This year there should be 121 300mm  fabs in the world with rhe opening of nine new plants of which five will be in China, says IC Insights. 300mm wafers took over as the industry’s primary wafer size in terms of total surface area used in 2008. Furthermore, the number of 300mm wafer fabrication facilities ...

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Coventry is the top-performing UK city for overall mobile performance in the second half of 2018, says RootMetrics. With one of the smallest populations out of the 16 cities tested, Coventry recorded outstanding results in the categories of overall performance, network reliability, network speed, data performance and call performance. Leicester logged impressive scores in testing, ...

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TI introduced several new isolated gate drivers that provide monitoring and protection for high-voltage systems. The devices are claimed to be the first to offer integrated sensing features for IGBTs and SiC MOSFETs to simplify designs and enable greater system reliability in applications operating up to 1.5 KVRMS. With integrated components, the devices provide fast ...

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Ricoh has launched a versatile load switch embedded in an ultra-small wafer level chip scaled package and is able to switch currents up to 6 A. The R5542 is positioned in between the battery or other supply voltage and the actual application circuit (load). The internal on-resistance is only 9 mΩ and will cause almost ...

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