Omni-channel distributor, RS Components, has become a member of Make UK, the UK’s manufacturing organisation to promote innovation in and the development of skills for the British manufacturing industry. RS Components’ managing director, UK and Ireland, Emma Bofield, said: “Our membership will enable us to contribute to [the Make UK] community, using our unique position ...
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Halo Microelectronics has introduced a switched capacitor charger dc-dc converter for single Li-ion or Li-po cells that can deliver up to 7A while drawing 3.5A from the supply. Called HL7139, it is inteded to work from USB PD PSS (power delivery, programmable power supply) sources. Switched capacitor power converters can be compact and highly efficient, ...
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AMD had Q1 revenue of $5.9 billion – up 71% y-o-y. Gross margin was 48%, operating income was $951 million, operating margin was 16% and net income was $786 million. “The first quarter marked a significant inflection point in our journey to scale and transform AMD as we delivered record revenueand closed our strategic acquisition of ...
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The UK’s Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is launching a new Innovation Focus Area (IFA) called “Human Augmentation”. It will focus on solving “operational challenges”, for UK defence and security applications, where physical human performance is the limiting factor for delivering operational effects, says DASA. The IFA is now seeking proposals – to a value ...
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The Telecom Infra Project (TIP), enabling disaggregated telecoms infrastructure networks, has launched the ‘TIP Academy’. TIP sees the need for an industry-led, operator and vendor neutral training service designed to train telecoms workers to participate in, or lead on, the solution, design, development, testing and deployment of disaggregated networks. TIP Academy is a B2B learning ...
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ST has launched a digital power controller with distortion mitigation suitable for LED-lighting applications. The STNRG012 contains a multimode power-factor correction (PFC) controller, resonant half-bridge controller, and 800V startup circuit, managed by a digital engine. The PFC controller changes dynamically between transition-mode, discontinuous-current mode (DCM), and valley skipping for optimum efficiency. The half-bridge controller executes ST’s time-shift control ...
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Durham University’s business school has attempted to identify who or what is morally responsible for artificial intelligence that is applied to people. “AI robots are increasingly used to facilitate human activity in many industries, for instance: healthcare, education, mobility and the military, but must have accountability for their actions,” according to the university. “We need ...
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The tech industry is being asked by the government for its views on measures to make the app market safer and more secure Proposals include a code of practice to set minimum security and privacy requirements for app store operators and developers. A report published today reveals malicious apps downloaded by hundreds of thousands of ...
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Stackpole has introduced surface-mount resistors with terminations on their long edges to improve thermal conductivity. “One of the most common and economical options for reducing the effects of high power is wide terminations,” according to the company. “By reversing the geometry of the chip resistor and applying the terminations to the long sides of the ...
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Farnell has signed a new distribution agreement with KUNBUS to further enhance its portfolio of solutions for industrial automation and control applications. Design engineers can use the devices, gateways, and expansion modules in the KUNBUS portfolio to implement Industry 4.0 into their business. KUNBUS specialises in industrial communication for automation, process, manufacturing and drive technology ...
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