TT Electronics selected as Telenor’s hardware partner

TT Electronics has been selected as hardware partner to Telenor, adding  TT’s connectivity devices and products to the Telenor IoT portfolio. “As different regions enter the era of 2G and 3G cellular sunset around the globe, millions of devices worldwide will need to be upgraded or replaced,” says TT’s Knell Karlsson, “Evolution is required, and IoT ...

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DIY chip for $10k

Efabless, a community chip creation platform, today announced the launch of its new chipIgnite program to bring chip design and fabrication to the masses. The chipIgnite program expands upon the SKY130- based open source chip manufacturing program sponsored by Google and supports private commercial designs that include non-open source IP. This initiative represents another step ...

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Raytheon licenses GaN-on-Si technology to GloFo

Raytheon will license its GaN-on-Si technology and technical expertise to Globalfoundries which will develop and commercialise the process  at its Fab 9 facility in Burlington, Vermont. The two companies anticipate using GaN for ICs handling 5G and 6G millimetre-wave Signals. This collaboration with Raytheon  is the latest of several strategic partnerships for GloFo.

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Q1 OSAT revenues grew 21.5%

Q1 revenues of the top ten packaging and test houses rose 21% y-o-y to $7.17 billion reports TrendForce, with most of the companies having double digit growth. End-device manufacturers have been aggressively procuring components since 2H20, in turn leading to a tight production capacity for actors across the semiconductor supply chain. Hence, OSAT (outsourced semiconductor ...

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BAE Systems wins $325m U.S. contract for jam-resistant M-Code GPS

BAE Systems has been awarded a $325.5 million contract by the U.S. Defense Logistics Agency to supply advanced Military Code (M-Code) GPS modules. They will provide reliable and secure positioning, navigation, and timing data with anti-jamming and anti-spoofing capabilities. The technology is intended to help warfighters conduct operations in what may be contested electronic environments. ...

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Performance of CNB conductive film doubled

Carbon nanomaterial company Canatu says it has more than doubled the performance of its Carbon NanoBud (CNB) transparent conductive film. Multi-year research and development program results in the best industrially applicable sheet resistance to optical transparency ratio ever seen in Carbon Nanotube (CNT) films. With sheet resistance of 35Ω/sq at 90% transmittance, Canatu CNB offers proven, high-performance material ...

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Push-in connector switches halve control panel assembly time

Foremost Electronics, the Essex importer and specialist distributor of electromechanical components, now offers a range of 22mm control panel switches from IDEC with secure screw-less push-in terminations which greatly reduce assembly time. Commonly used in control panel and machine building applications the Push-In termination technology option is available on the industry standard YW and HW series ...

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Verkotan offers 5G test services

Verkotan of Finland has turned to Anritsu for equipment to support its test services for manufacturers of 5G mobile devices. “With the roll-out of 5G networks, there is a need for performance tests for 5G devices,” according to Anritsu. “Verkotan is meeting this need using Anritsu`s MT8000A 5G communication tester, offering SAR [specific absorption rate] tests, ...

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Microchip puts its courses on-line

Microchip is offering on-line courses for engineers. Built around company products and under the umbrella of ‘Microchip University’, the courses and webcasts cover a range “diverse embedded design topics ranging from C programming to cryptography”, said the company. “Courses offer best practices for implementing a wide variety of systems such as the IoT, communication protocols ...

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