Dialog says Apple has warned it that it will be cutting back on orders for the main PMIC in its three new iPhone models. Apple told Dialog it had an unnamed second source for the chip which is believed to be Apple’s own chip operation. “If you think about the fact that we are qualified ...
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Diamond diodes are at the heart of a nuclear battery, designed by Russian researchers, that achieves ~3,300mWh/g – claimed to be more than any other nickel-63 nuclear battery, and 10 times more than commercial chemical cells. The cell used the beta (fast electron) decay of nickel-63 and diamond Schottkys for energy conversion. The prototype has a ...
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Following yesterday’s handover of the CEO job at ST, Jean-Marc Chery, ST CEO, has announced the membership of ST’s execuive committee. “ST’s new Executive Committee is a team of strong and experienced semiconductor industry leaders,” says Chery, “our first priority is to deliver on our 2018 business and financial objectives and continue on our path ...
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Researchers at Tohoku University and Mainz University have created a switch to control the spin current. “This is significant because although the technology behind detecting and generating the spin current has been established for some time, a long-missing component in the history of spintronics has been a spin current switch,” said Tohoku University, equating it to ...
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BMP388 is a digital barometric pressure and temperature sensor from Bosch. The 24-bit device measures from 300hPa to 1250hPa, while consuming 3.4 µA at 1Hz “It features a best-in-class temperature coefficient offset between 20 and 65°C, the BMP388 delivers accurate altitude measurement over a broad temperature range,” said Mouser, which is stocking the device, and foresees ...
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Microchip is aiming at closed-loop control with a part of microcontroller families: PIC18 Q10 and ATtiny1607 Both families have features for functional safety, and operate up to 5V to increase noise immunity and increase compatibility with the majority of analogue output and digital sensors. Both also have peripherals that can co-operate while the processing core sleeps. ...
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Self-driving cars must reduce traffic fatalities by at least 75% to stay on the roads, according to the US Society for Risk Analysis. The figure comes from Chinese research using a method not previously used to study self-driving vehicle safety perception – an ‘expressed-preference approach’. “The results showed that the public will not accept this ...
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Kemet has introduced 150°C polymer electrolytic capacitors qualified for automotive use. Called the T599 series, the parts are based on the existing T598 series. “Kemet refined the design, materials and manufacturing to ensure T599 delivers higher stability and endurance under harsh conditions,” said the firm. The parts pass 1,000 hours of humidity bias testing under ...
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Google Cloud has joined the LoRa Alliance – the association of companies backing the open LoRaWAN standard for low-power WAN. “The vision of the LoRa Alliance around interoperability and openness aligns with our mission to build the world’s most open cloud and enable faster innovation and tighter security,” says Google’s Antony Passemard, “with the rapid ...
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Analog Devices has introduced a 12-bit ADC that operates at 10.25Gsample/s. Called AD9213-10GEBZ, for it the firm claims “higher parametric performance, greater Nyquist bandwidth, and RF sampling capabilities at higher analogue input frequencies than conventional RF ADCs, allowing for the digitisation of RF signals up to 7GHz. The high sample rate and integrated post processing enable further ...
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