The Swivel Phone

After the folding phone comes the swivel phone. LG has come up with this phone which it calls ‘Wing’.

This article was posted on Sep 22, 2020

Schaffner re-introduces EMC filter for complex equipment

Schaffner has re-introduced the FN2415 – single-phase EMC filter for control equipment with extended capabilities.

This article was posted on Sep 22, 2020

GaN Systems white paper on Class D amplifiers

GaN Systems has published a white paper, “GaN in Class-D Audio: Advantages with GaN Systems – a Comparative Look,” which reviews the various GaN and Silicon transistor approaches in Class-D audio amplifier design techniques.

This article was posted on Sep 22, 2020

Rambus interface delivers 4Gbps

Rambus has achieved a record 4 Gbps performance with a memory interface consisting of a fully-integrated PHY and controller.

This article was posted on Sep 21, 2020

Microprocessor sales to top $79 billion

Figure 1 divides the 2020 microprocessor market by end-equipment categories, based on the Mid-Year Updateforecast.

This article was posted on Sep 21, 2020

Q-CTRL and Quantum Machines hook up on quantum computing

Q-CTRL and Quantum Machines, both quantum computing startups, have agreed to integrate Q-CTRL’s firmware into Quantum Machines’ quantum hardware platform.

This article was posted on Sep 21, 2020

TSMC August revenues up 16%

TSMC net revenues for August 2020 were approximately NT$122.88 billion (US$4billion) an increase of 16% percent from July 2020 and an increase of 15.8% from August 2019.

This article was posted on Sep 21, 2020

Notebook shipments keep on growing

As WFH and distance education demand continues to propel the notebook (NB) market, TrendForce expects total NB shipment to reach 55 million units for 3Q20, a 4% increase QoQ.

This article was posted on Sep 21, 2020

Huawei phones to have made-in-China OS

Huawei says its mobile phones will have the HarmonyOS instead of Android next year, reports the Nikkei.

This article was posted on Sep 21, 2020

NASA to prime the pump for moon resource mining

NASA is offering to pay private industry to mine the moon for “materials”. In official terms, it is releasing a solicitation for commercial companies to provide proposals for the collection of space resources.

This article was posted on Sep 21, 2020

Renesas reference design for micromobility

Renesas aims to accelerate the development of e-scooters, e-bikes, UPS and energy storage systems with a reference design and optional functional blocks that can be adopted for many 24V-48V applications such as lawn mowers, electric carts, robot cleaners, power tools, power banks, and more.

This article was posted on Sep 21, 2020

Si Catalyst adds four partners

Silicon Catalyst, the Californian incubator, has added four companies to its family of In-Kind Partners (IKP):

This article was posted on Sep 21, 2020

Adtran extends 60GHz Gbit symmetric services to 500m beyond mesh nodes

Adtran, the Huntsville Alabama networking specialist, has announced the MetNet 60GHz high-powered version 2 (HPv2) CPE.

This article was posted on Sep 21, 2020

SK Telecom, Samsung, Intel and HPE combine on 5G NFV

SK Telecom, Samsung Electronics, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Intel have signed an MOU for cooperation in the commercialisation of an evolved 5G network functions virtualisation (NFV) platform.

This article was posted on Sep 18, 2020

Zerynth raises €2m Series A

Zerynth, the IoT systems integrator, has raised a €2 million Series A investment led by the Italian fund Vertis Venture 3 Tech Transfer.

This article was posted on Sep 18, 2020

Mouser signs worldwide agreement with iWave for SoMs

Mouser Electronics now stocks iWave’s system on modules (SoMs) which are based on Xilinx, NXP Semiconductors and Intel PSG processors and which are intended for use in industrial, automotive, medical, imaging, networking and AI applications.

This article was posted on Sep 18, 2020

binder rocks new ACDC connectors

The new S-coded and T-coded power connectors from binder (DIN EN 610276-2-111) address applications such as motors and drives and supplying power to AC and DC consumers.

This article was posted on Sep 18, 2020

Nexperia’s power GaN FET range is available from Farnell

Distributor Farnell is now shipping Nexperia’s power GaN FETs. The FETs can be used in hard switching for AC-DC totem pole power factor correction (PFC) applications, LLC phase shift full-bridge (resonant or fixed frequency) for soft-switching applications, as well as all DC-AC inverter topologies and AC-AC matrix converters using bidirectional switches.

This article was posted on Sep 18, 2020

Arrow Electronics to showcase industry 4.0 virtual event

Webinars and discussions as well as individual consultations are scheduled at Arrow’s World of Industry 4.0 virtual event which will run 1 and 2 October 2020. The distributor and industry suppliers will host webinars and discussions online. A collaboration tool helps participants an appropriate person to speak to according to expertise, language and supplier. There is a choice of medium – live web chat, audio and video calls.

This article was posted on Sep 18, 2020

ADI and Evonetix developing a DNA desktop writer

Evonetix, the synthetic biology company, and ADI are to work together on the advancement and commercial scale-up of Evonetix’s MEMS-based ICs and accelerate the development of Evonetix’s first product, a DNA desktop writer.

This article was posted on Sep 18, 2020

Gigabyte, AMD and Northern Data hook up on HPC

Gigabyte, AMD and Northern Data are working on an HPC mega-project with computing power of around 3.1 exaflops.

This article was posted on Sep 18, 2020