The UK Space Agency has awarded Raytheon a contract to provide Space Surveillance and Tracking Services Data (SST) from low-Earth orbit (LEO). Specifically, Raytheon NORSS – Raytheon’s UK-based space domain ...
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NTT DOCOMO, Miyashita Laboratory of the School of Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences, Meiji University and H2L Inc have developed a technology that enables taste information to be shared between people via ...
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Korean semiconductor production rose 42% in November while shipments rose 80% says Statistics Korea. The November rise was the largest increase in 18 months. November inventories rose by 36% – ...
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SaxaVord, in the the Shetland Islands, has been officially granted a spaceport licence by UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). The site – on the Lamba Ness peninsula site in Unst, ...
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Yanaichi Electronis is shipping a High-Heat-Resistant Flexible Printed Circuit Board YFLEX – Yamaichi Electronics’ Answer to Heat Challenges. The YFLEX flexible printed circuit board from Yamaichi Electronics is now also ...
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Nisshinbo Micro Devices has launched a broadband low noise amplifier GaAS MMIC GaAS for BS/CS TV, TV Tuner Module, STB and other broadcasting applications. The NJG1188KG1 is a broadband LNA ...
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A quick post to wish all our readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Note, however, that ElectronicsWeekly.com is not taking a break.
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Ultraleap and Prophesee have joined up to develop a system using event sensors and hand tracking in AR devices. The development utlises Ultraleap’s computer vision and ML models and with ...
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5.4 billion sensors, including imaging sensors, magnetic sensors, MEMS pressure sensors among many others, for the automotive market were shipped in 2022, says Yole Developpement, and with a 7% CAGR ...
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Siemens Digital Industries Software is working with sureCore and Semiwise to develop cryogenic CMOS circuits capable of operating at temperatures near absolute zero required for quantum computing systems.. The key ...
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Comau has conducted a pilot study for the adoption of wearable MATE-XT and MATE-XB exoskeletons. MATE-XT helps to reduce the muscle load of the upper limbs during static or repetitive ...
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TrendForce predicts an 18-23% rise in mobile DRAM and NAND Flash (eMMC/UFS) prices for the first quarter of 2024. This surge could be further amplified if brand clients resort to ...
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Q3 revenues for the fabless top ten rose 17.8% q-o-q to $44.7 billion. Nvidia’s Q3 revenue rose 45.7% to $16.5 billion. Cirrus Logic grew 51.7% to $481 million take the ...
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Has the US Chips Act been successful in increasing investment in semiconductor wafer fabs in the U.S? asks Semiconductor Intelligence. SI’s answer is the table below of major U.S. fab ...
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Magnachip Semiconductor has begun mass production of its new 30V MXT LV Metal MOSFETs used in the ECUs of Electric Power Steering (EPS) systems. The 30V MXT LV MOSFET provides ...
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PEI-Genesis, the custom connector specialist, is expanding its harsh environment products to include RF/Microwave interconnect, has added to its distribution agreements and set up an RF Solutions Group. PEI-Genesis has ...
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Now in its sixth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly highlight some of the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series ...
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A range of COM Express modules released by congatec are based on the Intel Core Ultra processors, which integrate a neural processing unit (NPU) called Intel AI Boost. According to ...
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Yesterday Intel announced PC chips that have been designed into 230 PC models, some already in the stores. Intel says its top of the range PC chip Core Ultra 7 ...
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The share of the foundry industry now held by Taiwan and Korea will shrinkto 41% and 10% respectively by 2027, says TrendForce. Currently Taiwan holds approximately 46% of global semiconductor ...
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has added Atlanta, Georgia and Strafford County, New Hampshire to its patent outreach office network. The creation of the new offices is part ...
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The silicon photonics market, valued at $68 million in 2022, will grow to more than $600 million in 2028 at a 44% CAGR 22-28, 8, driven by high-data-rate modules and ...
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Melexis claims that its Hall-effect sensor, the MLX90394 Triaxis micropower magnetometer, balances the design trade-off between low noise, current consumption and cost. With on-the-fly selectable modes and advanced configurability, it ...
