TT Electronics is to buy Excelitas Technologies the Californian power supply manufacturer for $17.7 million. The acquisition enhances TT’s US presence in power electronics for aerospace and defence, providing access to growth programmes with sole-source positions. The acquisition will add a number of blue-chip US defence primes. ‘This acquisition will help us move up the ...

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Intel is expected to be back on top of the semiconductor league table in 2019, regaining the crown it lost in 2017, predicts IC Insights, while Sony is expected to be the only top 15 company to grow year. The top-15 worldwide semiconductor (IC and O-S-D—optoelectronic, sensor, and discrete) sales ranking for 2019 is shown ...

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Q3 DRAM revenue rose 4% ending three quarters of QoQ decline as server and smartphone customers pulled shipments forward, says DRAMeXchange. However profit margins were reduced as ASPs fell 20%. Samsung increased Q3 bit shipments by 30% and quarterly revenue by 5% QoQ but its profit margin fell to 33% from 41% in Q2. Hynix ...

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With typical temperature-reading accuracy of 0.25°C and low operating and standby current, ST’s STTS22H enhances temperature and heat-flow monitoring in asset trackers, shipping-container loggers, HVAC systems, air humidifiers, refrigerators, building-automation systems, and smart consumer devices. The chip is I2C and SMBus 3.0 compliant, and supports flexible operating modes including configurable output data rate (ODR) down ...

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