Fast intrinsic safety fuses are 3 x 8.4mm

Bel Fuse is aiming at hazardous environments with a series of 3 x 8.4mm fast-acting ceramic tube fuses.

This article was posted on Apr 17, 2023

Farnell launches The Innovation Experts

Upgrading to Industry 4.0 using new and existing measurements – Omega Engineering provides expert advice to help process and manufacturing companies adopt Industry 4.0 principles by embracing digitisation. Omega shares innovative ways to upgrade existing facility systems with critical solutions to capture real-time information on the factory floor. Companies will learn about edge monitoring and control, how to identify new mechanisms to analyse big data and why it’s important to run critical pilot project evaluations before committing to full system installation.

This article was posted on Apr 17, 2023

FCC creates Space Bureau to modernise satellite regulations

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced both a new Office of International Affairs and a Space Bureau, to better support space-based innovation.

This article was posted on Apr 17, 2023

Cloud development kit

Renesas’ cellular-to-cloud development kits now support Microsoft’s Azure cloud services.

This article was posted on Apr 14, 2023

AWS and De Beers to research the use of diamond for quantum networking

Element Six, a De Beers company, is collaborating with AWS to explore ways to develop and improve synthetic diamond for quantum networking.

This article was posted on Apr 14, 2023

Government £150m for 5G deployment, 6G development and satellite connectivity

Today the government announced an investment in telecoms of almost £150 million in telecoms with up to £100 million for R&D, and £40m to boost 5G tech take-up

This article was posted on Apr 14, 2023

Japan-USA-Europe fibre link takes the Northwest Passage

Route planning has started on the pan-Arctic submarine cable that could link Europe, North America and Asia via the Northwest Passage – the latter opening as formerly permanent ice yields to climate change.

This article was posted on Apr 14, 2023

GaN-on-SiC behind 9-10GHz 200W pulse amplifier

Aimed at X-band radar, 1222 is a 200W 9 to 10GHz pulse amplifier from Empower RF Systems of California.

This article was posted on Apr 14, 2023

Astrocast turns SatIot to EU-funded CiROCCO desert initiative

Astrocast, the nanosatellite IoT network operator, is participating in the EU-funded CiROCCO initiative, part of the wider Horizon Europe Programme.

This article was posted on Apr 14, 2023

CPO market to grow at 46% 2022-33

The CPO (Co-Packaged Optics) market is expected to reach $2.6 billion in 2033, says Yole Developpement.

This article was posted on Apr 14, 2023

SEMI leading European Chips Skills Academy initiative

SEMI is heading up an 18-partner consortium which has won up to €4 million in funding to develop the European Chips Skills Academy.

This article was posted on Apr 14, 2023

Collaboration to replace analogue control with digital in GaN PSUs

Wise-integration of France and Powernet of Korea have teamed up to bring digital control to gallium nitride-based power supplies.

This article was posted on Apr 13, 2023

Automotive LED drivers for instrument cluster backlights

Rohm has developed four and six channel automotive LED drivers for 5 – 10in+ backlights behind displays and instrument clusters.

This article was posted on Apr 13, 2023

Digi-Key celebrates 50 years of electronics distribution

Digi-Key Electronics is celebrating the company’s 50th year in business, having started operations 3 April 1973.

This article was posted on Apr 13, 2023

Knowles voice vibration sensor for noisy environments

Knowles has brought out a high bandwidth, low-power specialised digital voice vibration sensor which, working in conjunction with traditional microphones, improves voice call quality in noisy environments by picking up the speaker’s voice and rejecting ambient sounds.

This article was posted on Apr 13, 2023

Lead Times head on down except for power

Lead times are coming down, says TechPoint, especially for consumer goods.

This article was posted on Apr 13, 2023

Samsung cuts memory production

Samsung has finally bowed to market pressure and says it has cut memory output by a ‘meaningful’ amount.

This article was posted on Apr 13, 2023

Notebook shipments continue to decline

Q1 notebook shipments were down 13% QoQ and 39% YoY at 33.9 million units, says TrendForce.

This article was posted on Apr 13, 2023

February IC sales 4% down m-o-m

February semiconductor sales of $39.7 billion were 4% down January’s $41.3 billion and 20.7% down on the February 2022 total of $50 billion, reports the SIA.

This article was posted on Apr 13, 2023

Rapidus joins Imec Core Partner Programme

Rapidus has become a member of Imec’s Core Partner Programme.

This article was posted on Apr 13, 2023

SES Satellites enters merger talks with Intelsat

Following market speculation, SES Satellites has confirmed the company is considering a merger with Intelsat.

This article was posted on Apr 12, 2023