Infineon to buy Cypress

Infineon is to buy Cypress in a transaction which should create a company with over $10 billion in revenue and take the No.8 position in the semiconductor world rankings. Infineon is paying $23.85 per share compared to the $17.82 closing price on Friday giving  Cypress an enterprise value of  €9 billion compared to its market ...

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DMM connectors have backshells for 360° shielding

Nicomatic, the French interconnection specialist, has DMM Micro D mixed signal connectors available with single or two-piece backshells for 360° shielding and protection of the cable/connector interconnect. The devices are available on a six-to-eight week leadtimes. Nicomatic’s  DMM connectors comply with MIL-DTL-83513G specifications yet save space when compared to other Micro D connectors and enable ...

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Third year running for smartphone decline

2019 smartphone volumes will decline 1.9% from 2018, says IDC. This will mark the third consecutive year of market contraction driven by highly saturated markets in developed countries and slower churn in some developing economies. IDC expects shipments in the first half of 2019 (1H19) will be down 5.5% compared to 1H18, but the second ...

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ST adds STM32G4 Series MCUs

The STM32G4 Series combines a 32-bit Arm Cortex-M4 core (with FPU and DSP instructions) running at 170 MHz combined with 3 different hardware accelerators: ART Accelerator, CCM-SRAM routine booster and mathematical accelerators. The STM32G4 Series also offers: Rich advanced analog peripherals (comparator, op-amps, DAC) ADC with hardware oversampling (16-bit resolution) Dual-bank Flash memory with error-correcting ...

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