News – Electronics Weekly 2017-09-19 23:10:09

In 2017, the 7% increase in the total pure-play foundry market is forecast to be almost entirely due to an 18% jump in <40nm feature size device sales, says IC Insights. Although expected to represent 60% of total pure-play foundry sales in 2017, the ≥40nm pure-play IC foundry market is forecast to be up only ...

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Anglia can be £100m business in five years, says Rawlins

Anglia Components continues to demonstrate the advantages of being a focused local UK component distributor. Wisbech-based Anglia has seen its business grow significantly faster than the market over the last ten years. Anglia CEO, Steve Rawlins believes the firm can be a £100m business in the next five years. Anglia’s turnover grew 52.4% between 2006 ...

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Farnell brings tech to Yorkshire students

  Students from sixteen schools and colleges across Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield and Calderdale are getting an introduction to technology from Premier Farnell. The Premier Farnell Technology Challenge aims to raise aspirations and help young people aged 16 – 18 years explore careers in digital and tech, an industry which is set to grow by 15% ...

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Anritsu demoes 400GbE network tester at ECOC 2017

Anritsu is demonstrating at ECOC 2017 exhibition in Gothenburg, Sweden (18-20 September) its recently released MP1900A series high-end bit error rate tester (BERT). The MP1900A Signal Quality Analyser-R is likely to be used in early stage R&D evaluations ranging from next-generation 200GbE/400GbE network interfaces to PCI Express and bus interfaces. The instrument is a multichannel tester ...

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Plessey lights make more tomatoes

UK LED maker Plessey has proved LED lighting can increase crop yield, in a trial where it was added to an existing high-pressure sodium (HPS) light installation. The seven-month trial, managed by Plessey head agronomist Maarten Klein (right), ran from November 2016 at Gebr Koot in the Netherlands. Brioso variety tomatoes were illuminated by either ...

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French firm buys UK accredited test house

A UK-based environmental test laboratory serving the energy, defence and transportation sectors has been acquired by French firm Sopemea. Based in Bideford, Devon, PARC (Product Assessment and Reliability Centre) has almost 20 years testing experience in such areas as vibration, shock, climatic, salt spray, ingress protection, altitude and HALT tests (Highly Accelerated Life Testing). It ...

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16V 40A fixed-frequency dc-dc converter has fast transient response

Texas Instruments has introduced a 16V input, 40A synchronous DC/DC buck converter with internally compensated ‘advanced-current-mode’ (ACM) control supporting frequency synchronisation. Called TPS543C20, its low resistance high and low-side mosfets contribute to over 90% efficiency from a 40pin, 5 x 7mm 1.5mm high QFN package – which sinks heat through a ground pad. Two of ...

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Intel and Waymo team up on driverless cars

IIntel and Google’s driverless car unit Waymo are to collaborate on developing the computer power necessary for driverless cars. The computational power required for driverless cars is in the order if hundreds of TFLOPS, according to Stan Boland head of UK driverless start up FiveAI. The Intel/Waymo collaboration is the latest in a long line ...

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SEMI and SAE partnering

SEMI and SAE International, the association for the  automotive and aerospace industries, haveforned a partnership to provide their members with insights and access to important markets. The partnership will include information-sharing, presentation opportunities, and branding and exposition opportunities for members from both organizations. SEMI and SAE are creating forums for raising awareness of the challenges ...

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