CIS units to fall

2023 CMOS Image Sensor (CIS) units will fall 3.2% to 4.46 billion because of the contraction in smartphone sales, says TrendForce.

This article was posted on Sep 18, 2023

Moon lander company announces $20 million equity investment

Intuitive Machines, a space exploration specialist, has announced a $20 million equity investment from an unnamed institutional investor.

This article was posted on Sep 18, 2023

July semi sales up 2.3% m-o-m

July semi sales were up 2.3% on June at $43.2 billion but down 11.8% on the $49 billion of July 2022, says the SIA.

This article was posted on Sep 18, 2023

Semis turn up

After five straight quarters of declining revenue, the semiconductor industry reversed course and increased revenue in 2Q23 according to the latest Omdia’s Competitive Landscape Tracker.

This article was posted on Sep 18, 2023

More on: Navitas 4th generation protected GaN power with integrated drivers

Navitas recently announced its fourth generation of GaN power transistors with monolithically-integrated gate drivers.

This article was posted on Sep 18, 2023

Microchip: Machine learning toolkit for MCUs from 8bit to 32bit

Machine Learning Development Suite is a toolkit from Microchip that supports some of its 8, 16 and 32bit microcontrollers.

This article was posted on Sep 18, 2023

Sponsored Content: Durable and innovative Panasonic capacitors. Solutions involving hybrid, polymer and film capacitors

A single capacitor can influence the lifetime and quality of entire electronic devices. These components wear out relatively easily and are used in virtually all circuits, including power supply modules, filters and voltage converters. Therefore, it is worth getting familiar with a range of brand-name components, such as Panasonic products, designed to ensure long-lasting and reliable operation.

This article was posted on Sep 14, 2023

Fast dual TO-247 rectifiers tuned for super-junction mosfets

Central Semiconductor has announced a pair of dual hyper-fast rectifiers in TO-247 packaging, designed for use with super-junction mosfets.

This article was posted on Sep 14, 2023

Sony aims a camera at drones and robots for industrial users

Sony has created a 61Mpixel interchangeable lens camera for professionals with industrial applications, such as those using drones for inspection, investigation, surveying or mapping.

This article was posted on Sep 14, 2023

IP65 sealed 10.1 inch industrial tablet with optional LTE comms

Aaeon has created a rugged 10.1inch industrial tablet computer for industrial, construction, manufacturing and inventory use.

This article was posted on Sep 14, 2023

Two-channel 16bit 125Msample/s PCIe digitiser board

GaGe has filled out its line of PCIe digitiser boards – essentially ADCs for PCs – with three new dual-channel models: one with with 250MHz bandwidth and 14bit 500Msample/s sampling, and two 125MHz 250Msample/s models, one with 16bit resolution and the other 14bit.

This article was posted on Sep 14, 2023

3A LDO regulates to ±1% across line, load and temperature

Diodes has released a 3A low-dropout low-noise voltage regulator.

This article was posted on Sep 14, 2023

Synopsys adds AI analytics to EDA suite

Synopsys has extended its Synopsys.ai full-stack EDA suite with an AI-driven data analytics continuum for every stage of IC development.

This article was posted on Sep 14, 2023

NGA, NRO and USSPACECOM agree framework to protect space assets

The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), its National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and U.S. Space Command – have signed an agreement to better enable the protection of commercial space assets.

This article was posted on Sep 14, 2023

Imec drug monitoring spin-off raises €10m seedround

Axithra, a new spin-off of imec and Ghent University, today announced a €10 million seed round, securing the first two years of R&D.

This article was posted on Sep 14, 2023

GTA Semi raises $1.8bn

GTA Semiconductor of Shanghai, the Chinese auto IC manufacturer, has raised $1.8 billion to bring the amount it has raised in the last two years to $2.7 billion with most of it coming from the government.

This article was posted on Sep 14, 2023

July Slump In Car Sales

July car sales fell 10% m-o-m to 5.44 million vehicles, according to TrendForce.

This article was posted on Sep 13, 2023

Smiths Interconnect launches Kepler

Smiths Interconnect has launched its Kepler contact technology for IC Testing.

This article was posted on Sep 13, 2023

Agile Analog joins TSMC IP Alliance

Agile Analog, the customisable analog IP specislidt, has joined the TSMC IP Alliance Program, a key component of the TSMC Open Innovation Platform( OIP).

This article was posted on Sep 13, 2023

Aussie quantum hook-up

The Australian quantum computing companies Q-CTRL and Diraq are partnering on three multi-million-dollar projects to expand the commercial adoption of quantum computing. It represents the first stage of an anticipated partnership.

This article was posted on Sep 13, 2023

RF signal generator meets latest microwave and mmWave testing

To address the stringent requirements of the latest microwave and mmWave testing, Siglent has increased the addressable frequency range of its RF signal generators to 40GHz.

This article was posted on Sep 13, 2023