Infineon forecasts a €14bn revenue year

Infineon had calendar Q2 revenue of €3.618 billion, up 10% on calendar Q1 and up 33% y-o-y for a profit of €842 million at a margin of 23.3%. Free cash flow was €440 million

This article was posted on Aug 10, 2022

Dissimilar 2D materials stack harmoniously to turn photons into electrons

The interfaces in assemblies of 2D materials could produce opto-electronics devices, according to Monash University in Australia, which is designing them using density functional theory (DFT) based band-structure modelling.

This article was posted on Aug 10, 2022

500W dc-dc converters power 12 or 24V loads from traction batteries

Recom has launched a range of 500W IP-67-enclosed dc-dc converters for powering loads from off-highway electric vehicle batteries.

This article was posted on Aug 10, 2022

700V ac-dc ICs deliver down to 3.3V and up to 8W

Renesas has unveiled a family of 700V buck regulators that can deliver as little as 3.3V and as much as 8W from the mains.

This article was posted on Aug 10, 2022

Element14 launches gesture recognition challenge

element14 has launched the Experimenting with Gesture Sensors Design Challenge.

This article was posted on Aug 10, 2022

EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: Sarah Keane

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today.

This article was posted on Aug 10, 2022

Memory supply bits grow faster than demand bits

DRAM market demand bit growth will be 8.3% in 2023 – sub-10% for the first time in history – while supply-side bit growth will be approximately 14.1%, says TrendForce.

This article was posted on Aug 10, 2022

Nexeon raises £90m

Nexeon, the Oxfordshire battery materials supplier, has raised £90 million, taking its total funding to £170 million.

This article was posted on Aug 10, 2022

Semtech said to be buying Sierra Wireless

Semtech the Californian LoRa specialist, is reported by Bloomberg to be at a late stage in negotiations to buy Sierra Wireless, the Canadian IoT specialist.

This article was posted on Aug 9, 2022

Huawei, Nokia, Ericsson to take 74.5% of 5G market this year

Huawei, Ericsson, and Nokia will account for 74.5% of the global base station market in 2022, says TrendForce.

This article was posted on Aug 9, 2022

US may limit China NAND producers to 128-layers

The US is considering banning the export to China of chip manufacturing requirement needed to make NAND flash memories with more than 128 layers.

This article was posted on Aug 9, 2022

Anglia goes PLC to increase global confidence

Anglia Components Ltd has become Anglia Components PLC – a closed PLC whose shares are not traded on the stock exchange.

This article was posted on Aug 9, 2022

20A chip ferrite beads for electric vehicles

Murata has introduced a series of chip ferrite beads with a 20A current rating, aiming them at the battery charging systems and powertrains of electric vehicles, as well as in industrial equipment.

This article was posted on Aug 9, 2022

Easy-PC gets IPC-2581 export capability, and more

Easy-PC has acquired IPC-2581 export capability along with other improvements with the introduction of version 26, according to Number One Systems, which develops the PCB design tool.

This article was posted on Aug 9, 2022

HYPPERAM 3.0 launched

Infineon’s HYPERRAM 3.0 is a high-bandwidth, low-pin count memory with a 16-bit extended version of the HyperBus interface that doubles throughput to 800 MBps.

This article was posted on Aug 9, 2022

EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: Oliver Kanjoo-Parsons

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today.

This article was posted on Aug 9, 2022

Cartwheel Galaxy

The James Webb telescope’s range of imagers have come up with this picture of the Cartwright Galaxy which is 500 million light years from earth:

This article was posted on Aug 9, 2022

BeagleBone gets ready for AI processing

The BeagleBone organisation has created a 64bit Linux single board computer with AI capability and other hardware accelerators. Eight Top/s of neural-network processing are accessible through Python libraries.

This article was posted on Aug 8, 2022

Stick-on antennas for Bluetooth, Zigbee and Wi-Fi

Linx Technologies has introduced a family of 2.4 GHz adhesive flexible printed circuit antennas for ISM applications including Bluetooth and ZigBee and Wi-Fi.

This article was posted on Aug 8, 2022

Redwire plans PIL-BOX space-based drug manufacturing platform

Redwire, the space infrastructure company, has announced it will be creating a drug development and manufacturing platform for use in space.

This article was posted on Aug 8, 2022

Imec joins euROBIN for AI robotics

Imec has joined euROBIN – a group of research labs across Europe which are researching AI-Based Robotics.

This article was posted on Aug 8, 2022