Lords to consider future of public service broadcasting

Tomorrow the House of  Lords Communications Committee will question academic experts as part of its inquiry investigating whether there is a future for public service broadcasting in the context of the rising popularity of video on demand services. In the week following Apple’s announcement that it will develop its own streaming service, the Committee will examine ...

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Imec Fellow gets $2.5m grant to research ultra bright thin-film light sources and lasers

Imec researcher Paul Heremans (pictured), a Fellow and Director of Large Area Electronics at Imec, has received €2.5 million funding under the European Research Council’s Advanced Grant programme for a 5-year project to develop ultra-bright thin-film light sources and lasers. The technology has a wide variety of applications, such as optical interconnects, augmented reality displays ...

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Ed Solves The No Deal Prob

The best thing about being out here in the Caribbean is that it’s 4000 miles from Westminster and the 650 over-excited pols doing their best to screw the country, Ed confides to his diary. Funnily enough I might be making a significant contribution to our No Deal future from my sun lounger. At the breakfast ...

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Infineon shipping CIPOS 600V IPMs

Infineon Is shipping its CIPOS Micro IM231 series, a family of 600 V rated intelligent power modules (IPM). It is qualified for harsh humid environments, passing 1000 hours of high voltage, high temperature and high humidity reverse bias (HV H3TRB) stress testing. For this reason, the IPM suits power appliance motor drives particularly in circulator ...

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Most read Gadget Master posts in March – Android Things, Raspberry Pi robotics, SpaceX Crew Dragon

According to the stats of Google Analytics, the posts cover Android Things, Raspberry Pi robotics, SpaceX Dragon's return, an Arduino plant monitor and quantum computing...

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Need a motor that is clean enough to eat off?

ABB has announced a series of IEC food-safe motors for food and beverage plants, sealed to IP69 with stainless steel cases built to withstand high pressure cleaning and clean-in-place (CIP) methods. The cases are smooth and self-draining, with no crevices where particles can collect. No motor shrouds are used, which might otherwise harbour food and allow ...

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Random Excess Memory

Many many years ago when the chip industry was young, and the leading edge DRAM was 64K, there was the Mother of All Market Crashes. In 1985 you could buy four 64K DRAMs for a dollar. All the US producers, there were over a dozen, pulled out except TI and Micron. The  world was awash ...

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Most Read articles – 18nm FDSOI, fabless, lithium ion capacitors

What are the most popular topics covered? An 18nm FDSOI physical IP foundry platform, speed-limiting car tech, the size of the fabless market, lithium ion capacitors and the overall semiconductor market.

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ON buys Quantenna

ON Semiconductor is to buy Quantenna Communications  for about $1.07 billion after accounting for Quantenna’s net cash of approximately $136 million. The acquisition enhances ON’s connectivity portfolio with the addition of Quantenna’s industry leading Wi-Fi technology and software capabilities. Following completion, the transaction is expected to be immediately accretive to ON’s non-GAAP earnings per share ...

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Hprobe joins with Imec for SOT-MRAM tester development

Hprobe, the two year-old Grenoble provider of  wafer test equipment for magnetic devices,  has joined with Imec to develop advanced magnetic tester equipment for the next generation of MRAM devices based on the Spin Orbit Torque (SOT) effect. Hprobe has begun to optimize the test flow for SOT-MRAM devices in order to bring the characterization and testing to ...

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Infineon to sell TPM for industrial applications in H2

In H2, Infineon will have volume availability of a Trusted Platform Module specifically for industrial applications. The OPTIGA TPM SLM 9670 protects the integrity and identity of industrial PCs, servers, industrial controllers or edge gateways. It controls access to sensitive data in key positions in a connected, automated factory as well as at the interface ...

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Tech Beats God In US Survey

Phew! That’s a relief. With all this religiosity around in the USA it comes as a relief to hear that the vast majority of them believe that tech will solve their problems better than prayer. A Pew Research Centre Survey reveals that nine out of ten Americans – some 86% – believe tech is more  beneficial ...

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Fable: The Goldilocks Strategy

A very great man once described how he started a phenomenally successful company:  “We started out with memory as the objective. To look at it more broadly, what we wanted to do was make a complex device.” “ At that time,  in the TTL business, the chips were costing less than the packaging, by a ...

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Programmable connectors are environmentally sealed

Bulgin’s 4000 series of environmentally sealed circular connectors are now available in a ‘smart’ variant from RS Components. They include a programmable memory for data monitoring and IoT applications. Programmability and over the air updates are via an integrated EEPROM. The connector is not designed to read data output from a sensor, only to identify issues ...

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Electric car production hit by China subsidy cut

The electric car production industry will be hit hard by a decision by the China government to cut EV subsidies by more than half. As from June the $9,830 subsidy given by central government to the buyer of an electric car will be cut to $4,100. Local government subsidies, which have been up to 50% ...

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200W PSU for industrial robots has unusual isolation mix

Cosel is aiming at industrial robots and automation with a triple output 200W open-frame ac-dc power supply. Called RBC200F , its three configurable outputs are isolated, with one having a reinforced isolation to power IGBTs or similar applications. Input and outputs are digitally controlled. The master output dc-dc converter has an LLC resonant topology, when ...

