Uber gives up on driverless tech

Uber is divesting its driverless car unit – the Advanced Technologies Group – to startup company Aurora which is backed by Amazon and Sequoia.

This article was posted on Jan 5, 2021

Shortages loom, says ecsn

The UK component industry association ecsn is forecasting a minus 0.2% decline to 4% growth for the market in H1 2021 and a flat market to 6.5% growth for H2.

This article was posted on Jan 5, 2021

2020 European VC tech investment sets record at $41bn

European VC tech investment is likely to hit $41 billion this year, says Atomico, which is sbout $500 million more than last year.

This article was posted on Jan 5, 2021

LoRaWAN ID QR codes for automated onboarding

The LoRa Alliance has introduced its LoRaWAN Device Identification QR Codes for Automated Onboarding that simplify and accelerate LoRaWAN network management. These new QR codes carry all the required identification information to add devices to a network.

This article was posted on Jan 5, 2021

Six colour choice for 12V 20A illuminated toggle switch

C&K’s ILT series is the first illuminated toggle switch range in the company’s portfolio.

This article was posted on Jan 5, 2021

Solid-state relay has high dV/dt and high blocking voltage

Excel Cell Electronics (ECE) ESR5 series of solid-state relays are available with or without LED Indicators, with ac or dc control inputs, and, separately, with ac or dc-type outputs.

This article was posted on Jan 5, 2021

Lattice increases security in Gen 2 Mach FPGA family

The second generation of Mach FPGAs from Lattice Semiconductor have heightened security features and the processing capability to implement a real time hardware root of trust (HRoT) operation for servers, computing, comms, industrial and automotive systems. Mach-NX FPGAs are based on the company’s Nexus FPGA platform.

This article was posted on Jan 5, 2021

BrainChip shipping evaluation board

BrainChip, the Australian spiking neural network specialist, started shipping evaluation boards last month.

This article was posted on Jan 5, 2021

Marvell launches O-RAN platform

Marvell has introduced its 5G O-RAN portfolio with a virtualized radio access network (vRAN) platform.

This article was posted on Jan 5, 2021

50MHz precision op-amp has 6.5nV/√Hz input noise

STMicroelectronics has introduced a dual 5V op amp with 50MHz gain-bandwidth product with low input offset voltage and 6.5nV/√Hz input voltage noise.

This article was posted on Jan 5, 2021

AD7606C-18 Analog-to-Digital Data Acquisition System

AD7606C-18 Analog-to-Digital Data Acquisition System

This article was posted on Jan 4, 2021

LTC4372/LTC4373 Diode Controllers

LTC4372/LTC4373 Diode Controllers

This article was posted on Jan 4, 2021

ADS7138-Q1 Automotive 8-Channel ADC

ADS7138-Q1 Automotive 8-Channel ADC

This article was posted on Jan 3, 2021

SLN-VIZNAS-IOT Secure Facial Recognition Solution

SLN-VIZNAS-IOT Secure Facial Recognition Solution

This article was posted on Jan 3, 2021

Xilinx Debuts Industry-First Solutions at OFC 2017

Xilinx Debuts Industry-First Solutions at OFC 2017 and Further Expands High Speed Data Center Interconnect Offerings

This article was posted on Dec 28, 2020

Technology Leaders Join Forces to Bring an Open Acceleration Framework to Data Centers and Other Markets

AMD, ARM, Huawei, IBM, Mellanox, Qualcomm, and Xilinx collaborate on new Cache Coherent Interconnect for Accelerators (CCIX) that will allow multiple processor architectures and accelerators to seamlessly share data

This article was posted on Dec 27, 2020

Rad-hard ADC for space applications

Renesas has announced a single-chip 14-Bit, 1-MSPS successive-approximation-register (SAR) ADC for rad-hard space applications.

This article was posted on Dec 23, 2020

Infineon extends franchise with Future to Europe

Future Electronics is now franchised to sell Infineon products in Europe, after the semiconductor company extended its agreement beyond Asia and the Americas, covered in its previous agreement.

This article was posted on Dec 23, 2020

Gen 4 SiC transistors are 750V for hard and soft switching

UnitedSiC has revealed four 750V silicon carbide power transistors, the first devices from its fourth generation process it unveiled earlier this year.

This article was posted on Dec 23, 2020

60V 300mA synchronous step-down with 10µA Iq

L7983 is a 3 to 60V input 300mA output synchronous dc-dc converter from ST Microelectronics whose mode can be pin-selected to keep noise down or maximise efficiency at light load

This article was posted on Dec 23, 2020

Avnet Japan signs Insight SIP

Insight SiP, the miniature RF module specialist deploying SiP and Antenna-in-Package technology, has signed an distribution agreement with Avnet Japan which operates in nine major Japanese cities.

This article was posted on Dec 23, 2020