The government is reported to be proposing to spend $500 million buying 20% of OneWeb, the bankrupt satellite company. OneWeb has launched 74 out of a planned constellation of 648 satellites. If a buyer cannot be found for them, the UK government, as the licensing authority, has to take responsibility for them. OneWeb makes low-orbit ...
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South Cambridgeshire District Council has given Huawei planning permission to build a$1 billion R&D facility in Sawston village. The permission was granted despite reservations expressed by the Parish Council of Little Shelford about the development’s impact on nesting birds. Others to object were the US Secretary of State and the US ambassador to the UK. ...
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Infineon has come out with a sensing and balancing IC for Hybrid and EV car batteries. It measures the voltage in up to twelve battery cells with an accuracy of ± 5.8 mV over the entire temperature and voltage range as well as the operating life cycle. It supports up to five external temperature sensors, ...
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Smart Mimic has integrated Semtech’s LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol into its MimicGO line of consumer products for securing rooms and belongings. The LoRa-based devices deploy indoor or outdoor to monitor condition changes in a range of applications, including door sensing, belongings movements and tampering, motion sensing in rooms, and open/closed status in drawers ...
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Renesas has introduced a pair of 100V half-bridge mosfet gate drivers. HIP2211 is a pin-compatible upgrade to the company’s existing ISL2111 and has separate high-side and low-side PWM input pins, leaving dead-time control up to the hose microcontroller. PWM inputs are 3.3V logic and Vdd tolerant. Comes in 8-lead SOIC or 10-lead 4 x 4mm TDFN. ...
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Infineon’s Silicon Valley Innovation Center (SVIC) has agreed with cardiovascular monitoring specialist Blumio to co-develop a wearable, non-invasive blood pressure sensor based on Infineon’s XENSIV radar chipset by 2021. The new sensor has the potential to disrupt the USD 45 billion market for wearable cardiovascular monitoring devices by enabling continuous and precise measurement without a ...
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Taiwan has the largest installed base for IC wafer capacity, says IC Insights, edging out Korea in second place. Next year China could be the No.2 with Korea slipping down to third place. In its Global Wafer Capacity 2020-2024 report, IC Insights breaks down the world’s installed monthly wafer capacity by geographic region (or country). ...
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Lattice is sampling a new FPGA family called Certus-NX family of FPGAs which support fast PCI Express (PCIe) and Gigabit Ethernet interfaces to enable data co-processing, signal bridging, and system control. Certus-NX FPGAs target a range of applications, from data processing in automated industrial equipment to system management in communications infrastructure. The Certus-NX devices are the ...
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IoT specialist Tuya is the latest company to join the Zigbee Alliance Board of Directors, to help steer the low-power wireless comms standard. The aim of the alliance is to simplify product development for manufacturers and increase device compatibility for consumers. Tuya helps consumer electronics brands add IoT control and connectivity to electronic devices for smart control ...
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The organizers of the upcoming 66th annual IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) have decided to hold the conference virtually this year given the ongoing uncertainties posed by the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic. The virtual 2020 IEDM is scheduled for December 12–16, 2020, and both live and recorded sessions will be used to showcase and discuss ...
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