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Global woes depress Infineon outlook

Global uncertainties and weaker demand are reducing Infineon’s expectations for 2019. A slower demand recovery than expected is now assumed, evidenced by declining vehicle sales in China causing dealer inventories to increase sharply, and increased inventories in the broader distribution channel, in particular for Power Management & Multimarket in China. Margin is now expected to ...

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Plunder

There are a couple of years at least before the EU’s proposed new law on copyright comes into effect, and that’s time enough to ponder its implications. It seems fairly obvious to me that the big tech companies feel they have a right to plunder content  wherever they find it – like Sir Francis Drake plundered ...

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UK schools robot competition lead by EPSRC

A robotic design competition for the UK’s school children, based on an on-line game, has been launched by the government’s UK Robotics & Autonomous Systems Network (UK-RAS Network) and educational publishers Twinkl. The School Robot Competition invites children aged between 8 and 14 (upper KS2-KS3) to design a robot that can move across Mars and complete various ...

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The Fastest Growing Job Sector In The USA

In these chaotic days when we can’t agree anything pertaining to Brexit, the USA is showing how one country can have two different legal environments working side by side. At the federal level, the growing and use of marijuana is illegal in the USA. But ten US stages have legalised it. What’s more  the ten ...

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Four channel scope and BER tester for 100G and 400G optical modules

Anritsu is aiming at 100G and 400G optical modules with a four-channel sampling oscilloscope option for its BERTWave MP2110A chassis, creating a multi-channel oscilloscope and bit error rate tester (BERT) in one unit. “Backbone networks and data centres increasingly use 100G Ethernet to meet anticipated traffic demand for services such as 5G and are considering ...

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EU cars will have speed limiting tech by 2022.

New models of cars sold in Europe in 2022 will have to have speed limiting technology under a measure approved by the EC and due to be agreed by the European Parliament and member states in September. The technology uses GPS signals to detect speed limits, detect speeding cars and slow them down. All in ...

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Renesas to expedite cyber certification process

Renesas is  to release a security solution based on the Renesas RZ/G Linux Platform that will reduce the amount of time required for users to obtain certification under IEC 62443-4-2, a new international standard for security technologies used to protect industrial control systems from cyberattacks. Cyberattacks on industrial control systems for infrastructure facilities such as ...

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MangoGem launches ORITAMES v2.5

MangoGem has launched Version 2.5 of its ORITAMES Advanced Planning and Scheduling system. The ORITAMES APS Scheduler v2.5 incorporates autonomous Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities for improved planning and schedule optimization as well as improved modeling of sequence dependent setups, batching and time constraints, making it ideally suited to large, real-life problems taking into account the ...

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A*STAR and Soitec combine on packaging development

The Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s (A*STAR) Institute of Microelectronics (IME) and Soitec are to develop and integrate a new layer transfer process within advanced wafer level multi-chip packaging techniques. Based on the combination of IME’s Fan-Out Wafer Level Packaging (FOWLP) and 2.5D Through Silicon Interposer (TSI) technologies with Soitec’s Smart Cut technology, the ...

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US commands 68% of fabless market

The USA fabless industry had a 68% world market share last year, reports IC Insights. Since 2010, the largest fabless market share increase has come from Chinese suppliers,  which held a 13% share last year as compared to only 5% in 2010.  In 2018, four of the top five fastest growing fabless IC companies (with ...

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Intelliconnect expands RF and microwave connector and adaptor range

Intelliconnect, the Chelmsford  specialist manufacturer of RF andcryogenic connectors and cable assemblies, is expanding its RF and Microwave precision connector and adaptor range. Intelliconnect’s attenuators and adaptors are used where signal integrity and quality are important, and a high level of reliability is required. Connector interfaces available include: N, SMA, TNC, 2.9mm, 2.4mm, BMA and SSMAtypes ...

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Top Ten Chip Buyers

Thanks to Gartner for this one – the top ten buyers of ICs last year: 2017 Ranking 2018 Ranking Company 2017 2018 2018 Market Share (%) Growth (%) 2017-2018 1 1 Samsung Electronics 40,408 43,421 9.1 7.5 2 2 Apple 38,834 41,883 8.8 7.9 5 3 Huawei 14,558 21,131 4.4 45.2 3 4 Dell 15,606 ...

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One piece of foam senses temperature, pressure and humidity

At the same time, a cellulose/polymer sensor can measure pressure, temperature and humidity, according to Linköping University. And, before you ask, the measurements are independent of each other. The sensor is an aerogel, made by vacuum freeze-drying a mixture of cellulose nanofibres, the conducting polymer PEDOT:PSS and water. Adding a polysilane to this makes the aerogel elastic. ...

