Sun Capital Partners is selling C&K Switches to Chicago-based Littelfuse in a deal valued at $540m. “C&K and Littelfuse share a common vision, with both companies having almost 100 years’ experience in design and manufacture,” said C&K CEO Lars Brickenkamp (photo). “With many common customers, applications and focus markets, our two companies share market and cultural ...
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SolidRun has introduced a module with 16 2GHz Arm Cortex-72 cores, that measures just 58 x 48mm. Built around NXP’s Layerscape LX21262A processor, the module partners it with up to 32Gbyte of DDR4, 8Gbyte of eMMC and a 8Mbit SPI memory. External SD and PCIe-SSD are supported. Four 25Gbit Ethernet and and eight Gen 3.0 PCIe interfaces are included ...
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Semiconductor manufacturing equipment lead-times are stretching out, threatening the capacity expansion plans of device manufacturers, reports the Nikkei. Shortages which are affecting the build plans of equipment makers include lenses, valves, pumps, MCUs, engineering plastics and electronic modules. Lead-times for parts and materials quoted by the Nikkei in months are: Valves, Pumps, Engineering Plastics – ...
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At the end of 2021, 57% of the industry’s total monthly wafer capacity was owned by the top five companies, according to Knometa Research’s Global Wafer Capacity 2022 report. One year earlier the share was 56% and back in 2018 it was 53%. A decade ago, the share held by the top five was about ...
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February chip sales of $52.5 billion were up 3.4% on January’s $50.7 billion and up 32.4% on the $39.6 billion of February 2021, reports the SIA. “Global semiconductor sales remained strong in February, increasing by more than 20% for the eleventh consecutive month on a year-to-year basis,” says SIA CEO John Neuffer, “sales into the ...
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Spectrolab has been selected to provide approximately 4,000 XTJ Prime solar cells for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The Boeing company – which is based in Sylmar, California – will manufacture, integrate and test the cells under the terms of the agreement with NASA. They will provide power to both the telescope and the ...
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Analog Devices has created an alternative to its venerable LTZ1000 untra-precision voltage reference, with better initial accuracy and less noise, although not every parameter is improved. Called ADR1000 (right), the nominally 6.62V part is a pin-compatible replacement for the LTZ1000 (below), and like it includes a buried Zener reference, a heater for temperature stabilization and ...
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E-Peas has unveiled boost and buck energy harvesting controllers that can start up on a few hundred millivolts and provide regulated outputs as well as energy storage mediation. There are three parts: AEM00940: harvesting and storage manager with LDO Two regulated outputs Supercapacitor or battery storage Optional primary battery back-up source Boost harvester interface Harvest voltage ...
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Intel, Micron, ADI and MITRE Engenuity have agreed to accelerate semiconductor research, development, and prototyping to build a more robust U.S. semiconductor industry. The engagement establishes a Semiconductor Alliance to propose the foundation for a whole-of-nation approach for a more innovation-focused U.S. semiconductor industry and supply chain. The Semiconductor Alliance, led by MITRE Engenuity, was ...
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Packaging lead times have risen to 50 weeks and more, says Sondrel. In the initial stages of the pandemic, packaging houses were badly hit by cancellation of orders and had to lay off staff or even close down, says Sondrel. As silicon production surges, they are struggling to cope with the result that the lead ...
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