Maxim has come up with small PMICs for Bluetooth headphones, activity monitors, smart garments, smartwatches, and other size-constrained devices. The MAX77650 / MAX77651  PMICs do not require additional components  such as boost, buck, and low dropout (LDO) regulators, a charger and current regulators for LED indicators. Maxim has integrated all these functions into a 19.2mm-squared ...

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Arrow Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with Bosch Sensortec. Together, Arrow and Bosch Sensortec will be pursuing opportunities for inertial, environmental and smart sensors in applications including wearables, smart home, building automation, industry 4.0, domestic robots, toys, augmented and virtual reality and drones. As multiple sensors are integrated into single devices and package ...

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As expected, the Foxconn LCD plant promised for the USA is to be in Wisconsin. “Because of you we are also committed to great jobs for Americans,” Terry Gou, chairman of Foxconn (pictured) told President Donald Trump, “Mr President, the eagle flies.” Calling Gou “one of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs,” Trump said that the investment ...

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June semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings were $2.29 billion, says SEMI, which is 0.8% up on May’$2.27 billion and 33.4% up on the June 2016 figure of $1.72 billion. “Through the first half of the year, 2017 equipment billings are 50% above the same period last year,” says SEMI’s Dan Tracy, “while month-to-month growth is slowing, ...

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IoT appliances are an insecure back door into peoples’ networks, says the Chief Constable of Durham, Mike Barton, who heads up the National Police Chiefs Council on crime operations (pictured). “You’ve got a situation where we don’t know what the security is like in the devices we are buying in the internet of things,’ says ...

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ST had Q2 revenues of $1.92 billion; up 5.6% sequentially and up 12.9% year-over-year. The Q2 gross margin was 38.3% and the operating margin before impairment and restructuring was 9.6%. H1 net revenues were $3.74 billion, net income was $258 million and free cash flow was $113 million. ST’s capital structure was strengthened in July with ...

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  Cavium is sampling  two new families of 10GbE/25GbE optimized programmable Ethernet switches The XP70  scales from 1Tbps to 1.8Tbps and provides seamless 1GBASE-T to 10GBASE-T and 10GbE to 25GbE access connectivity upgrades for enterprise, data center, and carrier networks with support for 40GbE/100GbE uplink connectivity. The XP60 family brings programmable Ethernet switching capabilities to the ...

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Infineon has come out with a linear FET series it calls OptiMOS. This new product family combines the (R DS(on)) of a trench MOSFET with the wide Safe Operating Area of a planar MOSFET. This solves the trade-off between R DS(on) and linear mode capability. The OptiMOS Linear FET can operate in the saturation region of ...

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