Bourns has  introduced a TVS diodes series featuring low capacitance of 3 pF making them suitable  protection devices for the high-speed interfaces found in today’s automotive, communication line and industrial applications. The Bourns Model CDSOD323-TxxC-DSLQ TVS diodes also offer the Bourns’ lowest TVS diode leakage current of 1 nA (nanoampere). This is important as IoT sensors, ...

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Mobile DRAM revenue rose by 5.3% q-o-q to a record high of $8.435 billion, reports DRAMeXchange. The mobile DRAM market will be seeing a moderation of the price upswing in 2Q18. Nevertheless, demand from major Chinese smartphone brands, Huawei, Xiaomi, OPPO and Vivo, remains strong. With phone-makers raising  the memory densities of  2018 models, DRAMeXchange ...

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SEMI’s  April billings were 10.7% up on March’s $2.43 billion at $2.6 billion. April 2018 billings were 26% higher than the April 2017 figure of $2.13 billion. “April 2018 monthly billings for North American equipment manufacturers surpassed the October 2000 record high of $2.6 billion,” said Ajit Manocha, president and CEO of SEMI. “Storage, artificial ...

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 Hindley Circuits of Cramlington – the PCB and assembly services specialist – has made  its second acquisition in  a matter of months. Hindley’s latest acquisition is electronic product design and repair specialists Irridian Industrial Electronics to significantly enhance the company’s offering. And the strategic move comes on the back of the business– that is only in its second ...

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In April, Toshiba started mass production of a three-phase brushless motor driver IC with a rotation speed control (closed loop control) function. The device – the  TC78B025FTG – is intended for small fan applications in servers, home appliances and industrial equipment. The cooling fans used in servers and other appliances must be small and rotate ...

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Element14 has launched a 6 part bi-weekly BeagleBone webinar series. Presented by Jason Kridner, the co-founder and board member at BeagleBoard.org Foundation  and the element14 team,  the series provides community members with a grounding in the fundamentals of BeagleBone and will show how to have fun with BeagleBone  boards. The series includes the following episodes: Introduction to BeagleBone BeagleBone for ...

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Toshiba Memory Corporation (TMC) is to move its HQ from the Hamamatsucho Building (Toshiba Building pictured Left below) to Tamachi Station Tower S in the Tamachi district (pictured right below). Since getting Chinese approval last week for the sale of the business to a consortium led by Bain and Hynix, Toshiba has been preparing to ...

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Sony has bought out the other significant shareholder, Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Group, from ownership of EMI Music Publishing as part of its transition strategy. Today, CEO Kenichiro Yoshida (pictured) is expected to announce Sony’s transition from being a hardware company to becoming a company based on gaming subscriptions, software, entertainment, content and services. Buying Mubadala’s ...

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