Wireless support is now a necessity for many embedded applications as customers increasingly look to access the benefits of the Internet of Things (IoT), writes Ankur Tomar of Farnell
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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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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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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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RS Components has introduced the Duracell Procell range of alkaline batteries, designed to replace the company’s industrial range used by OEMs and professional end users. The series offers higher capacity and longevity than Duracell’s previous industrial batteries of comparable size and format, resulting in fewer battery replacements and savings on associated operating costs. The Procell ...
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French optical firm Gaggione has proposed a way to compare the evenness of colour in ‘white’ light beams produced by LED lighting – generally that with separate RGBW die as light sources. It is an approximation technique, as is expected to be used in a similar way to other optical approximations such as ‘colour temperature’, ...
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U-Blox has expanded its offering for both in-vehicle communication and industrial automation with the Jody-W2 module. The series comes in a 13.8×19.8mm footprint and operates from -40ºC up to 105ºC. The manufacturer says it’s also well suited for industrial applications. The module incorporates AEC-Q100-qualified wireless system-on-chip (SoC) technology. One variant (non AEC-Q100) is specifically targeting ...
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Recom’s Rem2 isolated dc-dc converters are now available at Dengrove Electronic Components. Aimed at medical applications, the converters can deliver up to 2W and 2MOPP/250VAC working voltage in an SIP8 package. The converters are certified to IEC/EN 62368-1 and 60601-1, and offer reinforced 5.2kVDC/1-minute isolation. They are also covered by a CB report to ease ...
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The four year-old RISC-V Foundation is moving from Delaware to Switzerland to allay foreign members’ fears of possible disruption to their continued development of the open-source technology. Although the non-profit foundation does not own the technology, Calista Redmond (pictured) the foundation’s chief executive, says foreign members of the foundation have said they’d be ‘more ...
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Applied Materials which has been the world’s largest supplier of front-end wafer processing equipment for nearly 30 years is about to be overtaken by ASML says The Information Network. “Applied Materials, which has been losing market share in the wafer front end (WFE) equipment market for the past three years, is poised to lose its ...
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