The semiconductor market showed powerful growth in 2Q 2021, up 8.3% from 1Q 2021 and up 29% from a year earlier, according to WSTS. Most major semiconductor companies experienced substantial revenue growth in the quarter. The memory companies were especially strong, with 2Q 2021 versus 1Q 2021 revenue (in local currency) up 19.6% for Samsung, ...
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Firefly, the Texas-based launch and in-space services provider, has appointed Lauren Lyons as its Chief Operating Officer (COO). With the company approaching its first Alpha launch, and the development of the Blue Ghost lunar lander, it says Lyons’ priorities will be to focus on “transitioning Firefly from an R&D environment to a production environment”, responding ...
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Dialog has brought out a family of high current, auto grade, step down, DC-DC buck converters. .The DA914X-A devices deliver current levels, up to 40 amps – a better alternative to power solutions that require a combination of a power controller and discrete FETs. The DA914X-A family integrates power FETs and all required control logic into ...
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Number One Systems of Tewkesbury (numberone.com), the PCB design specialist, has announced the release of Easy-PC version 25, with over 25 new technology features based on user requests from professional PCB designers. “With designs becoming more technologically advanced and faster, new advanced features and working smarter have been the emphasis for version 25 this year,” ...
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Maxim has designed a multi-phase dc-dc converter evaluation kit that can deliver 1.8V at over 800A. Called MAX16602CL8EVKIT#, it combines the company’s MAX16602 controller IC with eight MAX20790 smart power-stage ICs. The design is intended to power Intel VR13.HC server CPUs or AI cores from a 12V intermediate bus. “Hyperscale data centre designers grapple with increasing peak ...
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YouTuber Mark Rober recently broke a world record for setting up dominos, using a custom built and programmed autonomous robot called Dominator to place 102,000 of them in just over 24 hours. On completion, the resulting Super Mario mural took only a handful of seconds to collapse once the first row was knocked over. Automatically loaded by ...
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Cincon Electronics of Taiwan is aiming at railway applications with a 20W dc-dc converter that can run from between 10V and 160V. The series is suited for all kinds of voltage parameters in different regions because of its ultra-wide input voltage,” according to the company. “Since rail traffic will be exposed to a harsh environment ...
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Imec and photonics specialist Xanadu have announced a partnership to develop photonic qubits based on SiN waveguides. Xanadu is developing a quantum computer based on photonics. “Xanadu’s ultimate mission is to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere,” says Xanadu founder and CEO Christian Weedbrook, “to do this we have the ambitious ...
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BrainChip has received the first batch of Akida AI chips from its manufacturing run from Socionext America (SNA). The chips were manufactured at TSMC from a production mask set provided in May 2021. This mask set follows the successful production of engineering samples from the Company’s Multi-Project Wafers (MPW), received in August of 2020, and ...
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Cree and ST have extended their SiC 150mm wafer supply deal which is now worth more than $800 million “This latest expansion to our long-term wafer supply agreement with Cree will continue to contribute to the flexibility of our global silicon carbide substrate supply,” says ST CEO Jean-March achery (pictured) “it will continue to contribute ...
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