Remote IoT land and sea module communicates with space

Astronode S is an RF module from satellite operator Astrocast, intended to be built into land or sea-based battery-powered IoT devices.

This article was posted on Sep 27, 2022

MathWorks upgrades MATLAB and Simulink

MathWorks has unveiled Release 2022b (R2022b) of the MATLAB and Simulink product families.

This article was posted on Sep 27, 2022

RFA One gets Boost! for commercial space transportation

The European Space Agency has awarded Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) a contract worth €11.72m as part of the agency’s Boost! commercial space transportation services programme.

This article was posted on Sep 23, 2022

Farnell has record revenue year

Farnell had record-setting fiscal year revenue of $1.8 billion.

This article was posted on Sep 23, 2022

Arm upgrades Neoverse

ARM’s Neoverse V2 core, Demeter, has been optimised for customer server workloads including the BERT ML framework.

This article was posted on Sep 23, 2022

Foxconn and Vedanta to invest $19.5bn to build ICs and displays in India

Foxconn and mining company Vedanta are to invest $19.5 billion in manufacturing facilities for chips and displays in India.

This article was posted on Sep 23, 2022

CIS market to fall 7%

The CMOS Image Sensor market is stalling, says I C Insights, with Optoelectronics’ biggest product category expected to suffer its first sales decline in 13 years because of a smartphone slump, low camera growth in handsets, and weak global economy, says update report.

This article was posted on Sep 23, 2022

Nvidia Grace super processor adopts Arm Neoverse V2

Arm’s Neoverse V2 processor is to be the core at the heart of Nvidia’s Grace data centre CPU.

This article was posted on Sep 23, 2022

Industrial development board gets Elkhart Lake processor and 16Gbyte of ram

Industrial PC maker Aaeon has updated its UP Squared development board, putting an Intel Pentium J6426 Elkhart Lake processor into its 85 x 90mm footprint. There is also a Celeron N6210 version.

This article was posted on Sep 23, 2022

U.S. acquisition of Inmarsat given green light by Jacob Rees-Mogg

Viasat’s planned acquisition of Inmarsat, the satellite service provider – which was first announced in November 2021 – has been given the go-ahead to proceed by the UK government.

This article was posted on Sep 23, 2022

Re-freezing the Poles

Researchers at Yale have proposed a way to re-freeze the North and South Poles.

This article was posted on Sep 23, 2022

VCSEL market doubles in four years to $840m

By 2022, the VCSEL market has almost doubled compared to 2018, reaching $840 million, says Yole Developpement.

This article was posted on Sep 23, 2022

Platform for developing EH PMICs

Trameto, a manufacturer of power management semiconductors for energy harvesting (EH PMICs), has introduced a proof-of-concept platform for evaluating how to generate a reliable micro-power source from ambient light and heat.

This article was posted on Sep 22, 2022

Azure LED for ‘human-centric’ lighting

Aiming at so-called circadian lighting, Nichia has introduced an ‘azure’ coloured LED for people to wake up to.

This article was posted on Sep 22, 2022

Marvell upgrades LiquidSecurity

Marvell has launched its LiquidSecurity 2 (LS2) hardware security module (HSM) adapter for enabling encryption, key management, authentication and other HSM services in the cloud.

This article was posted on Sep 22, 2022

PWM controller packaged with SJ MOSFET

Optimised performance, efficiency, and reliability in high-voltage power supplies need to be combined with reduced BOM count and cost, as well as lower design efforts.

This article was posted on Sep 22, 2022

The Elektra Awards shortlists for 2022 are revealed

Electronics Weekly is proud to reveal the Shortlists for this year’s Elektra Awards, the industry’s largest technology and business awards.

This article was posted on Sep 22, 2022

NIST and Google combine to reduce IC production cost

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has signed a cooperative R&D agreement with Google to develop and produce chips.

This article was posted on Sep 22, 2022

IC’s offer Wi-Sun metropolitan coverage and battery-powered Wi-Fi 6

In a flurry of announcements alongside its developer converence, Silicon Labs has revealed a chip set for metropolitan Wi-Sun radio, a low-power IC for battery-powered Wi-Fi 6 links and a hardware-software development kit for Amazon Sidewalk.

This article was posted on Sep 22, 2022

Improved bidirectional GaN high-side switch

Innoscience has released an improved bi-directional GaN transistor that can replace back-to-back silicon mosfets in high-side switching.

This article was posted on Sep 22, 2022

Cortex-M0+ automotive MCU with functional safety and cybersecurity

Microchip is aiming to meet ISO 26262 functional safety and new ISO/SAE 21434 cybersecurity standards with a family of Arm Cortex-M0+ microcontrollers with memory-built-in self-test, secure boot and support for Autosar – the latter an open software architecture that allows lower-level hardware to be changed without changing the original application code.

This article was posted on Sep 22, 2022