JAE recognises TTI as EMEA’s fastest growing distributor of the year

Connector and cable manufacturer, Japan Aviation Electronics (JAE) has awarded TTI its EMEA Fastest Growing Distributor 2020 award. The award is in recognition of the distributor’s “2020 outstanding performance across EMEA” with design-in activities, which have resulted in “exceptional growth” for JAE. The distributor stocks JAE products for factory automation, robotics, test and measurement, e-mobility, mobile ...

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200MHz Cortex-M4 MCUs suit office equipment and building automation

20 more 200MHz 40nm Arm Cortex-M4 microcontrollers, announced earlier this year, are now available form Toshiba. They have a floating point unit, 2Mbyte code flash and 32kB data flash with 100k write cycle endurance. Interface options include: Ethernet, CAN and USB 2.0 FS OTG with integrated PHY. “The devices can allocate independent DMA and RAM ...

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Current sensor suits rail transport track-side installations

LEM has introduced a current transducer series for ac, dc and pulsed rail trackside applications. Called the HTRS-series, they will be available in three current ranges: 10A, 30A and 50A, with peaks up to twice the nominal value, and have a 6kV insulation test voltage. Size is 72 x 29 x 26mm and mounting adapters, ...

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Imec licenses Covid detection technology

Imec and Imec spin-off miDiagnostics have signed a non-exclusive licensing agreement for Imec’s patented technology whereby aerosols and droplets from exhaled breath are captured for screening for viral RNA through miDiagnostics ultrafast PCR technology. The agreement enables miDiagnostics to kickstart the commercialization of a COVID-19 breathalyzer (as opposed to classical COVID-19 testing methods based on ...

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Wafer shipments up 13.9% to record high

Silicon wafer shipments are projected to register robust growth through 2024, with wafer area increasing 13.9% year-over-year in 2021 to a record high of nearly 14,000 millions of square inches (MSI), reports SEMI in its annual silicon shipment forecast for the semiconductor industry. “We are seeing a significant increase in silicon shipments driven by strong ...

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Digi-Key Marketplace adds QuickLogic FPGA technology

Digi-Key Electronics and the FPGA and embedded FPGA IP company QuickLogic are partnering to sell IoT and AI technology through the DigiKey Marketplace. Specifically, the agreement covers QuickLogic’s low power, multi-core MCU, FPGAs and embedded FPGAs, voice and sensor processing products. For example, included are the EOS S3 MCU Sensor Processing Platform, EOS S3-AI, EOS ...

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TSMC Q3 up 22.6%

TSMC had Q3 revenue of  $14.88 billion which was up 22.6% y-o-y and 12% up on Q2. Q3 profit of $5.57 billion was up 14% y-o-y. Gross margin for the quarter was 51.3%, operating margin was 41.2%, and net profit margin was 37.7%. In the third quarter, shipments of 5-nanometer accounted for 18% of total ...

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Native red InGaN microdisplay, from Cambridge

University of Cambridge spin-out Porotech has built what is said is the world’s first micro-display that emits red natively from indium gallium nitride – meaning that no phosphors are involved. The 960 x 540 display measures 14mm (0.55in) across the diagonal. “Until now, it has only been possible to produce blue and green micro-displays using GaN-based light-emitting ...

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Arm offers cloud-based virtual Cortex-M hardware, and a security framework

To allow early software development, Arm is offering cloud-based simulation of some of its standard Cortex-M SoC configurations. At the same time, it has created a standards-based model for creating secure IoT devices built around Cortex-M processors. Cloud-based SoC emulation for Cortex-M Dubbed ‘Arm Virtual Hardware’, the cloud-based simulators are aimed at software developers, OEMs ...

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