September semiconductor sales were 0.5% down on August and 3% down y-o-y, says the SIA, Q3 sales were down 3% y-o-y and 6.3% q-o-q at $141 billion. “Following strong growth through the first half of 2022, global semiconductor sales have slowed in recent months, decreasing in September on a year-to-year basis for the first time ...
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Wolfspeed and Jaguar Land Rover have announced a strategic supply partnership for silicon carbide electric vehicle power train semiconductors. “Wolfspeed’s silicon carbide technology will be used specifically in the vehicles’ inverter, managing the transfer of power from the battery to the electric motors,” according to the car company. “The first Range Rover vehicles with this ...
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Recom is aiming at what it calls ‘cost-sensitive’ medical, industrial and IT applications with 130W open-frame ac-dc power supplies. “Safety certifications include 2MOPP/250Vac medical for ‘B’ or ‘BF’ applications to IEC/EN/ANSI/AAMI ES 60601-1, as well as IEC/EN 62368-1, IEC/EN 60335-1 and IEC/EN 61558-1 for industrial, test and measurement, IT and household use, all to 4000m ...
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Infineon Technologies is taking orders for 8 and 16Mbit FRAM (ferroelectric RAM) aimed at automotive and industrial non-volatile data-logging. “The memories feature operation from 1.71V to 3.6V, support up to 54Mbit/s of throughput over a low-pin count interface and are available in a RoHS-compliant, 24ball FBGA package,” according to the company. “These products combine low-power ...
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ESA is planning an in-orbit demonstration with new navigation satellites that will orbit just a few hundred kilometres up in space. It is part of its FutureNAV initiative. The long-term goal is to bring satnav closer to Earth, by extending GNSS and supporting positional navigation and timing (PNT) services from low Earth orbit (LEO) . ...
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Synaptics has bought Emza Visual Sense, the AI visual sensing specialist. The addition extends Synaptics’ position in Edge AI and allows it to immediately serve the PC market with a proven solution for human presence detection (HPD) applications, supporting look-away detect and on-looker detect features, while addressing system user security and privacy concerns. “Bringing together key ...
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Following calm weather after the summer trade-winds, X1 Wind’s floating wind turbine has been installed at the ‘Plocan’ test site off the Canary Islands. This is a third-scale model, fitted with a Vestas V29 turbine (225kW), intended to demonstrate the floating platform, dubbed X30. X30 has been developed to be towed into place by what ...
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RED Semiconductor says it has demo-ed video acceleration performance benefits using its ‘Vector+1’ instruction set architecture and ‘Vantage’ microprocessor core architecture. This required the team to develop the world’s first fully in-place Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) Vector Engine, dramatically reducing instruction count. DCT is one of the fundamental and most frequently used computing operations throughout ...
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The U.S. Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has selected five companies to develop ground, air, and space-based prototypes for global weather sensing: Greensight, Muon Space, NextGen Federal Systems, Tomorrow.io and WindBorne Systems. The DIU is partnering with the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC)’s Weather Systems Branch for the initiative, looking to source high ...
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Würth Elektronik has created a range of 10mm PCB-mount wire terminals through the neat idea of missing the metalwork out of every second cavity in 5mm pitch connectors. The range is WR-TBL, and it has three series: series 1018 horizontal cable entry 250V 16A UL and VDE series 1028 horizontal cable entry 300V 15A cULus ...
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PFD7 is a family of 950V super-junction mosfets from Infineon, that can achieve 450mΩ Rds(on) in DPAK or 60mΩ in TO247. Gate-source threshold voltage is 3±0.5V. “Due to the low threshold voltage and tolerance, linear mode operation is avoided while allowing lower driving voltage and reduced idle loss,” according to the company. “By integrating a ...
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Sodium-ion batteries could be a lower-cost alternative to Li-ion batteries, if ways are found to prevent the large sodium ions destroying their electrodes as they shuttle back and forth. As a possible sodium-ion anode for such batteries, materials scientists at Qingdao University have used titanium dioxide and graphite to produce a stable structure, unchanged after ...
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Sierra Space, the space plane specialist, and IBM have agreed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work on AI-based space-related technology and software, to work across the former’s range of space vehicles and infrastructure. Specifically, they plan to coordinate the workload of astronauts through Sierra Space’s data analysis and collection technology. They also envisage “building ...