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ST has issued software for migrating STM32 MCU Find code to more powerful STM32MP1 microprocessors. Increasingly, the latest process equipment, factory-automation systems, logistics and retail technology, IoT devices, and digital ...
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The UK government has announced Enabling Technologies Programme (ETP) funding for a range of projects designed to help boost UK development of new space technologies. Twenty-three projects are involved and, ...
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Aalyria has won a development contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to deploy Spacetime – its O-RAN compliant “network orchestration” technology – at the agency’s ECSAT 5G/6G Hub in ...
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Melexis has added the MLX91231, a shunt-based sensing automotive current sensor for IVT (current, voltage, and temperature) and a digital microcontroller (MCU). The sensor is designed to measure low voltage ...
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Toshiba and Rohm are to invest $2.7 billion in power ICs. Rohm will invest $2 billion in a SiC plant in Kyushu and Toshiba will invest $700 million in a ...
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October semiconductor sales of $46.6 billion were up 3.9% on the $44.9 billion of September but 0.7% less than the October 2022 total of $46.9 billion, says the SIA. A ...
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Q3 NAND shipments rose 2.9% to $9.2 billion with a bit shipment increase of 3% q-o-q, reports TrendForce. Samsung had a 1–3% decrease in shipped bits, but a 1–3% increase ...
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DigiKey has hosted a webinar on procurement and purchasing, entitled “Strategic Procurement for 2024: A Live Fireside Chat”. The virtual event features procurement experts from DigiKey discussing successful procurement strategies ...
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Guerrilla RF is sampling a low noise amplifier that delivers an exceptionally flat gain response over a single 5 to 8 GHz broadband tune. When operated at 6 GHz, the ...
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The 2023 Avnet Insights survey reports that nearly three quarters (73%) of engineers who responded from around the world say the component shortages experienced recently in the supply chain have ...
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Q3 semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings fell 11% y-o-y to $25.6 billion while q-o-q billings fell 1%, says the Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Market Statistics (WWSEMS) Report. “The Q3 2023 dip in ...
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2024 semiconductor sales are projected to grow 16.8% in 2024 to total $624 billion, according to Gartner after a 2023 market which is forecast to decline 10.9% to $534 billion. ...
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To encourage research, development, and innovation in semiconductor manufacturing, the Commerce Department’s U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is announcing a new Semiconductor Technology Pilot Program developed to support the ...
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Novocomms, the RF antenna design and manufacturing specialist, has unveiled NovoSat – a lightweight, dual-port, L Band antenna. Featuring high performance GNSS capability, the company highlights, it is also described ...
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Mouser explores how to seamlessly connect, control, and automate all our home devices with its all-encompassing Smart Home resource center. Mouser makes it easy and accessible to navigate complex networks ...
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Broadcom is shipping a novel on-chip, neural-network inference engine called NetGNT (Networking General-purpose Neural-network Traffic-analyzer) in its new, software-programmable Trident 5-X12 chip. NetGNT works in parallel to augment the standard packet-processing pipeline. The standard ...
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Texas Instruments has announced a series of GaN power switches for ac-dc and dc-dc converters that include and integrated driver, protection and current sense emulation. The parts, called LMG362x, differ in ...
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Kvaser has created an M.2 slot compatible board that can add four CAN or CAN FD interfaces to a PC or computer Called ‘M.2 PCIe 4xCAN’ (and also 01333-9), it ...
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Q3 EV sales, including including BEVs (Battery EVs) , PHEVs (Plug-In Hybrid EVs) and FCEVs (Fuel Cell EVs), grew 28.1% y-o-y to 3.455 million units, says TrendForce. BEVs accounted for ...
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We had a fantastic time last night at the 2023 Elektra Awards, hosted by the excellent comedian Paul Sinha, who was Highly Commended! Below you will find a gallery of ...
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The Women’s Engineering Society (WES) is to host the Caroline Haslett Lecture and its WES Awards 2023 in London on 13 December 2023. The venue is the Geological Society in ...
