At the start of the year Lockheed Martin announced its intention to buy Aerojet Rocketdyne, the aerospace and defence rocket engine manufacturer, in a transaction valued at $4.4 billion. Since then there have been reports that Raytheon Technologies planned to formally oppose the deal – Aerojet Rocketdyne’s engines are also used by Raytheon as well ...
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Magnachip Semiconductor of Korea has commenced full-scale mass production of its first 120Hz High Frame Rate (HFR) OLED display driver IC (DDIC) for QHD flexible displays. The chip is also designed for 1440 x 3360 resolution screens and is being integrated into high-end 5G smartphones produced by global manufacturers. With the HFR feature and utilisation ...
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AUSTIN, TX—Samsung is planning to build a $10 billion semiconductor-fabrication facility alongside its existing facility here, with the first wafers set to be produced in 2023.
The UK government has welcomed the European Commission’s draft data adequacy decisions and urges that they be swiftly adopted. Today’s draft decisions follow months of discussions and pave the way for continued free flow of data between the EU and the UK The UK now urges the EU to fulfil its declared commitment to complete ...
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GaN power transistors are becoming the gold standard for fast compact mains power switching – GaN HEMTs have no reverse recovery charge and can be designed with low on-resistance and low parasitic capacitance. However, their gates are fussy, and unbelievably fussy if all available speed is to be squeezed from this technology. Inappropriate gate drive ...
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China-headquartered companies produced $8.3 billion worth of ICs accounting for 5.9% of the country’s total $143 billion IC market last year, says IC Insights. Under the ‘Made in China’ programme, China has a goal to be supplying 70% of its domestic market by 2025. Sales of logic ICs accounted for the largest share of China’s ...
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Pickering Interfaces of Clacton-on-sea claims that its general purpose PXI matrix has the undustry’s highest bandwidth. Available in 16×8, 2-pole, or high-density 32×8, 2-pole switching configurations, the matrix modules offer bandwidths ranging from 35MHz to 70MHz depending upon path selected and a VSWR <1.5:1 to 85MHz. The modules are in two-slot PXI (model 40-588) or ...
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TT Electronics has launched its new interconnect solution for the aerospace and defence, rail, and industrial markets. The FibreFix inline mechanical splice is specifically designed to reinstate, repair, or extend fibre optic systems in harsh environment applications. The simple to install nature of the FibreFix solution provides significant savings in repair time and complexity by eliminating ...
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ON Semiconductor has launched SiC MOSFET devices for demanding applications where power density, efficiency and reliability are key considerations. By replacing existing silicon switching technologies with the new SiC devices, designers will achieve significantly better performance in applications such as electric vehicles (EV) on-board chargers (OBC), solar inverters, server power supply units (PSU), telecoms and ...
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Nasa has chosen a later launch window for testing its first flight demonstration for planetary defence against the threat of asteroid impact. Dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the mission aims to shift an asteroid’s orbit through kinetic impact, in September 2022. Basically, impacting a spacecraft into the smaller member of the binary asteroid ...
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