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Google’s second TPU processor comes out
Google’s second TPU processor comes out
Technology News |
Google has announced its second tensor processing unit (TPU), a follow on from its first TPU processor announced in May…
Automotive IC market to grow 22% in 2017
Automotive IC market to grow 22% in 2017
Market news |
The automotive IC market is set to grow to an annual value of $28.0 billion in 2017, up 22.4 percent…
NXP licenses TMR sensing for automotive
NXP licenses TMR sensing for automotive
Business news |
Crocus Technology SA, a developer of magnetic memory technology founded in France in 2004, has licensed magnetic sensor technology to…
Illumitex raises $4 million: wants to mine the big data of digital horticulture
Illumitex raises $4 million: wants to mine the big data of digital horticulture
Business news |
The incorporation of digital sensors into Illumitex’s LED horticulture fixtures creates a unique data set that powers an open application…

Reports: ARM agrees to create Chinese IP firm
Reports: ARM agrees to create Chinese IP firm
Business news |
Processor intellectual property (IP) company ARM and a venture capital fund it helped form in China have agreed to form a Chinese joint venture to create intellectual property for IC…
Time is ripe for machine learning, says IMEC
Time is ripe for machine learning, says IMEC
Technology News |
At the IMEC Technology Forum held in Antwerp last week Praveen Raghavan, distinguished member of technical staff at IMEC, presented arguments for the development of dedicated hardware to implement machine…
Micropower LED driver has integrated Hall-effect switch
Micropower LED driver has integrated Hall-effect switch
New Products |
The APS13568 micropower LED driver IC from Allegro MicroSystems enables compact, elegant, reliable, and fault-tolerant LED lighting with minimal electrical engineering and low component-count and cost.
G+D, Murata, STMicroelectronics develop joint security solutions for IoT devices
G+D, Murata, STMicroelectronics develop joint security solutions for IoT devices
New Products |
Low-power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) are the shooting star of the wireless Internet of Things: By 2025, this family of wireless technologies will be used to connect 4 billion devices,…
Multi-passenger automotive assistant has conversational and cognitive AI capabilities
Multi-passenger automotive assistant has conversational and cognitive AI capabilities
New Products |
Nuance Communications has expanded its Dragon Drive artificial intelligence (AI) platform for the connected car with conversational and cognitive capabilities for its Automotive Assistant.
Plastic electronics, printed antenna make a 12-bit RFID Tag & Read-out
Plastic electronics, printed antenna make a 12-bit RFID Tag & Read-out
Technology News |
Quad Industries and Agfa, together with research bodies imec and TNO have announced that they have demonstrated a plastic 12-bit RFID tag and read-out system with screen-printed circuitry. The system…
Silego adds LDOs to configurable chips to advance “Flexible Power Islands”
Silego adds LDOs to configurable chips to advance “Flexible Power Islands”
New Products |
With its SLG46580, Silego Technology (Santa Clara, California) has added four, 150 mA low-dropout linear regulators to its GreenPAK programmable mixed-signal device range. The part can be configured to provide…
Wideband plastic packaged and bare die GaAs MMICs from DC to 27 GHz
Wideband plastic packaged and bare die GaAs MMICs from DC to 27 GHz
New Products |
Microsemi Corporation has announced a family of wideband plastic packaged and chip monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) devices at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS2017) in Honolulu, Hawai.
Bike-to-x communications protect motorcycle riders
Bike-to-x communications protect motorcycle riders
Technology News |
The risk to get killed in a traffic accident is for a motorbike rider 18-times higher than for a car driver. To reduce this risk, chipmaker Autotalks, automotive supplier Bosch…
6GHz VNA, from USB scope maker Pico, for €5k
6GHz VNA, from USB scope maker Pico, for €5k
New Products |
Pico Technology has extended the range of its compact USB instrumentation, making use of its experience with high-performance sampling oscilloscopes and time domain reflectometry, to create a high-quality, low-cost vector…
China kicks chip market boom up a notch
China kicks chip market boom up a notch
Market news |
The global market for chips was up 20 percent year-on-year in April, driven by a Chinese market that was up 30 percent, according to the European Semiconductor Industry Association (ESIA).
