TT Electronics has bought Torotel, a US-based designer and manufacturer of hi-rel power and electromagnetic assemblies and components for the aerospace and defense markets. The acquisition is one of several recent investments by TT in power management devices for the aerospace and defensemarket. TT has agreed to acquire Torotel for $43.4 million. The acquisition is subject ...
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Q3 saw orders for barebones servers dry up as inventories grew higher than expected, reports TrendForce. It is expected that it will take one to two quarters to resolve the inventory over-stocking with a consequent effect on server DRAM ASPs – estimated at a 13-18% q-o-q decline in Q4. Barebones server production and whole server ...
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Melexis, the Belgian auto IC specialist, is sampling an AEC-Q100 qualified QVGA time-of-flight sensor – the MLX75026. The chip offers software-compatibility with the MLX75027 Gen 3 VGA ToF sensor, facilitating migration between VGA and QVGA resolutions. The new sensor is also half the size and requires only 30% of the computing power needed by the ...
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An easily applied patch on fabric could be used to power wearables, according to Korean research lab KAIST. It is based on the ferroelectric polymer poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-trifluoroethylene), built into a heterostructure with two conductive fabrics (diagram right), which can then be applied to fabric by a similar hot-pressing process to that used to attach graphics ...
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Cambridgeshire-based Paragraf has had its graphene-based Hall magnetic field sensor tested for radiation toughness by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). “Tests conducted by NPL have shown that following exposure to a neutron dose of 241mSv/hr, which is about 30,000 times the expected typical neutron dose rate in the International Space Station, Paragraf’s sensors are not affected ...
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University of Houston have created an elastic semiconductor with 8.57cm2/Vs charge carrier mobility, and then made transistors, logic and a sensor array from it. Carrier mobility is largely retained when stretched by 50%. The semiconductor concerned is poly(3-hexylthiophene) – ‘P3HT’. This is not the first time the team has made stretchy transistors from this material, but it ...
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The UK Space Agency (UKSA) is looking to tackle the issue of space junk – seven UK companies have been awarded a share of £1m of funding to help track debris in space. UKSA estimates that there are currently 160 million objects in orbit – mainly debris – that could collide with satellites providing services ...
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Farnell and Rohde & Schwarz are holding virtual events covering the fundamentals of oscilloscope set-up, design and applications. The event will consist of multiple webinars that will run across two days, 22nd and 23rdSeptember, with local language presentations in English, French and German. The schedule for the webinars is: Tuesday, 22nd September, 2020 09:00am – ...
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Electronics production is healthy, says Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence. The chart below shows the three-month-average change versus a year ago (3/12 change) in electronics production (measured in local currency) for the major Asian producers. China is the largest electronics manufacturing country and outbreak. In 2018, China electronics production growth averaged 13% versus the prior year. ...
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If approved, the Arm-Nvidia deal will be the largest semiconductor acquisition in history, provided the additional $5 billion cash/stock payment is included for the business achieving financial targets, says IC Insights. The acquisition, which is expected to take 18 months to complete (around March 2022), would top Avago’s 2015 deal to buy Broadcom for $37 ...
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