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Microchip is aiming at smart metering with a family of microcontrollers and a power-line communication modem IC. The processors, nominally the PIC32CXMT family, have one or two Arm Cortex-M4F cores – all get a 200MHz application processor, and some get a 240MHz metrology processing core. The PIC32CXMTSH version in particular (see diagram) gets an ‘energy ...
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Infineon will be revealing two internet-connected sensor evaluation kits at the Electronica exhibition in Munich, one for 60GHz radar and one for CO2 sensing. The company has made the sensor board part of these kits compatible with AdaFruit’s ‘Wing’ format which plugs into processor boards with AdaFruit’s ‘Feather’ pin layout. Infineon appears to have adopted ...
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Anritsu has introduced a multi-functional spectrum analyser for field use. Covering 9kHz to 4GHz, MS2080A, as it is called, is suited to “interference hunting and 5G/LTE base station installation and maintenance”, according to the company. Measuring 290 x 212 x 96mm and 3.8kg, its battery is said to last more than three hours. Modulation bandwidth ...
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Durakool is aiming to simplify the interconnections needed for automotive pre-charging and discharging with two separate 1kVdc 120A relays in a single package, which may be switched together or independently. “This double pole contactor is easy to integrate into electric vehicle high-voltage dc motor controllers which have higher pre-charge requirements. It is ideal for use ...
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Advantech has introduced a family of industrial wireless edge gateways built around various Arm processors, for protocol conversion and edge-to-cloud communication. Jointly called ECU-1100, “these gateways feature wireless and Ethernet communication, multiple protocol support and WebAccess integration, and have specifically been designed for distributed solar power generation, electricity and energy management applications”, according to the ...
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CUI Devices has announced two MEMS microphones designed for active noise cancellation. CMM-2718AB-3815NC-TR (right) and CMM-2718AT-3817NC-TR (left) are omni-directional analogue microphones with bottom or top sonic ports, respectively. “Thanks to their flat frequency response from 20 to 10,000Hz, signal-to-noise ratios of 62 or 64dBA and acoustic overload points of 123 or 128dBspl, these microphones are ...
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Rohm is introducing 300mA automotive-grade LDO regulators in a 2.9mm × 2.8mm surface-mount package for driver assistance sensors. The BUxxJA3DG-C series can accept input voltages up to 6V and outputs 1.2, 1.8, 2.5, 3.0 or 3.3V depending on version, with drop-out voltage below 370mV (except 500mV for 1.2V version, table below). Rohm pointed out the ...
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Honeywell has created a tough six-degrees-of-freedom inertial measurement unit for heavy-duty and off-road vehicle applications. TARS-IMU, as it is called, comes in two versions: 5V or 9 – 36V, and includes a sensor-fusion algorithm. “The sensor fusion algorithm can be customised for specific vehicle applications via on-board firmware, allowing movement data to be filtered to ...
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Electronic component distributor, TTI Europe, has acquired Ecopac (UK) Power which was established in 1995 to supply external power supplies, led driver and led power supplies. The UK and Ireland distributor is an authorised distributor for Mean Well, EU Chips and Vox Power. In addition to ac-dc power supplies ranging from 1.0W-20,000W, open frame, chassis- ...
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Omron added to its G9EC family of dc power relays, with a version that will switch 1kV 150A dc loads. Called G9EC-X1, “switching and driving sections are gas-injected and hermetically sealed, allowing these relays to interrupt high-capacity loads. The sealed construction also requires no arc space,” according to the company. At 98 x 44 x ...
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Sondrel has listed on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market with the ticker SND. Sondrel is one of the leading ASIC design houses in the world and is working on 5nm designs for customers with 3nm designs in the pipeline. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxnPt8bY-AY The opening price of 55p rose on the first day of trading. The current ...
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The $6.2 billion consumer biometric market is expected to reach $11 billion in 2027 with a 10% CAGR 2021-7, says Yole Developpement. The future of the biometric industry will depend on the outcome of the battle between under-display FPS and face recognition. Goodix, Apple, Fingerprint Cards, Synaptics, II-VI (now Coherent), OSRAM, Lumentum, Knowles are among ...
