President Trump has ruled against the sale of Lattice Semiconductor to Canyon Bridge – a China-backed private equity company which made a $1.3 billion bid for Lattice. President Trump ordered that Lattice and Canyon Bridge “shall take all steps necessary to fully and permanently abandon the proposed transaction” within 30 days. The Committee on Foreign ...
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CST Global, the Glasgow-based manufacturer of millimetre wave and optical semiconductors using a non-silicon III-V process, is readying its new, metalorganic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) machine. This is a collaboration with the University of Glasgow and commissioning of the processing machine is expected to be completed in time for the 2017 / 2018 academic year. ...
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Arrow Electronics has launched its latest IoT development platform based on the Renesas IoT Synergy ecosystem. Incorporating hardware and software the ARIS EDGE platform features a Renesas Synergy S124 32MHz ARM Cortex-M0+ microcontroller. On-board MEMS sensors from Bosch Sensortec include the 9-axis Absolute Orientation sensor BNO055 this is an application specific sensor node which integrates a ...
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German embedded computer firm, congatec has introduced its highest performance server module in the COM Express Type 7 format. It has a 16-core Intel Atom C3000 processor and four 10GbE bandwidth data interfaces. Micro servers are now being used in industrial system configurations as factory gateways and storage systems for micro data centres. They must ...
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Renesas has a voice-over-power line communication (PLC) implementation that enables both data communication and voice communication capabilities over existing power networks. The development reduces the amount of internal wiring required in buildings, enabling reduced implementation and maintenance costs for public address (PA) systems and security systems. It consists of Renesas’ PLC software modem (R9A06G037), which ...
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Test equipment rental specialist Microlease has launched a major upgrade to its Leo asset management software, taking it into the cloud for the first time. The asset management system is designed for companies to manage their own assets and is typically aimed at helping Microlease customers manage the use, location, maintenance and costs of their ...
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Wolfspeed has introduced 28V GaN HEMT RF power devices capable of higher frequency operation to 8GHz. The 28V GaN HEMT devices are made on Wolfspeed’s 0.25µm GaN-on-SiC process, and are designed with the same package footprint as the previous generation of 0.4µm devices, making it possible for RF design engineers to use them as drop-in ...
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Mouser is now stocking the Feather nRF52 Bluefruit from Adafruit. The Feather nRF52 Bluefruit, part of Adafruit’s Feather line of standalone and stackable development boards, is a complete Arduino-compatible, Bluetooth low energy development board with built-in USB and battery charging. Using the onboard Nordic SoC, engineers and makers can run code directly on the board ...
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Western Digital has issued a response to Toshiba’s statement regarding the transfer of its interests in its NAND flash-memory joint ventures operated with Western Digital’s SanDisk subsidiaries. The statement reads: “We are disappointed that Toshiba would take this action despite Western Digital’s tireless efforts to reach a resolution that is in the best interests of ...
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The various regional authorities of the Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) have signed an agreement to support the Cardiff Compound Semiconductor Cluster. The CCR regional cabinet previously agreed to contribute £37.9m from the CCR City Deal’s Wider Investment Fund towards the establishment of a facility to anchor in the region for the production of compound semiconductors. ...
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