UK-led space telescope to detect what exoplanets are made of

The European Space Agency has approved what is described as the world’s first space telescope dedicated to studying how exoplanet atmospheres form and evolve. And UK institutions will play a central role.

This article was posted on Dec 7, 2020

element14 launches electronics engineering career guide e-books

element14 has launched two eBooks to help guide electronics designers at every level through successful careers.

This article was posted on Dec 7, 2020

Mipsology boasts fastest accelerator

Mipsology, the Californian machine learning software specialist, says that its Zebra AI inference accelerator achieved the highest efficiency based on the latest MLPerf inference benchmarking.

This article was posted on Dec 7, 2020

Deep Vision shipping AI edge processor

Today, Deep Vision, the six year-old Los Altos AI processor specialist, exits stealth mode and launches its ARA-1 inference processor to enable AI vision applications at the edge.

This article was posted on Dec 7, 2020

Tool eases adoption of IEEE 1588

Silicon Labs has come up with a way to simplify implementation of IEEE 1588 in communications, smart grid, financial trading and industrial applications.

This article was posted on Dec 7, 2020

11.5Tflops server GPU

AMD claims the world’s fastest HPC GPU with Instinct MI100 accelerator – said to be the first x86 server GPU to break the 10Tflops (FP64) performance barrier.

This article was posted on Dec 7, 2020

Deep Vision shipping AI edge processor

Engineers at the University of Surrey have developed a simple method of producing high-powered lithium-selenium (Li-Se) batteries.

This article was posted on Dec 7, 2020

Vox Power takes medical power supplies in hand

Vox Power has announced the VCCS300M, described as a compact, conduction cooled, single output power supply designed specifically for medical systems.

This article was posted on Dec 7, 2020

WiFi needs access to 6GHz band

With over half of all the connections to the Internet starting or ending with Wi-Fi access, and demand for broadband connectivity surging worldwide, Wi-Fi urgently needs access to the 6 GHz frequency band; this is the conclusion of a new paper published by the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) and Policy Impact Partners (PIP), which represent multiple digital companies.

This article was posted on Dec 7, 2020

Edge IC integrates 5G and AI computing

EdgeQ, which aims to integrate AI and 5G in an IC for edge applications, has raised $51 million in total funding, including $38.5 million in a Series A round.

This article was posted on Dec 7, 2020

Buckshee ASICs

SkyWater Technology, the US DoD sponsored fab, and Efabless, a crowdsourcing design platform for custom silicon, are accepting designs for a series of Google-sponsored open source MPW shuttles that will run at SkyWater.

This article was posted on Dec 3, 2020

Digi-Key event to enable the world’s ideas

Digi-Key Electronics will bring together innovators and suppliers from across EMEA on Thursday, November 19 at 14.00 p.m. CET for a first-of-its-kind virtual keynote event focused on enabling the world’s ideas in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This article was posted on Dec 3, 2020

SiGe, Ge-on-Si and CMOS combined at Bristol for quantum record

Researchers from the University of Bristol have made a detector to measure quantum features of light in more detail than ever before, with a sensor “clocked at an order of magnitude faster than the previous state-of-the-art,” said Bristol.

This article was posted on Dec 3, 2020

Apple, Google and LG join 6G development group

Apple, Google and LG have joined the Next G Alliance, a coalition of companies founded in October by The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) with the aim to establish North America as a leader in 6G.

This article was posted on Dec 3, 2020

Latest WPA3 security on WiFi4 chips

Infineon is shipping Wi-Fi 4 chips which conform with the latest WPA3 security standard.

This article was posted on Dec 3, 2020

Solderless compression mount connectors

Amphenol Ardent Concepts has launched a line of solderless compression mount connectors, the micro-LinkOVER (P/N: mLO-XXXXX) Series.

This article was posted on Dec 3, 2020

Alps Alpine to supply positioning system evaluation kit

Alps Alpine will commence supply of a High-Accuracy Positioning System Evaluation Kit employing a BLE chip in November 2020 in recognition of heightened positioning needs.

This article was posted on Dec 3, 2020

Raytheon Intelligence & Space buying Blue Canyon Technologies

Raytheon Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the privately held Blue Canyon Technologies, a provider of small satellites and spacecraft systems components.

This article was posted on Dec 3, 2020

Raytheon Intelligence & Space buying Blue Canyon Technologies

The US government gave Qualcomm a licence to sell 4G chips to Huawei last Friday, reports Reuters, but not to sell 5G chips.

This article was posted on Dec 3, 2020

Electronica: 11GSample/s ADC supports direct sampling in 26GHz Ka band

At Electronica, Grenoble-based Teledyne e2v revealed a 12bit 11Gsample/s ADC proof-of-concept “able to deliver performance parameters that are beyond the scope of anything currently on the market”, it claimed, “It can achieve SHF [super-high frequency] direct sampling, reaching all the way into the Ka frequency band.

This article was posted on Dec 3, 2020

Renesas shuns Bluetooth for UWB in social distancing watch

Renesas has teamed up with consultancy Altran to develop a social distancing wearable platform based on ultra-wideband (UWB) radio technology – earlier this year Renesas licensed UWB technology from fabless chip firm 3db Access.

This article was posted on Dec 2, 2020