Infineon has available a five output Point of Load (POL) digital voltage regulator for FPGAs, ASICs, and other multi-rail power systems. The IRPS5401has been developed as a fully integrated PMIC solution that replaces multiple regulators with a single device in a compact 7 mm x 7 mm 56 pin QFN package. It is suitable for current and future ...
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In five years time, Honda hopes to have a car which will charge in 15 minutes, reports the Nikkei. Currently, even using high-speed chargers, EVs take at least half an hour to reach an 80% charge rate. Honda’s plan is to launch, in 2022, cars which can go 240km in a 15 minute charges. Japanese ...
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Marvell is reported to be in ‘advanced talks’ to buy Cavium. The price is said to be around $14 billion. Cavium has a market cap of around $4.5 billion; Marvell’s market cap is $9 billion. Last year, Cavium lost $146 million on sales of $603 million and Marvell lost $811 million on sales of $2.7 ...
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TSMC’s annual sports day saw its 38,000,employees share US$15 million in bonuses. Last year they shared $13 million between 36,000 which worked out at $400 each. The traditional sports day cash gift is in addition to year-end and quarterly bonuses. Morris Chang told the sports day participants that their energy gave him faith in the ...
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Apple’s planned billion dollar Irish data centre is under question. The Irish Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar (pictured) says Tim Cook will no longer commit to it. Varadkar says his government will do whatever’s necessary to get it built. However planning permission has proved hard to get. The data centre was to have been built on the ...
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Broadcom is reported to be preparing a bid for Qualcomm. Qualcomm’s shares rose from $55 to $62 on the news which gives it a market cap around $90 billion. It is reported that the bid will be pitched at around $70 a share. For the industry the move offers a chance of a change to ...
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Riedon of California has announced current-sensing shunt resistors from 1A to 10kA. The RCS, RSH, RSI, RSJ, RSL, and RSN series of precision shunt resistors have four-point Kelvin connections and go as low as 5μΩ for the 10,000A 50mV RSL-10000-50. Copper-nickel-manganese Manganin alloy is used for temperature stabuility, and standard tolerance is 0.25%, with some series offering ...
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The UK’s only LED maker has reinvented itself with a unique silicon process.
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US university solves the problem of growing predictable arrays of plasmonic nano-particles on LED surfaces, writes Steve Bush. Predictable arrays of plasmonic nano-particles can be grown on the surface of LEDs to improve photon emission by localised surface plasmon resonances, according to the University of Michigan. “The idea of adding nano-particles to increase LED efficiency ...
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iFixit has done a tear-down of the new Apple iPhone X with its A11 "Bionic" chip.
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