The UK & Ireland electronic component market will grow between 3.4% and 8.5% in 2019, forecasts afdec, which is part of the Electronic Components Supply Network (ecsn), with a mid-point of 5.9%. The 2018 market is likely to have grown by 9.2% in 2018, with distribution taking 41% of the TAM. The afdec/ecsn consensus opinion is that ...
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Nottingham Trent University has developed a way to embed miniature solar cells into yarn that it said allows them to be knitted and woven into textiles: “The cells are encapsulated in a resin which allows the textile fabric to be washed and worn like any other form of clothing.” “Clothing would look and behave like ...
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Siglent is aiming at analogue circuit design and service departments with 2Gsample/s oscilloscopes. Available with a choice of 200 or 350MHz bandwidth, the SDS2000X-E – where the trailing E stands for economy models, said the firm. 28Mpoint of acquisition memory is available as standard, as is an update rate of up 110,000waveform/s. “Low noise front ...
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Infineon is claiming a first, with an industrial-grade embedded SIM (eSIM) in a 2.5 x 2.7mm wafer-level chip-scale package (WLCSP). It is aimed at machine-to-machine comms and IoT applications, for example vending machines, remote sensors and asset trackers. “Providing robust quality on a miniature footprint that works even under harshest conditions remains a challenge for silicon ...
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ST is sampling automotive MCUs containing phase-change memory made on a 28nm FDSOI process. Full technology qualification is expected in 2020. “Having applied ST’s process, design, technology, and application expertise to ePCM, we’ve developed an innovative recipe that makes ST the very first to combine this non-volatile memory with 28nm FD-SOI for high-performance, low-power automotive ...
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Mouser has signed a global distribution deal with NDK, the manufacturer of crystal timing devices. The NDK product line includes NX1612AA and NX3225SA crystal timing units. The NX1612AA devices are 24 MHz to 80 MHz surface-mount units that consume just 10µA with a load capacitance of 8 pF. The 1.6 mm × 2.1 mm devices are suitable ...
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Qualcomm’s data centre chip business, which had over 1000 employees earlier this year, is now down to 50 after the latest round of cuts of 269 people in San Diego and Raleigh, North Carolina, reports The Information. “Qualcomm is reducing our investments in the data center business but remains committed to business obligations and upcoming ...
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Imec has demo-ed 3D stacked FinFETs on 300mm wafers using a sequential integration approach with a 45nm fin pitch and 110nm poly pitch technology. The top layer consists of junction-less devices fabricated at a temperature below 525 degrees Celsius in a silicon layer transferred by wafer-to-wafer bonding. The excellent performance of the resulting stack demonstrates ...
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Vayyar Imaging, the 3D radar imaging specialist, technology, has launched of its new mmWave Evaluation Kit (EVK), Walabot-60Ghz. Walabot-60Ghz provides users with the groundbreaking capabilities of Vayyar’s high-resolution 3D imaging chip, alongside an SDK/API, facilitating development, integration and scaling of products. The kit includes a chip with a 40 Transceivers array (40 Tx/Rx), complete with ...
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