TSMC stops chip sales to Huawei
TSMC has stopped taking new chip orders from Huawei following the US ban on the sale of chips that have been made using US technology, reports the Nikkei,
This article was posted on Jun 10, 2020Shhh… tact switch is ultra-quiet for car interiors
C&K is aiming at vehicle interiors with a tactile switch optimised for low sound, long travel and positive-but-soft tactile feedback, according to the company.
This article was posted on Jun 10, 2020Aspinity adds analogue analytics capability to Infineon sensors
Aspinity, the Pittsburgh analogue machine learning IC specialist, is joining up with Infineon to bring together Aspinity’s Reconfigurable Analogue Modular Processing (RAMP) technology with Infineon’s XENSIVTM sensor family.
This article was posted on Jun 9, 2020Bridgelux proposes a(nother) colour metric
Bridgelux has developed a metric for comparing light sources to natural light: average spectral difference (ASD).
This article was posted on Jun 9, 2020NanoEdge artificial intelligence software for STM32 MCUs
Cartesiam has optimised its NanoEdge artificial intelligence software for ST’s Arm-based STM32 microcontroller development boards.
This article was posted on Jun 9, 2020IR LED is 1.6 x 1.6 x 0.81mm
A compact infrared LED from Osram, called Oslon Piccolo, enables gesture control in car interiors
This article was posted on Jun 9, 2020Applied Q2 up 12%
Applied Materials had Q2 revenue up 12% y-o-y at $3.96 billion with a gross margin of 44.2% and operating income of $932 million.
This article was posted on Jun 9, 2020In depth: Noise reduction for electric drives
State of the art AC motor control applies power switch transistor arrays, steered by a microcontroller for all dynamic parameters, writes Christofer Kronschnabl and Wolfgang Ernst of Panasonic.
This article was posted on Jun 9, 2020Cable permits continuous charging at 500A in high-temperatures
HUBER+SUHNER claims to have the world’s first cooled charging cable system that allows continuous charging at 500 Amperes even in high-temperature environments.
This article was posted on Jun 9, 2020Smartphone has QRNG cryptography
Today SK Telecom presents the Galaxy A Quantum, the world’s first 5G smartphone equipped with a quantum random number generator (QRNG) in cooperation with Samsung Electronics and ID Quantique.
This article was posted on Jun 9, 2020Video interview: LMD putting vital signs in the hands of consumers
We caught up (remotely) with Chris Elliott one of the founders of Leman Micro Devices (LMD), who discusses the company’s timely ambition to bring medical measurements into the consumer space.
This article was posted on Jun 9, 2020CHIPS Alliance announces updated RISC-V SweRV cores
CHIPS Alliance has announced enhancements to the RISC-V SweRV Core EH2 and SweRV Core EL2, developed for the open-source community by Western Digital.
This article was posted on Jun 9, 2020GaN RF on a 12% CAGR
The GaN RF market will increase from $740 million last year to over $2 billion by 2025 following a 12% CAGR 2019-25, says Yole Developpenent.
This article was posted on Jun 8, 202020% rise expected for Q2 DRAM revenues
The DRAM market has changed from one of falling prices and rising shipments to rising prices and falling shipments, says DRAMeXchange.
This article was posted on Jun 8, 2020O-S-D to take 20% of semi market
Last year, sales of O-S-D devices (Opto, Sensor, Discretes), as a percent of total semiconductor sales, rose to 19.4% because of the steep 15% decline in the IC market, says IC Insights, and this year O-S-D sales are expected to grow 4% to $104 billion in an overall semiconductor market which is expected to decline.
This article was posted on Jun 8, 2020ESA highlights the growing cost of space debris
The issue of space debris is one of ever-increasing importance, and the European Space Agency (ESA) has summarised the findings of a major report into this area.
This article was posted on Jun 8, 2020Fingerprint on Display sensor shipments booming
Shipments of fingerprint-on-display (FoD) sensors grew 674% last year as FoDs replace silicon-based capacitive chips in smartphones, reports Omdia.
This article was posted on Jun 8, 2020Toshiba launches gate driver switch IPDs
Toshiba has launched two new gate driver switch intelligent power devices (IPDs). Fully AEC-Q100 compliant, the TPD7106F and TPD7107F can be used to control the conduction and shut-off of currents being supplied to automotive electronic control units (ECUs), including junction boxes and body control modules.
This article was posted on Jun 8, 2020element 14 Fighting Germs project aims to slow coronavirus
element14 has launched the “Fighting Germs” Project14 design challenge.
This article was posted on Jun 8, 2020Automotive high-side power switch has fast emergency shut-down
Toshiba has launched two driver chips for high-side power rail mosfets.
This article was posted on Jun 8, 2020Sony to add AI processing to image sensors
Sony is about to launch intelligent vision sensors – image sensors equipped with AI processing.
This article was posted on Jun 8, 2020