LP360 is the first of the Fischer Freedom series of connectors which have been designed to integrate with clothing. Designed for easy connection, the key-less plug and socket can be presented to each other as any angle around the mating axis “ensuring that the cable can always go straight to the device. No more twists ...
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Texas Instruments has introduced a 3.8 to 36Vin synchronous dc-dc buck regulator in a 1 x 2 x 3mm thermally-enhanced quad flat no-lead (QFN) package – with wettable flanks for post-solder optical inspection. Called LMR33630, and capable of delivering up to 3A, 75mΩ and 50mΩ power switches are integrated, efficiency is up to 92% and switching ...
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ADI claims to have the industry’s widest bandwidth RF transceiver with a single radio platform IC to deploy 5G, sustain 2G/3G/4G coverage, and simplify phased array radar design. The ADRV9009 RF transceiver delivers twice the bandwidth (200 MHz) of previous generation devices and replaces as many as 20 components, cutting power in half and package size ...
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Researchers from from Purdue University, the Technological University of Delft, Netherlands and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that silicon has unique spin-orbit interactions that can enable the manipulation of qubits using electric fields, without the need for any artificial agents. “Qubits encoded in the spins of electrons are especially long-lived in silicon, but they ...
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The iPhone X was the biggest selling smartphone in Q1 says IHS Markit, with 12.7 million units shipped in a 345.5 million unit msrket. iPhone 8 ranked second, shipping 8.5 million units, followed by the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime Plus, iPhone 8 Plus and Galaxy S9 Plus.
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Synaptics, the keyboard interface specialist by founded by Federico Faggin and Carver Mead, is reported by Bloomberg to be in talks with Dialog about a possible tie-up. The companies are similar in size – Dialog has a market cap of $1.4 billion and Synaptics has a market cap of $1.6 billion. Last October, Dialog bought ...
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Custom MMIC has come up with jts Ultra Low Noise Amplifier (ULNA) MMIC which provides a 0.6 dB noise figure, rivalling discrete component implementations. Designated CMD283C, it operates over a frequency range of 2 GHz to 6 GHz (S & C-band) and has output IP3 of +26 dBm. Four members of a GaAs MMIC digital attenuator family ...
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Adding analogue processing to digital hardware is the key to adaptability and maximum battery life in the nano-scale age, according to the University of Southampton, which is advocating memristors and charge-based processing as the way to do it. Memristors are non-volatile electrically-adjustable resistors. Made from metal oxides, they scale well and are proposed as memory ...
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Figures published by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) show 2016 exports of goods by the UK digital sector were up 7.3% y-o-y and worth more than £15 billion “These new statistics show our tech sector is in demand from businesses and consumers around the globe, with exports up by a fifth,” ...
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Infineon is seeing strong long-term growth drivers in its target markets – automotive, industrial, IoT and security applications – where business momentum is gathering pace and is therefore realigning its target operating model, which sets target values for revenue growth, segment result margin and the investment-to-sales ratio over the cycle. “A broad range of structural ...
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