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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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 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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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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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 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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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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Direct Insight has created a QNX 7 board support package (BSP) for Ka-Ro TX8 and QS8 modules, which are built around NXP i.MX8M Mini processors with 64bit Arm cores. It has been developed to provide a starting point for industrial designs. “QNX is ideal for safety-critical projects and is also available in safety-certified versions, making it ...
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Edinburgh-based pyroelectric sensor maker Pyreos has appointed two distributors to increase its commercial presence in Asia. “These partnerships are set to increase our market share in South Korea and China,” said Pyreos v-p sales Keith Pruden. “More than this, these alliances will provide greater ability for our customers in Asia to simplify their supply chains ...
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Centimetre accuracy is the claim for a single-board computer that includes three satellite positioning receivers, according to its maker Spanish company ArduSimple. The board fits inside 100 x 120mm and is called SimpleRTK2B-SBC. “SimpleRTK2B-SBC uniquely delivers easy mechanical integration with centimetre position on three axes – heading, pitch and roll – outputting on NMEA, RTCM, RS232, and ...
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