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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Si Labs and Teledyne hook up on hi-rel gate drivers

Silicon Labs has announced a  HiRel isolation partnership with Teledyne e2v HiRel. Under the agreement, Teledyne will offer a new specialized line of high-reliability products based on Silicon Labs’ isolated gate driver technology optimized for space, aerospace, military and oil and gas markets. Teledyne e2v HiRel will market custom high-reliability solutions based on the Silicon ...

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Slim connectors

Cliff Electronics has introduced its SLIMS FeedThrough Connector range which offers a more compact alternative to their 26mm wide XLR form factor product range. SLIMS connectors are just 19mm wide allowing up to 20 to be mounted in a 1U, 19” rack panel, rather than just 16 of the existing XLR design with cut out ...

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UK 20 drone swarm collaborates beyond-line-of-sight

Bedfordshire autonomy company Blue Bear Systems Research has demonstrated a 20 drone swarm collaborating out of sight. The heterogenous swarm consisted of five different types and sizes of fixed wing drones carrying six different types of payload from five different companies. Linking them together was Blue Bear’s technology. Payloads and payload support came from Plextek DTS, ...

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UK made: test jigs for low-volume manufacture

Nottingham-based Ignys is aiming at low volume manufacturing with a fixture concept for PCB testing, programming or calibration. “For high volume products, there are conventional ways of arranging tests but these are often too expensive and too slow for the start-up community or low volume manufacturers to benefit from,” according to the company. “We’ve developed ...

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EMI receiver spans 9kHz to 3GHz

PMM has introduced a CISPR 16-1-1 compliant EMI receiver for conducted or radiated emission test measurements from 9kHz to 3GHz. “Its use of gapless FFT technology allows rapid troubleshooting since a fully compliant scan can take as little as two seconds in frequency band B [250 – 500MHz] and only one minute in bands C and ...

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80V DC/DC controllers support data centre servers, 48V telecom and rugged industrial equipment

Renesas has announced a pair of 80V DC/DC controllers that support the extra voltage margin needed for data center servers, 48V telecom and rugged industrial equipment. The ISL81801 buck-boost controller acts like a “UPS on a chip” by enabling bidirectional current flow (forward or reverse) using constant-voltage and constant-current regulation. This allows a battery or ...

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Nokia adds Telia to 5G customer base

Nokia has been selected by Telia Company as the exclusive provider of 5G RAN in Finland adding to its 5G standalone (SA) core customer base in Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden in the Nordic and Baltic regions. The Telia deal in a five-year contractthat includes the modernization of legacy networks and will cover 7,500 ...

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Cree selling LED business to focus on SiC and GaN devices and materials

Cree has agreed to sell its LED business (‘Cree LED’) to memory maker Smart Global Holdings. “We are pleased to announce the sale of our LED products business to Smart, which represents another milestone in our journey to create a pure-play global semiconductor powerhouse,” said Cree CEO Gregg Lowe. “This transaction positions us with a ...

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