UK made: Filtronic gets its Queen’s Award

Filtronic’s Queen’s Award for Enterprise for International Trade Award, announced in April, has now formally arrived in the company’s Sedgefield facility, courtesy of the Lord Lieutenant of County Durham, Sue Snowdon. “To have a company here in County Durham developing market-leading RF technologies, and with world-class manufacturing facilities, is fantastic for the local economy.,” said ...

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Impulse takes Jetson Xavier NX to the Edge

Impulse Embedded is supplying a range of industrial computers built around Nvidia’s Jetson Xavier NX system-on-module. The EAC-2000 series from Vecow is intended for artificial intelligence vision projects as well as industrial applications including traffic vision, surveillance, optical inspection, smart factory, AMR and AGV. The module consumes 15W  and includes a 21Top/s 384 core Volta GPU, with ...

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Ambient light sensor detects UVA for mobile sun exposure safety

Osram has created an ambient light sensor for mobiles and wearables that includes UV-A light detection. “While the UV-C portion of sunlight is blocked by the earth’s atmosphere, UV-A and UV-B radiation reaches the earth’s surface,” according to the company. “UV-B radiation penetrates only the upper layers of the skin and is responsible for sunburn. ...

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750V electric vehicle IGBT module handles 50kW

Infineon has introduced a 50kW automotive-qualified IGBT half bridge for electric and hybrid vehicles. Called FF300R08W2P2_B11A, and rated to 230Arms, it includes a pair of 750V IGBTs from the company’s EDT2 generation, optimised for 10kHz switching. “The chipset has benchmark current density combined with short circuit ruggedness for reliable inverter operation under harsh environmental conditions,” said ...

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6G: ETSI studies reconfigurable intelligent surfaces

Standards body ETSI is to create a specification for reflective RF ‘reconfigurable intelligent surfaces’ (RISs). “RIS is a new type of system node leveraging smart radio surfaces with thousands of small antennas or metamaterial elements to dynamically shape and control radio signals,” according to the organisation. The surfaces can be used to modify system coverage ...

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Sumco to put $2bn into new 300mm wafer capacity

Sumco is to spend $2 billion to expand production of  300 mm silicon wafers, reports the Nikkei. “With our existing manufacturing facilities, supply can’t keep up with demand,” says Chairman Mayuki Hashimoto. Helping to pay for the expansion will be an issue of 60 million new shares – representing a fifth of its outstanding stock ...

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Tesla shrugs off chip shortage to ship record car numbers

While the car industry expects to lose 7.7 million vehicle sales at a cost of $210 billion, Tesla shrugged off chip shortages to deliver a record number of cars in Q3. Tesla has handled chip supplies better than the rest of the car industry. Sales have increased every quarter for six successive quarters. Q3 sales ...

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Navitas leads in GaN power device shipments

Annual GaN power devices revenue for 2021 will reach $83 million – a 73% YoY increase, says TrendForce.  Navitas is projected to obtain a 29% market share (measured by total shipment) and overtake Power Integrations (PI) for the top position this year.   Thanks to Navitas’ proprietary GaNFast power IC design and great relationships with ...

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Eutelsat Communications rejects Patrick Drahi’s takeover bid

Eutelsat Communications, the Paris-based satellite operator, has confirmed it has received, and rejected, an unsolicited takeover bid. The relevant governance bodies of the company have unanimously decided not to engage in discussions based on the terms of a proposal from Mr. Patrick Drahi, it said. Drahi’s bid priced Eutelsat at 12.10 euros per share, for “a ...

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