Pickering Interfaces of Clacton-on-Sea has won the Queen’s Award for Outstanding Short Term Growth in overseas sales over the last three years. Pickering Interfaces was founded in 1988 as part of the Pickering Group which celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2018. The company designs and manufactures modular signal switching and instrumentation for use in electronic ...
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Tesla lost $702 million on revenues of $4.5 billion in Q1 which were down from $7.2 billion in Q4 but an increase on the $2.6 billion of Q1 2018. Tesla had $2.2 billion in cash on March 31 down from $1.5 billion on December 31 2018. It looks necessary to raise more capital. Asked why ...
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SEMI’s March billings were 1.9% down on February’s $1.87 billion at $1.83 billion and 24.6% below the $2.43 billion of March 2018 “March billings of North American test and assembly equipment manufacturers showed modest improvement over the prior month,” says SEMI’s Terry Tsao, “despite the increase for this segment, overall billings growth expectations for North ...
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Flex Power Modules has introduced a range of wide input range DC-DC converters for industrial and railways use, encapsulated for reliable operation in harsh conditions, in a 2 x 1in (~50 x 25mm) package. PKE8000A is for industrial use, with its 9-75V input covering 12V, 24V or 48V supply voltages in one go. In to ...
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Huawei is to be allowed to build ‘non-core’ parts of the UK 5G network. The decision was made by the National Security Council chaired by the Prime Minister. The decision is a compromise berween the wishes of the USA to exclude Huawei from all its allies’ telecoms networks and the desire of the government not ...
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Samsung plans to invest $116 billion in logic chips between now and 2030 creating 15,000 new jobs. $63 billion will go to domestic R&D and $52 billion will be spent on production facilities. A focus will be on foundry where it is second to TSMC with a market share of 19% compared to TSMC’s 48%. ...
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TT Electronics has introduced a surface-mount component designed exclusively to get heat out of tight spots. Looking much like a chip resistor or capacitor, TJC series ‘thermal jumper chips’ are made of solid aluminium nitride for good thermal conductivity with low electrical leakage and low capacitance. “Aluminium nitride has nearly five times the thermal conductivity ...
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Hitachi is to buy JR Automation Technologies of Michigan which builds production lines and logistics systems using industrial robots. In March, Hitachi bought KEC Corporation (KEC), a Japanese robotic system integrator. The acquisition of JR Automation will allow Hitachi to f expand its Lumada Solution business. Lumada is Hitachi’s advanced digital solutions, services, and technologies ...
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ST had Q1 revenues of $2.08 billion, down 6.7% y-o-y; gross proffit of $818 million down 7.9% y-o-y; gross margin of 39.4% down 50 basis points y-o-y; operating margin of 10.2% and net income of $178 million Operating income decreased 21.6% to $211 million, compared to $269 million in the year-ago quarter. The operating margin ...
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Rolling stock maker Bombardier Transportation has appointed Ricardo and Roke Manor Research to study the digital security risk profile of Aventra, its latest train type, soon to go into service with Crossrail, Transport for London and on various UK over-land services. Ricardo brings knowledge of rail operations, rolling stock design, systems engineering and passenger interaction, while ...
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