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Qualcomm and TDK complete JV on RFEE modules and filters
Qualcomm and TDK complete JV on RFEE modules and filters
Business news |
Qualcomm Incorporated and TDK Corporation have completed their previously announced joint venture under the name RF360 Holdings Singapore PTE. Ltd.
Linux-based IoT microcomputer is only 76x37x18mm
Linux-based IoT microcomputer is only 76x37x18mm
Feature articles |
Launching what it describes as a ‘virtually anything’ microcomputer, Australian design house SRKH Designs is confident its Virtualette V1 dual…
ST raises capex for “major product ramp”
ST raises capex for “major product ramp”
Business news |
STMicroelectronics NV is raising capital expenditure budget for 2017 to between $1 billion and $1.1 billion in part to support…
MEMS wafer fab contents for sale: $5 million ONO
MEMS wafer fab contents for sale: $5 million ONO
Business news |
A MEMS and silicon photonics foundry in the United States owned by a Fortune 500 company is for sale and…

Peregrine, GloFo develop RF SOI process for 300mm wafers
Peregrine, GloFo develop RF SOI process for 300mm wafers
New Products |
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. (San Diego, Calif.) has announced its UltraCMOS12 silicon-on-insulator manufacturing process and claims its achieves improved performance over previous processes.
Automotive, analog drive TI’s strong Q4
Automotive, analog drive TI’s strong Q4
Business news |
Texas Instruments enjoyed 4Q16 sales of $3.41 billion up 7 percent from the same quarter a year ago and made a net income of $1.05 billion also significantly up on…
Looking for natural night vision
Looking for natural night vision
Technology News |
Researchers from Kyushu University (Japan) have demonstrated a fully organic and easy to process thin-film near-infrared to visible optical upconversion device, whose output can be tuned across the full visible…
Chopper-stabilized op-amp offers high temperature stability
Chopper-stabilized op-amp offers high temperature stability
New Products |
ST's TSZ182 dual precision op amp combines low and extremely temperature-stable input-offset voltage with 3MHz gain-bandwidth, rail-to-rail inputs and outputs, and ultra-small 2 x 2 mm DFN8 or Mini-SO8 package…
Research project widens use of ADAS obstacle-detection tech
Research project widens use of ADAS obstacle-detection tech
Technology News |
Research institute Leti (Grenoble, France) has announced a project to adapt obstacle-detection technology used in autonomous cars, for multiple uses. The INSPEX project aims to combine knowhow of nine European…
Global semiconductor sales hit record, says ESIA report
Global semiconductor sales hit record, says ESIA report
Business news |
Global semiconductor sales reached 338.931 Billion US $ in 2016, reported the European Semiconductor Industry Association (ESIA) based on the latest WSTS (World Semiconductor Trade Statistics).
Amkor Technology to acquire European’s largest OSATS
Amkor Technology to acquire European’s largest OSATS
Business news |
Arizona-headquartered semiconductor product packaging and test services provider Amkor Technology, a multibillion dollar revenue company, announced it has acquired Europe's largest OSATS (Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test Services) company Nanium…
GM, Honda set up fuel cell manufacturing JV
GM, Honda set up fuel cell manufacturing JV
Business news |
General Motors and Honda have set up an $85m manufacturing joint venture to mass produce hydrogen fuel cell systems that will be used in future products from each company.
System-in-package as used in BeagleBone Black Wireless, in distribution
System-in-package as used in BeagleBone Black Wireless, in distribution
Market news |
Distributor Mouser Electronics has the OSD3358 system-in-package (SiP) from Octavo Systems. The OSD3358 SiP device makes it easier for designers to quickly create production-ready systems based on the Texas Instruments…
Research project widens use of ADAS obstacle-detection tech
Research project widens use of ADAS obstacle-detection tech
Technology News |
Research institute Leti (Grenoble, France) has announced a project to adapt obstacle-detection technology used in autonomous cars, for multiple uses. The INSPEX project aims to combine knowhow of nine European…
FRAM for automotive applications, over extended temperature range
FRAM for automotive applications, over extended temperature range
New Products |
Fujitsu Electronics Europe (FEEU) (Langen, Germany) has added an FRAM device, MB85RS256TY. It is the first component in a product group which is designed for an operating temperature of up…
3MHz chopper op amps; rail-rail I/O & tiny footprint
3MHz chopper op amps; rail-rail I/O & tiny footprint
New Products |
ST's TSZ182 dual precision op amp combines low and extremely temperature-stable input-offset voltage with 3MHz gain-bandwidth, rail-to-rail inputs and outputs, and ultra-small 2 x 2 mm DFN8 or Mini-SO8 package…
Ultra-low phase jitter oscillators
Ultra-low phase jitter oscillators
New Products |
Euroquartz' (Crewkerne, UK) oscillators now include an ultra-low phase jitter model rated at 50 fsec typical. The oscillators provide LVCMOS output from a supply voltage of 1.8, 2.5 or 3.3V.
