Elektra Awards 2020 – Last chance to enter

After a year of massive disruption across the world, the Elektra Awards 2020 are going ahead as a free virtual event on March 25th 2021. And this Thursday, 17 December, is the last chance to enter the industry’s most prestigious awards. Despite the challenges of the global pandemic, electronics companies worldwide have been busy creating ...

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Sensor operates on a few electrons per minute

In what might be the lowest power sensor ever deliberately made, engineers at Washington University in St Louis have used quantum tunnelling as a data logger to keep a record of vibration. The recording device is a floating gate in a modified transistor structure. When charged, the floating gate is designed to gradually discharge through Fowler-Nordheim tunnelling. ...

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Hicenda Displays recognises Easby Electronics

UK distributor, Easby Electronics, has received the European Distributor of the Year award from Hicenda Displays. The company’s product manager, Chris Parr was also recognised, receiving the Sales Person of the Year 2020 accolade by Hicenda Displays. Hicenda assessed all its distributors in Europe in accordance with criteria covering sales performance, design activity and quality ...

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Marvell offers 5nm hardware-validated 112G SerDes

Marvell claims to be first to deliver a 112G 5nm SerDes design that has been validated in hardware. Marvell says it has a customer which  will embed the IP to build next generation top-of-rack (ToR) and spine switches for  hyperscale data centers around the world. Marvell’s 5nm SerDes claims to double the bandwidth of current ...

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Edge IC integrates 5G and AI computing

EdgeQ, which aims to integrate AI and 5G in an IC for edge applications, has raised $51 million in total funding, including $38.5 million in a Series A round. Investors include Threshold Ventures (formerly DFJ), Fusion Fund, Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), and an unannounced strategic customer. EdgeQ converges 5G connectivity and AI ...

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WiFi needs access to 6GHz band

With over half of all the connections to the Internet starting or ending with Wi-Fi access, and demand for broadband connectivity surging worldwide, Wi-Fi urgently needs access to the 6 GHz frequency band; this is the conclusion of a new paper published by the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) and Policy Impact Partners (PIP), which represent ...

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Vox Power takes medical power supplies in hand

Vox Power has announced the VCCS300M, described as a compact, conduction cooled, single output power supply designed specifically for medical systems. Measuring 4in x 2in x 1.61in and weighing 310g, it delivers 300W of silent, fanless power. Where the application or environment demands it, the units can be cooled by convection or forced air, says ...

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11.5Tflops server GPU

AMD claims the world’s fastest HPC GPU with Instinct MI100 accelerator – said to be the first x86 server GPU to break the 10Tflops  (FP64) performance barrier. Supported by accelerated compute platforms from Dell, Gigabyte, HPE, and Supermicro, the MI100, combined with AMD EPYC CPUs and the ROCm 4.0 open software platform, is designed to ...

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Tool eases adoption of IEEE 1588

Silicon Labs  has come up with a way to simplify implementation of IEEE 1588 in communications, smart grid, financial trading and industrial applications. Silicon Labs’ ClockBuilder ProTM software tool, enables designers to accelerate development of IEEE 1588 system integration by combining PTP profile selection, PTP network configuration, and physical-layer clock/port configuration in a single, unified ...

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