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At the prestigious Elektra Awards last night, the EW BrightSparks of 2023 were announced, highlighting some of the best young electronics engineers in the UK. Now in its sixth year, ...
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Infineon has created a 10Gbit/s USB peripheral controller, intended to be used in devices that connect to a host via USB-C. Called CYUSB4014-BZXI, it has an Arm Cortex-M4 processing core, ...
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With the Mars Rover aiming to launch in 2028, a key instrument for the £10m Rosalind Franklin Mars Rover will now be built in the UK, not Russia. The Space ...
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LEDlenser has created a range of LED work torches for peering into electrical cabinets, amongst other applications. “Depending on the job at hand, professionals expect different things from their work ...
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We are delighted to announce that the Judges panel for the Electronics Weekly Women in Electronics Awards is beginning to take shape. The inaugural awards have been launched and we’re ...
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OMC has created a family of key-coded SMA fibre optic connectors, with 50 or more different orientations. Clockface-style multiple keyways are used (photo right) and each gets a number on ...
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STMicroelectronics will be showing an evaluation kit that implements both power-line and sub-GHz RF comms for smart grid infrastructure this week at Enlit Europe. Called EVLKST8500GH-2, it combines the company’s ...
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The UK Space Agency (UKSA) and UK Space Command are turning to SpaceFlux to help protect the safety of national space assets, it was announced at the recent UK Space ...
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ETH Zurich researchers have trained an autonomous excavator to construct a dry-stone wall 65m long and 6m high out of random rocks and building waste. Using sensors including cameras and ...
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A programme of orbital rocket launches by HyImpulse Technologies, a launch services provider, is due to be hosted by SaxaVord Spaceport, on the Shetland Islands. These space launches will be ...
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Alps Alpine has launched a touchless capacitive overlay to add proximity control to 15.6inch displays. Detection range is 50 – 80mm for hand or finger proximity, 30 – 50mm to ...
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Rochester Electronics is presenting a webinar on avoiding re-designs caused by premature semiconductor obsolescence. It’s titled: Unexpected Product-Life Extensions: Avoid re-designs and high-risk sourcing The free webinar takes place online ...
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With the UK Space Conference 2023 taking place in Belfast, the UK government has announced it’s bidding to join the Atlantic Constellation involving small satellites for Earth Observation. Along with ...
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Hamamatsu Photonics has introduced a UV model of its ‘micro’ spectrometer series. C16767MA is mems-based, and sensitive across 190 to 440nm with a typical resolution of 5.5nm (FWHM, so ±2.25nm ...
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The US has allocated $3 billion of Chips Act money to its National Advanced Packaging Manufacturing Program (NAPMP) with the aim of developing “critical and relevant innovations for advanced packaging ...
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Ford has cut back on the size of an EV battery plant it plans to build in Marshall, Michigan because of weaker demand for EVs than expected. A Ford spokesman ...
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The race for comms from space is heating up. Viasat, the satellite communications company, and Skylo Technologies, a non-terrestrial network (NTN) service provider, have announced the launch of a global ...
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STMicroelectronics has introduced a precision digital current, voltage and power monitor with a an I3C bus interface. Called TSC1641, it has two 16bit ΣΔ converters at its inputs, allowing simultaneous ...
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Ireland is set to launch its first spacecraft, the Educational Irish Research Satellite-1 (EIRSAT-1). This is a European Space Agency (ESA) project led by students at University College Dublin (UCD), ...
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Plastic and fibre is a well known combination for making strong lightweight specialist enclosures, but can a little bit of fibre reinforcement usefully improve mass-produced injection moulded parts? That is ...
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Amazon may be in a tight spot in its video streaming technology dispute with Nokia, but there are options, writes John-Paul Rooney, a consumer tech specialist at European intellectual property ...
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We are very proud to announce the first ever Electronics Weekly Women in Electronic Awards, celebrating the notable achievements of women within the electronics industry. Taking place in Covent Garden, ...
