Rakuten Mobile and NEC sign O-RAN MoU

Rakuten Mobile and NEC have signed an MoU to promote O-RAN. In Japan, NEC is currently providing 5G radio units  for Rakuten Mobile’s fully virtualized cloud-native mobile network. The two companies are also jointly developing Rakuten Mobile’s containerized 5G Stand Alone (SA) core network (5GC). Under the MoU, Rakuten Mobile and NEC will expand upon ...

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IceMOS awarded NASA contract to develop novel power transistor

IceMOS Technology of Belfast has been awarded a NASA project to begin work on developing a novel radiation-hard high voltage power transistor. Improvements in power semiconductor devices are critical to power supply applications required in long-term NASA space programs such as “Moon to Mars” which aims to send humans to the surface of the Moon by ...

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Qorvo adds to programmable PMICs

Qorvo has expanded its family of multi-time programmable PMICs  with the launch of the company’s first Constant-On-Time (COT) PMIC to feature 13 voltage rails and 25 amps of power across all outputs in a 3.8 x 3.8 mm package. The product’s flexibility, small form factor and low quiescent current (LQC) address power, performance and size challenges ...

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Aphawave shares remain below offer price

Alphawave, the Canadian wired connectivity semiconductor IP specialist which IPO’d last week has not recovered from the crash which saw its shares dip 21% below the 410p offer price hit 369p yesterday.  Before the public offer, BlackRock and Janus Henderson had committed to take $510 million worth of shares. The company, led by Tony Pialis ...

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81% y-o-y Q1 notebook growth

Q1 notebook shipments grew 81% y-o-y, says Strategy Analytics. “Chromebooks continued to dominate the education sector as primary education sector demand is still high in developed markets,” says SA’s Chirag Upadhyay, “the SMB (Small and Medium Business) market is also responding well to the cost competitiveness and manageability of the Chrome ecosystem, giving the OS ...

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Integrated test product for pluggable 800G transceivers

VIAVI claims to have produced the industry’s first fully integrated test product for pluggable 800G transceivers that utilize 100G electrical lane speed, with integrated test applications. 800G represents the current peak of practical optical networking speeds, and as network traffic continues to surge, it is fast becoming part of operators’ upgrade plans. Enterprises are accelerating ...

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Cambridge UK: Agile Analog closes $19m funding round

Agile Analog of Cambridge has closed a $19m funding round led by Canadian pension company Omers Ventures, and backed by existing investors Delin Ventures, firstminute capital and MMC Ventures. “What excites us about Agile Analog is the potential for scale,” said Omers partner Henry Gladwyn. “Every other analogue IP supplier is restricted to selling a ...

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Cambridge UK: Agile Analog closes $19m funding round

Agile Analog of Cambridge has closed a $19m funding round led by Canadian pension company Omers Ventures, and backed by existing investors Delin Ventures, firstminute capital and MMC Ventures. “What excites us about Agile Analog is the potential for scale,” said Omers partner Henry Gladwyn. “Every other analogue IP supplier is restricted to selling a ...

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Cambridge UK: Agile Analog closes $19m funding round

Agile Analog of Cambridge has closed a $19m funding round led by Canadian pension company Omers Ventures, and backed by existing investors Delin Ventures, firstminute capital and MMC Ventures. “What excites us about Agile Analog is the potential for scale,” said Omers partner Henry Gladwyn. “Every other analogue IP supplier is restricted to selling a ...

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Board turns a stepper into a servo

Trinamic Motion Control claims to be making the “smallest single-axis servo controller-driver module with integrated motion control”. TMCM-1321, as it is known, controls two-phase bipolar stepper motors and includes a magnetic encoder and digital inputs for an optical encoder. It is a 28 x 28mm module, although it needs more space than this because “it ...

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