Power management for Sapphire Rapids server CPUs

Infineon has launched power management designs for Intel’s Sapphire Rapids server CPUs. “These combine our software-defined digital controllers with integrated power stage and point-of-load converters,” said Infineon marketing director Rakesh Renganathan. There are three Arm Cortex-M0 based transient phase controllers (XDPE15284D, XDPE15254D and XDPE152C4D) with proprietary control algorithms for managing peaky processor loads. Taking the XDPE15284D as ...

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24 to 47GHz 5G front-end chipset

Analog Devices, has introduced millimetre wave (mmW) 5G front-end chipsets spanning 24 to 47GHz. There are two 16-channel dual-polarisation beam formers and two single channel (one Tx + one Rx) up-down converters. ADMV4828 24 – 29.5GHz 16-channel beamformer >12.5dBm output at 3% EVM with 400MHz 64QAM 5G NR waveform 310mW/channel ADMV4928 37 to 43.5GHz 16-channel beamformer ...

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Synopsys launches pay-as-you-go chip design and verification tools on Azure

Synopsys has picked Microsoft’s Azure HBv3 cloud to offer pay-as-you-go on-line IC design and verification electronic design automation (EDA) tools, to be called Synopsys Cloud. “As more design flows incorporate AI, requiring even more resources, the virtually unlimited compute and EDA access we’re providing will deliver a flexible, secure chip development environment for future demands,” said ...

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President of European Young Engineers completes EW BrightSparks selection panel

We’re very pleased to announce another addition to the EW BrightSparks 2022 judging panel, with Nadja Yang – President, European Young Engineers (EYE) – agreeing to come on board. Nadja adds to what is an expertise-packed set of judges from across the industry, joining (alphabetically) Clive Couldwell (Group Editor, Electronics Weekly), Graham Curren (CEO, Sondrel), ...

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Samsung dominating booming smartphone display market

The global smartphone display panel market revenue rose more than 5% to $46 billion in 2021, according to Strategy Analytics, with Samsung dominating the market with 49% share. BOE is in 2nd place with 16% share, followed by LG with 8%. The top 3 had nearly 72% of the market. “OLED display panels saw increased ...

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GNSS receivers support Japan’s CLAS

Septentrio has launched three products which support Japan’s high-accuracy Centimeter Level Augmentation Service (CLAS) – mosaic-CLAS, AsteRx-m3 CLAS and AsteRx SB3 CLAS, These multi-frequency GNSS receivers support CLAS on a single device, thanks to the latest GNSS technology which receives the L6 signal, which transmits high-accuracy corrections from Japan’s QZSS** constellation. This technology was developed in ...

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MEMS analogue piezoelectric accelerometer

Vesper, a MEMS supplier of piezoelectric sensors, has launched the VA1210, Vesper’s 2nd generation analogue piezoelectric smart voice accelerometer. The VA1210 offers higher sensitivity (+17 dB) and higher (+6 dB) SNR than the 1st generation VA1200 in voice pickup. Additionally, new intelligent features of Wake-on-Voice (WoV) and hardware voice activity detection (HVAD) are introduced into ...

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Chip demand is slowing says TSMC chairman

Chip demand is slowing, TSMC chairman Mark Liu told the Nikkei earlier today, citing slowdowns in “smartphones, PCs, and TVs, especially in China, the biggest consumer market.” Rising costs are also a problem, said Liu. “Everyone in the industry is worried about rising costs across the overall supply chain,” he said instancing component and materials ...

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Arm transfers most of its Arm China shareholding to Softbank

Arm is transferring most of its stake in Arm China to owner Softbank to facilitate its IPO planned for next March. Arm will end up with less than 20% of Arm China with Softbank holding 28%. A majority stake is held by Chinese investors. After the transfer, Arm China will be treated as a licensee ...

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Kioxia sampling automotive UFS flash

Kioxia has started sampling Automotive UFS Ver. 3.1 embedded flash memory devices. Samples  of the 256GB, 128GB and 64GB devices will start today, with the 512GB device to follow in April. The new devices support a wide temperature range (-40°C to +105°C), meet AEC[4]-Q100 Grade2 requirements and offer enhanced reliability capabilities that increasingly complex automotive applications ...

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