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In-Space Missions reports having completed the final assembly and testing of its two Prometheus-2 cubesats and they have now been delivered to Spaceport Cornwall for integration to Virgin Orbit’s Launcher One rocket. Already in the payload for the imminent first UK space launch is the satellite of the UK’s Satellite Applications Catapult and Horizon Technologies, ...
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Marvell has come up with its 3nm platform for cloud infrastructure ICs fabbed on TSMC processes. 3nm silicon from Marvell includes long reach SerDes, PCIe Gen6 PHY, and several standards-based die-to-die interconnect technologies for managing data flow across the data infrastructure. The IP portfolio is compatible with 2.5D packaging technologies such as TSMC’s 2.5D Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate ...
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Australian National University scientists have engineered a room-temperature enclosure in which to concentrate ‘exciton polaritons’ – an exotic form of energy and matter with potential for optoelectronics in transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayers, such as tungsten disulphide. The exciton polariton is a hybrid particle composed of an exciton, formed from a bound electron-hole pair, and a photon. ...
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Ofcom is looking for public responses to a report which suggests eroding net neutrality by allowing ISPs to provide more premium services. Responses can be made up to January 13th. Scrapping EU regulations post-Brexit could give the internet companies the chance to sell superior service like lower latency and discounted tariffs in off-peak hours. “The ...
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Canada is to contribute to the Atmosphere Observing System (AOS) mission led by NASA, a multi-satellite initiative to help improve extreme weather prediction, climate modelling, and the monitoring of disasters. Canada’s contribution – involving two instruments and a satellite – is estimated at more than $200 million, with launches slated to be in 2028 and ...
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P-Duke has introduced 50W open-frame ac-dc power supplies with a 3 x 1.5inch footprint. “TAD50 series delivers 50W continuous output power,” according distributor Luso Electronics, which is promoting the PSU. “In addition, a peak power function is available that enables the power supply to deliver up to 140% of rated output power for 5s.” The ...
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Agile Analog, the Canbridge analogue startup, now has available a complete set of the key analogue IP needed to fast track an IoT design. Arranged in six blocks, they wrap round the customer’s choice of processor core and memory to provide all the vital analog functions required to interface between the digital world of the ...
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Described as the “UK’s Premier IoT Show, from Sensor to Cloud”, Hardware Pioneers Max is on 25 October 2022 at the London Business Design Centre. Topics covered in the show include embedded vision, IoT security, Edge AI, FPGA technology, power management and sensing technology, and it also features an exhibition (you can see the full ...
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With rising automotive battery voltages, Coilcraft has identified a need for PCB-mount inductors to handle the full potential difference, and responded with an 800V rated family of physically-small unshielded through-hole ferrite drum parts. Qualified to AEC-Q200 Grade 3 (-40 to +85°C) and called the RFC0807BV series, they are 8.8mm in diameter, 7.5mm tall and have ...
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A LIN pre-driver IC for relay DC motors from Melexis includes 48 KB of memory (16 KB ROM for the included LIN protocol and 32 KB Flash for the application software. The MLX81160 is the latest addition to the company’s Gen3 family of compatible embedded motor drivers. By leveraging high-voltage SOI technology, this LIN-based pre-driver ...
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Vanadium carbide ‘MXene’ two dimensional materials can absorb up to 90% of electromagnetic radiation between 8.2 and 12.4GHz, according to Drexler University, out-performing more conventional materials for protecting objects against detection by X-band radar. This is not the first time MXenes have been used to block radio waves – titanium carbonates have been studied, for ...
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Bosch is trying to push accelerometers and gyroscopes into lower-cost applications with an IMU (inertial measurement unit) called BMI323, which includes pre-developed function algorithms. “For example, BMI323 already includes Bosch Sensortec’s plug-and-play step counter software, so customers don’t need to spend time developing their own algorithms”, according to the company. “Other features include motion detection ...
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Texas Instruments has introduced a pair of closely-related dual-output PWM dc-dc converter controllers for space applications, one radiation-hardened and the other radiation tolerant. Both can operate across 100kHz to 2MHz and with external synchronisation, and will work with silicon or GaN power transistors via suitable drivers. Both include a 0.613V +0.7%/-1% reference. TPS7H5005-SEP is the ...
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Lam Research expects to take a $2-2.5 billion revenue hit following the US restrictions on exporting equipment and support services to China. “We have taken the necessary steps to ensure full compliance with the rules and have ceased shipments and support as required,” says CEO Timothy Archer. Lam gets 30% of its revenue from China. ...
