Cree plans to build the world’s largest SiC fab in March, New York State. It will be a brand new, state-of-the-art, automotive-qualified, 200mm power and RF wafer fabrication facility which will be complemented by its materials factory expansion currently underway at its Durham headquarters. The new fab, part of a previously announced project to increase capacity for ...
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Infineon has introduced the OptiMOS IR3826(A)M integrated point-of-load DC-DC voltage regulator. It is a fully integrated device in two versions (IR3826AM for 16 A and IR3826M for 23 A) for applications such as netcom router and switches, datacom, telecom base stations, server and enterprise storage. The voltage regulator can operate from an input voltage of 12 ...
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With the addition of five new members – Everlight, the Dräxlmaier Group, the Xingyu Car Light Company and Techniplas – the number of members in the ISELED Alliance aimed at standardizing an LED lighting approach has reached 28. “The broad spectrum of the Alliance’s members gives ISELED technology ever greater dynamism and enormously expands its ...
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NeoPhotonics has general availability of its non-hermetic 30-40 mW DFB laser sources for use in Silicon Photonics 100G per wavelength CWDM4 FR4 and 1310 nm DR1 and DR4 transceivers. These lasers are available with and without integral Spot Size Converters (SSC). NeoPhotonics low-loss SSC technology enables direct attachment of the Indium Phosphide laser to a ...
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Foremost Electronics of Essex, the specialist distributor of electromechanical components and sub-assemblies, has signed a UK Distributorship agreement with circular connector specialist Neutrik Industrial Connectors. Neutrik also announced two significant new cable and chassis connector series which meet connectivity requirements where the need for complete data signal integrity is critical. Neutrik’s etherCON is a ruggedised and ...
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Google is claiming to have made the biggest renewable energy deal in corporate history, in terms of solar and wind sources.
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Self-driving vehicles on London’s complex and congested streets are required to make 150 independent vehicle detections every second and detect traffic lights in 1/2,000th of a second – faster than the human eye, according to Oxbotica, autonomous vehicle software provider. The Oxford-based company is using its software system in cities, mines, airports, quarries and ports. ...
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Artificial intelligence in BeagleBone AI comes from two Texas Instruments C66x DSPs and four ’embedded vision engine’ (EVE) cores (dubbed the ‘Vision AccelerationPac’ by TI) with TI Deep Learning (TIDL) support – an TIDL machine learning OpenCL API with pre-installed tools. Up to thirty-two 16 x 16bit fixed-point multiplies are available per cycle All of this hardware ...
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Technical University of Munich used eight electric motors with a combined power of 320kW to win SpaceX Hyperloop Pod competition in Los Angeles. Taking place on an aluminium rail within SpaceX’ mile-long evacuated tube, the 76kg carbon fibre chassis vehicle accelerated at almost 2g and reached 463km/h – before coming to a controlled halt, as the ...
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Diodes Incorporated has announced the AL3644, a dual-channel flash LED driver designed to support camera flash and torch functionality. Its features include independently controlled output currents configured through an I2C-compatible interface and the ability to combine two devices (with different device identification addresses) to drive four LEDs up to 6A for quad-channel applications. The AL3644 ...
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