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Magnetic switch with integrated ASIL-B self-test for auto-driving cars

Functional safety applications such as automated driving are the target of a pair of Hall sensors from Allegro MicroSystems. They are pin-compatible upgrades for existing three-wire Hall switch and latch ICs, developed in accordance with ISO 26262:2011 with ASIL-B capability (pending assessment). APS11450 devices are unipolar switches APS12450 devices are bipolar latches Self-test features are integrated, ...

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Arduino Science Kit targets 11- to 14-year-olds

Those Gadget Masters who have school age children may be interested in this one: the Arduino Science Kit Physics Lab.

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Nexperia aims at cars with 250mA LED driver

Nexperia has extended its constant current LED driver family with eight new AEC-Q101 qualified devices that deliver up to 250mA. The 16V NCR32xx and 40V NCR42xx series are available in two package styles, the smaller SOT457 (SC-74) or higher power SOT223 (SC-73) – the latter which works up to 1.25W. Output is stabilised at 10mA ...

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Could A Machine Make A Decent Rum Punch?

At least the Office for National Statistics (ONS) calls automation automation and not, as the trendy soubriquet has it: ‘AI’. Automation has been going on for yonks, it progresses at a steady pace – in line with hardware and software innovation – and, despite periodic hysteria about it taking over the world, it hasn’t and ...

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Raspberry Pi and OpenCV snaps a fridge thief in action

I like this one. A Raspberry Pi and OpenCV-based way to catch snap a fridge thief in action! As long, of course, as they don't steal the Pi and Pi camera as wells as the Hummus or the yoghurts...

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Deep UV leds for sterilisation and disinfection

CEL of Santa Clara has announced a family of deep ultra-violet (UV-C) leds for sterilisation and disinfection. The wavelength is 275nm, “which is a particularly effective wavelength in the UV-C spectrum at killing bacteria for sterilisation applications”, claimed the firm. Long working life is claimed – for example, the 3mW output version (25mA input) should ...

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World’s longest flexible PCB comes from Gloucestershire

Trackwise of Tewkesbury is claiming a world record – for creating what is believed to be the world’s longest multi-layer flexible printed circuit (FPC), which will span 26m 
(85 feet) within the wings of an unmanned aerial vehicle to distribute power and control signals. It is a solar-powered plane, and the flexi is claimed to ...

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AI module puts twin Movidius Myriad X on m.2 board for vision processing

Aaeon has build two Intel Movidius Myriad X AI processors onto a 22x80mm m.2 standard module for vision processing. Called ‘AI Core XM2280’, it is capable of up to 200frame/s (160 typical) and over 2 trillion floating point operations per second as a dedicated neural network accelerator. It is compatible with Intel’s OpenVINO tool kit ...

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Toshiba samples auto flash

Toshiba is sampling automotive JEDEC UFS Version 2.1 3D flash which operate from -40°C to +105°C, meet AEC-Q100 Grade2 and come in four capacities: 32GB, 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB[5]. The UFS devices have Refresh, Thermal Control and Extended Diagnosis. The Refresh function can be used to refresh data stored in UFS, and helps to extend the data’s lifespan. ...

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Arm and Samsung to offer 18nm physical IP platform

Arm’s Physical Design Group and Samsung Foundry intend to offer, by the end of the year, an 18nm FDSOI physical IP foundry platform which includes an eMRAM compiler and three Arm POP IP packages for Arm Cortex-A55, Cortex-R52 and Cortex-M33 processor IP. 18FDS is lower cost with lower power and the same BEOL as 14nm FinFET. It ...

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SiP is the answer to connecting 5G modems to the network

5G will redefine how the RF front-end interacts in-between the network and the modem, asserts Yole Developpement. Key to this is SiP technology, says Yole, because it allows  the implementation of an increasing number of bands with its ability to put many ICs, package assembly and test technologies in the same package.  The RF SiP ...

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February SEMI Billings down 1.7% on January

February billings of semiconductor manufacturing equipment were worth $1.86 billion says SMI which was 1.7% less than the $1.9 billion of January billings. The February figure was 23% lower than the February 2018 billings figure of $2.4 billion. “Global billings of North American equipment suppliers continued a decline that began in November 2018,” says SEMI’s ...

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Littelfuse adds to SiC Schottky Diodes

Littelfuse has added to its 650V, AEC-Q101-qualified SiC Schottky Diodes with the LSIC2SD065DxxA Series SiC Schottky Diode is available with current ratings of 6A, 10A, or 16A in a TO‑263-2L package and the LSIC2SD065ExxCCA Series SiC Schottky Diode is available with current ratings of 12A, 16A, 20A, or 40A in a TO-247-3L package. Typical applications include: ...

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Royal Society Conversazione on electronics applications

A SALIENT feature of the diversity of exhibits shown at last week’s Conversazione of the Royal Society was the use made by many research teams of electronic techniques in their investigations. So, 58 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s issue of May 17th 1961. The story continues: The National Hospital for Medical Research ...

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Taiyo Yuden offers Li-ion capacitors to combine battery and super-cap behaviour

Taiyo Yuden to offer ‘lithium ion capacitors’ – devices that combine super-capacitor and lithium ion storage to create a component with twice the storage capacity of its own super-caps, a 3.8V terminal potential, and long cycle life – although the latter only if it is never discharged below 2.2V. Operation is over -25 to 85℃ (voltage ...

