...
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Triad RF Systems, the New Jersey designer and manufacturer of RF/microwave amplifiers and integrated radio systems, has launched a line of TRIAD Amplified Radios that extend its range of wireless mesh or mobile ad hoc network (MANET) /multi-input multi-output radios. The creation and launch of these turnkey radios is in response to customer challenges experienced ...
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ON Semiconductor is sampling a chipset family that supports the 6GHz spectrum band based on the enhanced Wi-Fi 6E standard. The chipset family is optimised for applications, such as access points, gateways, and mesh networking solutions for dense environments and underserved areas. The QCS-AX2 series is built on an integrated baseband and RF (radio frequency) ...
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Clear skies and cool temperatures have helped UK solar to break the all-time peak generation record. Around 12:30 on Monday 20 April 2020, a peak of 9.68GW was recorded by Sheffield Solar live PV generation tracker, surpassing the previous record of 9.55GW set on 13 May 2019. At the time of the peak, solar was ...
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Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland have combined mesoporous silicon microparticles, made from plant waste, with carbon nanotubes to improve the performance of silicon anodes in Li-ion batteries. “In the future, silicon will gradually replace carbon as the anode material in Li-ion batteries,” according to the university. “The capacity of silicon is ten times ...
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This is a list of the 2020 Queen’s Awards for Enterprise winners in and related to the electronics industry. They appear in two categories: Innovation Assessed for: invention, design or production of goods; performance of services; marketing and distribution; or, after-sale support of goods or services, that have realised outstanding commercial success over two years ...
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Following an agreement with Panjit Semiconductor, distributor Anglia now offers discrete semiconductor from Taiwanese company, Panjit International. The agreement applies to the UK and Ireland. Panjit’s portfolio includes MOSFETs, Schottky, SiC Schottky, diode rectifiers, protection devices, bipolar junction transistors and bridge rectifiers for power supplies, industrial and automotive applications. The distributor said that this signing ...
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Imperas Software, the virtual platforms and software simulation specialist, today announced that Mellanox Technologies has selected the Imperas advanced hardware verification of RISC-V processors. RISC-V, as an open ISA, permits many configuration and options for processor implementation and microarchitectural features, in addition to extension with custom instructions. Simulation based methodologies are the foundation for hardware ...
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Q1 revenues at Huawei were up about 1% to $25.72 billion, compared with 39% growth in Q1 2019. The company did not announce its net profit but said that its net margin was 7.3% compared to 8% in Q1 2019. “The growth rate has slowed, but this is also a resilient performance in the face ...
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PLS Programmierbare Logik & Systeme has expanded its Universal Debug Engine (UDE) to cover the SafeRTOS real-time operating system. UDE is intended for debugging, testing and analysing microcontroller applications, and this addition gives it functions software development of real-time and safety-critical applications. SafeRTOS is a pre-emptive, safety critical RTOS from Wittenstein High Integrity Systems, available ...
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Distributor Mouser Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with Essentra Components to supply its plastic injection moulded, vinyl dip moulded and metal components. This includes fittings, hardware, electronic components and fasteners, cable clips and clamps, cable ties, snap lock supports and rivets. The cable clips and clamps to protect and route wires are available ...
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SiPearl, the company that is designing the microprocessor for the European exascale supercomputer, has taken an Arm licence. The agreement will enable SiPearl to benefit from the Arm NeoverseTM platform, codenamed ‵‵Zeusʺ, as well as leverage the Arm ecosystem. Taking advantage of the Arm “Zeus” platform, including Arm’s POPTM IP, on FinFET technology enables SiPearl ...
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Brompton Technology has won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category. Based in West London, the company designs and manufactures LED video processing products – which have been used the global tours of Metallica, Massive Attack and U2, as well as for ‘green screen’ replacement in film and TV. “It is really gratifying ...
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The use of Bluetooth in contact tracing has been widely supported on the Continent but there is disagreement there on how to implement it. A German approach called Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT https://www.pepp-pt.org) conflicts with a Swiss approach, called DP-3T, which links into the Google-Apple contact tracing app. PEPP-PT is seen as centralised – ...
