Mouser signs Marvell

Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with Marvell covering  Marvell Fast Ethernet and Alaska Gigabit Ethernet PHY transceivers. The octal Fast Ethernet PHY family, including the 88E3082 and 88E3083 devices, features power consumption under 150 mW per port, enabling network systems manufacturers to decrease system costs by reducing both power supply and fan requirements. The Alaska Gigabit Ethernet ...

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2018 fab spend up 14%

Global fab equipment spending will increase 14% this year to $62.8 billion and is expected to rise 7.5%, to $67.5 billion, in 2019, marking the fourth consecutive year of spending growth and the highest investment year for fab equipment in the history of the industry, according to the latest World Fab Forecast Report published today ...

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Charger for 10 cell 36V Li-ion and LiFeP04 batteries

Powersolve has added a charger to its range, designed specifically for 36V, 10 cell lithium-ion battery packs. PFY105-42-2 operates from a wide (90-264Vac) input with a 2.5A output at 42V (±500mV). “At 105W, the charger will effortlessly charge Li-ion battery packs as well as the LiFeP04 variants that are popular today,” said the firm. The ...

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Cypress aims at wireless earbud audio quality

Cypress is claiming better audio from all-wireless earbuds – headsets without a wire between the transducers. According to the firm, which is sadly not naming names or numbers, the solution features a link budget that is 6dB better than competetors, resulting in up to twice the range – with the extended range improving cross-body performance ...

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Qualcomm lay-offs reported to have started

Qualcomm is reported to have started a big lay-off programme.  Layoff.com profile, a site which claims to represent affected Qualcomm employees, reports jobs being moved to India. Official announcements are anticipated at the October  financial reporting round. Having failed to buy NXP, and incurring a $2 billion break up fee, Qualcomm is now looking light ...

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EM of Marin upgrades Bluetooth beacons

EM Microelectronic of Marin has announced its next generation family of Bluetooth beacons with longer battery life, longer range, over-the-air customizations and modular certification. The first beacon of the family, the EMBC22, is an upgrade and replacement of EM’s  EMBC02 BLE beacon. The new beacon is easier to install or deploy thanks to the over-the-air ...

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Bike-hailing firm to raise $2bn

Go-Jek of Jakarta, Indonesia’s motor-bike hailing service, which was valued at  $5 billion in its last funding round when it raised $1.5 billion, is in talks to raise another $2 billion, reports Bloomberg. Current backers include Tencent, Temasek and Warburg Pincus. Earlier this month it started a motor-bike hailing service in Hanoi. It plans to ...

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Omnivision, TI and Leopard Imaging develop HD auto camera

OmniVision, Leopard Imaging and TI have developed an HD automotive camera module reference design using OmniVision’s OX01B40 image sensor plus image signal processor (ISP) system-in-package (SiP), as well as TI’s DS90UB933-Q1 or DS90UB935-Q1 serializer chip and TPS65000-Q1 power management integrated circuit (PMIC). All four components are AEC-Q100 Grade 2 qualified, with an operating range of -40 ...

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Hyundai and Audi team up on hydrogen fuel cells for cars

Hydrogen fuel cells are still very much a challenger to electricity as the successor to the internal combustion engine, says Hyundai Motor vice chairman Woong-chul Wang (pictured), “Hydrogen has been talked about as the ultimate solution for zero emissions in the auto industry for decades,” says Wang, “there was reluctance because the technology of fuel-cell vehicles ...

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Hitachi develops TED-MOS

Hitachi has developed a SiC-based ‘TED-MOS’ (Trench-Etched-Double-Diffused MOS) device using a fin-structured trench MOSFET based on the conventional DMOS-FET. An energy saving of 50% over a DMOS-FET was confirmed as the structure reduces the electric field strength, an index of durability, by 40% and resistance by 25% compared to a DMOS-FET. Hitachi intends to apply ...

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