Q2 server DRAM ASPs will be up 20% q-o-q, says TrendForce, while SSD ASPs will increase 10-15%. Memory suppliers are now facing low inventory levels, which encourages them to maintain the 2Q20 price upsurge. The US government’s JEDI contract and demand for teleworking services are stoking demand. Demand from China’s cloud service operators rose considerably ...
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Farnell has launched its exclusive Raspberry Pi Starter Kit – an all-in-one kit for quick-start embedded computing Featuring the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B computer and a range of Farnell’s own brand Multicomp Pro products, the new Starter Kit provides an out of the box experience for first-time users and customers looking to reduce new product ...
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Will the recovery be L-shaped, U-shaped or V-shaped? In January 2020 global IC sales were up 79% y-o-y, says IC Insights, But that was before Covid-19. Now it has re-assessed the impact of the virus on the IC industry, Will the virus merely be a short-term event that leads to a quick V-shape recovery. Or ...
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The ongoing coronavirus Covid-19 situation in the UK has led Big Bang UK to cancel its annual Young Scientists and Engineers Fair, which was due to take place 11-14 March. Explaining their decision, the fair’s organisers said “We have been actively monitoring and following advice about the novel coronavirus Covid-19 over the past weeks. “The unique ...
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Xilinx has announced Versal Premium, the third series in its Versal ACAP portfolio. Versal is an adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP), a heterogeneous compute device with capabilities that the firm claims “far exceed” those of conventional silicon architectures. Added to the Premium series are 112Gbps pam4 transceivers, multi-hundred GBe and Interlaken connectivity, cryptography, and PCIe ...
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Nexperia has managed to achieve 100fF load capacitance in devices designed to protect USB4 signal lines. “Of special interest to engineers designing USB4 and Thunderbolt interfaces, the new device uses Nexperia’s TrEOS ESD protection technology with active silicon-controlled rectification,” according to the firm. “It delivers a combination capacitance down to 0.1pF), dynamic resistance down to 0.1Ω ...
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Pickering has created a high voltage reed relay, that can stand off 1.5kV and switch up to 1kV. Called Series 131, they are single pole (normally-open) single-in-like devices with a 12.5 x 3.7mm footprint and 6.6mm height. The high voltage rating is specified with resistive loads. “At these high voltages, even stray capacitance can generate ...
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Marvell has launched the 88X9121P, a dual 400GbE (gigabit Ethernet) PHY transceiver with 100GbE serial electrical I/O capabilities, designed for secured high-density optical infrastructure. The device offers 256-bit MACsec encryption, class C compliant precision time protocol (PTP) timestamping and Marvell’s 112G pam4 serdes technology for high-density 400GbE and 100GbE deployments. 100G serial electrical signaling optical ...
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Spending on fab equipment will grow by 3% to $57.8 billion this year, says SEMI. China’s fab equipment spending will grow by about 5% to over $12 billion this year and by 22%, or $15 billion, in 2021. Taiwan will spend most in 2020 at nearly $14 billion but will drop to third place in ...
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Mobile High Power Charger, is a large battery on wheels. There are two of them, built in into lorry trailers, together capable of delivering a total of 3.2MW – 320kW to each of 10 electric vehicles simultaneously. “Considering the availability of grid connections, which are often only limited, it is a unique opportunity to provide ...
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