Nexperia launches new Trench 9 power MOSFETs

Nexperia, the former Standard Products division of NXP, today announces a new series of Trench 9 power MOSFETs, targeted primarily at the automotive industry, which combine the company’s low voltage superjunction technology with its advanced packaging capability to deliver high performance and ruggedness. Five years ago, the company introduced the world’s largest range of automotive-qualified ...

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GloFo has enhanced PDKs for multi-band RF switching

Globalfoundries has launched enhanced RF SOI PDKs optimised for multi-band RF switching in  smartphones and IoT. Designed for use with Coupling Wave Solutions’ (CWS) simulation tool, SiPEX, GloFo’s 7SW SOI PDK allows designers to integrate RF switches with other critical RF blocks that are essential to the design of complex electronic systems for future RF communication chips. ...

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Plastic Logic strengthens ties with E Ink for flexible displays

E Ink Holdings, the Taiwan-based electronic ink printing technology firm, is continuing its partnership and supply deal with Plastic Logic, the Germany-based  manufacturer of flexible electrophoretic displays (EPDs). E Ink and Plastic Logic have been cooperating to develop the EPD market for more than 10 years. Johnson Lee, President of E Ink Holdings, writes: “One ...

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Confusion and resistance hits UK smart meter plan, says new report 

Lack of consumer engagement, insufficient information is slowing down the UK’s £11bn energy smart meter roll-out, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Sussex. The government plans to install smart meters in every home by 2020 to reduce national household energy consumption by 5-15%, and thereby help meet the UK’s climate ...

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Korea to invest $46bn in ICs and displays by 2024

Korea will invest $45.8 billion in chip and display manufacturing by 2024, reports The Korea Herald. Eleven CEOs of chip and display manufacturing companies, including Kwon Oh-hyun, vice chairman and CEO of the device solutions business of Samsung Electronics, Park Sung-woo, chairman and CEO of Hynix recently met Paik Un-gyu, Korea’s minister of trade, industry ...

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CEVA licenses vision chip to Nextchip

CEVA has licensed its XM4 imaging and vision platform to Nextchip for its Apache4 vision-based pre-processor targeted at real-time ADAS vision systems. Nextchip have incorporated CEVA’s programmable vision platform into the Apache4 alongside its differentiated image processing accelerators to enable advanced and affordable ADAS applications. “We developed the Apache4 to provide affordable and scalable ADAS ...

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