North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.94 billion in billings worldwide in November 2018 (three-month average basis), according SEMI. The billings figure is 4.2 percent lower than the final October 2018 level of $2.03 billion, and is 5.3 percent lower than the November 2017 billings level of $2.05 billion. “For the first time in over ...
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Despite the trade war, IC Insights believes the semiconductor industry will grow. The growth is not big – single digit – but it is considerably more optimistic than SEMI’s forecast for the 2019 fab equipment industry which switched, this week, from a positive 7% to a negative 8%. While acknowledging that China will play a ...
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MACOM has announced two new negative voltage drivers designed for use with a broad range of MACOM’s AlGaAs and HMIC PIN diode switches. The MADR-011020 and MADR-011022 drivers enable integration that complements the industry-leading performance of MACOM’s advanced PIN diodes, providing designers with layout-efficient and cost-effective solutions while eliminating the design complexities and time to market ...
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Radio frequency filters can change which signals they block through a range of frequencies, using an origami-based structure to change their dimensions. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology say that the tunable filters can be used in antenna systems that adapt to ambient conditions in real-time for electromagnetic cloaking systems that could be reconfigured on-the-fly to reflect or ...
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Researchers at the University of Manchester have identified dihydrolevogucosenone, a non toxic material which is less expensive than conventional conductive inks. It is a sustainable material that provides higher concentrations and conductivity compared with graphene ink and is lower in cost as it does not rely on metal nanoparticles for electrical conductivity in printed electronics. Printed conductive inks are being ...
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Analogue capability and security functions in the Renesas Synergy S1JA microcontroller, target sensor signal acquisition and conditioning to simplify industrial instrumentation, multi-sensory systems and single-phase electrical meters, says RS Components. The low power microcontroller is based on a 48MHz Arm Cortex-M23 processor core with 256kb code flash and 32kb SRAM. There is also an integrated 16-bit ADC, 24-bit sigma-delta ...
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Mouser stocks the ADIS1647x precision industrial inertial measurement units (IMUs) from Analog Devices. The IMUs can be used in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) devices, as well as for navigation in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), autonomous vehicles, smart agricultural equipment as well as industrial and IoT devices. The IMUs deliver six degrees of freedom sensing, ...
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The first of a new constellation of updated GPS satellites, which are three time more accurate than previous satellites, is to be launched today. Current GPS accuracy is 10 to 33 feet, depending on conditions, and the new, GPS III satellites, will be accurate to between three and ten foot. The satellite is scheduled to ...
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Imec, STFC-UKRI, Fraunhofer IIS, CMP and Tyndall announced today that Europractice was selected and granted European funding as a H2020 project. This new funding secures the Europractice services to European universities, research institutes and industry until the end of 2021. In the new H2020-project named Next Europractice eXtended Technologies and Services (NEXTS), new partners CMP ...
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Next year, the first foldable phone gets launched, according to WitsView, but they will only take 0.1% of the 2019 smartphone market rising to 1.5% of the 2021 market. Samsung, which has the foldable AMOLED panel technology, is expected to be the first to launch. Huawei, LG, Lenovo and Google are said to be planning ...
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