Smart watch PMIC has triple-output single-inductor buck-boost dc-dc converter

Wearables and hearables are the target for a power chip from Maxim, whose wafer-scale package allows a sub-30mm2 solution, it claims. On board the chip, called MAX77654, is a single-inductor triple-output buck-boost regulator that can provide outputs from 0.8V to 5.5V, two 100mA LDOs, a Li-ion-Li-poly charger, three GPIOs and a watchdog timer. Quiescent power is 6μA ...

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Mouser adds creativity with Pimoroni’s breakout boards

Breakout boards from Pimoroni add audio output, sensor and motor control to Raspberry Pi and Arduino boards. The boards are now available from Mouser Electronics. Pimoroni designs and manufactures products for makers, educators and creatives. It is supported by the Raspberry Pi and wider maker communities and says its mission is to make electronics “accessible ...

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Industrial PC gets 8th generation Intel processor

GENE-WHU6 is an industrial PC with an 8th generation (Whiskey Lake) Intel Core processor in a 146 x 102mm ‘3.5in sub-compact’ format. “Despite its compact size, the board offers full-sized functionality, able to deliver the flexibility of a desktop system in a compact form factor,” according to Aaeon, the manufacturer. “GENE-WHU6 is built to provide ...

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China’s Imagination coup abandoned

The China coup on Imagination has been abandoned. Imagination’s owners Canyon Bridge have cancelled today’s emergency board meeting at which four representatives of Beijing-controlled China Reform Holdings, Canyon Bridge’s biggest investor, were to have been appointed to the Imagination board. It was thought that the appointments were a preliminary to re-locating Imagination to China. Sky ...

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Thin electrolytics get thinner

Cornell has made even thinner versions of its already thin polymer electrolytic capacitors taking them down to 1mm from the earlier 3mm series. “Cornell Dubilier Electronics’ new PPC Series, designed specifically for applications requiring high ripple current and the thinnest profile possibilities, opens up new product design options,” according to distributor New Yorker Electronics which ...

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Q1 profits and revenues expected to be up at Samsung

Q1 profits and revenues will be slightly up y-o-y announced Samsung Electronics earlier today. Samsung estimates Q1 profit will be $5.2 billion compared to $5.1 billion in Q1 2019. Q1 revenues are expected to up 5% y-o-y at $45 billion. Semiconductor revenues have made up for declining smartphone and TV revenues. Last year phones accounted ...

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CEO and execs to resign if China takes control of Imagination

Top executives are prepared to resign if, later today, a China-backed investor forces the appointment of four of its representatives to the Imagination board. According to Sky News, CEO Ron Black and several other senior executives at Imagination will resign if China Reform Holdings , a China government-controlled entity, goes ahead with the appointments at ...

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