Later today the EU is to produce a plan for taxing large digital companies. These companies have been avoiding paying taxes on profits because they can establish their European HQ in low-tax areas. So today the EU will propose a flat 3% tax on turnover on companies with European revenue over €750,000. The tax is ...
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ROHM has availability of high-fidelity power supply ICs optimized for audio devices requiring high-resolution playback. The BD372xx series are the first audio power supply ICs to combine leading-edge analog and sound reproduction technologies. In addition to integrating a newly developed fast response error amp circuit and low-noise architecture, multiple parameters that were shown to affect ...
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Infineon has optimised its high power intelligent power module (IPM) MIPAQ Pro for the fields of energy storage and smart grid. Additional features are higher power density, true real time junction temperature detection and secure authentication. An upgraded smart protection and greater design flexibility drastically reduce efforts for the powerstage development and the running system. ...
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Gas Sensing Solutions (GSS) of Cumbernauld has won a £900,000 contract from the NHS to develop its design of a hand-held, battery powered CO2 monitor. The changing CO2 content of a breath creates a waveform shape of the inhalation and exhalation that has been established as an indicator for several medical conditions. Called capnography, the ...
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Rohm has introduced ‘high-fidelity’ power supply ICs aimed at audio devices requiring high-resolution audio play-back. Above the quality of CD audio, it sees high-resolution audio sources typically playing back at “greater than 96kHz and 24bit”. Called the BD372xx series, the regulators have a newly-developed fast error amp circuit and low-noise architecture. “Multiple parameters that were ...
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Data has been stored using a unexpected spin phenomenon. Now called ‘zero field switching’ (ZFS), it could be used in compact lower-power memory and computing devices, according to Johns Hopkins University and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The team discovered that magnetisation in a cobalt-iron-boron layer (see diagram) could be flipped ...
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Researchers in Austria have created quantum dots using two 2-d materials: graphene and hexagonal boron nitride. “For many applications in the field of quantum technologies one requires a quantum system were electrons occupy two states; on and off, similar to a classical switch, with the difference that quantum physics also allows for arbitrary superpositions of ...
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congatec and Luxoft Holding have introduced an automotive reference platform with SMARC 2.0 Computer-on-Modules. Launching with the conga-SA5 as the first official supported module, the Automotive Reference Platform (ARP), co-developed by Intel and Luxoft, makes digital cockpit designs of next-generation vehicles smarter. Theplatform enables clustering of previously separately managed functions such as head unit display, ...
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Samsung is sampling an 8TB datacentre SATA SSD incorporating LPDDR4 DRAM modules and features a 6.0-gigabits-per-second (Gbps) 2.5-inch SATA interface. “Our 64-layer V-NAND-based technology, allows us to double the capacity of current SATA storage,” says Samsung’s Jim Elliott. The SSD uses 16Gb LPDDR4 DRAM based on 1xnm. A SATA 3.3-compliant Power Disable (PWDIS) feature allows power ...
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Softbank could IPO ARM, reports the FT, quoting Yoshimitsu Goto,a senior executive corporate officer at Softbank, saying “one possibility is re-listing ARM in the future”. Although vague, Goto’s statement contradicts the previously expressed views of Softbank boss Masa Son that Softbank’s intentions for ARM are long-term. Son had previously said that Softbank’s ownership of ARM ...
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