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Taking the form a competition, the UK Science Minister Nusrat Ghani has unveiled the opening of a £15 million fund to encourage UK businesses to innovate around the use of satellite communications technology. Specifically, the UK Space Agency (UKSA) is hoping for ideas on creating new satellite constellations, ground systems or the delivery of new ...
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Microchip has introduced a family of Arm Cortex-M4F-based PIC32s to bring Bluetooth Low Energy wireless into the fold. “Our PIC32CX-BZ2 family integrates wireless connectivity with an MCU that is built on our decades of experience and backed by a vertical manufacturing approach that encompasses ICs, integrated software stacks and in-house module manufacturing,” said Microchip v-p ...
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Texas Instruments has created an 60A electronic fuse for system protection and power management (right), and a 50A version with added PMBus control. Called TPS25985x, the 60A device “provides multiple protection modes using very few external components and is a robust defence against overloads, short-circuits and excessive inrush current”, according to the company. Inside is ...
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London embedded systems design and test house Bermondsey Electronics has launched what it describes as an “integration verification engine” that automates the operation of networkable instrumentation to exercise a device-under-test (DUT) and verify that its hardware and software are functioning together as intended. Called Believe, and based on JavaScript, it “can also be used for ...
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Skoltech researchers have developed a novel material for lithium-ion batteries powering electric vehicles. The material is a familiar nickel-rich layered transition metal oxide, but with an altered microstructure that packs more energy per unit volume. “The cathodes in batteries powering electric cars tend to use layered transition metal oxides, including nickel-rich ones. We improved two commonly used materials ...
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Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Low Energy, Ultra-Wideband, broadcast radio, 802.11p V2X, 4G LTE (or 5G) and GPS have been wrapped in an automotive-grade shell by NXP, which has called the resulting development module ‘OrangeBox’. “OrangeBox is a single, security enhanced, modular development platform that provides a unified interface between the vehicle’s gateway and its wired ...
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An input range of 6V to 75V is the eye-catching spec of STMicroelectronics’ L3751 synchronous buck controller, and many of its inputs can tolerate 100V. Its has a constant-frequency voltage-mode architecture, with its output voltage compared to an 800mV internal reference through a feedback pin. Input voltage feed-forward is implemented to improve line transient response. ...
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Everactive has a development kit for its battery-less IoT system in the pipeline. “The company’s self-powered hardware and managed network is purpose-built to acquire and deliver the dense physical-world data,” it said. The development kit includes two of Everactive’s batteryless IoT devices (left), each with a sensors to measure temperature, humidity, pressure and tri-axial acceleration. ...
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Anders has introduced a family of rotary switches that have a circular colour TFT-LCD in the middle. Available in 1.3, 2.1 or 2.47inch, the company sees them being used in heating systems, industrial controls, IoT devices, boilers, white goods, fitness equipment and audio equipment. “The switch available in each display size permits convenient and intuitive ...
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Viasat’s bid to buy Inmarsat has suffered a further setback and delay. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has decided to deepen its investigation of the deal. The companies were given a short time to allay the “Phase 1” concerns of the regulator but it has now decided to advance to “Phase 2” and ...
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Andes Technology has introduced safety-enhanced RISC-V CPU intellectual property, claiming it to be “the first to certified to be fully compliant with ISO 26262 functional safety standards for the development of automotive applications”. SGS-TÜV Saar audited the core, called N25F-SE, and certified it to ASIL B according to ISO 26262 including Parts 2, 4, 5, ...
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IAR Systems is aiming at SiFive’s E6-A and S7-A automotive RISC-V cores with its latest iteration of Embedded Workbench. “E6-A series is aimed at a variety of real-time 32bit applications, from system control to hardware security modules, safety islands and stand-alone in microcontrollers,” according to IAR. “S7-A is a 64bit, high-performance real-time core suited to ...
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Nvidia has announce Jetson Orin Nano, said to offer up to 80x the performance of its predecessor for local artificial intelligence. “Sitting on the entry-level side of Jetson offerings, this module targets the demand for real-time processing capabilities in AI devices such as smart cameras, handhelds, smart meters and service robots, where integrators often require a ...
