Mipi Phy switch from Diodes Incorporated offers switching across five lanes

Diodes Incorporated has announced the PI3WVR648GEAEX five-lane mipi 2:1 switch, capable of switching physical layers that comply with either C-Phy or D-Phy serial interfaces, as defined by the industry standard specification for image sensors and cameras in smartphones and displays in mobile applications. As smartphone and portable device manufacturers integrate to camera modules with higher ...

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Microprocessor sales to fall 4% this year.

The microprocessor market’s string of nine straight record-high annual sales between 2010 and 2018 is expected to end this year with worldwide MPU revenue dropping 4% to about $77.3 billion because of weakness in smartphone shipments, excess inventories in data center computers, and the global fallout from the U.S.-China trade war, according to IC Insights. ...

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Qorvo buys Cavendish Kinetics

Qorvo has bought Cavendish Kinetics – the specialist in RF MEMS technology for antenna tuning applications. The Cavendish Kinetics (CK) team will continue to advance RF MEMS technology for applications across Qorvo’s product lines and transition the technology into high-volume manufacturing for mobile devices and other markets. “The addition of Cavendish Kinetics allows us to build ...

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Samsung to put $11bn into QD-OLED

Samsung will spend $11 billion on its display business between now and 2025, reports Reuters. $8.4 billion will go into production facilities and $2.6 billion will go into R&D. The money will be focused on converting LCD production lines into lines producing quantum dot (QD) displays. QD-OLED technology enables large, flexible displays which have a ...

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Synopsys Fusion qualified on GloFo 12nm LP

Globalfoundries has qualified Synopsys’ Fusion Design Platform for its 12nm LP FinFET process. Optimized for the high-performance and low-power requirements of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, and mobile system-on-chips (SoCs), the production-ready flow is based on the silicon-proven RTL-to-GDSII 12LP foundry reference flow and incorporates Synopsys Advanced Fusion technologies for best quality-of-results (QoR) and time-to-results ...

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Imec and MIT integrate single photon emitters in 2D materials

Imec researchers at Ghent University and MIT have integrated single photon emitters in 2D layered materials with a Silicon Nitride photonic chip.  Even for moderate quantum yields, dielectric cavities could be designed such that the single photon extraction into the guided mode can reach unity.  The results provide a crucial step in fundamental quantum photonics ...

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Molex and U-Blox collaborate on modular automotive connectivity platform

Molex will showcase the modular automotive connectivity platform, Max, in booth 151 at ELIV 2019 October 16-17 in Bonn, Germany. Max offers vehicle networking for both traditional and new mobility providers, using two modules from U-Blox, the Toby-L4 and the Neo-M8L. It’s suited for small series, such as vans or targeted EV projects. Attendees at ...

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Use carbon nanotubes and graphene for better transparent conductors

Carbon nanotubes sprinkled onto graphene make a transparent conductor that is better than either on their own, according to Aalto University. But not because the graphene acts as a parallel conductor. Instead, temperature-dependent transport measurements indicate that the graphene substrate reduces the tunnelling barrier heights between nanotubes, according to the paper ‘Enhanced tunneling in a ...

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ST puts motor drivers into Click board format for hardware development

STMicroelectronics has created four motor driver development PCBs in the Click board format for microBus-equipped host boards. It worked with MikroElektronika, creator of the Click and microBus formats. The development PCBs are plug-n-play, and built around ST’s STspin ICs, that include control features, a protected output stage and safety functions including non-dissipative over-current protection. “The ...

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Lithium ion inventors win Nobel Prize

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “for the development of lithium-ion batteries”, according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. “This lightweight, rechargeable and powerful battery is now used in everything from mobile phones to laptops and electric vehicles. It can also store significant ...

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