Mouser Electronics and XP Power sign distribution agreement

Through the agreement, Mouser now stocks XP Power’s AC-DC power supplies, DC-DC converters, high-voltage power supplies, and EMI filters. “With Mouser’s distribution expertise, we can expand our reach while also providing exceptional support and value,” said Steve Head, global marketing and distribution director, XP Power. “We’re very excited to be adding XP Power’s world-class power ...

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Tesla steps into modular grid-scale storage with Megapack

Tesla is developing a battery specifically for grid power storage – following on from it building the world’s largest lithium-ion battery in Australia. Called Megapack it is an assembled containerised 3Wh battery that includes 1.5MW of inverters. “Every Megapack arrives pre-assembled and pre-tested in one enclosure from our Gigafactory, including battery modules, bi-directional inverters, a thermal ...

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Mihika Sharma, 9 years old, wins Tech4Good award

Mihika has been recognised with the BT Young Pioneer award for her Smart Stick design, created to help visually impaired people walk safely and independently. Inspired by an incident which occurred while helping an older lady cross the street, Mihika began designing the Smart Stick when she was just 6 years old. It incorporates Bluetooth ...

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ELIoT to commercialise LiFi

Today, an EU consortium of businesses and academia announced the three-year project ELIoT (Enhance Lighting for the Internet of Things) aimed at developing mass market IoT implementations of  LiFi. “ELIoT forms a closed value chain with partners representing the components, chipsets, systems and applications sectors and research institutes, working together on the commercialization of LiFi ...

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Mouser signs global agreement with Formerica to stock Fiber Channel and 100G optical range

Following the signing of a global distribution agreement with Formerica Optoelectronics, Mouser announces that the former’s product range for data centres, enterprise IT, networking, 5G, IoT and broadcast applications are now available from the distributor. Mouser now stocks the company’s optical transceivers, active optical cables,Fibre Channel protocol products and serial digital interface (SDI) transceivers. The ...

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Need to print metal tracks on jelly?

It is possible to deposit metallic tracks on soft surfaces including jelly, as has been proved by Iowa State University. The key is a low melting point alloy – in this case Field’s metal (eutectic bismuth indium tin) – delivered by a novel technique created in the lab of Martin Thuo. By encapsulating tiny particles of the metal ...

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Versatile Nordic dev kit supports LTE standards, says Rutronik UK

Tools to evaluate and develop application firmware based on Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF9160 system in package (SiP) are provided in the nRF9160 development kit, which is now available from Rutronik UK. The single board kit is designed for cellular IoT development and supports 690MHz – 960MHz and 1710MHz -2200MHz for both M1 and NB-IoT standards. The ...

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Renesas MCUs in 64-pin BGA and LQFP packages

Renesas announces four new RX651 32-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) supplied in  64-pin BGA and LQFP packages. The MCUs expands Renesas’ RX651 MCU offering with a 64-pin (4.5mm x 4.5mm) BGA package that reduces footprint size by 59 percent compared to the 100-pin LGA, and a 64-pin (10mm x 10mm) LQFP that offers a 49% reduction versus ...

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Agile Analog awarded £1m grant

Agile Analog, the Cambridge analogue IP start-up, has been awarded £1 million by Innovate UK to accelerate their new product development. The project will be 45% funded by Innovate UK and will extend Agile Analog’s leading edge, AI-driven technology to address much higher complexity Analog IP, and result in a large expansion of products available to ...

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TSMC to hire 3000 more engineers and operators.

TSMC is to hire more than 3,000 new employees in Hsinchu, Taichung, and Tainan. TSMC’s fortunes turned dramatically in June when, after five successive drops in y-o-y revenues, it recorded a  y-o-y revenue rise of 21.9% – which was a 6.8% rise on May. TSMC forecast Q3 revenue growth of 18% to between $9.1 billion ...

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