German automotive part maker Mahle is developing an electric motor that does not require permanent magnets, and so does not need rare earth elements. Like a permanent magnet synchronous motor, favoured by many electric vehicle makers, Mahle’s motor is a synchronous machine, but instead of rare earth permanent magnets in the rotor it has electromagnets. To ...
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University of Plymouth power supply spin-out Pulsiv has raised £620,000 in equity funding, bringing its total to £1.5m, and has appointed senior staff. Darrel Kingham has become CEO having left Aixtron as general manager. He was formerly with Arm. The man behind Pulsiv’s technology, Dr Zaki Ahmed, has moved from his post at the University of ...
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C&K has launched that rarest of things, a tact push-button switch with change-over contacts – which means it offers a normally-closed option too. Not only that, but the 6.0 x 6.1 x 3.45mm ‘TLSM’ switch is momentary in operation and mechanically rated for 3,000,000 cycles. Travel of the top-mounted soft actuator is 0.3 ±0.2mm with 2N ...
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Intel hung on to its No.1 slot in Q1 although the gap with Samsung narrowed, reports ICInsights in its May Update to the 2021 McClean Report. The top-15 worldwide semiconductor (IC and O S D—optoelectronic, sensor, and discrete) sales ranking for 1Q21 is shown in Figure 1. It includes eight suppliers headquartered in the U.S., ...
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Winbond, the Taiwan memory producer, is collaborating with Ambiq, the MCU and real-time clock specialist, to combine Winbond’s HyperRAM and Ambiq’s Apollo4 SoC to deliver system chips for IoT endpoints and wearables. Several customers are in design with Ambiq’s Apollo4 and Winbond 256Mbx8 HyperRAM Hybrid Sleep Mode (HSM), with volume production expected in 2022. HSM ...
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Review Display Systems (RDS) of Westerham is shipping a Pico-ITX single board computer (SBC). The AAEON Pico-TGU4 SBC has by Intel’s 11thGeneration Core G processors (formerly Tiger Lake) The Pico-TGU4 offers users the choice of the Intel Core i7, i5, i3 and Celeron processors which support on-board TPM 2.0 and in-band ECC. The board features ...
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New regulations to be put in place by the UK government should officially pave the way for commercial space launches from UK soil, from spaceports in Scotland, Wales and England. The government has tabled legislation – The Space Industry Regulations – that it believes will “help propel the development of commercial spaceflight technologies”, from traditional ...
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The European Space Agency has announced a three-week extension for applying to be an ESA astronaut. The move comes with agency officially welcoming Lithuania as a new Associate Member state. The application process for ESA’s first astronaut selection in over a decade began on 31 March 2021 and the deadline for entries is now 18 ...
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