Rigol Technologies has added a vector network analyser mode to a family of spectrum analysers, adding an N suffix to its RSA3000 and RSA5000 instruments. “The RSA5000N and the RSA3000N deliver the same performance and feature set as the current spectrum analyser models, but adds VNA capability as a standard feature,” according to the company. “With ...
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Last week, it was announced that Cambridge GaN Devices (CGD) will lead a €10.3m European project (‘GaNext’) to develop fast-switching intelligent GaN power modules. But who is this small UK company that has been trusted to lead a consortium that includes semiconductor giant Infineon? The answer is: a fabless GaN power transistor maker built on ...
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Maxim is aiming its latest MCY at coin cell powered Bluetooth Low Energy 5.2 wireless communication – 27.3μA/MHz operation is available at 3.3V when executing from cache, or 1.2µA at 3.3V in the lowest power mode. Called MAX32666, and part of the company’s Darwin family, it has dual 96MHz Arm Cortex-M4 cores, both with their own ...
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Sony has announced two short-wavelength infra-red (SWIR) image sensors with 5μm pixels for industrial equipment, that also image in visible light too – with digital outputs to make them compatible with equipment set-up for visible light CMOS cameras. They are based on the company’s SenSWIR technology, with photodiodes formed in an indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) ...
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Toshiba has introduced a pair of linear CCD image sensors for automated optical inspection and barcode scanning. Both are monochrome and have a 5.25μm (pitch) x 50μm pixels stacked edge-on to form an array ~7.9mm long. TCD1105GFG has 125V/lux-s sensitivity and 90 dynamic range, plus built-in electronic shutter. TCD1106GFG has 600V/lux-s sensitivity and 400 dynamic range. Dynamic ranges ...
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Aaeon is aiming at edge AI with a box PC built around an Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX processor with a 64bit hex-core Arm processor, 384 Cuda cores, 48 Tensor Cores and two Nvdla engines capable of running multiple neural networks in parallel – delivering up to 21Top/s. All this in a rather small box – ...
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Farnell has added the Portenta H7, the latest offering from Arduino, to its range of single board computers. The device targets growing demand from enterprise, small medium business (SMB) and professional makers for low-code modular hardware systems to support IoT development. The Arduino Portenta family provides low-power boards designed specifically for industrial applications, artificial intelligence (AI) ...
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Synaptics has bought video compression specialist DisplayLink for $305 million in an all-cash transaction. The deal is expected to close in Synaptics’ first quarter of fiscal year 2021, subject to customary closing conditions, and be financed from existing cash on hand. Synaptics expects the transaction to add approximately $94million in annualised sales and be immediately accretive to non-GAAP ...
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TSMC has become the world’s most valuable chip company with a market cap of $313 billion. Samsung is worth $261 billion Nvidia $257 billion Broadcom $125 billion TI $124 billion Qualcomm $103 billion Hynix $59 billion Micron $57 billion NXP $34 billion MediaTek $32 billion Infineon $30 billion ST $28 billion
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Airbus Defence and Space has signed a contract with the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) to extend the Skynet satellite fleet with Skynet 6A, supporting military communications systems. The value of the contract for the new satellite is reported to be £500 million. The agreement covers the development, manufacture, cyber protection, assembly, integration, test and ...
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