TI isolated gate drivers integrated sensing for IGBTs and SiC MOSFETs

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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Cree sells lighting business

Cree has sold its lighting products business, which includes the LED lighting fixtures, lamps and corporate lighting solutions business for commercial, industrial and consumer applications, to IDEAL INDUSTRIES for $310 million. Cree expects to receive an initial cash payment of $225 million, subject to purchase price adjustments, and has the potential to receive a targeted ...

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Japan overturns trade ruling against Qualcomm

The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) has reversed a 2009 cease-and-desist order affecting Qualcomm licensing in Japan. Following a nine-year evidentiary proceeding, the JFTC concluded that Qualcomm’s cross-licensing provisions and non-assertion covenants that were the subject of the cease-and-desist order did not violate Japanese antimonopoly law.  In 2010, the Tokyo High Court had issued a ...

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Prisoners to learn to code

Prisoners will be taught coding to prepare them for work as part of plans to help marginalised groups become skilled in tech. CODE 4000, an organisation that works with carefully vetted offenders and has led a successful trial at HMP Humber, has been given new funding by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport ...

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SmartNIC reduces tail latency

Netronome is sampling its Agilio CX 50GbE SmartNICs in OCP Mezzanine 2.0 form factor with line-rate advanced cryptography and 2GB onboard DDR memory. The SmartNIC reduces tail latency enabling high-performance Web 2.0 applications to be deployed in cost and energy-efficient servers. With advanced Transport Layer Security (TLS/SSL)-based cryptography support at line-rate and up to two ...

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Samsung launches 12GB mobile DRAM

Samsung has begun mass producing the highest-capacity mobile DRAM –the industry’s first 12GB low-power double data rate 4X (LPDDR4X) package. The 12GB capacity was achieved by combining six 16-gigabit (Gb) LPDDR4X chips based on the second-generation 10nm-class process. The memory delivers a data transfer rate of 34.1GB/psec. Samsung plans to more than triple the supply of ...

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Power Stamp Alliance defines reduces host CPU load, and adds a reference design

The Power Stamp Alliance has published a specification for a power converter module intended to extend the power and current rating of its standard family of products. The Alliance (Artesyn Embedded Technologies, Bel Power Solutions, Flex, and STMicroelectronics) has created a joint specification for several types of 48Vdc-dc converter modules – dubbed ‘power stamps’ (specifications ...

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Are NC-FETs going to make it?

Researchers at Purdue University have surveyed research towards negative capacitance field-effect transistors (NC-FETs), and published their findings. This type of transistor has a ferroelectric layer (Hf02, for example) within the gate stack, which could allow is break the 60mV/decade sub-threshold slope limit for mosfets at room temperature. “Given the potential, there is a need for ...

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Bacteria extract rare earths from mining waste

Mining waste could provide a reliable supply of rare earth elements, including neodymium and dysprosium, from a type of mining waste called phosphogypsum – a product of making phosphoric acid from phosphate rock for fertilisers – according to the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). More than a billion tons if such waste is sitting idle in the ...

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