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Folly

One of the wonders of the age is how the humble ‘gym shoe’ has become a hugely expensive fashion item under its new name of  ‘sneaker’. Looking at the materials involved, they must cost little to make but they can, of course, command prices of  over £1000. So it’s not really surprising that shoes are ...

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Only Connect: A guide on international electrical standards

Sometimes I am asked to supply cable assemblies to standards rather than specific manufacturers part numbers, so this post considers international electrical standards.

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DRAM ASPs to keep falling into Q3

DRAM ASPs are expected to keep falling into Q3, reports DRAMeXchange, as inventories accumulated by DRAM suppliers (including wafer banks) have generally reached  6 weeks. Supply bits will continue to grow thanks to contributions from the 1Ynm process.  With an aim to greatly reduce inventory levels, DRAM suppliers in general will continue to adopt large ...

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Semi market to fall 10% this year, says Semiconductor Intelligence.

Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence reckons the market will be down 10% this year. The 2018 semiconductor market finished weak with an 8.2% decline in the fourth quarter from the third, says SI. The first quarter of 2019 will be even weaker. Most major semiconductor companies are expecting up to double digit declines in 1Q 2019 ...

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African tech start-ups come to London

Twenty tech start-ups from Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa arrived in London today to take part in the first Go Global Africa programme. Go Global is an innovation scheme which supports startups to improve their business skills and capability, build links with the UK’s thriving tech sector and work with UK expertise to take their ...

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Infineon PWM controller enables currents up to 1000A.

Infineon claims to have come up with the industry’s first 16-phase digital PWM multiphase controller which enables currents up to 1000A and higher for next generation CPUs, GPUs, FPGA and ASICs. As CPU current requirements increase to enable next generation AI and networking workloads, DC-DC voltage regulators (VR) need to deliver more than 500 A to ...

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Ed Lines Up A Rum Do

Keeping my head down in Cabinet and avoiding the plotters is the name of the game, Ed confides to his diary. I’m like the Vicar of Bray – Howsoever Brexit turns out to be, I’ll be Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology The Germans now reckon that for as long as we don’t know ...

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Video: Tackling issues around Employment and Careers in Engineering

At the EW BrightSparks 2019 selection panel meeting, this week, we tapped into the expertise of the industry figures taking part. Hear them discussing opportunities for employment and careers within engineering. For example, what makes a good engineer in the first place? What is the UK’s vision? How young do the students need to be ...

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DesignSpark hosts connectivity resource centre

RS Components has partnered with connector and sensor company, TE Connectivity, to launch TE Learning Centre, an online, interactive educational resource for connectivity and sensor technologies. The Centre is available now on DesignSpark, RS Components’ community for design engineers. There will be a series of interactive micro-courses, lasting between five and 10 minutes, with information ...

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Stratasys invests in UK AM sector

Offices in Cambridge and Derby have been opened by Stratasys to drive the adoption of additive manufacturing (AM). The new offices will house technical and business consultants and software developers from GrabCAD, Stratasys’ software start-up, a cloud-based CAD file sharing system. In Derby, strategic consultants will help UK businesses implement AM strategies for 3D printing ...

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Most Read articles – SpaceX Crew Dragon, Qualcomm, Cree

What are the most popular topics covered? SpaceX's Crew Dragon, Japan overturning its trade ruling against Qualcomm, 300mm fabs, Cree selling its lighting business and Q1 foundry revenues.

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I Know You Guys Can Do It

One of Sony’s great successes was the Trinitron TV tube. The breakthrough idea which led to Trinitron came from Susumu Yoshida who suggested that, instead of the three in-line electron guns used in TV tubes at that time, it would be better to use one gun with three cathodes. The first working example of the ...

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Distribution enters a transition phase

Randall Restle, vice president, applications Engineering at Digi-Key Electronics considers how the industry continues to change and what support is required for customers today. “While it might be true that classical, board-level designers are aging, there is an explosion of people entering embedded design.  This is forcing a change in how customers are supported,” Restle ...

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Better formamidinium perovskite solar

Better perovskite solar cells could spring from a different way to make formamidinium lead iodide

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Mouser brings edge computing via krtkl signing

Following the signing of a global distribution agreement, Mouser announced three boards from embedded hardware and software company, krtkl. The company specialises in edge computing applications from mechatronics and automation to computer vision and remote sensing.  The boards now available from the distributor are the snickerdoodle black system on module (SoM), the breakyBreaky breakout baseboard ...

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‘Vertical electrolyte-gated’ organic transistor shows good conductivity and on/off ratio

Nano-scale organic transistors can combine high current capability and high on/off current ratio, according to a team at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, which has invented the ‘vertical electrolyte-gated’ fet. “Our aim was to develop a transistor design which combines the ability to drive high currents that is typical of classical transistors with the low-voltage operation ...