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Alpha and Omega Semiconductor has optimised the safe-operating-area of a mosfet for high-current 12V hot-swap ORing applications, but also sees it being used in e-fusing. Nominally a 30V part “AONS30300 delivers high SOA robustness under 10Vds with 10ms pulse width and has an SOA limit ~48V”, according to the company. Packaging is 5 x 6mm ...
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The Q3 PC market took its biggest fall in over 20 years – 19.5% y-o-y, says Gartner, with 68 million PCs sold in the quarter representing the fourth consecutive quarter of y-o-y decline. The top three vendors remained unchanged, with Lenovo maintaining the No. 1 spot in units with 25.2% market share (see Table 1). Table ...
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Diodes is aiming at items-to-be-powered with a pair of USB Type-C PD3.0 PPS sink controllers – one easier to use and one more flexible. Applications are foreseen in home appliances, portable LED lights, portable smart speakers and cordless power tools. Both devices have built-in application firmware that automatically carries out USB PD 3.0 (v1.2) negotiation ...
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The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) CHIPS for America initiative is seeking public input on two programmes aimed at restoring U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing. “It is critically important to our prosperity and national security that we reestablish our leadership role in semiconductor manufacturing,” said Under Secretary of Commerce ...
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Alphawave IP has bought Banias Labs, the Israeli optical DSP chip developer for data centres for approximately $240 million. The acquisition strengthens Alphawave’s roadmap of optical DSP silicon products for data centers, a core high growth market for Alphawave. Alphawave has negotiated a non-binding, multi-year purchasing framework with a US hyperscaler that proposes a multi-year ...
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300mm capacity will expand at a nearly 10% CAGR from 2022 to 2025, reaching an all-time high of 9.2 million wpm, says SEMI. Strong demand for automotive semiconductors and new government funding and incentive programmes in multiple regions are driving much of the growth. New fabs announced by companies including GlobalFoundries, Intel, Micron, Samsung, SkyWater ...
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Project Kuiper, Amazon’s satellite broadband service, is finally taking shape with the announcement of the launch of two prototype satellites, Kuipersat-1 and Kuipersat-2. The satellites will be launched, in “early 2023”, on United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) new Vulcan Centaur rocket and they will test system performance in space. Amazon has been planning to launch a ...
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Component distributor Farnell has added the products of reed relay maker Pickering Electronics to its electromechanical portfolio. “Pickering Electronics has been market leaders for more than 50 years,” according to Farnell. “The reed relays are designed to a high standard and rigorously tested to ensure long life and optimum performance. They feature instrumentation grade reed ...
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A 23 x 18 x 8mm dc-dc converter that can handle a peak of 3kW has come out of a collaboration between Flex Power Modules and Onsemi. The 1kW continuous non-isolated and unregulated intermediate bus converter, called BMR313, has a fixed 4:1 ratio, taking in 40 – 60V outputting 10 – 15V. Efficiency is 97.3% ...
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Würth Elektronik has extended its portfolio of coaxial connectors, rounding off its already comprehensive Coax Connector Portfolio. The SMA connectors are specifically designed for a frequency range up to 18 GHz at an impedance of 50 Ω. Thanks to their threaded coupling technology, they are suitable as data lines in environments subject to strong vibration. ...
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EPC9176 is a GaN-based three-phase inverter with a 81 x 75 mm footprint (with connector) that can operate across 20 to 80V and up to 20A (28A peak). “This voltage range and power level makes the solution ideal for a variety of three-phase brushless dc motor drive applications with 36 to 80V input including eBikes, ...
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Glenair’s QPL 83513 Micro-D connectors feature the company’s high-density micro TwistPin contacts set on 1.27mm (0.05 inch) centres, with from 9 to 130 contacts, and are designed for high reliability in taxing environments. “Thanks to special material selection, fabrication and heat treating techniques, TwistPin contacts resist stress relaxation for up to 1,000 hours at 125°C,” ...
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GaN Systems has got its GS61008P 100V enhancement mode GaN-on-silicon power transistor designed into a 48V – 12V bidirectional dc-dc converter for mild hybrid vehicles and electric motorcycles. The example design, from Renesas, takes up 46% less PCB area than an earlier all-silicon version, said GaN Systems, due in part to switching at 500kHz which ...