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Design IP revenue grew 5.2% last year, according to IPnest. Arm remains the No.1 vendor with a 40% market share. Although Arm license revenues have grown by 13.8% its royalty revenues have declined by 6%. Arm attribute this loss in royalty to the smartphone volume decline. It will be another two years before the impact, ...
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In the autumn, LeapMind, the Tokyo AI startup, plans to ship “Efficiera”, an ultra-low power AI inference accelerator IP for ASICs and FPGAs. “Efficiera” is an AI Inference Accelerator IP specialized for Convolutional Neural Network inference calculation processing; it functions as a circuit in an FPGA or ASIC device. Its “extreme low bit quantization” technology, ...
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Smiths Interconnect has introduced its Planar X Series of RF filter solutions with bandpass, bandstop, lowpass and highpass configurations up to 18 GHz (Ku Band). The new Planar X Series is part of an initiative that entails the creation of cutting-edge board-level ceramic-based thick film RF filters, designed and tested to support various applications markets. ...
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The winning entry in a recent European Space Agency-sponsored hackathon has been announced: a solar-powered hand sanitiser.
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The German government has kicked-off a project intended to use artificial intelligence (AI) at various levels of the manufacturing process to enable condition-based, predictive maintenance for factory equipment and to monitor product quality on the fly during production. Called ‘KI-Predict’ it has come out of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and ...
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After submitting samples of TLC and QLC 128-layer NAND to controller chip suppliers in Q1, Yangtze Memory is aiming to start running wafers in Q3 and ramp to mass production in Q4, reports TrendForce. The initial applications being considered for the 128-layer process include UFS-based storage solutions and SSDs; Yangtze also intends to ship packaged ...
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After a surge in Q1 sales, Raspberry Pi is increasing production from Q1’s 192,000 units to 250,000 units in Q2. 1.75 million Pis were sold in Q1 and 640,000 were sold in March. Pi boss Eben Upton said the increase demand came from people using them for home schooling and companies using them to implement ...
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Fujitsu Laboratories has announced the development of the world’s first adhesive sheet composed of carbon nanotubes with extremely high thermal conductivity of up to 100 W/mK (watt per metre per Kelvin). Carbon nanotubes have high thermal conductivity and represent a promising candidate for heat dissipation from heat sources including semiconductor devices. Nevertheless, the material remains ...
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LeapMind, the eight year-old Tokyo AI startup, showed the results of the performance estimations conducted on its AI inference accelerator at last week’s COOL Chips 23 event in Tokyo. The implementation of the ASIC design flow was carried out with Taiwan’s Alchip Technologies. Since deep learning technology generally requires a significant amount of computing resources, its ...
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Imagination is off the hook. Canyon Bridge, the China-backed private equity company which owns Imagination, has given assurances to the government that it will remain domiciled in the UK and that it will consult over any board changes. When Canyon Bridge bought Imagination in 2017 it assured the UK government that it would remain subject ...
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Harwin, the Hampshire-based connector company, has modified an existing 3d printable anti-covid-19 face shield design to make it print quicker, and has put the print file on its website here for others to use. The company is using its printers and staff to make and assemble these shields for health workers – the photo shows a doctor at ...
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Russian scientist have a found a natural link between an element’s position in the periodic table and its potential to form a high-temperature hydride superconductors, and created a neural network to predict their performance. Hydrides are thought to offer the potential for ‘high-pressure’ superconductors, as opposed to the usual ‘low-temperature’ superconductors – although they still require ...
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The non-memory chip market will be flat this year while the foundry industry will grow 7-13%, reckons TSMC. TSMC expects to outperform both the semiconductor and the foundry industry with growth of 14-19% this year. Smartphone units are expected to be down 7-9% this year and 5G phones will take 15% of the market. “We ...
