DARPA – the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – has appointed Stefanie Tompkins as its 23rd director. She has previously worked at DARPA for eleven years and was a former military intelligence officer in the U.S. At the end of 2017 she had served as the acting deputy director of the agency. Following this, ...
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Q2 will see larger q-o-q DRAM ASP increases, says TrendForce. Datacentre purchasers will resume large-scale procurement in Q2 and DRAM buyers across different application segments will be under pressure to stockpile. After experiencing QoQ increases of 3-8% for 1Q21, the average contract prices of different kinds of DRAM products are forecasted to rise more significantly ...
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Nexperia and United Automotive Electronic Systems (UAES) are combining on GaN power semiconductor devices with a focus on power systems for EVs with the aim to jointly develop automotive applications using GaN technology. The electrification of cars, the increasing high power requirements of telecommunication equipment for 5G and the rise of Industry 4.0 require power ...
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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 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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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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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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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 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 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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