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GlobalFoundries is launching a student loan repayment programme to help current employees and new recruits pay down student loan debt. Under the programme, which is set to begin in early ...
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Loctite has created a silicone form-in-place gasket material for automotive electronic enclosures. SI 5972FC is a one-part RTV (room temperature vulcanising) liquid-then-elastomer “with adhesion to a range of metal and ...
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Panasonic has set up two European relay test laboratories, both near Munich, which will also analyse the company’s other electromechanical products. “The equipment in the labs comprises high-voltage, stress and ...
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The race for 5G from space is speeding up. Lockheed Martin has completed a final demo of what it describes as its first regenerative non-terrestrial network 5G Satellite Base Station ...
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Audio Precision has introduced a test instrument with two analogue audio generator/analyser channels and a swappable digital channel to address multiple data standards. “A standout feature of the APx516B is ...
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The UK Space Agency (UKSA) has announced funding research for the refuelling an upcoming mission to remove space junk. The aim, for sustainability, is to help prolong the life of ...
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Silicon Labs has built a family of 8bit microcontrollers around its 8051-based CIP-51 core, running at 50MHz. “The BB5 family supports voltage options from 1.8 to 5.5V, allowing them to ...
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XMems Labs has revealed a mems-based loudspeaker that uses ultrasonics to reproduce bass notes. Branded ‘Cypress’, the company describes it as “full-range” and said that it “achieves >140dB low frequency ...
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Terran Orbital has announced additional configurations of its new, largest Enterprise satellite platform, aimed at large constellation deployment. The satellite manufacturer – based in Boca Raton, Florida – says a ...
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Columbia University researchers have published a paper clsiming Re6Se8Cl2 to be the fastest and most efficient semiconductor material known to man. Re6Se8Cl2 is a synthetic superatomic material manufactured by Xavier ...
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Nisshinbo Micro Devices of Tokyo has launched the NB7142 and NB7143 series Li-Ion battery protection ICs. The devices are intended for applications requiring high-precision overcurrent and short-circuit detection, such as ...
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The Andøya Spaceport in Norway has officially opened, readying itself to be the future launch site – for small and medium sized satellites – of Isar Aerospace and its Spectrum ...
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Molex has opened a production campus in Katowice, Poland. “The facility’s initial 23,000m2 manufacturing space will serve as a strategic central location to facilitate delivery of medical devices for Phillips-Medisize, ...
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Vishay is to buy Newport Wafer Fab after years of wrangling over whether it could be owned by Nexperia which is owned y the Chinese company Wingtech. Vishay paid ...
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Following its acquisition of Inmarsat, Viasat has announced it is making approximately 800 people from its workforce redundant, representing about 10%, spread across the business in terms of geographies and ...
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Rohm has introduced a nanosecond gate driver for GaN power transistors, aimed at lidar, dc-dc converters and Class-D audio. “It is ideal for high-speed GaN switching, with a minimum gate ...
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Worldwide spending on telecommunication and pay TV services will reach $1.55 trillion in 2023, an increase of 3.0% over 2022, according to IDC with inflation being the primary driver. The ...
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Infineon has announced a family microcontrollers combining an Arm Cortex-M55 core (including ‘Helium’ DSP support), an Arm Ethos-U55 machine learning processor, and an Arm Cortex-M33 core, which has in-built security, ...
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A PDK for the SkyWater open-source 130 nm process will be available in the Cadence VLSI (very large-scale integration) Fundamentals Education Kit. The kit teaches students how theories and concepts ...
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DigiKey has announced is partnering with Ambiq, a specialist in “ultra-low” power ICs, for global distribution. Through the agreement, for example, DigiKey is now stocking Ambiq’s Apollo4 Blue Plus SoC, ...
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SiTime is to acquire the clock products of Aura Semiconductor and license all of its clock IP in an all-cash transaction, comprised of fixed payments totaling $148 million, and earnouts ...
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The UK and Japan space agencies have agreed to develop a satellite-based launch telemetry system for the Japanese H3 launch vehicle. The goal is to provide an in-orbit telemetry relay ...
