Hynix says it will spend $107 billion building four fabs starting in 2022.. Hynix sees the investment as being necessary to ward off the threat of China which is building memory fabs. The fabs will be built on an existing 4.5 million square metre fab site with two front end facilities south of Seoul. Hynix ...

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The winners of the element14 2018 Community Awards are: Member of the Year – Dixon Selvan – Selvan is a first-time Community Awards winner. He competed in the Design for a Cause challenge, submitted several RoadTest reviews, and contributed multiple projects to the monthly Project14 competitions. Selvan is a frequent contributor and integral member of ...

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Xilinx has extended ihe RF performance of its Zynq UltraScale+ RF SoC portfolio with devices which can cover the entire sub-6GHz spectrum. They support direct RF sampling of up to 5 giga-samples per-second (GS/S) 14-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and 10 GS/S 14-bit digital-to-analog converters (DACs), both up to 6 GHz of analog bandwidth. Xilinx’s RFSoC portfolio is ...

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Samsung has unveiled its folding phone – the Galaxy Fold:                       The Fold costs $2000 and is on sale in Europe on May 3rd. It supports 5G. Folded, the Fold’s OLED screen measures 4.6”. Unfolded it measures 7.3”. Its processor is made on a 7nm ...

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Renesas has added to its Synergy S5 MCU series with the entry-level S5D3 MCU Group. The four new S5D3 MCUs join the mid-range S5D5 and high-end S5D9 MCU Groups with similar S5 Series features—integrated 120 MHz Arm Cortex-M4 core and advanced security—as well as general-purpose features that simplify designing cost sensitive, low power IoT endpoint ...

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In H1, Qualcomm expects sample a number of RF front end devices: The QTM525 5G mmWave antenna module is for 5G smartphone designs thinner than 8mm. The module adds support for band n258 (24.25 – 27.5 GHz) for North America, Europe and Australia on top of bands n257 (26.5 – 29.5 GHz), n260 (37 – 40 ...

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AVX has expanded upon its proven-reliable wire-to-wire (WTW) connectors with the 9286-300 Series poke-home connectors for 12–18AWG wire. Designed to simplify the connection process in a broad range of industrial market applications that require high-current or large-gauge wires, the 9286-300 Series WTW connectors enable simple strip-and-poke-home wire insertion and twist-and-pull wire extraction, and employ a one-piece ...

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