Infineon gets CFIUS clearance

Infineon has received US clearance for its takeover of Cypress Semiconductor. A statement from Infineon reads: ‘On 9 March 2020, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) concluded its review under Section 721 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, of the planned acquisition of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation as announced by Infineon Technologies ...

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Stackable DC/DC buck converter

TI has brought out  its 40-A SWIFT DC/DC buck converter, offering  stackability of up to four ICs. The TPS546D24A PMBus buck converter can deliver up to 160 A of output current at an 85°C ambient temperature. The device’s efficiency allows engineers to reduce power loss by 1.5 W in high-performance data center and enterprise computing, medical, ...

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Motion-detection ML core saves MCU power consumption

ST  is extending the uses of its motion-detection machine-learning core (MLC) technologies into industrial and high-end consumer applications with the  LSM6DSRX 6-axis iNEMO inertial measurement units (IMU). The MLC performs basic AI pre-processing of motion data using about 0.001 times the power a typical MCU would consume to complete the same task. As a result, ...

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Chinfa DIN-Rail ac-dc power supplies available at Relec

The DRE480 series from Chinfa operates at 94% efficiency, and is designed for utilisation in space-constrained industrial applications. The power supplies are now available from specialist distributor, Relec Electronics. The DIN-Rail mountable supplies are available two in variants, the 24V DRE480-24A and 48V DRE480-48A, with adjustment ranges up to 28V and 56V respectively. In addition ...

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Dev board flexibly positions small Bluetooth antenna, for wearables

Fractus is aiming at wearables with a evaluation board for its 7 x 3 x 2mm ‘Duo mXtend’ ‘antenna booster’. Antenna booster? “This technology enables replacing conventional and custom antenna solutions by a new class of so-called antenna boosters, delivered in the form of miniature off-the-shelf chip antenna components,” according to the firm. This one ...

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Nokia uses Intel Xeon processor for cloud-based 5G virtual RAN

Nokia has announced a collaboration with Intel to incorporate the company’s technology, including the Xeon processor, into its 5G radio portfolio. The companies have worked together on the Intel Atom P5900 processor for compute, connectivity and acceleration technologies. The silicon solutions are included in Nokia’s Airscale radio access products being shipped worldwide as part of ...

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