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Supporting the move from custom hardware to modular hardware in space, Alpha Data has launched an adaptable processors development kit “which comprises a fully radiation tolerant reference design in a ...
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ST is trying harder to displace 8bit MCUs with its entry-level 32bit STM32C0 series by boosting flash to 128kbyte and adding a USB controller. The devices will be called STM32C071, ...
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UNIO, a German space startup, has announced pre-seed investment totalling €2.5 million to speed the development and market launch of its UNIO ‘bridge’ product. This enterprise-class commercial vehicle system is ...
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Rohm has developed its first silicon capacitors, the 400 x 200 x 185μm ( 01005, 0402 metric) BTD1RVFL series which covers 100pF to 1nF. “The mounting area is reduced by ...
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A tethered drone has been used to demonstrate a pop-up large area private 4G LTE cellular network. “This allows the drone to act as a mobile tower in the skies, ...
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The government is to spend £225 million to build a 21 exaflop supercomputer powered by 5,448 Nvidia Grace Hopper SoCs. Today the supercomputer, called Isambard-AI, would be one of the ...
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Codasip, the RISC-V Custom Compute specialist, has announced the first commercial implementation of CHERI (Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions which was developed at the University of Cambridge as the result ...
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Toray claims to have developed the worlds highest strength carbon fibre with TORAYCA T1200 after refining its a proprietary nanoscale structural control technology to design and achieve an internal structure ...
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To increase security when using containers to deploy and manage software, Wind River has added Sigstore’s Cosign to the container engine within VxWorks, the company’s RTOS (real-time operating system). “Containers ...
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Mouser and Microchip have produced an eBook highlighting the value propositions and use cases for 8-bit MCUs entitled The Mighty 8-Bit Microcontroller. In automotive applications, 8-bit MCUs can be preferred in ...
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Designed for work in circuits with varied voltage levels. Until recently, a very common problem faced by electronic circuit designers was the difference in supply voltage standards between microcontrollers (e.g. ...
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Team αCentauri, part-sponsored by Power Integrations, has just completed the 3,022km Bridgestone World Solar Challenge in Australia. It was the 12th and final finisher, ahead of the many teams that ...
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We are very proud to announce the first ever Electronics Weekly Women in Electronic Awards, celebrating the notable achievements of women within the electronics industry. Taking place in Covent Garden, ...
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If countries A and B sign a treaty agreeing to put certain nuclear warheads into storage, how do they know the other is not cheating? German and US scientists think ...
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Researchers at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a superconducting camera containing 400,000 pixels — 400 times more than any other device of its type. ...
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Delvitech is proud to announce and show a new generation of Automated Optical Inspection systems for the electronic and mechanical manufacturing. Electronic assembly process is moving towards more and more ...
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Murata’s novel soil sensor can now handle synthetic soils. “In recent years, the use of synthetic culture soil such as rock wool and coconut peat is popular for crops including ...
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To prevent intellectual property leakage, Segger has introduced a package that programmes microcontrollers securely at third party locations such as contract manufactures. Even the programmer-to-MCU connection is secured against ‘sniffing’, ...
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Western Digital and Kioxia have broken off merger talks after Hynix objected. Hynix was part of the Bain-led consortium which bought 55% of Kioxia in 2018 and gave Hynix convertible ...
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2023 wafer shipments are projected by SEMI to decline 14% to 12,512 million square inches (MSI) from the record high of 14,565 MSI in 2022 before bouncing back in 2024. ...
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Q4 contract prices for mobile DRAM are expected to rise 13–18%, says TrendForce, while the contract prices of eMMC and UFS NAND are expected increase by 10–15% . The rises ...
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United Monolithic Semiconductors has introduced a 24.25 – 30.5GHz combined output power amplifier, input low-noise amplifier and transit-receive switch. Called CHC6054-QQA, it is manufactured from AlGaN/GaN-on-SiC (gallium nitride on silicon ...
