Synaptics buys Broadcom IoT connectivity business

Synaptics is to buy  Broadcom’s Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS/GNSS products and business in the IoT market for $250 million. Synaptics expects the transaction to add approximately $65 million in current annualized sales and provide significant revenue growth potential. The transaction is expected to be immediately accretive to Synaptics’ non-GAAP gross margins and non-GAAP earnings post-close. ...

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Highly integrated motor control ICs

Infineon is sampling motor control ICs for brushed and brushless DC motors with mass production planned in Q4. Called Motor System ICs, they are claimed to be the world’s first multiple half-bridge drivers for MOSFETs with integrated power supply and communication interfaces. The chips complement the existing Infineon motor control IC portfolio, ranking between discrete ...

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Relec introduces space-saving DC-DC converters from Mornsun

DC-DC converters in DFN packages by Mornsun are now available from Relec Electronics. The R4 is the fourth generation of surface mount DC-DC converters, designed to space space and reduce the size of distributed power systems. The DFN package measures 9.0mm x 7.0mm x 3.1mm. It occupies 63mm2, compared to 155mm2 for SMD8 footprint DC-DC ...

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NXP and Auterion partner for high-reliability drone control

NXP and drone software company Auterion are to co-develop high-reliability integrated hardware and software for the commercial unmanned aerial systems industry. “With the development of regulations and the increased number of autonomous systems in the field, the requirement for components and software that are certifiable and the ability to deploy intelligence on the edge is ...

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Happy birthday, DesignSpark

The DesignSpark community turns 10 years old and RS Components has marked the online design platform’s turning of a decade with a new website design, incorporating new features. The website has been developed based on user feedback. Local versions available in China, France, Germany, Japan, North America and the UK, and the site has  enhanced ...

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Southern Manufacturing and Electronics confirms 2021 dates

The organiser of  Southern Manufacturing & Electronics has confirmed that the event will be returning to Farnborough International on Tuesday 20 to Thursday 22 April 2021. The annual show is usually held earlier in the year but has been rescheduled to avoid conflict with other events is 2021 which have been postponed due to the Covid-19 ...

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Nokia ramps up adoption of O-RAN interfaces

Nokia is ramping up the adoption of Open RAN (O-RAN) interfaces in its AirScale portfolio. These new O-RAN capabilities, which include open interfaces, will be built on top of Nokia’s existing AirScale software, providing the same high-level performance, functionalities and security standards of Nokia’s current radio products. By taking the approach of building the open ...

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