Silicon shipments fell 7% measured by area in 2019 from the 2018 record high, reports SEMI, while revenues from wafer sales fell 2%. Silicon wafer area shipments in 2019 totaled 11,810 million square inches (MSI), while the industry logged shipments of 12,732 million square inches in 2018. Revenues in 2019 totaled $11.15 billion, edging down ...
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Drones can determine the shape of a room by listening to echos from the walls, according to mathematicians from Purdue University and Technische Universitat Munchen. Mireille Boutin (Perdue) and Gregor Kemper (Munich), with few exceptions, can theoretically get the shape of a room providing the drone is carrying four microphones that all hear echos from a ...
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In the midst of encouraging people to enter for the latest EW BrightSparks 2020 programme, let’s take a step back and another look at the continuing progress of those high-achievers we’ve previously highlighted. Step forward Sam Presley, an EW BrightSpark from our first cohort, back in 2017. An electronics engineer, Sam’s interest and expertise lay ...
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Diodes has announced the APR348, a secondary-side, multi-mode synchronous rectification mosfet driver. The driver is designed for AC-DC rectification circuits in general consumer applications, notebooks, and USB adapters. It’s capable of driving an external mosfet in both high-side and low-side secondary-side synchronous-rectifier configurations. This device supports secondary-side output voltages up to 20V in continuous conduction ...
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Rohm is aiming at electric vehicles with a 41V dual output high side switch for transmission and engine electronic control units(ECUs). Called BV2HD045EFU-C, the part is AEC-Q100 Grade 1 qualified and includes numerous protection functions include thermal protection that detects both when the control circuit is too hot, and if the output mosfets are much ...
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Nicomatic will demonstrate connectors targeting industrial and high-rel applications at the Embedded World exhibition later this month. The company’s range of miniature, hi-rel connectors can be stacked together to minimize PCB space. The 1mm pitch AMM series connectors can carry up to 4.8A (PCB to cable, 20 pins at 25°C) or 2.5A (PCB to PCB, ...
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Astrocast, the nanosatellite network specialist, has signed up Spaceflight for the launch of what it describes as 10 IoT nanosatellites.
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RS Components has introduced Cardmaster and Piccolo ranges of ABS and polycarbonate enclosures from Finnish manufacturer Fibox, manufacturer of thermoplastic enclosures for electronics in hostile environments. The Cardmaster range is intended for packaging measurement, monitoring and process control equipment, and comes in sizes ranging from 166x160x80mm to 390x316x167mm. It has two compartments: one for circuit ...
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Distributor Richardson RFPD is now stocking a compact GaN transistor 650V 30A half-bridge evaluation board, the GS-EVB-HB-66508, a part announced by GaN Systems late last year. The board was developed by GaN Systems with On Semi, which provides the on-board NCP51820 driver chip, and is also known by the On Semi part number NCP51820GAN1GEVB. With ...
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There are 345 operators in over 110 countries investing in 5G, according to Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf (pictured). 45 operators in over 20 countries have launched commercial 5G services, spanning both the sub-6 and millimeter wave spectrum, he says. “We continue to expect millimetre wave to be deployed in all regions,” says Mollenkopf. 45 OEMs have ...
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