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Renesas has introduced a prototyping board for its 48MHz Arm Cortex-M23 based R7FA2E1A93CFM microcontroller. The board, called RA2E1 Fast Prototyping Board, “features a built-in emulator circuit equivalent to an E2 emulator Lite allowing users to write and debug programs without requiring any additional tools,” according to distributor Anglia, which is stocking the boards. It also ...
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Already running for 18 months in Germany, Bosch is expanding its cyber security procurement platform to the UK. Called CyberCompare it has “a team of cybersecurity experts in Germany and the UK”, according to Bosch. “The platform can compare quotes from more than 7,000 providers of cybersecurity solutions and providers for enterprise IT, operational technology ...
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The InP device market is expanding from traditional datacom and telecom towards the consumer reaching about $5.6 billion by 2027, says Yole Developpement. Datacom and telecom applications are the traditional markets for InP.Land will continue to grow, but the biggest growth driver – with a 37% CAGR between 2021 and 2027 – will be consumer. ...
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Viasat’s proposed takeover of Inmarsat has hit its first regulatory setback with an objection by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Concerns raised in an initial objection revolve around the provision of inflight connectivity (IFC) for airline passengers. Specifically, that the deal could lead to airlines facing higher prices and worse quality on-board wi-fi ...
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Cadence has announced a design tool for IC design sign-off. Called Certus closure solution, the “environment automates and accelerates the complete design closure cycle, from sign-off optimisation through routing, static timing analysis and extraction”, said Cadence. “The solution supports the largest chip design projects with unlimited capacity.” It lists these attributes: Distributed hierarchical optimisation and ...
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For those considering attending the RISC-V Summit in San Jose in December, the agenda has been published. The two-day event brings together innovators, academics and business executives to address developments in the RISC-V ecosystem, and discuss future partnerships and commercialisation opportunities, according to RISC-V International. Members and research institutions will share product updates, projects and ...
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Omron has added a bent leaf actuator option to its D2GW series of waterproof ultra miniature microwitches. This version has a stainless steel actuating lever with a small anti-snag bend at the end which contacts the actuating object, and a rounded spring bend at the ‘pivot’ end. Options put the lever on either the left ...
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Telford-based iconsys has a contract to deliver variable speed motor controllers and other equipment to an un-named company for an un-named marine application. Described as “around 30 variable speed drives” by ABB, whose drive cabinets are being supplied, they are to be joined by drive-trains, programmable controllers, sub-sea connection boxes, sub-sea motors and gearboxes, said ...
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Nottingham University’s Aerospace Unlocking Potential (UP) programme has pledged £110,000 in funding to three UK businesses working to improve sustainability in the aerospace sector. The three companies working to help tackle the effects of space debris or minimise the environmental impact of space operations. They are are: Holscot Fluropolymers, which specialises in the use of ...
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The University of Nottingham has creates a business unit for the industrialisation of electrical motors and drive systems, claiming that it is the first UK institution to create an independent business unit for the industrialisation of electrical motors and drive systems. Nottingham Drive Specialist Services (NDSS) will provide “bespoke development, manufacturing and testing of electrical ...
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EnOcean, which provides energy-harvesting sensors and cloud-based software for building management, has bought the assets of the edge computing solutions business of Renesas Electronics, including personnel, hardware products and software products. Integration of the edge computing solution, according to EnOcean, will additionally provide access to data from the existing building infrastructure such as heating, cooling ...
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Yangtze Memory is among 31 Chinese companies put on the US Department of Commerce’s ‘unverifiable’ list meaning it has 60 days to permit a US investigation into whether it breached US trade regulations before it gets added to the Entity List which prohibits US companies from supplying the company with their products. It is thought ...
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Leonardo is highlighting it has created an almost fully automated end-to-end fighter jet radar array test facility, which it describes as a world first. Described as “one button” solution to achieve a 24 to 30 hour radar antenna test, the test facility – called a Production Near-Field Range (PNFR) – is fully automated and located ...
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Review Display Systems of Westerham is shipping a 12.1-inch TFT display from Tianma. The P-series NL12880BC20-32F display module features WXGA resolution (1280 x 800 pixels), a wide 16:9 aspect ratio and delivers excellent optical performance with the implementation of SFT (Super Fine TFT) technology. Tianma P-series (Professional series) TFT displays have been designed and developed ...
