Router ICs on 60-week lead-time

Router chips are on a 60 week lead-time reports Bloomberg, quoting sources including Zyxel, the Taiwanese router manufacturer. Zyxel is quoted as saying  that Broadcom has doubled its lead-times for router-related chips to a year or more. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said in March that 90% of  the company’s 2021 capacity had  been booked out, ...

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Phone data predicts Covid19 surges

Canadian researchers have used mobile phone data to reveal how much out-of-home travel (dubbed ‘mobility’) is needed to cause a surge in Covid-19 cases. The team uses almost a year’s anonymised phone data (March 2020 to March 2021) to estimate on average how long people were moving outside their homes in Canada, and also noted ...

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Delta quietens 140kVA solar inverter

Delta has launched a second generation of its three-phase 140kVA M125HV photovoltaic string inverter for solar farms, cutting nuisance sound compared with Gen 1. The integrated design combines string fuses, surge protection and dc switching in a single unit within an IP65-rated aluminium enclosure. “Gen2 offers the same maximum output of its predecessor, but now operates ...

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2021 to be a record year for semi units shipment

A 13% increase in units is expected to lift total semiconductor shipments to a new record high this year, forecasts IC Insights. Total semiconductor unit shipments, which include integrated circuits as well as optoelectronics, sensor/actuator, and discrete (O-S-D) devices, are forecast to rise 13% in 2021, to 1,135.3 billion (1.1353 trillion) units to set a new ...

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Teledyne to provide VNIR-SWIR detector for CHIME mission

Chelmsford-based Teledyne e2v’s Space Imaging group has confirmed a contract with Leonardo to supply specialised image sensors and detectors. It will be part of the recently announced proposal of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) industrial policy committee to place six Copernicus Sentinel satellite missions in space. Specifically, Teledyne e2v will be supplying Leonardo with a ...

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Applied’s five inflections

Applied Materials has outlined five inflections that are fuelling growth and the need for innovation: 1. The digital  transformation of the global economy is accelerating. 2. In computing, AI workloads are fueling the need for new architectures based on entirely new types of silicon. 3. Within chipmaking, traditional Moore’s Law 2D scaling is slowing, creating ...

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Build Inside The Box with Farnell

To celebrate the 500th episode of element14 presents members are invited to help design its ‘Build Inside the Box’ challenge to support STEM Education. The special 500th element14 presents episode will look similar to Food Network’s ‘Chopped,’ a cooking challenge in which chef contestants must create a palatable dish using all ingredients they are given. element14 ...

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