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AP shipments to fall; Qualcomm and HiSilicon to extend market shares

Shipments of smartphone APs are expected to fall for the second consecutive year in 2019, says Digitimes Research, although Qualcomm and Hisilicon are still expected to see their market shares edge up slightly in 2019. As well as 5G opportunities, Qualcomm has secured additional AP orders out of the current top-five smartphone vendors, with its overall ...

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Mouser signs krtkl

Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with embedded products supplier  krtkl. Mouser now stocks three krtkl products, including its popular embedded platform, snickerdoodle. krtkl’s snickerdoodle black system-on-module (SoM) is a prototype-to-production platform for building high-integrity Internet of Things (IoT) products. Built on a Xilinx Zynq-7020 system-on-chip (SoC) and a Texas Instruments WiLink 8 wireless ...

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75Ω BNC FeedThrough connector from Cliff provides 12GHz connectivity

Cliff Electronics of Redhill has introduced a Gold Plated 75Ω BNC connector offering a 12GHz bandwidth suitable for 4K format video and other high frequency signals. The BNC to BNC FeedThrough connector is mounted in a recessed socket plate which fits the industry standard 24mm XLR panel cut-out adding this BNC connector to the very ...

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Happiest Countries

The  UN has published its bi-annual report on the happiest nations in the world based on six factors: GDP per capita, healthy life expectancy, freedom, generosity, social assistance and perception of corruption in government or business. The good news for the UK is that we’ve gone up four places since the UN last did this ...

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Embedded World: Video Interview – AY Electronics Group expanding into European market

At Embedded World 2019, we caught up with Asaf Mirvis of AY Electronics Group as part of our promotional coverage for the event. He discusses discusses the strengths of being a supply chain management specialist, and how the group has major plans to expand into European market, with a German office in Frankfurt. Thank you ...

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AI model maps predicts where the brain will process language

Artificial neural networks have been used to predict how different areas in the brain respond to specific words, with greater accuracy than ever before according to neuroscientists at University of Texas at Austin. “As words come into our heads, we form ideas of what someone is saying to us, and we want to understand how ...

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Avnet to accept cryptocurrency

Avnet has announced that it is working with blockchain payment provider, BitPay, to accept cryptocurrency payments for products and services. Customers wanting to purchase goods with Bitcoin or Bitcoin Cash, the distributor will work with BitPay to verify the funds, process the order and complete the transaction. The two companies will also have the ability ...

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Inductors are 2mm high for automotive

Vishay is aiming at the automotive market with AEC-Q200 qualified inductors in a 2020 case only 2mm high. Called IHLP-2020BZ-5A, all the parts in the range can be used at up to +155°C, making them suitable for under bonnet/hood operation. Construction and materials are optimised for dc-dc converter use up to 2MHz. “It also provides excellent attenuation ...

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Website is dedicated to power products

Component distributor, Gateway Electronic Components, has added a fourth website, based on power. The power website was introduced to meet growing demand in power factor correction (PFC) and associated products market. The Power Gateway joins Components, IoT and Ferrite Gateway sites, each focusing on a specific market area and offering products, e-commerce trading, supply chain ...

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Fable: The Stupid Company

There was once a mining company which wanted to get into the electronics industry. Its CEO  said he tried “to conceive of how one could approach it in a way that would be fundamental.”  At that time the most fundamental  component of electronics was the vacuum tube which could control the flow of electrons. But then, in ...

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sureCore customising low-power SRAM fior advanced finfet processes

sureCore, the Sheffield low-power SRAM IP specialist, says that its  SureFit SRAM customization service has delivered low power high capacity SRAM subsystems implemented in advanced FinFET processes to Tier-1 players in the demanding imaging, artificial intelligence and machine learning markets. The SureFit developed memory system integrates very large memory arrays, delivering high bandwidth, low latency ...

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Samsung develops 10nm 8Gb DDR4 DRAM.

Samsung says it has developed a 3rd-generation 10nm class 8Gb DDR4  DRAM for servers and high-end PCs. Mass production starts in H2. of the 1z-nm 8Gb DDR4 will begin within the second half of this year to accommodate next-generation enterprise servers and high-end PCs expected to be launched in 2020. Samsung’s development of the 1z-nm DRAM ...

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3rd Gen Triaxis Hall sensor from Melexis

Melexis, the Belgian auto IC specialist, has announced the MLX90374, the latest addition to its 3rd Generation of Triaxis Hall sensors, and the first to offer multiple outputs from a monolithic device. With dual outputs for the sensed motion, the  MLX90374 can remove the need for a second position sensor in a range of applications. ...

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IGBTs optimised for soft switching

Optimized for best conduction and switching performance in soft-switching circuits, STGWA40IH65DF and STGWA50IH65DF 650V STPOWER IGBTs increase the energy efficiency of resonant converters in the 16kHz-60kHz switching-frequency range. Extending ST’s trench field-stop (TFS) IGBTs for soft-switching applications, which also include the HB and HB2 series for power supplies, welders, and solar converters, the new IH-series ...

