According to the Korea Economic Daily newspaper, Hynix is in talks to buy Key Foundry of Korea – the eight inch foundry spun off from MagnaChip last year. Among other things Key Foundry specialises in automotive ICs of which there is a massive world shortage with soaring prices. Last February MagnaChip started running wafers on ...
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The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is calling for views on a number of measures to enhance the security of digital supply chains and third party IT services, used by firms for things such as data processing and infrastructure management. “We’re seeking views from firms that both procure and provide digital services, ...
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The chip shortage is taking an ever deepening toll among the car companies. Stellantis, the car company formed by the merger of Fiat and Peugeot, says it will cut over 1600 jobs at its Illinois Jeep plant when it cuts the second shift at the plant in July. The chip shortage is expected to cost ...
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Flexible thin-film electrodes developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have been used at UC San Francisco to record human brain activity on the surface of the brain’s hippocampus area. “We’ve developed an enabling technology for demonstrating a phenomenon that wasn’t really possible before,” says LLNL’s Implantable Microsystems Group Leader Razi Haque, “this challenge required creation ...
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Sony has expanded the functionality of its Camera Remote SDK, in version 1.04, and increased the range of compatible models. Aimed at applications involving photogrammetry, speed cameras and mapping systems, the updated SDK now allows up to 20 cameras to be synchronised, via USB or Ethernet connectivity for greater distances. As well as the Sony Alpha ...
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Fluke has launched a family of clamp meters that aim to make electrical measurements safer for servicing and maintenance technicians. The Fluke 377 and 378 are non-contact voltage True-rms AC/DC clamp meters that allow technicians to make rapid electrical tests without the danger of coming into contact with hazardous live parts. The Fluke 377 and ...
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Chip supply and demand won’t be in balance until Q2 2022, according to Gartner. ‘The foundries are increasing wafer prices and chip companies are increasing prices,” says Gartner’s Kanishka Chauhan. The chip shortage started with PMICs, display drivers and MCUs, fabricated on legacy nodes at 8-inch foundry fabs, which have a limited supply. The shortage ...
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EPC is aiming at mild hybrid vehicles and battery back-up Units with a 1.5kW gallium nitride bidirectional power converter demonstration board. Nominally 48 to 12V and back, it can produce 12 at 125A from 20 to 60V, or 48V at 29A from 12 to 15V. Peal efficiency is 97%. “The design of this demonstration board is ...
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STMicroelectronics has GaN-based 250W industrial power supply demonstration board – the first for its MasterGaN power devices. Called EVLMG1-250WLLC, it is designed to produce 24Vdc 10A from a nominal 400Vdc supply with maximum efficiency above 92%. The main component is a MasterGaN1, an IC-like package containing a half-bridge driver and two normally-off 650V GaN transistors – ...
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Cortec has created a packaging shrink film that can be composted. It is called EcoShrink Compostable Film. “EcoShrink takes both the beginning and the end of the shrink wrap product life cycle into account,” according to Cortec. “It is sourced from certified commercially compostable resins and contains 45% biopolymers. After use, it can be disposed ...
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