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The chip shortage tempted many manufacturers to go to non-traditional sources for components, taking the risk of acquiring counterfeit parts. Rob Moore, sales director at the electronic manufacturing services company ...
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China’s share of mature (28nm and older) process capacity is expected to grow from 29% this year to 33% by 2027, says TrendForce, while Taiwan’s is expected to fall from ...
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Tyvak International a €4.5 million ($4.7 million) contract for a “proximity operations and in-orbit servicing mission” that will deploy a nanosatellite spacecraft from ...
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AI represents 4.3GW of power demand today, according to an estimate by Schneider Electric, growing at a CAGR between 26 and 36%, to reach 13.5 to 20GW by 2028. 4.3GW ...
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Pragmatic Semiconductor, the Cambridge TFT manufacturer of flexible ICs, is reported by Sky to be close to securing a £200 million investment, Sources quoted as providers of the money are ...
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Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), the Bavarian rocket company, has announced a partnership with Yuri and ATMOS Space for the launch of ‘Eva’, an end-to-end service for microgravity life science research ...
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Socionext is developing 3nm SoCs for ADAS and AD (Autonomous Driving) using TSMC’s N3A process for production in 2026. The SoCs will support ISO26262 functional safety product development, AEC-Q100 and ...
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Novocomms, the UK antenna design and manufacturing specialist, has announced it is restructuring as part of growth plans for the next five years, including the establishment of three manufacturing divisions. ...
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Beams of electromagnetic radiation can be used to detect the rotation of distant objects if they have orbital angular momentum – known as ‘vortex waves’. It involves exploiting a rotational ...
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GlobalFoundries has been awarded $35 million in federal funding from the U.S. government to accelerate the manufacturing of GaN-on-silicon ICs at its facility in Essex Junction, Vermont. With the funding, ...
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We are very proud to announce the first ever Electronics Weekly Women in Electronic Awards, celebrating the notable achievements of women within the electronics industry. Taking place in Covent Garden, ...
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Researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand can’t quite point to a patch of fee space and measure any microwave field that exists there, but they almost can. ...
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has been conducting a technology demonstration of a wheeled robot for precise sample collections without human intervention. The reddish terrain is in Stevenage, not yet ...
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Rohm has developed a range of five 100V dual mosfets for single-phase or three-phase bridges in fan motor drives. Four of them are dual n-channel in 5 x 6mm or ...
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Dracula Technologies, the French indoor lighting energy harvesting specialist, has set up a “Green MicroPower Factory”. The 2500 m² factory in the Rhone Valley in Ardèche will produce up to ...
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ST has created a dual precision op-amp for automotive sensor signal conditioning, with 20µV input offset voltage and 100nV/°C drift, and operation over 4 to 36V and -40 to 125°C. ...
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Rochester Electronics is presenting a webinar on avoiding re-designs caused by premature semiconductor obsolescence. The free webinar takes place online on 5 December 2023 at 10am (GMT), and the presenters ...
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Ittia has ported its DB IoT database for microcontrollers to a sub-set of the STM32 MCU family, via the STM32CubeIDE integrated development environment. “Real-time data capture and edge analytics are ...
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The International Counterfeit Electronics & Materials Symposium and Workshop, on 4-5 March 2024 in Coventry, will be jointly hosted by the Anti-Counterfeiting Forum, CALCE and SMTA. The organisers aim to ...
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For grid-scale energy storage, the search is on for durable batteries made from low-cost materials. Aqueous zinc-iron batteries are one suggestion, where storage is though the reversible plating and stripping ...
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CXL solutions could transform today’s server memory challenges into a $15 billion opportunity by 2028, says Yole Developpement. By 2028, DRAM will constitute most of the CXL market revenue, with ...
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Avnet Embedded has come up with the compact MSC OSM-SF-IMX93 OSM computing modules compliant with the new OSM* 1.1 standard (Size-S) “Small” with dimensions of 30 x 30mm. The scalable ...
