Micron cans 3D XPoint

With immediate effect, Micron will cease development of 3D XPoint and shift resources to focus on accelerating market introduction of CXL (Computer Express Link)-enabled memory products. Micron has determined that there is insufficient market validation to justify the ongoing high levels of investments required to successfully commercialise 3D XPoint at scale to address the evolving ...

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AMD claims most powerful server processor ever

AMD is claiming “the world’s highest performing server processor” for the EPYC 7003 series. The record claim is for the EPYC 7763 which has 64 2.45GHz ‘Zen 3’ cores (3.675GHz boost) with 256Mbyte of cache running two threads per core. The fastest version runs at 3.7GHz (4.1GHz boost) and has 8 cores running 16 threads ...

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650V drivers for mosfet half-bridges

Infineon has used a silicon-on-insulator process to create a pair of fast 650V half-bridge drivers on small-outline packages for its EiceDriver portfolio. 2ED2110 (images below) is a ±2.5A driver in 16pin DSO-16W packaging 2ED2101 (and ..03, ..04, image above)  are +290mA -700mA drivers in 8pin DSO-8 packaging The company emphasises transient immunity for all devices: ...

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High-end data acquisition for Nvidia Jetson

German data acquisition specialist Spectrum is offering driver software for Nvidia Jetson single board computers. There are various Jetson boards, with Arm CPUs and Cuda-based GPUs for fast parallel processing. The drivers work with Jetsons that have a spare PCIe slot. “The driver package means that any of Spectrum’s digitisers, arbitrary waveform generators or digital ...

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Quad band satellite simulator for Earth stations

Atlantic Microwave has launched a quad band satellite simulator for multiple frequency loop-back testing at satellite earth stations. Working over C, X, Ku and Ka bands simultaneously, it permits earth station set-up without the need for a satellite to connect to. “The Quadband Satellite Simulator makes testing multiple frequencies easier as up to four ground ...

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Farnell stocking Google AI kits

Farnell is stocking a selection of complete AIY project kits and Coral USB accelerators from Google, allowing engineers, designers, and manufacturers to build on-device Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) inferencing into projects and products and take application ideas from prototype to development much faster. These new Google products simplify the development of intelligent ...

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TT Electronics announces Reflective Object Sensors for challenging applications

TT Electronics has announced its OPB735 series Reflective Object Sensors for challenging industrial automation and safety applications. This reflective sensor features hermetically sealed components offering designers a wide operating temperature range of -55°C to 100°C to suit almost any factory setting. Designed to produce extremely low cross talk or noise signal, this product provides users ...

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Samsung and TSMC set for world domination

Without extremely quick and decisive action by other IC producers or governments, Samsung and TSMC are well on their way to world domination of leading edge IC process technology – the cornerstone of all of the advanced consumer, business, and military electronic systems of the future, says IC Insights. Can governments like the EU, U.S., and ...

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Heriot-Watt teams up with ASML

Heriot-Watt University has teamed up with ASML to develop new light sources. In a five-year collaboration partly funded by ASML, Professor John Travers’ research into fundamental physics will be accelerated, creating a direct route from lab to market for new laser technologies. The partnership has resulted in a new laboratory at Heriot-Watt University which will ...

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SEAKR dealt next phase of Blackjack Pit Boss space programme

DARPA – the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – has awarded a $60.4m contract to SEAKR Engineering, for Phase Two and Phase Three of the Blackjack Pit Boss programme. The company – a specialist in electronics for space applications – is based in Centennial, Colorado, which is where the work will be carried out. ...

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