CES: Hyundai showcases air vehicle design in collaboration with Uber

Last October, we reported on Hyundai’s recently formed urban air mobility unit. At CES this year, the company has unveiled the division’s first concept designs, including personal air vehicles (PAV) and purpose-built vehicles (PBV). Through its UAM platform, Hyundai plans to enable urban air travel with vehicles capable of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL), ...

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Fast GaN transistor drives laser in time-of-flight range sensor eval board

Efficient Power Conversion has introduced a 28A 1.2ns laser pulser demonstration and development board built around one if its GaN power transistors. The intended application is ‘time-of-flight’ range measurement, and the chosen GaN transitor (EPC2216 ) is AEC Q101-qualified, allowing the circuit to be used in automotive lidar projects. A novel aspect of this board ...

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Samsung Electronics’ sustainability credentials recognised by EPA and CTA

Samsung Electronics has been recognised with two awards at the Sustainable Materials Management electronics challenge awards ceremony hosted by the EPA. Samsung was one of nine companies to receive a gold tier award and one of two companies named the SMM electronics challenge champion award winners. In addition, Samsung was recognised by the Consumer Technology ...

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Max20340 PLC chip enables simultaneous communication and charging

At 1.84×1.84mm, Maxim is claiming its Max20340 is the industry’s smallest 2-pin bi-directional DC powerline communications (PLC) device). Featuring power and communication on a single line, the Max20340 eliminates pins and discrete devices needed to communicate between a charging dock and a low-voltage end product such as true wireless earbuds, rings and other small wearables. ...

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Kioxia fab fire set to hike NAND prices

Hard on the heels of the reported power outage  at Samsung’s Hwaseong DRAM fab, Kioxia (a.k.a Toshiba) has announced a fab fire at its Yokkaichi NAND fab, fab 6 (pictured). Kioxia has told customers the impact on output is under review. It is reported that there could be a two week interruption in supply. The ...

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CES: Still no flying cars

CES 2020 is being held this week in Las Vegas with over 4,500 exhibiting companies and over 175,000 attendees, reports Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence. The show includes a broader industry than just electronics, which led to it being renamed CES (previously the Consumer Electronics Show) and the sponsoring organization changing its name from the Consumer ...

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