Farnell adds 360,000sq ft of capacity in Leeds

Premier Farnell has opened a 360,000 sq foot warehouse at Muse Development’s Logic Leeds, within a Leeds City Council Enterprise Zone, retaining £650m in revenue and jobs in the Yorkshire region. The site, based off junction 45 of the M1, will stock over 420,000 products  and has the potential for up to one million square feet ...

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Toshiba boosts in-car audio amplifier range

Toshiba Electronics Europe has added a 45W (4Ω load) four-channel audio power amplifier to its in-car entertainment range. TCB001FNG is based upon a complementary MOS process with n and p-channel DMOS fets. Supply can vary across 6 to 18V, allowing operation while the engine is idling or cranking. “The product includes functions to detect and ...

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ISSCC: Deep learning hardware boosts for AI

The International Solid-State Circuits Conference’s digital architecture sub‑committee took time out to talk about artificial intelligence processors. It noted that: “Deep learning is a rapidly evolving topic, and the computational complexity of typical deep neural networks impedes their execution on resource‑scarce mobile or wearable devices. “Last year, several innovative solutions were introduced to enhance throughput ...

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Arrow signs Basler

Arrow has signed Basler, the German industrial digital camera vendor, have signed an agreement under which Arrow will distribute the complete Basler range of products throughout the EMEA region. In addition, Arrow added Basler to its digital global linecard. With this, Basler`s products are available to online customers worldwide. With a particular focus on Basler’s ...

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Infineon integrates shunt resistors into EconoDUAL3 modules

Infineon has integrated shunt resistors into its EconoDUAL3 modules  for current monitoring in the AC path. Implementing these devices helps inverter manufacturers to reduce cost, improve performance and simplify the inverter designs. The EconoDUAL 3 with integrated shunts can be used in a wide variety of applications, such as general purpose motor drives, uninterruptable power ...

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ST and Innogration combine on LDMOS

STMicroelectronics has signed an agreement on LDMOS – Laterally Diffused Metal Oxide Semiconductor RF power technology – from Innogration Technologies, a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Suzhou, China, specializing in the design and manufacturing of RF power semiconductor devices, modules, and sub-system assemblies. Combining a short conduction-channel length with a high breakdown voltage, LDMOS devices ...

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Qualcomm and Broadcom meet

Broadcom and Qualcomm met earlier today to discuss Broadcom’s bid. “We met with representatives of Broadcom for two hours earlier today, and listened carefully to what they had to say,” says  Qualcomm,  “the Qualcomm board will promptly meet to discuss the meeting and to determine next steps.” If no deal is reached the bid moves ...

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Arm introduces IP for machine learned in edge devices

Arm has announced a suite of IP, collected together under the provisional title of Project Trillium, to bring machine learning to edge devices. The suite includes scalable machine learning and object detection processors, claimed to enable trillions of machine learning operations per second on mobile devices. As well as machine learning, the suite is intended ...

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Apple talking to Yangtze River about buying NAND

Apple is talking to China’s Yangtze River Storage Technologies about sourcing NAND, reports the Nikkei. It is possible that Apple, whose products are assembled in China, is being pressured by China to buy from Yangtze River, and it is not known what quantities are being discussed. Analysts are sceptical about the ability of the emerging ...

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ISSCC: Novel gate drive improves GaN power transistor switching

GaN power transistors can shrink AC‑DC power supplies and cut losses but, to get the best out of them, their gate drive waveform needs careful attention. As a German team pointed out at ISSCC, GaN transistors have a threshold voltage of ~1V, which makes them vulnerable to spurious turn‑on through the Miller capacitance, particularly when ...

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