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Wireless headphones, with sensors, set to overtake wired
Wireless headphones, with sensors, set to overtake wired
Market news |
The market for wireless headphones will surpass that of wired headphones in 2016, according to Peter Cooney, analyst with SAR…
Desktop PCB prototyping startup ready to grow
Desktop PCB prototyping startup ready to grow
Market news |
Created three years ago, New York City-based startup BotFactory finalized and ramped up its production of a desktop multilayer PCB…
SMIC selected as foundation for Chinese MEMS industry
SMIC selected as foundation for Chinese MEMS industry
Technology News |
The Institute of Microelectronics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMECAS) has signed a cooperation agreement with foundry Semiconductor Manufacturing…
Piezo actuators for millimeter-thin haptics
Piezo actuators for millimeter-thin haptics
New Products |
Designed around multilayer piezo plates, the millimeter-thin piezo actuators from TDK's Epcos group can be driven between 1 and 1000Hz…

Slim 12A regulator is configurable as quad, triple, dual or single output
Slim 12A regulator is configurable as quad, triple, dual or single output
New Products |
Linear Technology's LTM4643 quad output step-down µModule (power module) regulator is configurable as a single output (12A), dual (6A & 6A or 9A & 3A), or quad (3A each) regulator…
Plug-and-play IoT platform offers sensing-as-a-service
Plug-and-play IoT platform offers sensing-as-a-service
New Products |
VersaSense's MicroPnP is a standards-compliant and low-power Sensing-as-a-Service solution that combines zero-configuration plug-and-play integration of IoT peripherals, scalable and 24/7 monitoring and control of devices across different sites.
ST’s Bozotti on ‘back-to-silicon’ differentiation
ST’s Bozotti on ‘back-to-silicon’ differentiation
Interviews |
Carlo Bozotti, CEO of STMicroelectronics NV, has presided over a difficult period in the chip company's history as he first put together the ST-Ericsson mobile processors joint venture and then…
Xilinx dynamic reconfiguration offers compute efficiency gains
Xilinx dynamic reconfiguration offers compute efficiency gains
Intended to accelerate mainstream adoption of Xilinx FPGAs in hyperscale data centres, the company has disclosed technology designed to enable the world’s largest cloud service providers to rapidly develop and…
SCADA DPI decoder protects M2M comms from malicious code
SCADA DPI decoder protects M2M comms from malicious code
Technology News |
From one of the company’s divisions away from test and measurement, Rohde & Schwarz Cybersecurity, collaborating with CELARE, has addressed sucurity for M2M communication in industrial networks; in the (I)IoT…
AMD updates ROCm, open source platform for GPU computing
AMD updates ROCm, open source platform for GPU computing
Technology News |
With support for new GPU hardware, math libraries and modern programming languages to, “further unlock the power of GPU computing”, AMD has announced a new release of Radeon Open Compute…
Starter kit for evaluation of SMARC 2.0 standard boards
Starter kit for evaluation of SMARC 2.0 standard boards
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The SMARC 2.0 Quick Starter Kit from congatec has been assembled to simplify development of IoT applications based on Intel Atom Apollo Lake processors. The kit comes with congatec's first…
18V, 5A buck-boost DC/DC delivers 95% efficiency
18V, 5A buck-boost DC/DC delivers 95% efficiency
New Products |
LTC3119 is a synchronous current mode monolithic buck-boost converter that outputs up to 5A of continuous output current in buck mode from a wide variety of input sources, including single-…
Instrumenting battery-drain analysis to ensure system availability
Instrumenting battery-drain analysis to ensure system availability
New Products |
Keysight Technologies has an integrated solution for accurate battery-drain analysis and for managing wide dynamic-current-range requirements ; its offering, the company says, gives design engineers accurate, power use testing information,…
16V CMOS analogue comparators boost efficiency, speed & reliability
16V CMOS analogue comparators boost efficiency, speed & reliability
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STMicroelectronics has upgraded its 16V CMOS dual and quad analog comparators using the latest-generation process technology to achieve lower typical current consumption of 5 µA per comparator, as well as…
High current, low profile FPC connector for battery, motor lines
High current, low profile FPC connector for battery, motor lines