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TSMC’s September revenue was down 4.5% from August but up of 36.4% y-o-y at $6.6 billion. Revenue for January through September 2022 totaled $52 billion – up 42.6% y-o-y.
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Rohde & Schwarz has introduced a 12bit four-channel oscilloscope series that stretches up to 1.5GHz and 4.5 million acquisition/s. The display is an HD 13.3inch capacitive touchscreen. “Development engineers can now see more signal detail and infrequent events than with any other oscilloscope,” claimed the company. The series is called MXO 4 and also includes ...
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Berkshire asic design house Sondrel has announced intention to list London Stock Exchange’s AIM market. “Admission to AIM will enable us to expand our global operations with more engineers and sales staff to ensure that we maintain customer satisfaction as we grow,” said founder and CEO Graham Curren (right). The company styles itself as one of ...
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ST has introduced a 64-channel ultrasound transmitter with new features to enhance the image quality and convenience of high-performance portable industrial and medical instruments. Today’s ultraportable scanners are almost the size of a smartphone yet deliver image quality comparable to large and expensive high-end systems from only a few years ago. ST’s STHVUP64 transmitter, which ...
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Nexperia has introduced more clip-bonded surface-mount diodes for industrial and automotive applications. There are 32 planar Schottky diodes and eight hyperfast recovery rectifiers, with some AEC-Q101 ‘Q’ types for automotive, all in the company’s 5.8 x 4.3 x 0.95mm CFP15B package (also SOT1289B). “Using the smaller CFP15B instead of DPAK or SMB/C packages can save ...
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Micledi Microdisplays, a spin-put of Belgian semiconductor lab Imec, has revealed a year-long collaboration with augmented reality glasses maker Kura Technologies. AR glasses need far brighter displays than VR goggles, and displays made from arrays of miniaturised conventional III-V LEDs are a contender for this application. Multiple partnerships are racing towards this goal. In this ...
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Trexon, a portfolio company of Audax Private Equity, announces that it has bought Intelliconnect, the 19 year-old Chelmsford supplier of RF connectors, adapters, and cable assemblies. “Adding Intelliconnect to the Engineered Products portfolio builds on our current expertise in RF products designed for highly engineered systems for a range of applications,” says Trexon’s Nildeep Patel, ...
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IQE is partnering with MICLEDI Microdisplays (“MICLEDI”) for large-scale commercialisation of microLED technology. MICLEDI is a fabless semiconductor design and technology company developing microLED displays with a primary focus on augmented reality (“AR”) products. Under this agreement, IQE will provide MICLEDI with a 200mm (8-inch) platform to scale and commercialise this technology to achieve high-volume production ...
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Power transistor sales are on pace to grow 11% in 2022 and expected to reach a sixth-straight record high level, totaling $24.5 billion this year, primarily because of the highest increase in the ASP for products in this large discrete semiconductor segment in more than a decade, says IC Insights, with the ASP for power ...
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Samsung Foundry has certified Siemens Digital’s Aprisa IC design software for its 4nm FinFET technology node. Aprisa users can design projects at 4nm with fully certified technology that supports all the design rules and features of Samsung Foundry’s most advanced FinFET process technology platform.
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Nordic Semiconductor supports the 1.0 version of Matter over Thread with the latest issue (2.1.0) of its nRF Connect software development kit (SDK). “This support is related to the Connectivity Standard Alliance’s formal adoption of Matter specification version 1.0,” according to the company. “This support allows developers to get started immediately on Matter over Thread ...
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CorPower Ocean and Maersk have installed the 6.2km sub-sea export cable needed at the HiWave-5 wave-power test site 5.5km off the northern coast of Portugal. The site will initially accommodate the prototype of CorPower’s huge C4 wave energy converter (below) which is scheduled to be joined by three more. The 7.2kV cable was fed into ...
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ST is to build a $728 million SiC substrate manufacturing plant in Catania, Sicily with €292.5 million coning from the Italian government. “ST is transforming its global manufacturing operations, with additional capacity in 300mm manufacturing and a strong focus on wide bandgap semiconductors to support its $20+B revenue ambition. We are expanding our operations in ...
