November SEMI billings were up 17.5% y-o-y at $2.49 billion. The November 2019 l figure was $2.12 billion. The November 2019 figure is 17.8% higher than the December 2018 billings level of $2.11 billion. “Monthly billings of North American equipment manufacturers reached a level not seen since June 2018,“ says SEMI CEO Ajit Manocha, “the ...
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ST and simulation software specialist Fieldscale are developing touch-enabled user interfaces for smart devices containing ST’s STM32 microcontrollers (MCUs). ST and Fieldscale now enable STM32 customers to take a faster and more efficient route to market by introducing support for ST’s Arm Cortex-based 32-bit MCUs to Fieldscale’s SENSE development platform. Fieldscale SENSE delivers the design, ...
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Anglia has announced a battery pack service, offering design-in support on standard, customised and bespoke packs based on primary or rechargeable cells in a choice of output voltages and capacities. The service caters for chemistries including lithium-ion, lithium polymer, lithium iron phosphate, NiMH, lithium thionyl chloride as well as other non-rechargeable options. Anglia can also ...
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New York-based fabless chip firm Ferric has teamed up with TSMC to put magnetic components on the metal layers of integrated circuits. The first product of the collaboration, Fe1038D, has a 2.0 x 3.2mm flip-chip die (<400μm thick) that includes all magnetics and passives needed to deliver 3A at between 0.6V and 1.5V from 1.8V-2.5V, with efficiency peaking ...
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Mouser Electronics is stocking the IWR1843 industrial radar sensor from Texas Instruments (TI). Based on TI’s proprietary low-power 45nm RFCMOS process, these wideband millimetre wave (mmWave) sensors enable “exceptional” levels of integration, the manufacturer says. The sensors are supplied in a 0.65mm pitch, 161-pin 10.4×10.4mm flip chip BGA package. Among the target applications for these ...
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Anritsu Corporation has introduced the Shockline MS46131A USB vector network analyser (VNA), a modular 1-port VNA that supports measurement frequencies up to 43.5GHz. 8GHz and 20GHz models are also available in the series. MS46131A enables the measuring of antennas and other 1-port 5G devices at sub-6GHz, as well as in the 28GHz and 39GHz millimeter ...
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Ross Murgatroyd, Senior Global Product Manager at Farnell considers the use of NFC in IoT use-cases where continuous connectivity is either impractical or unnecessary. The technologies behind the internet of things (IoT) is making the world around us more intelligent. In many implementations, the sensor nodes that are installed to relay data constantly to servers ...
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Intel intends to return to a 2 to 2.5 year process cadence. “We want to get back to a two to two-and-a-half year cadence,” says CEO Bob Swan (pictured), “and shortly after launching 10, our expectations is we will have our first 7 nanometer product launch in the latter part about 2021 with CPUs to ...
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The Met has decided to deploy face recognition technology. This is an important development for the Met and one which is vital in assisting us in bearing down on violence,” says assistant commissioner Nick Ephgrave (pictured), “as a modern police force, I believe that we have a duty to use new technologies to keep people ...
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The Ada Lovelace Institute has commissioned Matthew Ryder QC to lead an independent review of the governance of biometric data. The review will examine the existing regulatory framework and identify options for reform that will protect people from misuse of their biometric data, such as facial characteristics, fingerprints, iris prints and DNA. Technologies which capture, ...
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