Toshiba Has launched a new series of 600V planar MOSFETs known as “π-MOS IX”. The new series is aimed at small to medium switching power supplies such as those found in notebook PCs, AC adapters, games consoles and lighting applications. Featuring an optimized chip design, the π-MOS IX series achieves up to 5dB lower peak ...

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Melexis, the Belgian automotive fabless specialist, has announced a next-generation monolithic magnetic sensor family, consisting of the MLX90371 and MLX90372, which provides robust absolute position sensing for automotive applications including powertrain actuators, pedals, and gear shifters. Both new devices consist of a Triaxis Hall magnetic front end, an analog to digital signal conditioner, a DSP ...

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EnSilica, the Wokingham SoC designer, has tapped Logixx for a route to volume production of automotive silicon. “EnSilica has been growing rapidly over the past two years because we have extended our services from just design services to include managing the whole process of production manufacturing, packaging and testing,” says Ensilica’s David  Doyle,   “this soup to nuts service ...

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EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager says she’s contemplating breaking up Google. “I think it important to keep that question open and on the agenda,” Vestager tells the Daily Telegraph, “we are not there yet but it is important to keep an awakened eye.” The breaking up of Google has been on the European agenda for ...

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The Qualcomm board got re-elected at its AGM last week but with lower majorities than is usual at these events. It was pointed out that usually directors get 80/90% majorities for re-election when they run un-opposed, but this board got majorities around the 50/40% mark. CEO Steve Mollenkopf was reported to have had a majority ...

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Samsung says it will begin volume production of a 10nm Exynos AP in H2. The chip has four Cortex-A73 cores clocked at 2.3GHz and four ARM Cortex-A53 cores running at 1.6GHz, and a second-generation Bifrost-based ARM Mali-G72 GPzu. An embedded Cortex-M4F-based low-power sensor hub manages the sensors in real-time without waking the main processor. The ...

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Taiwanese LED and lighting maker Ledtech is to open a production line in Redruth Cornwall to support medium quantity manufacture in the UK and Europe. High-volume production remains in Taiwan and its recently-opened giant facility in China. “The addition of a direct facility adds a range of value-added manufacturing services, design-in support, volume availability and ...

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The EU has fined seven companies a collective €254 million for running a capacitor cartel. The seven are: Nippon Chemi-Con Corp, Hitachi Chemical, Nichicon, Rubycon, Elna, Tokin and Matsuo Electric. An eighth member of the cartel, Sanyo Electric, was not fined because it acted as whistleblower reporting the cartel’s wrongdoings to the EU. The EU ...

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Microsemi’s  Switchtec PCIe Gen 4 development platform is now available allowing customers to  begin PCIe Gen 4 system hardware designs based on the company’s PCIe Gen 4 switch. PCIe Gen 4 aims to find adoption in  datacentre and ADAS equipment using GPUs, CPUs, NVMe, SSDs, NICs storage controllers, automotive cameras and Infotainment. Applications such as artificial ...

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