Osram plans 25,600 pixel headlamp LEDs for automotive

Osram is to create an LED automotive headlamp light source with 26,500 pixels over a 40mm2 die on a 40μm pitch, introducing it to the market in 2023 if all goes to plan. Branded Eviyos 2.0, the device – essentially an addressable power LED – is aimed at active headlights that can create arbitrary beams ...

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Taiwan loses its Trump

The question being asked about Foxconn founder Terry Gou pulling out of Taiwan’s presidential election is: Was China behind it? Gou was defeated in the primary to be the candidate of the pro-China Kuomintang (KMT) party. He then said he might run as an independent. On Wednesday, he said he wouldn’t. The speculation in Taiwan ...

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Accelerator card claims it will provide 12x more compute per dollar

Intensivate, the datacentre acceleration specialist,  says that, early in Q1 2020, it will have first silicon  of a chip-scale coherent fabric for a PCIe card which will provide 12x more compute per dollar on platforms such as Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, NoSQL databases and other custom applications running on clusters. First shipments of the accelerator card ...

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Intel shipping Stratix 10

Intel is shipping  Stratix 10 DX FPGAs which are designed to support Intel Ultra Path Interconnect (Intel UPI), PCI-Express (PCIe) Gen4 x16, and a controller for Intel Optane memory to provide acceleration.  Stratix 10 DX FPGAs with the new interfaces include the option to support select Intel Optane DC persistent memory DIMMs. They  increase bandwidth and ...

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micro:bit becomes super:bit in Norway.

Farnell, which manufactures and distributes the BBC micro:bit, is rolling out a programme called  ‘super:bit’ in Norway. The project is a collaboration between the national science centres in Norway. The rollout provides a classroom kit of technology to each of the 2,400 secondary schools in Norway, over two years, starting in September 2019. Since its launch in 2016 Farnell has ...

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Engineers Without Borders UK celebrates 15 years of campaigning

Engineers Without Borders UK, the environmental engineering charity, has celebrated its 15th anniversary with a special evening for its members, partners and trustees. Held at the London headquarters of its sponsor Anglo American – in St. James’s – the event aimed to bring together those that had played a key role in the organisation’s history. ...

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Analog Devices claims widest continuous RF output range

Mouser Electronics is now stocking Analog Devices Inc’s ADF4371 and ADF4372 microwave wideband synthesizers. The ADF4371 delivers a continuous RF output range of 62MHz to 32GHz, the widest currently available according to the firm, while the ADF4372 operates at 62MHz to 16GHz for designs that don’t require the higher frequency. Analog Devices’ ADF4371 and ADF4372 ...

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Flex Power Modules adds active current sharing to DC-DC converter

Flex Power Modules has announced the BMR490 DC-DC converter with active current sharing. This feature enables two or more converters to be used in parallel for demanding datacom applications, thus delivering higher power on a single rail or creating redundancy. The BMR490 is a non-isolated DC-DC converter in the quarter-brick form factor 58.4×36.8×14.5mm. It can ...

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Binder gets 12 contacts into M8 connector

Binder is aiming at factory automation with a 12 contact version of its IP67 (once coupled) Series 718 connectors that mount through an 8mm hole using an in-built M8 thread. “The UL-approved screw coupling M8 connectors give installers a high degree of flexibility as they are quick and simple to install,” according to the firm. “The ...

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Samsung updates PCIe Gen4 SSD software

Samsung has added software updates to its PCIe Gen4 solid state drive (SSD) series. The three software innovations are: 1) ‘fail-in-place (FIP) technology’ that ensures a ‘never-die’ SSD, 2) ‘virtualization technology’ that provides independent virtual workspaces for multiple users, 3) ‘V-NAND machine learning technology’ that utilizes big data to accurately verify data validity even when ...

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