Mouser’s Inventory Management Tool

 Mouser has come up with a free Inventory Management Tool. The web-based inventory system helps organizations and individuals around the world to effortlessly manage and track their stock of electronic components and related supplies. The integrated iOS and Android apps enable users to scan barcodes as well as print bin labels directly from the application. Customers ...

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IC inventories at record high

IC inventories are at a record high, says Morgan Stanley. Q1 inventories for semiconductor companies, distributors and customers increased q-o-q and y-o-y says the company. “Total supply chain inventory is at record levels (25% above median), keeping us cautious about conditions into second half 2019,” said Morgan Stanley analysts Joseph Moore and Craig Hettenbach in ...

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Did Elon Musk make $2.3bn last year or $0?

Elon Musk made $2.3 billion last year, says a report compiled by the New York Times and the executive compensation consultancy Equilateral. No he didn’t, says Tesla, Musk made nothing, $0, zilch. According to the NYT/Equilar report, Musk was awarded $2.3 billion last year, largely in the form of stock options. Under a March 2018 ...

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SWIR team raise $17m

Three year old Israeli startup TriEye, which has developed a Short-Wave-Infra-Red (SWIR) sensing technology able to see in adverse weather and night-time conditions, has completed a $17 million Series A funding round, led by Intel Capital. Other investors include Marius Nacht, co-founder of Check Point Software Technologies, and TriEye’s existing investor Grove Ventures, headed by ...

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Sony chip transmits with 60 mile range

  Sony is launching a proprietary IoT LPWAN called ELTRES using modules which transmit with a 100km range, while moving at 100 km/h and operating off a coin battery. Instead of WiFi or cellular signals ELTRES harnesses low-power wireless technology to transfer low-bit data across a wide area, with lower power consumption, making it feasible ...

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USB-C poised for auto market

The USB Type-C connectivity standard, which has seen rapid adoption in the consumer electronics space, is poised to make major inroads in automotive connectivity, says a report from Strategy Analytics. Availability of USB Type-C began in 2018, and the 2020 model year will see more than a dozen new models offering Type-C connectivity. Between 2017 ...

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AI helps drones land quickly and smoothly despite turbulence

Artificial intelligence can help compensate for turbulence as a drone lands, according to the California Institute of Technology. “Complex turbulence is created by the airflow from each rotor bouncing off the ground as the ground grows ever closer during a descent,” according to Caltech. “This turbulence is not well understood nor is it easy to ...

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Arm enhances CPU for mobile computing; bases GPU on new architecture

Ahead of Computex 2019 in Taiwan, Arm has announced two processors for mobile computing. The Cortex-A77 CPU and Mali-G77 GPU target mobile computing for smartphones. The Cortex-A77 increases the instructions per cycle (IPC) of the previous Cortex-A76 CPU by 20%, to improve computing performance to meet the demands of untethered AR/VR and HD gaming. The ...

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ST ups digital power game with high-end peripherals in Cortex-M4 MCU

STMicroelectronics has created MCU peripherals for improved digital PSUs and motor control: hardware trigonometric and filtering accelerators, a high-resolution timer, a fast analogue comparator and a low-error op-amp. Silicon carbide and gallium nitride converters are a particular target market. Released today, they are all built into STM32G4, a 170MHz Arm Cortex-M4 cored microcontroller – rated ...

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