UK Space agency commits to space debris projects

The UK Space Agency has announced its commitment to a number of projects or initiatives designed to help tackle the issue of space debris. The three sets of projects to receive its backing address the issue of sustainable space operations and the problems caused by defunct and colliding satellites in orbit. Junk First, the space ...

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Samsung Q3 chip profits up 82% y-o-y

Samsung saw Q3 chip profits grow 82% y-o-y to $8.62 billion. Corporate Q3 profit was up 28% at $13.48 billion on revenues up 10% at $63 billion. “A longer-than-expected component supply issue may need to be monitored due to potential impacts”, said Samsung, adding that there was “strong fundamental demand for servers from increased investments ...

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Guerrilla goes public

Guerrilla RF, the MMIC specialist, has gone public by implementing a reverse merger with Laffin Acquisition Corp,  a public Delaware corporation, following which  Laffin changed its name to Guerrilla RF. The exercise raised more than $7 million. Last year Guerrilla had sales of  $8.09 million representing sn increase of 990% in the past three years. ...

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Europrocessor initiative taps Intel tech

SiPearl, the company that is designing the European supercomputers processor is , collaborating with Intel to provide a joint offering for the first European exascale supercomputers. The partnership will offer European customers the possibility to combine  SiPearl’s CPU Rhea with Intel’s family of general-purpose GPU Ponte Vecchio making a high- performance compute node fostering European ...

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Current-to-bits converter fast enough for optical reflectometry

ADA4355 from Analog Devices is a current-input digital-output converter works with pulses down to 10ns for time-of-flight measurements using photo diodes. In a 12 x 6mm BGA package, the IC is actually a hybrid module combining transimpedance amplifier, analogue low-pass filter and 14bit 125Msample/s ADC converter. The output is through two serial LVDS (low-voltage differential signalling) lanes at ...

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Autumn Budget commits to increase R&D investment to £22bn

The Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has finished presenting his Autumn Budget and Spending Review 2021 to the House of Commons. Points he highlighted included a promised £22bn investment in Research & Development, a new investment fund for business growth and an updated R&D tax credits regime. “We are making this country a science ...

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Morris Chang says domestic US chip supply chain is impossible

Morris Chang (pictured) says the idea of building a US-based IC supply chain is impossible even if it spent much more than the $52 billion envisaged by the Chips Act. “If you want to reestablish a complete semiconductor supply chain in the U.S., you will not find it as a possible task,” said Chang in ...

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InstaVolt selects Eseye connectivity for UK-wide EV charger network

UK electric vehicle charge-point provider InstaVolt has picked Eseye cellular IoT technology for its UK charger network. Eseye is a service-provider that can, automatically over-the-air, swap between network operators for IoT nodes that communicate over cellular networks. Its service works with special SIM card, dubbed ‘AnyNet+ eSIM’, and is built on the eUICC standard for network ...

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X-Fab adds 375V nmos and pmos super-junction transistors to BCD chip process

X-Fab Silicon Foundries has added 375V power transistors to the devices available from its 180nm deep trench isolation BCD-on-SoI platform chip fab. The second generation of its XT018 super-junction high-voltage primitive devices, they cover 45 to 375V in one process module and are aimed at applications like medical ultrasound transmitter-receiver ICs and AC line-powered IoT sensors. ...

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Sponsored Content – YMIN Supercapacitor Modular Provide Energy Saving And Cost Effective For Automatic Storage and Logistics

  A ”smart automation warehouse” enables complete visibility, reduces complexity, improves operational performance, increases the productivity process in the industry by operating smart machines including robots, AGVs, RGVs, carton shuttle, forklift, etc. These devices are typically powered by batteries or cables or trolley wire, which require charging regularly, a place to charge as well as ...

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