ST looking for 2023 revenue of $17-$17.8bn

ST had Q1 revenues up 20% at $4.25 billion for net income of $1.04 billion.

This article was posted on May 8, 2023

PCIM: 1.2kV half-bridge driver ICs

Infineon Technologies is aiming at 1,200V 10kW loads with a family of half-bridge gate drivers for IGBTs and silicon carbide mosfets.

This article was posted on May 8, 2023

DSL selects inaugural winner of Design Academy 2023 STEM competition

Datasound Laboratories Ltd (DSL) has announced the winner of its inaugural Design Academy 2023 award, a competition run in local schools and colleges to identify young engineering excellence, promote STEM and encourage a new generation of design engineers.

This article was posted on May 8, 2023

High Linearity Gain Blocks from Guerrilla

Guerrilla RF has announced the production release of the GRF2010 and GRF2011, two high linearity gain blocks targeting infrastructure applications such as 5G/4G base stations, automotive telematics, and cellular repeaters/DAS.

This article was posted on May 8, 2023

$13.6bn auto radar market has CAGR of 12% 2022-8

The automotive radar market is expected to be worth $13.6 billion in 2028 with a CAGR 22-28 of 12%, says Yole Developpement.

This article was posted on May 8, 2023

Pinecone raises $100m

Pinecone Systems of New York has raised $100 million in a funding round that values the company at $750 million.

This article was posted on May 8, 2023

Vision and strategy for US Chips Act R&D centre published

The US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a paper outlining its vision and strategy for a National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC), a key component of the R&D programme established by the US Chips and Science Act intended to support and extend U.S. leadership in semiconductor research, design, engineering, and advanced manufacturing and strengthen U.S. competitiveness.

This article was posted on May 5, 2023

More on: Q5D’s CNC automated wiring loom cell, which adds connectors and 3D prints

Yesterday, Q5D revealed the five-axis automated wire harness fabrication cell that it will be manufacturing for sale, which can also terminate wires into connectors and 3D print structures in engineering polymers.

This article was posted on May 5, 2023

Ruggedised 300W buck-boost dc-dc converters in 1/16 brick

TDK-Lambda has introduced a series of rugged non-isolated 300W buck-boost dc-dc converters.

This article was posted on May 5, 2023

Elkhart Lake CPU in scratch-resistant touch screen industrial panel PC

Impulse Embedded is to stock Axiomtek fan-less multi-touch panel PCs with Intel’s Elkhart Lake Celeron J6412 processor – a 10W quad core 2GHz processor with 2.6GHz boost and 1,920 x 1,080 HD resolution.

This article was posted on May 5, 2023

Picocom and iCana to deliver 5G Open RAN Small Cell radio unit reference platform

Picocom, the 5G Open RAN baseband semiconductor and software specialist, and iCana, a fabless semiconductor RF component supplier for the wireless telecommunications infrastructure market, are to jointly develop a 5G Open RAN Small Cell radio unit reference platform.

This article was posted on May 5, 2023

5W from a 1in square dc-dc converter

Recom puts a 5W isolated dc-dc converter with a 9 – 36V input range into a 1 x 1inch plastic package – actually 25.4 x 25.4 x 10mm.

This article was posted on May 5, 2023

Zoom camera suits drones, underwater vehicles and mobile robots

Sony has put a 30x zoom into its latest block-style camera.

This article was posted on May 5, 2023

Space Foundation celebrates Symposium 2023, calls for Space as Critical Infrastructure

The Space Symposium 2023, which has completed in Colorado Springs, featured a celebration of the Webb Space Telescope, the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission and the progress of the Orion spacecraft and Artemis program, along with calls for for the U.S. government to declare space as a critical infrastructure.

This article was posted on May 5, 2023

Samsung makes $3.4bn Q1 chip loss

Samsung’s Q1 revenue was down 18% y-o-y at $47.6 billion for an operating profit down 95% y-o-y at $478.5 million.

This article was posted on May 5, 2023

PreAct raises $20m

PreAct Technologies of Portland, Oregon – the software-definable LiDAR specialist – has completed a $20 million in the series B round

This article was posted on May 4, 2023

Call for research papers for DVCon Europe’s 10th anniversary

The Design and Verification Conference & Exhibition Europe (DVCon Europe) is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. The event will be held in Munich (14 and 15 November, followed by a SystemC Evolution day on 16 November).

This article was posted on May 4, 2023

10W isolated buck converter requires no optocoupler

STMicroelectronics is has chosen an isolated buck converter topology for a 10W dc-dc converter that provides a regulated local primary power rail, plus a moderately regulated isolated secondary power rail.

This article was posted on May 4, 2023

Wire harness machine for additive manufacturing

Q5D, a manufacturer of wire harness automation equipment for additive manufacturing, has launched its first product, the CY1000.

This article was posted on May 4, 2023

3.5kW ac-dc PSU for world-wide three-phase connection

Cosel has launched a fanless three-phase three-wire 3.5kW ac-dc power supply, aimed at world-wide operation from star or delta networks.

This article was posted on May 4, 2023

Analogue IP blocks are pre-wrapped in digital logic to ease integration

Cambridgeshire-based IC design intellectual property company Agile Analog has created a range of analogue peripheral blocks that are already wrapped in digital logic to connect them to a standard on-chip bus, such as AMBA APB.

This article was posted on May 4, 2023