Surpluses, shortages and losses
It is a market like no other – massive surpluses in some product lines, shortages, allocations and long lead-times in others.
This article was posted on Jun 9, 2023Raspberry Pi anticipates consistent million unit months
Raspberry Pi is on the way to consistent shipments of a million units a month.
This article was posted on Jun 9, 2023Harvester IC matches solar cells to batteries automatically
Nexperia has created an energy harvesting IC for photovoltaic cells up to around 1mW, that automatically matches the cell to the battery – aiming to extract at least 80% of energy that the cell can produce for any given illumination. Harvesting range is 35µW to 2mW.
This article was posted on Jun 9, 2023Botham supports Northern Powerhouse SMEs in Australia export drive
Electronics manufacturing SMEs from the Northern Powerhouse region have gathered in Leeds to boost their exports to Australia, supported by Lord Botham, formerly cricketer Ian Botham, the UK Government’s trade envoy to Australia.
This article was posted on Jun 9, 2023UK Space Agency launches £50 million SCIF fund for space infrastructure
The UK government has announced £50 million of funding – the Space Clusters and Infrastructure Fund (SCIF) – to support research and development with a focus on building the UK’s space infrastructure.
This article was posted on Jun 9, 2023Mosfets for motor drives up to 48V
Rohm is aiming at motor drives operating on 24, 36 or 48V with n-channel mosfets rated at 40, 60, 100 or 150V to give some leeway for spikes and noise.
This article was posted on Jun 8, 20233mm microphones for wearables and portables
CUI has three new micromachined omnidirectional microphones for portable devices and wearables, that can work across 20 to 20,000 Hz.
This article was posted on Jun 8, 2023Kioxia sampling UFS 4.0
Kioxia is sampling UFS Ver. 4.0 embedded flash memories which integrate BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory and a controller in a JEDEC-standard package.
This article was posted on Jun 8, 2023Shunt resistors with a wide temperature range
TT Electronics has announced a series of shunt resistors for high current measurements in the hundreds of amps range.
This article was posted on Jun 8, 2023UK hosts inaugural AUKUS AI and autonomy trial
The UK has hosted the first AUKUS AI and autonomy trial, with the aim of driving artificial intelligence into military use.
This article was posted on Jun 8, 2023IBM and ASMPT develop better chiplet bond
The new hybrid bonding method has the potential to increase the data throughput between chiplets, and the number of chiplets that could be installed in a given space, leading to a chiplet system that would act more like a single SOC.
This article was posted on Jun 8, 2023X-Fab offers 110nm BCD-on-SoI process
Mixed-signal chip maker X-Fab Silicon Foundries is X-Fab offering a 110nm BCD-on-SoI process, claiming to be the first to do so.
This article was posted on Jun 8, 2023RISC-V Summit: Customisable vector unit
Semidynamics has announced a customisable vector unit for RISC-V processor cores, compliant with RISC-V vector specification 1.0.
This article was posted on Jun 8, 2023Fuji joins 3d printed electronics alliance
Fuji Corporation has joined 3d printed electronics association JAMES (Jetted Additively Manufactured Electronics Sources), which describes itself as establishing a collaborative community that brings together professionals and enthusiasts from various fields to drive additive manufacturing development in 3D printed electronics.
This article was posted on Jun 8, 2023NASA’s snake robot is propelled by screws
Pondering movement over a wide range of terrains and through complex 3d worlds, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has come up with a snake-like robot called Eels – for Exobiology extant life surveyor.
This article was posted on Jun 8, 2023NXP adds single core Cortex-A55 options to under-pin i.MX 9 series
NXP has added low-end to its i.MX 9 series, with Linux-capable single core Arm Cortex-A55 application processor variants, running at up to 1.4GHz, without supporting microcontrollers.
This article was posted on Jun 7, 202336V to 160Vdc input dc-dc for railway use
Recom is aiming at railway use with a family of DIP24 isolated regulated dc-dc converters that will run from between 36 and 160Vdc. Surges up to 200V can be tolerated for 1s.
This article was posted on Jun 7, 2023ST: waterproof absolute pressure sensor will be available for 10 years
STMicroelectronics has introduced a waterproof absolute pressure sensor “with a declared 10 year longevity program”, it said.
This article was posted on Jun 7, 2023A little more on: Cortex-X4, Arm’s most powerful core so far
Arm has announced its latest architecture, the 64bit-only Armv9.2, and three grades of processor built on it.
This article was posted on Jun 7, 2023Wi-Fi HaLow SDIO module allows 8MHz usage
Silex Technology has come up with an industrial-grade Wi-Fi HaLow SDIO module that delivers high transmission power.
This article was posted on Jun 7, 2023Arm announces next GPU architecture for phones
Arm has announced its 5th generation of GPU architecture and the first GPUs to be designed on it – Immortalis-G720 for high-end phones, Mali-G720 and Mali-G620.
This article was posted on Jun 7, 2023