Qualcomm gets permission to ship 4G chips to Huawei

The US government gave Qualcomm a licence to sell 4G chips to Huawei last Friday, reports Reuters, but not to sell 5G chips. The ban on selling to Huawei was imposed in September. It is thought that stocks of high-end chips at Huawei will run out early next year and that the ability of HiSilicon, ...

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Raytheon Intelligence & Space buying Blue Canyon Technologies

Raytheon Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the privately held Blue Canyon Technologies, a provider of small satellites and spacecraft systems components. The companies expect the acquisition to be completed by early 2021, subject to regulatory approvals. Blue Canyon Technologies will report into Raytheon Intelligence & Space, one of the businesses that make ...

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Alps Alpine to supply positioning system evaluation kit

Alps Alpine will commence supply of a High-Accuracy Positioning System Evaluation Kit employing a BLE chip in November 2020 in recognition of heightened positioning needs. There is a growing demand for high-accuracy positioning systems in the IoT, the automotive industry, and a wide range of other sectors, including production and logistics. In the automotive industry, ...

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Solderless compression mount connectors

Amphenol Ardent Concepts has launched a line of solderless compression mount connectors, the micro-LinkOVER (P/N: mLO-XXXXX) Series. micro-LinkOVER is an OverPass twinaxial connector system that provides system designers and layout engineers a cost-effective approach to unlock the design flexibility needed to manage the technical challenges of 56G and 112G systems and beyond. micro-LinkOVER supports 10Gb/s, ...

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Latest WPA3 security on WiFi4 chips

Infineon is shipping Wi-Fi 4 chips which conform with the latest WPA3 security standard. As a Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/BLE combo chip for IoT applications like smart thermostats or smart lighting, the new Infineon CYW43439 solution will make it easier for product designers to comply with new security regulations currently emerging worldwide, including the California Consumer Privacy Act. ...

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Apple, Google and LG join 6G development group

Apple, Google and LG have joined the Next G Alliance, a coalition of companies founded in October by The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) with the aim to establish North America as a leader in 6G. Members include: Ericsson, Nokia, Charter Communications; Cisco; Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Intel; Keysight Technologies; Mavenir; MITRE; and VMware. Huawei is not ...

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SiGe, Ge-on-Si and CMOS combined at Bristol for quantum record

Researchers from the University of Bristol have made a detector to measure quantum features of light in more detail than ever before, with a sensor “clocked at an order of magnitude faster than the previous state-of-the-art,” said Bristol. It was used to measure the unique properties of ‘squeezed’ quantum light at record high speeds, according to ...

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Digi-Key event to enable the world’s ideas

Digi-Key Electronics will bring together innovators and suppliers from across EMEA on Thursday, November 19 at 14.00 p.m. CET for a first-of-its-kind virtual keynote event focused on enabling the world’s ideas in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. The keynote event will feature business updates from president Dave Doherty; a market business development update from ...

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Buckshee ASICs

SkyWater Technology, the US DoD sponsored fab, and Efabless, a crowdsourcing design platform for custom silicon, are accepting designs  for a series of Google-sponsored open source MPW shuttles that will run at SkyWater. Through a partnership between Google, SkyWater and Efabless, open source designs selected by the program will be fabricated at no cost to the ...

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