Thermo-electric generators promise higher driving range
Thermo-electric generators promise higher driving range
Technology News |
In a cooperation with Yamaha Corp, German aerospace research center DLR is developing thermos-electric systems for use in cars. The goal of the collaboration is creating systems that transform waste…
Octa-core number cruncher makes HiL simulations more realistic
Octa-core number cruncher makes HiL simulations more realistic
New Products |
Embedded systems development tool vendor dSpace GmbH has added a new processing unit to its Scalexio real-time hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) test systems. Equipped with an eight-core Intel Xeon Processor E5, the…
Sensing e-fields in working semiconductors holds promise for next-gen electronics
Sensing e-fields in working semiconductors holds promise for next-gen electronics
Technology News |
Researchers in Japan have been able to directly sense the electric fields inside working wide bandgap semiconductor devices. According to the researchers, the ability to measure the internal fields at…
Konica Minolta and Pioneer to spin-off their OLED businesses in joint venture, says report
Konica Minolta and Pioneer to spin-off their OLED businesses in joint venture, says report
Business news |
According to Nikkei Asian Review, the two Japanese companies Konica Minolta and Pioneer are in talk to merge their OLED lighting businesses under a 50-50 joint venture.
GM, Honda team on hydrogen fuel cell manufacturing
GM, Honda team on hydrogen fuel cell manufacturing
Business news |
General Motors (Detroit, MI) and Honda (Tokyo, Japan) have set up an $85m manufacturing joint venture to mass produce hydrogen fuel cell systems that will be used in future products…
Low-cost water-based inkjet printing for electronics
Low-cost water-based inkjet printing for electronics
Technology News |
Researchers from the University of Manchester managed to leverage the special properties of 2D materials such as graphene, molybdenum disulphide (MoS2), tungsten disulphide (WS2) or hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) into…
Wi-Fi, IoT to drive wireless IC shipments, says report
Wi-Fi, IoT to drive wireless IC shipments, says report
Market news |
Rapid growth in Wi-Fi traffic, new uses cases, and emerging IoT applications will result in a nearly 54% increase in wireless IC shipments by 2020, according to ABI Research.
Yokogawa, Microsoft and others to collaborate on industrial IoT
Yokogawa, Microsoft and others to collaborate on industrial IoT
Business news |
Yokogawa Electric Corporation (Tokyo, Japan) has announced that it will work with Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA), FogHorn Systems, Inc. (Mountain View, CA), Bayshore Networks, Inc. (New York, NY ), and…
‘Breakthrough’ hyperspectral camera merges snapshot, linescan technologies
‘Breakthrough’ hyperspectral camera merges snapshot, linescan technologies
Technology News |
Research centre imec (Leuven, Belgium) has used the occasion of the SPIE Photonics West exhibition and conference, this week (2nd February 2017) in to make a series of product and…
Digital imaging sensor inventors win UK prize for engineering
Digital imaging sensor inventors win UK prize for engineering
Technology News |
Four engineers who between them made a series of innovations that enabled the development of the modern CMOS image sensor have been awarded the Queen Elizabeth prize for engineering.
Tunable white light engine integrates multiple control interfaces
Tunable white light engine integrates multiple control interfaces
New Products |
Designed as a 46mm diameter board, the LuxiTune 2.3 is a 1100lm, single-emitter white light engine supporting smooth deep dimming to 0.5%, no e-flicker and no visible flicker.


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