Novel potting cuts inductor temperature

Spanish wound component maker Premo has significantly reduced choke operating temperature through thermally-conductive potting, branding the added material ‘CoolMag’. “CoolMag is a thermally conductive compound able to fill any space between winding and core, and between core and heat-sink,” said the firm. “It is enough to reduce temperature by more than 40ºC.” (graph right) To ...

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Sky Mobile launches 5G network in 20 UK cities including London

Sky Mobile has joined Vodaphone, EE, O2, BT and Three in launching a 5G network. It will initially be available in 20 cities and towns across the UK, including London, Edinburgh and Belfast, while the company plans to roll out availability to 50 UK destinations by summer 2020. In addition to the aforementioned cities, the ...

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Never underestimate the chip industry’s inventiveness

Moore’s Law lives, was the message from Future Horizons’ Industry Forecast Seninar (IFS2020) in London on Wednesday. “Never underestimate the chip industry’s inventiveness,” said Future Horizons CEO Malcolm Penn (pictured), adding that the advances in NAND are “chip innovation at its absolute best.” “Even the Chinese are making 64-layer NAND”, said Penn, while 96-layer devices ...

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GDP Growth vs IC Growth

The 2019-2024 correlation coefficient between GDP growth and IC industry growth is forecast to reach 0.90, up from 0.85 from 2010-2019, says IC Insights. Figure 1 depicts the increasingly close correlation between worldwide GDP growth and IC market growth through 2019, as well as IC Insights’ forecast through 2024. Figure 1 Over the 2010-2019 timeframe, ...

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TSMC forecasts 45% Q1 revenue rise

TSMC has forecast a 45% y-o-y rise in Q1 recenue. 5G is one reason given for the spike. The company  expects revenue over January-March to reach $10.2 billion-$10.3 billion, versus $7.1 billion a year ago. “Moving into first quarter 2020, despite mobile product seasonality, we anticipate our business to be supported by the continued ramp ...

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Chip industry dives 11.9%

Semiconductor industry revenues totalled $418.3 billion in 2019, down 11.9% from 2018, says Gartner. Intel regained the No. 1 position in the market as the downturn in the memory market negatively impacted many of the top vendors, including Samsung Electronics, the No. 1 vendor by revenue in 2018 and 2017. “The memory market, which accounted ...

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Imagination opens Romanian design centre

Imagination has opened a new design centre in Timisoara, Romania to  focus on IP designed for AI and computer vision. The team will initially focus on software and test activities, expanding in the future to areas such as system architecture and design. The new site will complement the capabilities of Imagination’s existing engineering teams located around ...

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