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Lime Microsystems announces crowd-funding for LimeSDR platform
Lime Microsystems announces crowd-funding for LimeSDR platform
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Lime Microsystems has luanched a crowd-funding campaign to bring their LimeSDR software defined radio platform into full-scale production. The campaign,…
Automotive technology helps drive medical products faster to market
Automotive technology helps drive medical products faster to market
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Using the hardware-in-the-loop method, which Fraunhofer researchers have transferred from automotive engineering to medical products, development and testing times and…
LG Display invests $400m to boost OLED display capacity
LG Display invests $400m to boost OLED display capacity
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LG Display Co has revealed plans to invest $395.99 million (450 billion Won) to build production capacity for flexible organic…
PIN diode switches cover 10 MHz to 67 GHz
PIN diode switches cover 10 MHz to 67 GHz
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An expanded portfolio of in-stock solid state PIN diode switches from Pasternack covers frequencies from 10 MHz to 67 GHz…

EPIC signs partnership deal with LUX Photonics Consortium
EPIC signs partnership deal with LUX Photonics Consortium
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The EPIC (European Photonics Industry Consortium ) has signed a collaboration agreement with the LUX Photonics Consortium to pursue cooperative activities involving technological and commercial advancement in the area of…
Omnidirectional heliport LED light improves helicopter safety
Omnidirectional heliport LED light improves helicopter safety
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Avlite Systems has introduced an innovative LED inset heliport light which is a LED omnidirectional inset lighting fixture light that addresses FATO (final-approach take-off), TLOF (touch-down lift-off), flight path alignment…
Fingerprint sensing in the car: a security or convenience feature – or both?
Fingerprint sensing in the car: a security or convenience feature – or both?
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For more than five years, car manufacturers have looked to the smartphone to provide a model for the development of an increasingly sophisticated user experience, particularly for the driver. Cars…
Solid state battery meets ‘fit and forget’ IoT device challenge
Solid state battery meets ‘fit and forget’ IoT device challenge
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Pioneering materials innovation and solid state battery technology company, Ilika plc, has launched miniaturized solid state battery technology tailored for IoT devices.
600V IGBT aids energy efficiency in appliance/industrial applications
600V IGBT aids energy efficiency in appliance/industrial applications
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Infineon's 600 V TRENCHSTOP Performance IGBT provides high energy efficiency and reliability at a competitive price point for applications such as air conditioning, solar PV inverters, drives and uninterruptible power…
Isolated IGBT gate pre-driver protects EV/HEV inverters
Isolated IGBT gate pre-driver protects EV/HEV inverters
Toshiba Electronics has an opto-isolated IGBT gate pre-driver IC with enhanced protection functions for the in-vehicle inverters of electric and hybrid vehicles. As control and drive functions have different operating…
IDT bets on Peraso’s 60GHz chips
IDT bets on Peraso’s 60GHz chips
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WiGig chipset provider Peraso Technologies Inc. (Toronto, Ontario) has raised a $20 million Series D funding round co-led by chip company Integrated Device Technology Inc.
GaN microwave transistor rated for 30W & 28V
GaN microwave transistor rated for 30W & 28V
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Wolfspeed (part of Cree), maker of GaN-on-SiC (gallium nitride on silicon carbide substrate) high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) and monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) has added a 28V, 30W GaN…
600V IGBT aids energy efficiency in appliance/industrial applications
600V IGBT aids energy efficiency in appliance/industrial applications
New Products |
Infineon's 600 V TRENCHSTOP Performance IGBT provides high energy efficiency and reliability at a competitive price point for applications such as air conditioning, solar PV inverters, drives and uninterruptible power…
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering puts $60million into Cypress subsidiary
Advanced Semiconductor Engineering puts $60million into Cypress subsidiary
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ASE and Deca Technologies – a subsidiary company of Cypress Semiconductor have signed a deal in which ASE Licenses Deca’s M-Series Fan-out Wafer-Level Packaging Technology (FOWLP), and ASE will invest…
Altera wraps board, IP & design services into one design network
Altera wraps board, IP & design services into one design network
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Altera (now part of Intel) has cokmbined its unifies board, IP, and design services partner programs into one offering, the Altera Design Solutions Network: the company says it will connect…
Isolated IGBT gate pre-driver protects EV/HEV inverters
Isolated IGBT gate pre-driver protects EV/HEV inverters
Toshiba Electronics has an opto-isolated IGBT gate pre-driver IC with enhanced protection functions for the in-vehicle inverters of electric and hybrid vehicles. As control and drive functions have different operating…
Ultra Hi-Q RF capacitors yield lowest ESR for high-power applications
Ultra Hi-Q RF capacitors yield lowest ESR for high-power applications
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Kemet's RF and microwave capacitor product portfolio is augmented with the Ultra HiQ-CBR Squared Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors, featuring a geometrically square construction resulting in lower inductance than standard EIA case…
DeviceNet PCIe NICs will handle future industrial automation tasks
DeviceNet PCIe NICs will handle future industrial automation tasks
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Molex has added to a line of interface products with the SST DN4 DeviceNet PCIe Network Interface Cards (NICs). Utilising a single-source manufacturing process for hardware and software, the PCIe…
LED lighting dimming interface IC cuts component count
LED lighting dimming interface IC cuts component count
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Infineon's CDM10V is a highly integrated LED lighting interface IC that replaces many of the discrete components used in conventional dimming schemes with a single device, reducing the component count…
Fogale buys Altatech for high-end metrology presence
Fogale buys Altatech for high-end metrology presence
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Metrology company Fogale Nanotech SA (Nimes, France) has acquired wafer inspection company Altatech SAS (Grenoble France) for an undisclosed cash sum.
IDT bets on Peraso’s 60GHz chips
IDT bets on Peraso’s 60GHz chips
Business news |
WiGig chipset provider Peraso Technologies Inc. (Toronto, Ontario) has raised a $20 million Series D funding round co-led by chip company Integrated Device Technology Inc.
Vicariously reliving college
Vicariously reliving college
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Scott Deuty considers the similarities and differences between his own college days and those of his son.
Chips for energy harvesting is next billion-dollar market
Chips for energy harvesting is next billion-dollar market
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Although energy harvesting has failed to take off to date – usually because it is has been uneconomic compared with installed battery power – it will drive semiconductor sales worth…
Antenna startup enhances wireless charging
Antenna startup enhances wireless charging
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NuCurrent Inc. (Chicago, Illinois), a startup founded in 2009 to provide wireless charging technology for medical applications, has established itself as technology and IP provider for consumer wireless charging.
Indian fabs, the free market and central planning
Indian fabs, the free market and central planning
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Over the next year will be an interesting test of two opposites in political thinking applied to the creation of wafer fabs.
Video: Mobileye CTO on deep learning and automotive sensing
Video: Mobileye CTO on deep learning and automotive sensing
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Listen to Mobileye’s co-founder, CTO and chairman, Professor Ammon Shashua share his thoughts about whether an end-to-end deep learning architecture can succeed in the context of autonomous driving.
Wake up primary-side regulated flyback
Wake up primary-side regulated flyback
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Michael O’Loughlin, Senior Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments discusses a technique for PSR flyback converters that speeds up the transient response and reduces the amount of output capacitance that the design…
Totally-sealed microswitches tolerate immersion
Totally-sealed microswitches tolerate immersion
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Designed to meet more demanding industrial applications, a series of Microprecision microswitches is fully dust-tight and water-sealed, and available in various configurations to meet IEC/EN 60529 ingress protection levels of…


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