New Products |
Sourcing Kyocera Connector Products, AVX has the 6808 Series right-angle FPC (flexible printed circuit) connector, claiming unrivaled physical and performance specifications for battery, power supply, robotics, and small electric motor…
Capacitive devices provide DC blocking, perform to 40 GHz
Capacitive devices provide DC blocking, perform to 40 GHz
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Knowles Capacitors, under its DLI brand, has introduced its ‘Xtreme Broadband Blocking’ range of broadband blocking components; the first parts in the range are the PX series for DC blocking…
When unsatisfied search queries define new passives
When unsatisfied search queries define new passives
Technology News |
Just before electronica, passive components manufacturer KEMET was promoting an advanced passive components search engine, offering engineers to search for part numbers way beyond the company's offering. ComponentEdge lets users…
Leadless logic package is only 0.8×1.35mm
Leadless logic package is only 0.8×1.35mm
New Products |
Reducing PCB assembly costs and offering all standard logic functions, NXP Semiconductors' latest leadless logic package packs 8-lead logic functions in a 0.8x1.35x0.35mm footprint. The GX 8 (SOT1233) package is…
RGB LED with independent control of Red, Green, and Blue
RGB LED with independent control of Red, Green, and Blue
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Vishay Intertechnology has released a new high-brightness, tricolour LED optimized for interior automotive lighting, RGB displays, and backlighting.
Cray expands deep learning to supercomputers and cluster systems
Cray expands deep learning to supercomputers and cluster systems
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At the 2016 Supercomputing Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, Cray Inc. unveiled new deep learning capabilities across its line of supercomputing and cluster systems. With validated deep learning toolkits…
Monolithic 18V synchronous DC-DC converter delivers 95% efficiency
Monolithic 18V synchronous DC-DC converter delivers 95% efficiency
New Products |
Linear Technology has launched a synchronous current mode monolithic buck-boost converter that delivers up to 5A of continuous output current in buck mode from a wide variety of input sources,…
Silicon carbide climbs the mountain of manufacturability
Silicon carbide climbs the mountain of manufacturability
Interviews |
Power strategist Kevin Speer of Littelfuse talks to Nick Flaherty about pricing, specification and the prospects for the latest wide bandgap power technologies, silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN).
Security platform protects automotive ECUs
Security platform protects automotive ECUs
New Products |
Together with embedded security provider ESCRYPT GmbH, Renesas Electronics has developed an integrated hardware and software platform solution that provides high-level security for protecting automotive electronic control units (ECUs).
Siemens pursues Industry 4.0 with Mentor Graphics buy
Siemens pursues Industry 4.0 with Mentor Graphics buy
Business news |
Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich, Germany) had agreed to buy EDA software company Mentor Graphics Inc. (Wilsonville, Oregon) for $4.5 billion in cash.
Siemens rounds off design platform with Mentor expertise
Siemens rounds off design platform with Mentor expertise
Business news |
Siemens AG (Munich, Germany) has announced to acquire design tool vendor Mentor Graphics (Wilsonville, Oregon, USA) in a transaction worth $4.5 billion. With the move, Siemens is accelerating its transformation…
Macronix debuts automotive NAND flash
Macronix debuts automotive NAND flash
New Products |
Macronix International Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) has launched AEC-Q100 compliant NAND flash memories with capacities of 1Gbit to 16Gbit at the Electronica show.
Wireless headphones go boom, favor sensors
Wireless headphones go boom, favor sensors
Market news |
The market for wireless headphones will surpass that of wired headphones in 2016, according to Peter Cooney, analyst with SAR Insight & Consulting.
HW/SW security platform protects automotive ECUs
HW/SW security platform protects automotive ECUs
New Products |
Together with embedded security provider ESCRYPT GmbH (Bochum, Germany), Renesas Electronics (Tokyo, Japan) has developed an integrated hardware and software platform solution that provides high-level security for protecting automotive electronic…


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