Toshiba  has launched a dual H-bridge driver IC for DC brushed motors and stepping motors. The TC78H651FNG delivers performance at a low voltage (down to 1.8V) and high current (up to 1.6A) that is essential for equipment powered by dry-cell batteries. The new device is suitable for motor applications such as cameras and compact printers ...

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Kaga Electronics is to buy 70% of Fujitsu Electronics Inc. (FEI) from Fujitsu Semiconductor (FSL) and plans to also acquire the remaining 30% shares held by FSL by the end of 2021. Kaga has been expanding its EMS business. The acquisition of FEI  is part of the effort find growth. For the present, FEI will ...

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  Vertical or Impossible? Routes to drones are proliferating but the essentials are similar. Two new drones from the US and UK have come from Impossible Aerospace of Sunnyvale,  California, and Vertical Aerospace of Bristol. Vertical’s drone (pictured) has been built by 28 aerospace and technical experts hired from from Airbus, Boeing, Rolls-Royce, Martin Jetpack ...

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Renesas is to buy IDT for $6.7 billion. “This acquisition will bring us complementary, market-leading analogue mixed-signal assets and an incredibly talented group of professionals to help us boost our embedded solution capabilities,” says Renesas CEO Bunsei Kure (pictured),  “IDT’s products combined with our MCUs, SoCs and power management ICs will enable Renesas to widen ...

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Qualcomm is expected to top the rankings for apps processor in Q3 shipping 200 million APs, says Digitimes. Qualcomm, MediaTek and Apple – will share 80% of the Q3 market  will drop to 76.6% in Q1 as competition kicks in  from Huawei’s and Samsung’s in-house-developed smartphone APs. Apple’s new products entering the market in Q3 will ...

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Brainchip, the Australian spiking neural networks (SNN) specialist, is looking at sampling its first SoC incorporating its Akida SNN IP in Q3 2019. The chip will probably be fabricated on a 28nm process, said Brainchip svp Bob Beachler in London last week. Asked by EW if the company needed to raise more money to make ...

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Imec and Ghent University (UGent) have formed Sentea, a spin-off from their Photonics Research Group. An initial 1.6 million Euro in funding was raised from Fidimec, Finindus, PMV and QBIC II and the founders. Sentea will develop and market advanced silicon photonics based fiber optic sensing solutions. These will be used to continuously monitor engineering structures ...

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MACOM is sampling distributed feedback (DFB) lasers designed for use in 5G LTE wireless fronthaul infrastructure. Production is planned for next year Available in bare die chip format (1xxD-25I-LCT11-50x) and TO-packaging (1xxD-25I-LT5xC-50x), MACOM’s new 25G DFB lasers are designed for operation in the -40 to 85oC temperature range over transmission distances from 2 to 10 ...

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