US defence company Gresham Worldwide has bought Dorset PSU and display company Relec Electronics. It already owns Wiltshire PSU maker Gresham Power Electronics. “We spearheaded the Relec acquisition with a view to gaining access to additional resources and products to increase the range of offerings and service levels that Gresham Worldwide could provide to its customers,” ...
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Yesterday Intel CEO Bob Swan (pictured) committed the company to having advanced manufacturing in the USA. That would have gone without saying three years ago but, with TSMC’s rise to pre-eminence in process technology, there has been speculation that it might put leading edge product out to foundry. “We have a wonderful business model called ...
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Ayar Labs has demonstrated a monolithic electronic/photonic connection on Globalfoundries’ 45nm process. This is a step in providing chip-to-chip optical connectivity at scale for applications like AI, HPC, cloud, telecoms and aerospace. Over the last 18 months, Ayar Labs has been working with select semiconductor manufacturers, systems builders, and end users on co-design partnerships. The ...
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Transphorm is sampling its first 5th gen SuperGaNTM device meant for EVs, It claims to offer the world’s lowest packaged on-resistance with 25% lower power loss compared to SiC. ‘Transphorm’s demonstration of achieving 10 kilowatts of power from a discrete packaged GaN device in a bridge configuration is further validation of the exciting promise of ...
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Viper31 is a mains voltage converter for ac-dc power supplies from STMicroelectronics which allows PSUs to be constructed that consume only 20mW no-load at 230Vac, while delivering up to 18W when configured as a universal (85 – 265Vac) fly-back converter. Also, consumption is <430mW at 230Vac with a 250mW load. It can be used in isolated ...
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Smiths Interconnect has introduced a production probe head for wafer-level packages and known good die. Part of its Volta range Volta 180 is a WLCSP test connector for chips with 180um pitch IO. The series is capable of testing sorted die for engineering development or failure analysis, and is an alternative to cantilever and vertical probe ...
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UK lighting manufacturer Cambridge Led has bought two multi-function LED testers from Seaward of County Durham. A subsidiary of lighting distributor Net Led, Cambridge operates from a 36,000 sq ft factory in Cambridge, and has been designing, manufacturing and supplying LED luminaires and systems for installation in commercial and industrial areas across the UK for over ...
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Nexperia has announced lead-less ESD protection devices for automotive CAN-FD applications, qualified to AEC-Q101 They are the: PESD2CANFDxxx-QC – packaged in 1.4 x 1.2mm DFN1412D-3 (SOT8009) PESD2CANFDxxx-QB – packaged in 1.1 x 1mm DFN1110D-3 (SOT8015) The 0.48mm high packages have side-wettable flanks for automated optical inspection during production, and have smaller footprints than SOT23 or SOT323 packages. Clamping ...
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Leman Micro Devices (LMD) demonstrates its V-Sensor for smartphones and wearables, for measuring blood pressure and other vital signs
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Q3 smartphone shipments rose 20% q-o-q to 336 million units, says TrendForce. Q4=production is estimated to reach 351 million units, showing a QoQ increase of 4%. Samsung and Xiaomi were the only companies out of the top six to increase their market shares in 3Q20 while Apple fell to fourth place due to the delayed ...
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