Mid-travel tact switch with soft sound

Following on from an ultra-quiet 8mm tact switch in May, C&K has launched a ‘soft sound’ 12mm mid-travel tact switch, also aimed at automotive use. Called the SFS 12 Series, they are designed to have a positive haptic feeling and last for at least 300,000 cycles (1million cycles disconnected). There is a choice of actuation force: ...

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Cambridge spin-out offers ‘smallest’ flow sensor

University of Cambridge spin-out Flusso has launched what it claims to be “the world’s smallest flow sensor” – with a 3.5 x 3.5mm footprint. Called FLS110, it is a CMOS device designed for gas flow measurements, with gas entering and leaving through two  tubular stubs. Flow range is up to 200cm3/min directly through the sensor, ...

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Hermetic wet tantalum capacitors reach 58,000µF for mil/aero

Vishay has extended its EP1 range of wet-tantalum capacitor, supplying the industry’s highest capacitance per voltage-rating for this device type, according to New Yorker Electronics, which is stocking them. “Vishay developed this upgraded capacitor to meet the needs of military and avionics applications with new ratings in the B and C case codes.” The parts ...

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Mentor and Arm hook up to streamline verification

Mentor and Arm have hooked up to help IC designers optimize and streamline the functional verification of their Arm-based designs. With this collaboration, the Arm Design Reviews program now offers the expertise of Mentor’s top functional verification engineers to help customers optimize their Arm-basedSystem-on-Chip (SoC) designs. Arm’s new RTL Verification Design Review service, in collaboration with ...

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Renesas and Sequans partner on IoT modules

Renesas and Sequans will partner to develop IoT modules based on Sequans’ Monarch LTE-M/NB-IoT platform. The modules are designed to provide IoT companies with an integrated microcontroller (MCU) plus connectivity platform that streamlines and simplifies IoT system design for many applications, including smart city, smart home, and industrial IoT. The collaboration between the two companies ...

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ST closes in on $10bn

ST has reported  Q3 net revenues of $2.67 billion with gross margin of 36%, an operating margin of 12.3% for a net profit of  $242 million and a gross profit of $959 million. YTD net revenues are $6.98 billion with a gross margin 36.3%, an operating margin of 9.5% and net income of $525 million. ...

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China to monitor IC investment more carefully

Resources have been wasted as companies “with insufficient knowledge of integrated circuit development have blindly entered into projects”, said Meng Wei (pictured) of  China’s National Development and Reform Commission, yesterday. “The risks of low-level construction have appeared repeatedly, and there has even been stalled construction of individual projects and vacant factories, resulting in a waste ...

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Microsoft Azure Space uses SpaceX to take on Amazon

Microsoft is extending its Azure cloud computing service, with Azure Space addressing the growing commercial opportunities around space connectivity. Back in July we reported that Amazon Web services were aiming for space business. It announced the introduction of a new business segment dedicated to the aerospace and satellite industry, and it will be this that Microsoft ...

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Europe’s ‘pre-exascale’ supercomputer

AMD and HPE have said that EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct GPUs will power a “pre-exascale” supercomputer built under the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) initiative. Delivering up to 550 petaFLOPs, the machine will help researchers across Europe advance R&D.  The supercomputer  – one of the world’s fastest  – will be located at ...

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Application Specific FETs

Nexperia has defined a new MOSFET product group – Application Specific FETs (ASFETs) – which feature MOSFETs with optimized parameters for specific applications. By focusing on individual applications, significant improvements can be offered. Nexperia is offering ASFET families for battery isolation, motor control, hot-swap and Power over Ethernet (PoE) applications. Defining the improvements that these ...

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