Super-caps certified for industrial use

Skeleton has had its SkelCap SCA0300 supercapacitor UL-certified so that they can be used in warehouse robotics and smart factories. “The growth of warehouse and fulfilment centre robotics is creating new opportunities for ultracapacitor-powered solutions in intra-logistics,” according to the firm. “Power quality requirements in manufacturing are driving the demand for ultracapacitor-based UPS [uninterruptable power supply] ...

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5.7% CAGR for wafer market to 2023

The wafer market expects to see CAGR of 5.7% through 2023, when it could be worth $21.3 billion, says BCC Research.. North America’s semiconductor wafers market should grow from $4.5 billion in 2018 to $5.8 billion by 2023 with a CAGR of 5.4% for the period of 2018-2023. EMEA semiconductor wafers market should grow from $4.0 ...

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Farnell adds Beaglebone to expand AI capability

Farnell/element14 is expanding the AI products and resources to help engineers leverage the technology by making available the BeagleBone AI single board computer and online resources. The BeagleBone AI, provides a route to  embedded machine learning. The single board computer facilitates everyday automation for industrial, commercial and home applications and allows developers to have their designs ...

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Infineon adds 50/60mm thyristor/diode modules

Infineon has expanded its product portfolio of thyristor/diode modules. The Prime Block 50 mm modules feature solder bond technology and the 60 mm modules pressure contact technology. They are designed for highest performance when the desired current exceeds 600 A for a 60 mm footprint or 330 A for a 50 mm footprint. This avoids ...

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Intel looking to sell home connectivity unit

Intel has hired a financial company to find a buyer for its home connectivity group, reports Bloomberg. The group makes chips for home gateways and routers where it competes with Qualcomm and Broadcom. Sales of the group are said to be about $450 million annually. Intel has been in and out of many attempted diversifications: ...

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NAND bit shipments up; ASPs down; revenues rise

Q3 NAND bit shipment grew 15%, says DRAMeXchange and revenue rose 10.2% to $11.9 billion. Samsung’s  bit shipment grew over 10% QoQ while limiting its ASP decline to 5% and recording a 5.9% revenue increase to $4 billion. Samsung’s second fab in Xian will start manufacturing in 1H20, while its second Pyeongtae-based memory fab is ...

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Value Line MCUs for cost-sensitive connections

STM32WB50 Value Line wireless MCUs  are a full and pin-compatible derivative of the STM32WB55 SoC created to serve cost-sensitive connected devices that need to support Bluetooth 5.0, ZigBee 3.0, or OpenThread. The devices offer a good link budget from 100dB in Bluetooth 5.0 mode up to 104dB in 802.15.4 mode. With the Arm Cortex-M4 to handle the user-application ...

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