Japanese researchers created an optical modulator using a thin layer of water, and got surprisingly good results. The Tokyo University of Science team was trying to find a way to exploit the large Pockels effect discovered in water by some of the same scientists in 2007. This effect is the linear change in refractive index with ...
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Climate change will be the biggest challenge facing the engineers of tomorrow, according to recipients of the Arkwright Engineering Scholarship surveyed at a recent ceremony. Nearly half of the teenagers, who are taking their first steps in an engineering career, think climate change is the biggest challenge facing UK scientists and engineers over the next ...
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Toshiba has announced a range of eFuse IC products. The range comprises six products in the TCKE8xx series which support various protection functions for power supply lines. Unlike traditional fuses, eFuses are resettable. They also offer over-current limit accuracy of ±11%, overvoltage protection, and over-temperature protection in addition to short-circuit protection. Offered in a 3x3mm, ...
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Mouser Electronics has announced a global distribution agreement with sensor manufacturer Amphenol SSI. Through the agreement, Mouser stocks Amphenol SSI products including pressure sensors and gauges, drum liquid level gauges, and combination temperature and pressure gauges. Amphenol SSI P51 pressure Mediasensor and P61 pressure and temperature Mediasensor families are micro-machined sensors designed to measure harsh ...
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Farnell is launching its Winter Games competition, giving customers access to weekly offers from suppliers and online games where participants can win e-vouchers as well as the Winter Games Grand Prize, a Go Pro Max 360° Camera. The Winter Games consists of three Olympic sport disciplines including ice hockey, bobsleigh and curling. The competition is ...
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Renesas is sampling what it claims is the first IC to implement the ASi-5 (Actuator Sensor Interface version specification version 5) standard for industrial network equipment. Mass production is planned for March 2020 ASi-5 offers superior performance and usability over ASi-3, delivering 1.27 ms cycle time, 200m cable length and 96 slaves per segment. The ...
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Yesterday, at its analyst day, Qualcomm said there will be between 175 million and 225 million 5G smartphones in 2020, more than 450 million in 2021 and over 750 million in 2022.. 5G adoption will be faster than 4G, says Qualcomm, because of demand from China. Qualcomm is expected to have an integrated 5G modem ...
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It is expected that WeWork will lay off 4,000 staff with another 2,000 possibly to go later. This is the email about the cuts which WeWork chairman Marcelo Claure (pictured) sent to staff on Monday: WeWork Team, This coming week is an important one in the future of WeWork. We are marking our 10th anniversary ...
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UltraSoC has added high-speed communications capabilities to its embedded analytics architecture, supporting debug and performance optimization in datacentres, high-performance computing, AI and storage applications. The addition of PCIe and gigabit Ethernet connectivity gives developers and users access to fine-grained information about the real-world behavior of such products, both in-lab during product development, and in-life after ...
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Marvell has announced Nvidia GPU support on its ThunderX family of Arm-based server processors. Following Nvidia’s June announcement to bring Cuda to the Arm architecture, Marvell has collaborated with Nvidia to port its Cuda-X AI and HPC libraries, GPU-accelerated AI frameworks and software development tools to the ThunderX platform. The computational performance and memory bandwidth ...
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