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PI to sample chipset for display power supplies

In Q2, Power Integrations will sample the InnoMuX chipset for display power supplies. The chipset’s single-stage power architecture reduces losses in display applications by increasing overall efficiency in constant-voltage and constant-current LED backlight driver stages by 50% compared to conventional solutions, achieving up to 91% efficiency. Additionally, TV and monitor designers can realize over 50% reduction ...

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The Tax Lady

No wonder President Trump calls her ‘the tax lady’ –  Margrethe Vestager’s fines on Google now add up to a collective $9.33 billion – representing a third of Google’s $30.7 billion 2018 pre-tax profit. The EU Competition Commissioner’s latest raid on Google’s coffers netted $1.69 billion for using its AdSense tool .to disadvantage competitors Before ...

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Making ball bearings

So, I had a rough idea how ball bearigs were made and much of it was wrong so, a quick hunt around the web and this rather good video on the making of steel balls emerged. Amazing – those great big machines make things to an accuracy of 100nm. Isn’t engineering wonderful.

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EW BrightSparks selection panel chooses the 2019 cohort

The selection panel to decide the class of EW BrightSparks 2019 met at RS Components' Kings Cross HQ today.

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More Money Than Sense

Only three days into its dog and pony show and Lyft’s IPO is already oversubscribed, reports Reuters. This is despite the fact that the company made a loss of $900 million on revenue of $2.1 billion last year. The loss has grown from $688 in 2017. However Lyft now appears on track to get its ...

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Toshiba shipping new LDO regulators

Toshiba has started shipping two new series of small surface mount LDO regulators for application in the power supply of mobile devices, imaging and audio-visual products. The 40 regulators in the TCR5BM series support a dropout voltage (VDO) as low as 100mV and a maximum output current of 500mA, while 40 additional devices in the ...

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Leti develops tiny PIC sensors to detect gas

Leti has developed prototypes  of centimetre-size portable optical sensors for chemical detection of gas.  The photo-acoustic sensors are based on mid-infrared photonic integrated circuits (MIR PICs). These silicon PICs, created by integrating optical circuits onto millimeter-size silicon chips, make extremely robust miniature systems, in which discrete components are replaced by on-chip equivalents. This makes them easier to ...

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ON Semi and Nvidia work on autonomous vehicles

ON Semiconductor is leveraging its  image sensor modeling technology to provide real-time data to the NVIDIA DRIVE Constellation simulation platform. The open, cloud-based platform performs bit-accurate simulation for large-scale, hardware-in-the-loop testing and validation of autonomous vehicles. ON’s  Image Sensor model receives both scene information and control signals from DRIVE Constellation to calculate and output a ...

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CDEI looks at biased algorithms

The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) is being set up to investigate whether  algorithms used in criminal and justice systems, legal systems financial services, recruitment and local government are biased by humans. Algorithms have huge potential for preventing crime, protecting the public and improving the way services are delivered. But decisions made in ...

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Top Ten Chip Suppliers

Thanks to Gartner for this one – the top ten IC vendors in 2018: 2018 Rank 2017 Rank Vendor 2018 Revenue 2018 Market Share (%) 2017 Revenue 2017-2018 Growth (%) 1 1 Samsung Electronics 75,854 15.9 59,875 26.7 2 2 Intel 65,862 13.8 58,725 12.2 3 3 SK hynix 36,433 7.6 26,370 38.2 4 4 ...

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Raspberry Pi helps geologists measure earthquakes and volcanoes

On the slopes of a volcano in Panama, is a company making seismographs using Raspberry Pis. Called Raspberry Shakes, their performance is high enough for them to be connected to some international earthquake monitoring networks. OSOP is the name of the company, based in Palmira, on Volcan Baru. Raspberry Shake 1D is the base model ...

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8” Good; 12” Bad

It’s a funny old world when you‘ve got the eight inch foundries making money but the 12 inch foundries losing money. Six out of the seven biggest foundries saw Q1 revenues down by double digit percentages y-o-y, while the top eight inch foundries showed revenue gains, says TrendForce. Mind you the smarter foundries anticipated the ...

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Rohm adds 10 automotive SiC mosfets

Rohm has announced 10 more automotive-grade SiC MOSFETs. “The introduction of the SCT3xxxxxHR series allows Rohm to offer the industry’s largest lineup of AEC-Q101 qualified SiC mosfets,” claimed the firm. For faster electric car charging, it said, on-board chargers can be 11kW or even 22kW, with battery voltages up to 800V. To meet these needs, ...

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Space: Welcome back to Earth, SpaceX Crew Dragon

The successful landing of Crew Dragon (aka SpaceX Dragon 2) deserves a place in the Space category on Gadget Master – it’s quite a landmark.

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Solid electrolyte forms in place for better Li batteries

A solid electrolyte that only forms once its liquid precursors are in intimate contact with electrode material is mooted as a step towards all-solid lithium batteries by Cornell University. Intimate contact – inherent with liquid electrolytes – is needed to achieve high lithium ion throughput and low series resistance. “The key insight is the introduction ...