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Although all the risk to the current -3% semiconductor industry capital spending forecast for this year is to the downside, it is assumed that most spending will proceed as planned since the vast majority of the outlays are directed at long term goals of process technology advancements and/or additions to wafer start capacity. However, if ...
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TSMC had Q1 revenue of $10.3 billion for a net profit of $3.85 billion. Y-o-y, Q1 revenue increased 45% while net income and diluted EPS both increased 90.6%. Compared to Q4 2019, Q1 results represented a 2.1% decrease in revenue and a 0.8% increase in net income. Gross margin for the quarter was 51.8%, operating margin ...
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2019 semiconductor revenue totaled $419.1 billion, down 12% from 2018, according Gartner, but 2020 revenue is expected to hold steady at 0.9% decline. “Oversupply in the DRAM market helped push the overall memory market down 32.7% 2019. The memory market accounted for 26.1% of semiconductor sales in 2019 and was the worst-performing device segment,” says ...
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Bittware’s TeraBox 200DE edge server enables FPGA acceleration in edge applications. The 200DE is a small footprint, 2U short-depth server based on the new DELL PowerEdge XE2420. It can be populated with a range ofBittWare accelerator products featuring the latest FPGAs from Achronix, Intel and Xilinx to support the increasingly complex demands of highly specialized ...
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Marvell says that its QLogic Fibre Channel and FastLinQ Ethernet adapter solutions enable NVMeover Fabrics (NVMe-oF) technology in VMware vSphere 7.0. The integration of Marvell’s Fibre Channel and Ethernet adapters into vSphere 7.0 allows low-latency, high-performance NVMe flash storage to be effectively shared, pooled and managed across a fabric resulting in cost-efficient enterprise and hybrid ...
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ESA’s first mission dedicated to the study of exoplanets is starting its science operations.
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Designs based on Nordic Semiconductor‘s dual processor, SoC nRF5340, can be tested and evaluated with a preview development kit (PDK). The kit is now available from Rutronik UK and supported with the nRF Connect software development kit (SDK). The SoC nRF5340 supports Bluetooth Low Energy as well as all functions of Bluetooth 5.1 and Bluetooth ...
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A 54.6-inch monitor from AUO is now available from Display Technology. The P550HVN12.0 can be used outdoors. The TFT-LCD has a high TNI (110°C) that prevents the display from blackening under sunlight. The TFT-LCD has a display area of 1209.6mm x 680.4mm and a high brightness of 4500cd/m². Resolution is 1920 x 1080, with a ...
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Amazon has stopped all its deliveries in France. The move follows a French court ruling that Amazon faced a fine of $1 million a day if it failed to adequately protect workers against the virus. Amazon said the threatened fine was too too big for it to take the risk of being judged to have ...
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Samsung is to use Xilinx’s Versal ACAP (adaptive compute acceleration platform) for worldwide 5G commercial deployments. Versal ACAP performs the real-time signal processing, including beamforming techniques used to increase network capacity. 5G requires beamforming, which allows multiple data streams to be transmitted simultaneously to multiple users using the same spectrum. This is what enables the increase ...
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Renesas has introduced an open-source ventilator system reference design that customers can use to swiftly design ready-to-assemble boards for medical ventilators. Many regions are experiencing a critical shortage of ventilators as COVID-19 infections continue to rise and hospital demand exceeds supply. Renesas’ engineers have followed several open-source ventilator designs, including the Medtronic PB560, to come ...
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BT’s mobile subsidiary EE will have stripped Huawei switchgear out of the core sectors of its network by 2023. “In order to hit these ambitious targets within the timescales laid down by government and to align with their focus on 5G networks, it is now our intention to prioritise migrating our 5G customers to the ...
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Silicon wafer sales could either dip if coronavirus uncertainty continues or rebound in Q2 if chip manufacturers re-stock, says SEMI’s Silicon Wafer Market Monitor. The Monitor tracks wafer shipment dynamics including wafer shipments, supply and demand shifts, suppliers’ dynamics, and pricing trends and forecasts. To hedge their bets in Q2, chipmakers are expected to increase ...
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