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Flex Power Modules’ quarter-brick BMR4912510/871 dc-dc converters delivers 24V output from a 40 to 60V at up to 1.3kW. “While its output voltage is nominally 24V, adjustment using its 4pin PMBus allows this to be set from 16 to 26.4V, but it can be further adjusted down to 0V if needed,” according to the company. ...
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QinetiQ, the UK defence technology company, is selling Space NV – its division that designs and develops small satellites and space technology – to Redwire for a cash consideration of £28m (€32m). Given that Belgium-based Space NV has independent facilities, management and operations, Redwire says it is expecting a seamless transition of business. For the ...
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A priceless Korean medical encyclopaedia, first published in 1613, is now available for the public to interact with virtually the National Library of Korea Compiled by royal physician Heo Jun, the originals are locked away for safe keeping, but a high-resolution scan has been animated on a novel display surface by Seoul-based company Ubidus. “Many ...
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Reed relay maker Pickering has produced a video explaining voltage errors due to thermal effects in relays – where they come from, how to measure them, and how to reduce them. Although intended to promote the company’s own products, there is a lot of general interest in there, for which Pickering deserves credit. Spoiler: Operating ...
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TDK has introduced quarter brick isolated 50W dc-dc converters with a 12:1 input range: 14 to 160Vdc There are also similar 75W converters, this time with a 9-75Vdc (8:1) input range, Quarter brick converters (left hand in image), with smaller 20W parts as well as larger 200W parts in the pipeline (see below). Called PYQ50, ...
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Amphenol Socapex has found a way to add military-grade ruggedness and waterproofing to MPO (multi-fibre push-on) optical fibre connections. Called ‘MPO Field’, it is intended to transform a standard patch-cord with MPO/MTP connectors using MT ferules. The MPO connector and patch-cord gets hand-assembled into a metallic plug based on a MIL-STD-38999 Series III, shell size ...
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has asked for comments on initiatives directed at bolstering the robustness and reliability of patents to incentivise and protect new and nonobvious innovation while also facilitating the broader dissemination of public knowledge to promote innovation and competition. The request for comments is available in the reading room ...
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Synzen Precision Technology of Taipei has has unveiled two low-profile antennas for IoT devices. both are only 1.6mm high. Alcor (SZP-C-2L22) is a 5G surface-mount antenna that has been developed cover 617MHz to 6GHz “and a fallback to 4G – 3G -2G”, according to the company. It occupies 40 x 10mm. Clearance is 40 x ...
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STMicroelectronics has added a 30MHz 50µV input offset dual device to its 5V op amp family. Called TSV782 and working down to 2V, allowing it to use the same power rail as low-voltage logic devices, and consumption is 3.3mA/channel – there is no shut-down pin to reduce this. Slew rate is 20V/µs, and TSV782 has maximum ...
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Vodafone has confirmed that it is in discussions with Hutchison Holdings ‘in relation to a possible combination of Vodafone UK and Three UK’. The envisaged transaction would involve both companies combining their UK businesses, with Vodafone owning 51% and Hutchison owning 49% of the combined business. The relative ownership would be achieved through a differential ...
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Cambridge Mechatronics (CML) has used shape memory alloy to create an image sensor shifter for five-axis optical image stabilisation in phones. “The main challenge in sensor shift is the requirement to move the image sensor whilst simultaneously connecting it to the handset,” according to the company. “Traditional voice coil motors are limited in the force ...
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MikroElektronika has launched a development board for GigaDevice’s GD32VF103VBT6 32bit RISC-V microcontroller in its SiBrain format. Mikroe is the company is behind the ‘Click’ interface format and SiBrain is the latest version of its MCU equivalent, with a standardised footprint that has two 168pin mezzanine connectors. The processor runs at 108MHz and has up to ...
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Intel has filed with the US SEC to list its ADAS unit, Mobileye, on the Nasdaq exchange. Intel will keep control of the unit by retaining class B shares that have 10 votes each and selling class A shares that have one vote each. It is not disclosed how large the offering will be. Mobileye ...
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RF GaAs device revenue will fall this year, according to Strategy Analytics’ RF GaAs Device Technology and Market Forecast: 2021 – 2026, because of inflation, trade sanctions, supply chain issues and global economic uncertainty. Beyond 2022, growth will resume with RF GaAs device revenue approaching $9.3 billion by 2026. Wider deployment of 5G handsets and ...
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