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Huawei tops WIPO filings

Huawei made more patent applications to the  World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) last year, than any other organisation. In fact Huawei holds the all-time record for patent applications to WIPO in any one year. “It’s an all-time record by anyone,” says WIPO director general Francis Gurry Huawei made  5,405 patent applications to WIPO in 2018, ...

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12 inch foundry hit hard

Q1 foundry revenue will be down 16% on Q1 2018, says TrendForce, to reach $14?6 billion. Negative forces in Q1 have been the seasonal effect, weakening demand for consumer products, high inventory levels, falling demand in the car market, the Intel CPU shortage, the slowing of China’s economic growth and the US-China trade dispute. Q1 ...

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ON adds to SiC MOSFETs.

ON Semiconductor has introduced two SiC MOSFETs aimed at EVs, solar and UPS applications. The industrial grade NTHL080N120SC1 and AEC-Q101 automotive grade NVHL080N120SC1 are complemented by  SiC diodes and SiC drivers, device simulation tools, SPICE models and application information. ON’s 1200 volt (V), 80 milliohm (mΩ), SiC MOSFETs hace a low leakage current, a fast intrinsic diode with ...

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Synchronous step-down power supplies operate from 5V to 16V

Renesas has announced a pair of  encapsulated hybrid digital DC/DC PMBus power modules, the 10-amp ISL8280M and 15-amp ISL8282M. The hybrid digital power modules offer power density of 115mA/mm2 in a 12mm x 11mm package, with up to 95% peak efficiency. They are complete single-channel, synchronous step-down regulated power supplies that operate over a wide input ...

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GaN Systems joins up with Aveox

GaN Systems has moined up with mission critical electro-mechanical specialist  Aveox, To  reduce the size and weight of their 3-phase AC power converters with Active Power Factor Correction (APFC). The partnership enables the development of  power-dense, Aerospace-Compliant power conversion modules for a wide variety of cockpit, galley and cabin equipment that utilizes 3 Phase power. ...

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So Non-Prestige

58 years ago, as the world was transitioning from valves to transistors, Electronics Weekly ran this cartoon in its edition of May 24th 1961:

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APEC: TI thinks laterally to make ac-dc chip with 15mW stand-by

Texas Instruments has used everything except the standard inductive step-down solution to make an ac-dc power supply with 10mW no-load performance, and 15mW light load drain (150nF mains series cap). “This device achieves the best balance between high efficiency and ultra-low noise while shrinking power-supply size, it claims, with some justification – although it does ...

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SIGLENT SVA1015X Spectrum Analyser

Click here to view the all in one solution for Antenna Matching, Component Testing and EMI Debugging

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C’mon Huawei Show Us Your OS

It seems to me very good news that Huawei is building its own mobile OS. Cell phone vendors spend billions on hardware tech and apps but seem happy to pluck off-the-shelf Android for the OS.  But the OS is so key you’d think this is where aspirant phone vendors should concentrate. Furthermore, IMHO, Android is ...

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Sponsored Content: SIGLENT SVA1015X Spectrum Analyser

The all in one solution for Antenna Matching, Component Testing and EMI Debugging.

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121 300mm fabs by end of 2019

This year there should be 121 300mm  fabs in the world with rhe opening of nine new plants of which five will be in China, says IC Insights. 300mm wafers took over as the industry’s primary wafer size in terms of total surface area used in 2008. Furthermore, the number of 300mm wafer fabrication facilities ...

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Coventry has best mobile coverage

Coventry is the top-performing UK city for overall mobile performance in the second half of 2018, says RootMetrics. With one of the smallest populations out of the 16 cities tested, Coventry recorded outstanding results in the categories of overall performance, network reliability, network speed, data performance and call performance. Leicester logged impressive scores in testing, ...

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TI isolated gate drivers integrated sensing for IGBTs and SiC MOSFETs

TI introduced several new isolated gate drivers that provide monitoring and protection for high-voltage systems. The devices are claimed to be the first to offer integrated sensing features for IGBTs and SiC MOSFETs to simplify designs and enable greater system reliability in applications operating up to 1.5 KVRMS. With integrated components, the devices provide fast ...

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Ricoh load switch operates up to 6A

Ricoh has launched a versatile load switch embedded in an ultra-small wafer level chip scaled package and is able to switch currents up to 6 A. The R5542 is positioned in between the battery or other supply voltage and the actual application circuit (load). The internal on-resistance is only 9 mΩ and will cause almost ...

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Ed Sees The M&A Opportunity

A nice little earner has arisen as a result of all this semiconductor  M&A activity, Ed confides to his diary, international companies seem to be seeing me as a go-to guy for advice. Half a dozen CEOs have been on the blower asking if: 1. Certain companies are worth buying 2. Governments are likely to ...

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iFixit tears down the Samsung Galaxy S10

It doesn't take long for the iFixit team to get their deconstructing hands on a new piece of tech. And the Samsung Galaxy S10 has had the treatment.

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Cree sells lighting business

Cree has sold its lighting products business, which includes the LED lighting fixtures, lamps and corporate lighting solutions business for commercial, industrial and consumer applications, to IDEAL INDUSTRIES for $310 million. Cree expects to receive an initial cash payment of $225 million, subject to purchase price adjustments, and has the potential to receive a targeted ...

