May semiconductor sales were up 26.2% y-o-y at $43.6 billion which was 4.1% up on April, says the SIA. “Global demand for semiconductors remained high in May, as sales increased both year-to-year and month-to-month across all major regional markets,” says SIA CEO John Neuffer, “the industry shipped more units on a three-month moving basis in ...
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Synthetic biology offers a way to engineer cells to perform novel functions, such as glowing with fluorescent light when they detect a certain chemical. Usually, this is done by altering cells so they express genes that can be triggered by a certain input. However, there is often a long lag time between an event such ...
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Smiths Interconnect has introduced a lower-cost variant to its Hypergrip range of medical connectors. Called Hypergrip Flex, the main change is a move from its >20,000 insertion cycle Hyperboloid socket contact to its >2,000 insertion cycle ‘MR’ socket – an 0.4mm diameter socket suited to “standard cycle life applications”, according to the company. Comparing Hypergrip and Hypergrip ...
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Omron is aiming at power conditioning in micro power generators, inverters and UPS with a 800Vac 200A relay designed to create little heat. Called G9KA, its first heat reduction technique is to have a low contact resistance. Its cadmium-free silver-alloy contacts have an initial resistance of 200μΩ (200A for 30min) – contact gap is 4mm (applied ...
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Fraunhofer IMS and Arduino have release a stand-alone C-programmed AI framework for Arduino, allowing battery-powered AI hardware to be created without needing a link to the cloud. Sensor data can be processed directly in the device. Training data can be captured directly on the device and used for training. Called AIfES, “the high optimisation of the framework allows even ...
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Four tech innovators are the winners of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Emerging Technologies Competition 2021. The ninth edition of the competition’s final, held over two days, saw 24 finalists pitching to a panel of judges from some of the world’s largest organisations, including AstraZeneca, PepsiCo and Unilever. The winners gain a share of ...
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RS Components is to stock the products of Amphenol Advanced Sensors, including devices for measuring: temperature, gas, moisture and pressure Thermometrics is an Amphenol brand that covers temperature sensors from -196 to +1150°C. Telaire is a CO2 and air quality sensor brand, deployed in commercial and residential building ventilation systems as well as in cars and ...
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St Neots test equipment maker Pico Technology is celebrating its 30th birthday. The company designs and makes oscilloscopes, data loggers, RF equipment and automotive diagnostics products in Cambridgeshire, and has offices in the USA, China, Japan and Germany. In 1991, according to the company: Intel introduced the $258 486SX microprocessor – to be found on ...
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Aaeon has introduced a 15.6in industrial touch screen all-in-one PC with a choice of Intel Comet Lake 10th generation Core processors. Dubbed OMNI-2155-CML, these are the first in the Omni family to offer a socketed processor – selected from Core i3, i5, i7, i9 or Celeron up to 35W TDP – alongside which up to 64Gbyte ...
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Farnell’s third annual IoT Survey confirms a rise in IoT for medical applications and reveals the growing role of IoT for industrial automation and control applications for the delivery of Industry 4.0. The IoT Survey is run annually by Farnell. The top three industry segments leading the way in IoT applications are industrial automation and control ...
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