Mouser ships fibre optic connectors for mil-aero use

Fibre optic connectors from Amphenol Fiber Systems International (FSI) are now available from Mouser Electronics. They are intended for use in harsh environments and the extreme temperatures and vibration conditions experienced in aerospace and military applications. The ARINC 801-qualified cylindrical fibre optic connectors are designed for avionics and aircraft networks. They are available in standard ...

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Plessey microLEDs enable AR/VR spectacles

Plessey is to demo the world’s first AR/VR glasses powered by microLEDs at CES Plessey microLED displays deliver 10x resolution, 100x contrast ratio, 
and up to 1,000x greater luminance than OLED technology Visitors to the Plessey booth at CES will be the first to wear AR and VR glasses powered by microLEDs. The next generation of ...

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Transphorm ships 250,000 GaN power transistors

Californian gallium nitride transistor maker Transphorm has shipped over 250,000 650V GaN fets – manufactured at its Aizu wafer foundry in Japan, it revealed. The firm also said that its wafer-foundry’s 15 million parts annual capacity for 50mΩ devices could “easily” scale to 5x that volume, and that its manufacturing process can be structured to scale ...

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Chip-makers can design-in failure

High-performance chips can be designed to fail early, or can be physically attacked using high workloads, according to Washington State University, whose research team damaged an on-chip comms network by deliberately adding malicious workload. Led by engineers Partha Pande (left) and Janardhan Rao Doppa, the team has been exploring chip vulnerabilities as a way to prevent malicious ...

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Mouser publishes e-book on IIoT

Mouser has brought out a new e-book centered on industrial automation as part of All Things IoT, the latest series in Mouser’s award-winning Empowering Innovation Together program. In the second e-book in the series, Mouser experts examine the technologies, possibilities and challenges related to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). The book includes articles on enabling technologies ...

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130W iron and 100W tweezers in dual soldering station

RS Components has launched the a soldering station with both soldering iron and tweezers, and a combined power of 200W. GT-6200, as it will be known, costs £599.95. “Its combination of power, flexibility and functionality is simply not available elsewhere at this price level, thereby delivering access to professional soldering capability for a larger range ...

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Sacked CEO takes over at Imagination

Ron Black (pictured), who was fired earlier this year from his job as CEO of Rambus, is to succeed Leo Li as CEO of Imagination. ‘Dr. Black’s conduct fell short of the company’s standards’, said  the Rambus board when sacking Black last June, adding ‘this decision was not related to the company’s operations or finances.’ ...

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AI-controlled vacuum cleaner drone dusts your house

A hovering vacuum cleaner powered by artificial intelligence has been created by Tom Harding of the University of Brighton. Harding calls it VacHumme. It operates via an AI mapping function and is designed to fly around a single room, cleaning every surface it can reach. With every new journey around a room the VacHumme’s memory ...

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ROHM improves power rating on thick-film chip resistors

ROHM is shipping high power wide terminal thick-film chip resistors (10-910mΩ) suitable for current detection in a variety of applications, including inverters, AC, and energy-efficient appliances. A review of the resistive material allowed ROHM to improve rated power to 2W in the compact 2550 size (2.5×5.0mm, t=0.55mm) – 4x higher than conventional short-terminal types – ...

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