Rakuten to use NEC 5G base-stations and shun Huawei

Rakuten, the newcomer telco in Japan, has decided to use NEC base-stations says the Nikkei. Costing $76k each, the base-stations are reported to be only 10-20% of the cost being incurred by rival telco NTT DoCoMo. Rakuten will also reduce costs through network virtualization so minimizing the need for hardware. Next week, Japan’s Cabinet is ...

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Magnetic system cools close to absolute zero

Technical University of Munich (TUM) spin-off kiutra has developed a magnetic cooling system for extremely low temperatures. kiutra clsims to be the first company in the world to have succeeded in developing a permanent magnetic cooling system to reach temperatures close to absolute zero. Such temperatures are, for example, required for the operation of quantum computers. ...

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Thalia Design Automation raises $2m

Thalia Design Automation has completed a $2m  funding round led by Deepbridge Capital and with renewed commitment from the company’s existing investor Development Bank of Wales. This latest round of funding will enable accelerated development of Thalia’s Re-use Platform-as-a-Service (RePaaS) solutions for analog IP re-use, design migration and portfolio extension, and aggressive expansion of both commercial ...

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ST MCUs claim 1327 DMIPS and 3224 CoreMark.

ST is sampling STM32H7 MCUs which claim to be the industry’s highest-performing Arm Cortex-M general-purpose MCUs. The new devices leverage a 480MHz version of the Cortex-M7, the highest performing member of Arm’s Cortex-M family, and add a 240MHz Cortex-M4 core. With an efficient L1 cache, and adaptive real-time ART Accelerator, the MCUs claim speed records at ...

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Dual-band Wi-Fi antenna is 1mm long for wearables

Antenova has added an ultra-compact dual-band Wi-Fi antenna to its range, measuring 1.0 x 0.5 x 0.5mm. Named Minuta and numbered SRC2W006, it operates over 2.4-2.5GHz and 4.9-5.9GHZ, and works with Wi-Fi 802.11a/h/j/n/p/ac standards. Average efficiency is ~60% according to the firm. “It offers designers some useful flexibility in the layout of a PCB, as it ...

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Components’ decline puts paid to growth trend

Reporting an “abrupt halt” to the run of 12 consecutive periods of bookings growth, measured on a quarter on same quarter, the previous year, the Electronic Components Supply Network (ecsn) reveals “disappointing” Q1 2019 results. While bookings increased by 4.2% in Q1 2019 compared to the same period in 2018, billings suffered a 1.3% decline. ...

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Dengrove offers CAN-receiver reference board from Recom

To streamline the design of an isolated CAN interface, the Recom R-REF03-CAN1 reference board has all the circuitry needed to reduce and protect a system against excessive voltages, says Dengrove Electronic Components. The board, now available from the distributor, satisfies requirements for signal integrity and reliability and is a ready-to-use reference board that solves the ...

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