The EU wants a Chips Act to rival the USA, said EC president Ursula von der Leyen earlier today in Strasbourg. The hope would be to co-ordinate R&D, funding and a ‘state of the art ecosystem’ across member states. The EU needs to “be bold again” she said in taking on such “a daunting task” as ...
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Arm has got together with the automotive supply chain to create a web-native development environment for functional safety and real-time software. It is to be called Soafee, for Scalable Open Architecture for Embedded Edge, it is the result of automakers, system integrators, semiconductor, software, and cloud technology companies coming together to define an open-standards-based architecture ...
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As the world’s economies emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, showing good growth and strong support from governments, the semiconductor industry is forecast to an annual growth of 22-25.5% in 2021. Future Horizons forecast a growth of 24.5%, for a total market value of $546.65bn, in its Mid-Term Semiconductor Industry Update. For next year, there remains ...
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Fuel cell control systems will need to be highly sophisticated if the technology is going to find its way into transport, according to German hydrogen and fuel cell research centre ZBT, which is developing it for trucks and busses. In hydrogen fuel cells, hydrogen is fed to the anode while air is fed to the ...
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Digi-Key Electronics has signed a distribution deal with Siemens for its range of automation and control products, the companies have announced. The partnership will cover products such as power supplies, human-machine interface (HMI) technology, programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and heavy duty switches. Sectors addressed include automotive manufacturing, data centers, electronics manufacturing, healthcare. “We are proud ...
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SiTime has unveiled its Timing Essentials Learning Hub. The Learning Hub enables engineers to expand their timing knowledge and use it to produce better electronics. The Hub offers educational courses that range from fundamental to advanced timing. Taught by industry experts, this skills-building platform offers both on-demand and live classes to meet the needs of all audiences, ...
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Renesas and OmniVision have introduced an integrated reference design for a High Definition automotive camera system. The design features Renesas’ recently introduced Automotive HD Link (AHL) technology that transmits high-definition video over low-cost cables and connectors. The AHL components in the design pair with OmniVision’s OX01F10 1.3MP SoC. The RAA279971 AHL encoder and RAA279972 decoder ...
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NeoPhotonics has announced a tunable high power FMCW (frequency-modulated continuous-wave) laser module and high power semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) chips. Both components are optimized to enable long range automotive lidar and high resolution industrial sensing applications. The FMCW Laser is C-band tunable and can be directly modulated to provide >21dBm (126mW) fiber coupled power and ...
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