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SiFive has announced a pair of high-end RISC-V cores for AI and machine learning in consumer, automotive and infrastructure markets. “Performance P870 and Intelligence X390 offer a new level of ...
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Aaeon is aiming at industrial automation and digital signage with tiny stripped-down PCs built around Intel’s ‘Processor N-series’ (Alder Lake N) CPUs. Measuring 92 x 64 x 45.2mm ‘Up 7000 ...
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Nordic Semiconductor is aiming at Bluetooth, Thread and Matter with a secured wireless microcontroller built around a 128MHz Arm Cortex-M33 processor with 1.5Mbyte of non-volatile memory and 256kbyte of ram, ...
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SatVu has received the first high resolution thermal imagery from its recently launched satellite HOTSAT-1, which the company describes as a world-first. HOTSAT-1, pictured right, is the first of a ...
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Panasonic has created a pair of miniature opto-mosfet relays that can handle well over an amp and need little diode current. Both have back-to-back output mosfets, so they can switch ...
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Nexperia is aiming at protecting high-speed automotive data lines with ESD protection diodes whose capacitance is as low as 0.28pF. With stand-off voltages in the 18 – 32V range and ...
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Recom has built an isolated 5V output dc-dc converter that will work from 9 – 36Vdc. Measuring ~32 x 21 x 10mm, the through-hole pin-out of REC5K-2405SRW/H4/A is based on ...
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onsemi has brought out an image sensor family for doorbells, security cameras, AR/VR/XR headsets, machine vision and video conferencing. The Hyperlux LP family has a stacked architecture design that minimises ...
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Rigol Technologies has added 12bit oscilloscopes to its line-up, with a compact design which is flexible to use for both on-site and desktop testing”, according to the company. DHO900 oscilloscopes ...
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Microchip has created a PIC32 family with a 300MHz 32bit Arm Cortex-M7 processor and hardware security, for industrial and consumer devices. “Application designers must consider implementing security functionality in their ...
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Samsung Electro-Mechanics is aiming at automotive powertrains and safety systems with a 10µF 50V MLCC (multi-layer ceramic capacitor) in 3.2 x 1.6mm 1206 packaging. “Thanks to the application of proprietary ...
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Picocom, the 5G Open RAN baseband semiconductor and software specialist, today announced that it has collaborated with Texas Instruments (TI) on a complete 5G Open RAN small cell radio unit ...
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Astroscale UK is highlighting the space sector’s contribution to the wider UK economy, in terms of job creation and regional development. The company – a specialist in space debris removal ...
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Korean engineers and scientists have developed a soft gripper that can be used to lift 100kg, while weighing only 130g. The device is inspired by weaving and can be made ...
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Solar cells tend to work better with an anti-reflection coating, and perovskite solar cells are no exception. Planar magnesium fluoride anti-reflection coatings work on perovskite cells, but could the nano-scale ...
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For Nvidia Jetson Orin system-on-modules, E-con Systems has created a rugged waterproof camera aimed at autonomous mobility applications such as delivery robots and agriculture vehicles. SturdeCam31 is a 3Mpixel camera ...
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Quub, a US-based 3D printing microsatellite company, is launching an office in the UK for its Earth Observation business. Quub UK will be based in London, and its Executive Director ...
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Aiming at industrial and automotive applications, Diodes has introduced a portfolio of Hall-effect sensors for measuring linear and angular speed and direction. Called AH39xxQ, “they also have a 40V absolute ...
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BEC Distribution is stocking LinkCom Transformer products. This range includes balun transformers for impedance matching, which are also suitable for DOCSIS3.0 and DOCSIS3.1 for data-over-TV-cable, and transformers for Qualcomm’ HomePlug. ...
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Teledyne e2v is developing a fully radiation-tolerant (RT) space computing reference design, enabling high-speed data routing in space applications. Based on an Arm Cortex-A72, and with multiple high-speed interfaces, it ...
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Bosch Quantum Sensing has revealed a photo of its quantum magnetometer prototype (right). “In terms of its measurement accuracy, the Bosch sensor prototype is the smallest currently available – about ...
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