92 Fabs Closed Since 2009, says IC Isights

Since the global economic recession of 2008-2009, the IC industry has been on a mission to pare down older capacity (i.e., ≤200mm wafers) in order to produce devices more cost-effectively on larger wafers, says IC Insights. The spree of merger and acquisition activity and the migration to producing IC devices using sub-20nm process technology has ...

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Mobile World Congress: Rohde & Schwarz signs 5G lab deal in China

Rohde & Schwarz is working with Chinese fabless chip firm Unigroup Spreadtrum & RDA to establish a joint operator test laboratory in China as part of an agreement signed at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The aim s to create wireless communications and test concepts for both Chinese network operators and other global operators. Unigroup ...

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C14 inlet adds two-pole filtering

DD14 is an IEC C14 appliance inlet with two-pole filtering, two-pole switching and two-pole fusing, from Schurter. “Shielding is optimised by screwing the metal casing of the filter to the panel, using its horizontal or vertical flange, or a snap-in filter version eliminates the flange, consuming less panel space,” said the firm. Standard and low-leakage ...

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Mobile World Congress: Ceva adds power DSP to Nokia 5G network

Ceva is working with Nokia in the development of baseband system-on-chips (SoCs) for 4.9G and 5G wireless infrastructure. Ceva has adapted its CEVA-XC architecture framework to address the massive increase in signal processing complexity in multi-RAT (Radio Access Technology) network architectures. Nokia’s ReefShark SoC is based on 3GPP 5G New Radio specifications, which help offset ...

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Mobile World Congress: 5G development ramping, says Keysight

The message from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week was that 5G development cycles for chipset, terminal and infrastructure firms are accelerating with first network launches maybe less than two years away. An example of this was the demonstration in Barcelona this week by Keysight Technologies of its first 5G 4Gbit/s data throughput connection ...

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Fable: The Founder Who Stuck With His Company

60 years ago this year a company was formed named after the unit of measurement of electrical resistance. This year the company is expected to have revenues of $3.7 billion. The founder, 88 years old this year, still sits on the board. Moral: Stick with it  

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Components Datasheets

Let’s drill down into some of the SamacSys features for components datasheets…

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