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Kleiner’s Laws

Eugene Kleiner, co-founder of Silicon Valley’s most famous VC company, was so renowned for his pithy insights that, over time, they became dignified as Laws: The more difficult the decision the less it matters what you choose. Make sure the dog wants to eat the dog food. The time to take the tarts is when ...

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Most Read articles – Intel, Power semis, Raspberry Pi

A book on robotics with the Raspberry Pi, the Chinese power semi market, an Intel CPU shortage, Renesas fabs and Huawei’s chip arm closing in on Qualcomm’s leadership in mobile IC technology...

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Japan overturns trade ruling against Qualcomm

The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) has reversed a 2009 cease-and-desist order affecting Qualcomm licensing in Japan. Following a nine-year evidentiary proceeding, the JFTC concluded that Qualcomm’s cross-licensing provisions and non-assertion covenants that were the subject of the cease-and-desist order did not violate Japanese antimonopoly law.  In 2010, the Tokyo High Court had issued a ...

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Prisoners to learn to code

Prisoners will be taught coding to prepare them for work as part of plans to help marginalised groups become skilled in tech. CODE 4000, an organisation that works with carefully vetted offenders and has led a successful trial at HMP Humber, has been given new funding by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport ...

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SmartNIC reduces tail latency

Netronome is sampling its Agilio CX 50GbE SmartNICs in OCP Mezzanine 2.0 form factor with line-rate advanced cryptography and 2GB onboard DDR memory. The SmartNIC reduces tail latency enabling high-performance Web 2.0 applications to be deployed in cost and energy-efficient servers. With advanced Transport Layer Security (TLS/SSL)-based cryptography support at line-rate and up to two ...

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Samsung launches 12GB mobile DRAM

Samsung has begun mass producing the highest-capacity mobile DRAM –the industry’s first 12GB low-power double data rate 4X (LPDDR4X) package. The 12GB capacity was achieved by combining six 16-gigabit (Gb) LPDDR4X chips based on the second-generation 10nm-class process. The memory delivers a data transfer rate of 34.1GB/psec. Samsung plans to more than triple the supply of ...

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Something Old, Something New

Publishers are cock a’hoop that book sales show a return towards an increasing popularity of paper books at the expense of ebooks. This was first noticed in the reading habits of the Millennials and seems to be repeating itself in the reading habits of the their successors, Generation Z. And for those, like me, who ...

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Power Stamp Alliance defines reduces host CPU load, and adds a reference design

The Power Stamp Alliance has published a specification for a power converter module intended to extend the power and current rating of its standard family of products. The Alliance (Artesyn Embedded Technologies, Bel Power Solutions, Flex, and STMicroelectronics) has created a joint specification for several types of 48Vdc-dc converter modules – dubbed ‘power stamps’ (specifications ...

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Are NC-FETs going to make it?

Researchers at Purdue University have surveyed research towards negative capacitance field-effect transistors (NC-FETs), and published their findings. This type of transistor has a ferroelectric layer (Hf02, for example) within the gate stack, which could allow is break the 60mV/decade sub-threshold slope limit for mosfets at room temperature. “Given the potential, there is a need for ...

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Bacteria extract rare earths from mining waste

Mining waste could provide a reliable supply of rare earth elements, including neodymium and dysprosium, from a type of mining waste called phosphogypsum – a product of making phosphoric acid from phosphate rock for fertilisers – according to the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). More than a billion tons if such waste is sitting idle in the ...

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Fable: Tech Takes Time

14 years ago a company was preparing to launch four bit per cell flash memory “The 4 bits per cell products are in development now, and will not be announced till the beginning of next year”, said a spokesman from a company which was going to manufacture them. “We have demonstrated the technology’s ability to ...

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APEC: SiC power and improved cloud-based power tools

On Semiconductor will be showing enhancements to its cloud-based power development tool, branded Strata, which it announced at CES earlier this year. Search capabilities have been improved, and there is a carousel-style menu that allows compatible devices and boards to be selected, said the firm: “Engineers are able to narrow down viable component and systems ...

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Android Q gets in position for foldable displays

Here comes Android Q, the successor to Android "Pie", version 9. Google releases Beta 1 for early adopters and a preview SDK for developers.

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APEC: Heat sinking film is flexible despite high conductivity

Toyochem will be showcasing its Lioelm FTS series of thermally conductive adhesive sheets for bonding substrates to heatsinks, or for use as an insulating layer in power device packaging. According to the firm, it has used heat-resistant resins to get around performance trade-offs between the elastic modulus and thermal resistance that typically arise with conventional ...

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Dengrove adds space-saving DC/DC converters from Recom

Available in a DOSA (Distributed power Open Standards Alliance) footprint, and just 3.75mm high, the Recom RPM3.3 and RPM5.0, non-isolated DC-DC converters are now available from Dengrove Electronic Components. They are designed for applications that require high power density and high efficiency and have power ratings from 3.3W to 30W. They comply with the  industry standard DOSA ...

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