Waveguide electromechanical relay switches from 5.85 GHz to 40 GHz
Waveguide electromechanical relay switches from 5.85 GHz to 40 GHz
New Products |
Pasternack has introduced 28 waveguide electromechanical relay switches that offer full waveguide performance covering C, X, Ku, K and Ka frequency bands from 5.85 GHz to 40 GHz.
Newly published; Embedded Computing for High Performance:…
Newly published; Embedded Computing for High Performance:…
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...Efficient Mapping of Computations Using Customization, Code Transformations and Compilation - by João Cardoso, José Gabriel Coutinho and Pedro Diniz. This book provides a set of real-life example implementations that…
University of Edinburgh Hyperloop team relies on RS Components’ support
University of Edinburgh Hyperloop team relies on RS Components’ support
Business news |
Global distributor RS Components is supporting the University of Edinburgh’s efforts to design and build technology for the revolutionary Hyperloop transportation system of the future.
Space grade polymer capacitors
Space grade polymer capacitors
New Products |
Kemet's T583 Space Grade series is designed for mission critical, high capacitance and high ripple current applications.
Dual die, Hall effect, latch and switch sensor is accurate & redundant
Dual die, Hall effect, latch and switch sensor is accurate & redundant
New Products |
Melexis (Tessenderlo, Belgium) has introduced a range of new magnetic latch and switch sensors that feature two silicon dice in the same package, yielding highly reliable devices, which are aimed…
Micro servo controller serves DC motors up to 750W
Micro servo controller serves DC motors up to 750W
New Products |
The Swiss drive specialist maxon motor is expanding its range of servo controllers by adding the Escon Module 50/8 HE (Harsh Environment).
Arbitrary waveform generator precise enough for quantum research
Arbitrary waveform generator precise enough for quantum research
Technology News |
Precision is always important in research and there can be few research areas needing greater precision than that of quantum research. The Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information at…
Turning up the lights on dark data
Turning up the lights on dark data
Feature articles |
In 1945, an engineer named Percy Spencer was testing energy sources for radar equipment in a laboratory, when he realised a chocolate bar in his pocket had somehow melted. Not…
Rugged 10.4” waterproof panel-mount touch screens are sunlight-readable
Rugged 10.4” waterproof panel-mount touch screens are sunlight-readable
New Products |
TRU-Vu Monitors has just released a new 10.4” Waterproof Sunlight-Readable touch screen monitor designed to operate in nearly any environment.
Advanced model gives IC lifetime prediction in all design environments
Advanced model gives IC lifetime prediction in all design environments
Technology News |
Using proprietary techniques, designers are now able to verify the long-term behaviour of their integrated circuits and systems in safety critical applications. Compared to today’s solutions, the advanced modelling services…
ASV, pioneer of EDA, to advise UltraSoC
ASV, pioneer of EDA, to advise UltraSoC
Business news |
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, a professor at University of California Berkeley and co-founder of EDA companies Cadence and Synopsys, has joined the strategic advisory board of UltraSoC Technologies Ltd. (Cambridge, England).
Isola to showcase laminates for RF, radar and microwave applications
Isola to showcase laminates for RF, radar and microwave applications
Business news |
Isola Group will present its range of laminates for the RF and microwave markets at the IMS Exhibition in Honolulu, Hawaii (Microwave Week), with a particular focus on radar applications…
Intrinsic ID’s SRAM-PUF integrates Microsemi’s PolarFire FPGAs
Intrinsic ID’s SRAM-PUF integrates Microsemi’s PolarFire FPGAs
Business news |
In close partnership with Intrinsic ID, Microsemi has embedded Intrinsic ID’s static random-access memory (SRAM) physical unclonable function (SRAM PUF) in its new PolarFire field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).


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