October IC sales grew nearly 3% sequentially to reach $36.6 billion, but were 13.1% down y-o-y, reports the SIA. it is the 10th consecutive month of y-o-y decline. “While the global semiconductor market has slumped somewhat in 2019 compared to the record sales posted in 2018, the recent trend is more positive, with month-to-month sales ...
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Four US engineers have been awarded the 2019 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (QEPrize) at a Buckingham Palace ceremony for their work creating “the first truly global, satellite-based positioning system,” GPS. The QEPrize is a £1 million award that celebrates the global benefit of engineering innovation on humanity. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales ...
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AMS has introduced the laser-based optical Vocalzoom sensor, designed to measure and analyse vibrations, from machine parts for example, at a distance of up to 3m without contact. With the sensor’s capability for continuous monitoring, the firm foresees applications in industry 4.0, IIoT and predictive maintenance. Israeli company Vocalzoom has developed the sensor together with ...
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TDK has announced a 4,080W 24V industrial power supply, that operates from three-phase ac mains between 350 and 528Vac. Called TPS4000-24 “the TPS series can operate automatically from 400, 440, and 480Vac nominal delta or Y inputs, without wiring changes or the need for step-down transformers,” according to the firm, which sees the PSU being used to ...
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Renesas has brought out a 32-bit MCU with Bluetooth 5.0 for IoT endpoint devices such as home appliances and healthcare equipment. By combining Bluetooth 5,0 with Renesas’ Trusted Secure IP on its popular RX MCU family, Renesas offers a single-chip solution for system control and wireless communication, with a secure way to answer the Bluetooth ...
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The Google co-founders (pictured) are to give up their management roles. Sergey Brin (right) president of Google’s parent company Alphabet, and Larry Page (left) co-CEO of Alphabet, relinquished their roles yesterday with this statement: ‘Today in 2019, if the company was a person, it would be a young adult of 21 and it would be ...
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After a 16% drop in 2019, IC Insights believes that 2020 will see single-digit growth for the IC industry. IC Insights expects a ‘moderate’ increase in the worldwide economy, and expects that the chip industry will continue displaying an ‘excellent correlation’ with worldwide GDP growth. Other forecasts for next year are Mike Cowan at 8.7%, ...
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Amazon Web Services has launched its second custom processor – Graviton2 – built on 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores and made on TSMC’s 7nm process. “We decided that we were going to design chips to give you more capabilities,” says AWS CEO Andy Jassy (pictured), “while lots of companies have been working with x86 for a ...
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Melexis, the Begian fabless automotive IC specialist, has added a LIN RGB(W) LED controller. The chip – MLX81113 – supports RGB LED-based automotive ambient lighting, also known as LIN RGB, which is already well established within nearly every OEM worldwide. The IC features more on-chip memory, higher output current and increased EMC robustness compared to the popular ...
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