Sensor and actuator sales grow slower, but to a record high, says IC Insights

Inventory corrections, slowing smartphone shipments, and pullbacks in purchase orders throttled sales growth in semiconductor sensors and actuators last year, resulting in a subpar 6% increase in 2018 to a record-high $14.7 billion after double-digit percentage gains in 2017 and 2016, according to IC Insights’ 2019 O-S-D Report—A Market Analysis and Forecast for Optoelectronics, Sensors/Actuators, ...

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RS Components offers Renesas’ power modules for servers

Encapsulated power modules from Renesas Electronics are now available from distributor, RS Components. The ISL8210M, ISL8212M, ISL82180M and ISL8282M power modules are single-channel, synchronous step-down power modules that provide PoL conversion for fpgas, dsps, asics and memory in servers, storage, optical networking, telecoms and industrial applications. The modules deliver 10A or 15A continuous current at PoL and ...

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Rutronik UK adds Nordic’s Bluetooth 5.1 SoC for navigation

Believed to be one of the first devices to support Bluetooth Core 5.1, Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF52811 SoC is now available from Rutronik UK The Bluetooth Core 5.1 specification was introduced early this year and adds tracking and location functions. The nRF52811 is a multi-protocol SoC that supports IEEE 802.15.4 for Thread and ZigBee and also Bluetooth Direction Finding ...

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Farnell adds MKR shields to Arduino line

Distributor, Farnell, has added four compact Arduino MKR shields to its Arduino product range. The accessories – three shields and a motor carrier – can be integrated into battery-powered IoT applications in industrial automation, environmental monitoring, agriculture, tracking and energy monitoring projects. The ENV Shield, RGB Shield and Therm Shield have a standard, modular design and are ...

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Cypress for sale

Cypress Semiconductor is on the block, reports Bloomberg. Following takeover interest, Cypress has hired advisers to explore options for selling the company. Cypress shares went up 13% yesterday after news broke of the move. The shares have gone up 36% this year. In Q1 the company reported a 5.5% drop in revenues but forecast a ...

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China in for ten years’ unprofitable slog

China is in for an unprofitable decade-long slog if it wants to catch up with the world’s best in chip technology. “This is an extremely challenging and brutal industry, heavily reliant on long term industrial accumulation,” said Jay Huang Jie, founding partner of Jadestone Capital and former Intel Managing Director in China, speaking in Hong ...

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Q1 was worst quarterly semi performance for 10 years

In Q1 the chip market posted its worst quarterly performance in 10 years, according to IHS Markit. Revenues fell to $101.2 billion in Q1,;down 12.9% from $116.2 billion in Q118. This represented the largest y-o-y quarterly decrease since the second quarter of 2009. Memory drove the sales plunge exacerbated by excess inventory and falling demand ...

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Sensor measures barometric pressure and temperature

Infineon has come up with a miniaturised digital barometric pressure sensor is capable of measuring both pressure and temperature. Available now, the sensor offers an ultra-high precision of ±2 cm and a low current consumption for precise measurement of altitude, air flow and body movements. This makes the DPS368 suitable  for mobile applications and wearable devices ...

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Reference design for AR/VR viewers

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR1 Smart Viewer Reference Design aims to to help decrease product development time of both AR and VR Smart Viewers.  “By distributing the workload and tapping into the compute power of host devices via tethering to users’ smartphone or PC, the reference designs’ additional features like eye tracking and 6DoF controllers unlock a ...

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SSDs store 2,048GB, have 3,180MB/s read and 2,920MB/s write

Next month Toshiba starts sampling its XG6-P solid SSD series, a derivative of its NVMe M.2-based XG6 Series offering up to 2,048 GB capacity. XG6-P SSDs are suitable for high-end workstation PCs and gaming systems, as well as cost-optimized data center and composable infrastructures. The SSDs use  96-layer BiCS Flash 3D TLC chips. The SSDs have ...

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