Murata Buys Sony Factory to Boost Smartphone Parts Production

KYODO, Japan-–Murata Manufacturing Co. said Monday it has acquired a Sony Corp. plant in central Japan as it looks to meet growing demand for iPhone and other smartphone components.Murata, an Apple Inc. supplier, has purchased the plant located in the city of Nomi, Ishikawa Prefecture, to produce smartphone circuit boards. Kanazawa Murata Manufacturing Co., the wholly owned subsidiary of Murata that will operate the plant, will hire a workforce of about 300 over the next three years.

Toshiba production outage de-rails hopes of NAND price drop

A 3-6 week interruption to Toshiba’s NAND flash production is said to have led to the loss of 100,000 wafers which is likely to de-rail an expected drop in NAND prices in Q4, reports Digitimes. Production is now back to normal. Toshiba is blaming the temporary closedown on a ransomware attack on the company’s computer ...

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Welsh chip design IP firm gets funding boost

Wales-based analogue IP re-use firm Thalia Design Automation has secured $865k (£640k) funding in its latest round. The firm said it has achieved “significant customer traction within the last 18 months”. Thalia also plans to recruit more analogue IC developers. The company has developed technology for transferring RF, analogue and mixed-signal IP designs to silicon, ...

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Harwin protects Datamate connectors with aluminium backshells

Harwin is supporting its Datamate wire-to-board connectors with a range of backshells with a rugged aluminium alloy construction and electroless nickel plating. The backshells with increase the mechanical robustness, as well as providing EMI/RFI protection. Incorporated into the female cable versions is an attachment feature to allow for braid screening. There is an elliptical entry ...

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Anglia sells Renesas microcontrollers

Anglia Components is now selling the Renesas range of microcontrollers, mixed signal ICs and system on chip devices. This follows the acquisition of Intersil by Renesas Electronics earlier this year. Achim Mescher, sales director for distribution at Renesas Electronics Europe, writes: “One of our first steps as we integrated the Intersil business into Renesas was ...

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Anglia sells Renesas microcontrollers

Anglia Components is now selling the Renesas range of microcontrollers, mixed signal ICs and system on chip devices. This follows the acquisition of Intersil by Renesas Electronics earlier this year. Achim Mescher, sales director for distribution at Renesas Electronics Europe, writes: “One of our first steps as we integrated the Intersil business into Renesas was ...

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Renesas launches Linux platform for industrial equipment

Renesas has launched its RZ/G Linux Platform with the industrial-grade Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) Super Long-Term Support (SLTS) Linux kernel, which enables Linux-based embedded systems to be maintained for more than 10 years.   The RZ/G platform provides a verified Linux package with cloud-maintenance and development options that makes it easy for embedded developers to ...

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60V mosfet operates at 4.4mΩ and 58A

Toshiba has announced 40V and 60V power mosfets based on its latest generation U-MOS-IX-H trench semiconductor process. TK3R1P04PL, TK4R4P06PL and TK6R7P06PL N-channel MOSFETs can be driven by logic at 4.5V, and the 40V device can offer on-resistance down to 3.1mΩ with 10V on the gate. They come in DPAK, and are intended for power conversion applications ...

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