Microprocessor sales to top $79 billion

Total microprocessor sales are forecast to grow 1.4% in 2020 to nearly $79.3 billion, following a 2.4% decline in 2019, which was the first revenue drop in the worldwide MPU market in 10 years, according to data released in IC Insights’ Mid-Year Update to the 2020 McClean Report. The mid-year forecast shows total MPU sales ...

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Rambus interface delivers 4Gbps

Rambus has achieved a record 4 Gbps performance with a memory interface consisting of a fully-integrated PHY and controller. Paired with the industry’s fastest HBM2E DRAM from SK hynix operating at 3.6 Gbps, the solution can deliver 460 GB/s of bandwidth from a single HBM2E device. This performance meets the terabyte-scale bandwidth needs of accelerators ...

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Danish drones perform satellite antenna testing

QuadSAT, the Danish startup that does the test and measurement of satellite antennas by the use of drones, has closed a €2 million Pre-Series A Investment funding round. The round was led by Seraphim Capital, which is a venture fund dedicated to SpaceTech, Vaekstfonden, the Danish state’s investment fund, and Angel Investor, Helge Munk. “We ...

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Photorelays operate up to 125°C with 2.0mm x 1.45 mm footprint

Toshiba has launched three  photorelays with an extended operating range of 125°C and a footprint of 2.0mm x 1.45 mm footprint, representing some of the smallest voltage-driven photorelays on the market. Raising the maximum operating temperature rating from 110°C to 125°C allows the photorelays to be mounted in high-temperature areas and making it easier to ...

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Gigabyte, AMD and Northern Data hook up on HPC

Gigabyte, AMD and Northern Data are working on an HPC mega-project with computing power of around 3.1 exaflops.   Gigabyte will supply GPU-based server systems equipped with  AMD EPYC processors and AMD Radeon Instinct accelerators. Northern Data develops a distributed computing cluster based on the hardware at locations in Norway, Sweden and Canada, which in ...

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ADI and Evonetix developing a DNA desktop writer

Evonetix, the synthetic biology company, and ADI are to work together on the advancement and commercial scale-up of Evonetix’s MEMS-based ICs and accelerate the development of Evonetix’s first product, a DNA desktop writer. Evonetix’s IC controls the synthesis of DNA at many thousands of independently controlled reaction sites or ‘pixels’ on the chip surface in ...

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Arrow Electronics to showcase industry 4.0 virtual event

Webinars and discussions as well as individual consultations are scheduled at Arrow’s World of Industry 4.0 virtual event which will run 1 and 2 October 2020. The distributor and industry suppliers will host webinars and discussions online. A collaboration tool helps participants an appropriate person to speak to according to expertise, language and supplier. There ...

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Nexperia’s power GaN FET range is available from Farnell

Distributor Farnell is now shipping Nexperia’s power GaN FETs. The FETs can be used in hard switching for AC-DC totem pole power factor correction (PFC) applications, LLC phase shift full-bridge (resonant or fixed frequency) for soft-switching applications, as well as all DC-AC inverter topologies and AC-AC matrix converters using bidirectional switches. GaN FETs provide low ...

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binder rocks new ACDC connectors

The new S-coded and T-coded power connectors from Binder (DIN EN 610276-2-111) address applications such as motors and drives and supplying power to AC and DC consumers. Both come with the M12 interlock as standard and they protect to IP67 and IP68 and are designed for more than 100 mating cycles. The operational temperature range ...

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Mouser signs worldwide agreement with iWave for SoMs

Mouser Electronics now stocks iWave’s system on modules (SoMs) which are based on Xilinx, NXP Semiconductors and Intel PSG processors and which are intended for use in industrial, automotive, medical, imaging, networking and AI applications. The iWave portfolio includes the Xilinx ZU19/17/11 Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC SoMs based on the Zynq UltraScale+ multiprocessor SoCs (MPSoCs). They ...

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