Amplicon Intel Atom PC has 15 year lifecycle

A range of Industrial PC’s from Amplicon are Apollo Lake based and powered by the Intel Atom E3950 processor. A feature of the PCs is a lifecycle of over 15 years. The Impact-R 1110F and Impact-E 150AL PCs have a power draw of 14-16W. And the E3950 processor provides system scalability. Designed to be lightweight ...

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ST introduces STM8 core MCU with $0.2 price tag

STMicroelectronics has come up with a lower cost 8-bit STM series microcontroller in the SO-8 package. With a price tag as low as 200 cents for orders of 1000 pieces, the STM8S001 has I2C, UART, and SPI interfaces. And the memory offering is good too – 8kbyte flash, 1kbyte RAM, 128-byte EEPROM, and there is ...

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Chomerics makes thermal compound for ECUs and processors

Chomerics Europe has introduced its TC50 high performance thermal compound for conducting heat between hot electronic components and heatsinks or enclosures. It is intended to provide low thermal impedance at multiple gaps to permit the deployment of commonly used spreaders. It only requires low compressive force to deform under assembly pressure. This is intended to ...

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Draghi slams Estonian crypto-currency

The head of the ECB, Mario Draghi, has come out strongly against Estonia’s proposal to launch its own currency. “No member state can introduce its own currency,” says Draghi, “the currency of the euro zone is the euro.” Estonia is in the Euro-zone. Recently it floated the idea of the ‘Estcoin’ a national digital currency. ...

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Micron engineers on trial for passing trade secrets to China chip operation

Two employees of Taiwan DRAM manufacturer Rexchip, which was taken over by Micron, have been put on trial in Taiwan for passing DRAM manufacturing trade secrets to UMC which is helping China set up a DRAM manufacturing operation, reports Digitimes. UMC is helping the mainland China DRAM start-up Fujian Jin Hua Integrated Circuit to set ...

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Cloud security hype-cycle

Gartner has released its hype-cycle for public cloud security showing which technologies are ready for prime tine and which are some years away from being ready for implementation. ‘The Gartner Hype Cycle for Cloud Security helps security professionals understand which technologies are ready for mainstream use, and which are still years away from productive deployments ...

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LTC MOSFET driver operates up to 60V

The  LTC7004 is a high speed, high side N-channel MOSFET driver that operates up to a 60V supply voltage. Its internal charge pump fully enhances an external N-channel MOSFET switch, enabling it to remain on indefinitely. The LTC7004’s  1Ω gate driver can easily drive large gate capacitance MOSFETs with very short transition times and 35ns ...

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