NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been recovered to an operational status. The collection of science data will now resume, confirms the U.S. space agency. Its payload computer first experienced a problem back on 13 June, and the instruments were then placed in a safe configuration and science operations suspended. Since July 15, the spacecraft has ...
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ROHM intends to move into mass production of its hybrid IGBTs with integrated 650V SiC Schottky barrier diode in December. The RGWxx65C series (RGW60TS65CHR, RGW80TS65CHR, RGW00TS65CHR devices are qualified under the AEC-Q101 automotive reliability standard. They are suitable for automotive and industrial applications that handle large power, such as photovoltaic power conditioners, onboard chargers, and ...
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The Government is planning to boost the legal status of digital identities to make them “as widely recognised as driver’s licences and bank statements”, according to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), which is seeking “Easily recognised trust-marks to be issued for digital identity products to build public confidence.” Such digital identities will ...
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ABB has introduced a 60A dc-dc converter for 5G, IT and IIoT networking equipment that fits inside 3cm3. Branded MicroDLynx IITM, but numbered UJT060A0X43-SRPZ, the converters is 20.3 x 11.4 x 13mm. DC input voltage range is nominally 12V and can range across 7.5 to 14.4V. The non-isolated output is digitally controlled and set over PMBus between 500mV ...
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Realtek has licensed Imagination Technologies’ IMG B-Series BXE-4-32 GPU for a system-on-chip aimed at mass market digital television. BXE-4-32 was selected, said Imagination, for area efficiency while processing four pixels per clock, plus its multi-core capability and cache configurability. BXE also features Imagination’s IMGIC multiple-quality-level real-time image compression technology that “enables DTV platforms with a BXE-4-32 ...
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CesiumAstro has announced a credit-card-sized software-defined radio for use in space for commercial, government and defence applications. Called the SDR-1001 (cover removed right), and tested to NASA GEVS standards, it has four transmit and four receive channels tunable from 300MHz to 6GHz. Bandwidth is 100MHz per channel. At the heart is an FPGA “with 70% resources available for custom designs”, ...
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A 2MW combined solar power and desalination plant is to be built by the European and Gulf researchers and companies. It is part of a project called ‘Desolination’, intended to improve the efficiency of both concentrator solar power and desalination. “Not only will improvement be made on the independent systems but also on their coupling taking ...
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Intel is reported to be in talks with Mubadala, the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth, fund about buying its subsidiary Globalfoundries. Globalfoundries says Intel has not talked to them. The price being quoted is $30 billion. Globalfoundries has been preparing for an IPO and says it is continuing to do so. After Pat Gelsinger took over as ...
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Morris Chang (pictured) has spoken out against the current moves by countries to try and establish advanced domestic chip manufacturing capabilities. “Recently, we note with concern the tendency to want self-sufficiency or ‘on-shoring’ of semiconductor chips,” Chang told the APEC trade group, “it would be highly impractical to try to turn back the clock. If ...
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The Taiwan government and semiconductor industry are to invest $300 million to create graduate courses for the chip industry. The move comes as the Taiwan industry finds talent getting increasingly short, made worse by a brain drain to the US and China. China has said it needs 230,000 more semiconductor engineers by 2022 and a ...
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