The first time I spoke to Iann Barron, the Inmos co-founder who has died at the age of 85, was on the phone. “You’re not very nice about my company – you compared it to the Groundnut Scheme,” complained Barron. He was in London so I suggested we should go to the Wig and Pen ...
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After falling 7% in 2019 because of a weak global economy and then dropping 2% in 2020 due to the Covid crisis, MCU sales rebounded with a 27% increase in 2021 to a record-high $20.2 billion, says IC Insights. The 2021 surge was the highest percentage growth in MCUs since 2000. The average selling price ...
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The overall passive components market for power converters will reach $11.5 billion by 2027, says Yole Developpement, with the gate driver IC market reaching $2.7 billion. EV/HEV applications increasingly drive technology trends in passive components. Therefore, highly reliable passive components are needed. The gate driver IC market is dominated by level shifter-type gate drivers, followed ...
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France is the latest country to sign the Artemis Accords, Nasa has announced. It’s signing up to an agreed set of principles for operating within the U.S. agency’s lunar exploration plans. The number of countries agreeing to the Artemis Accords now totals 20, with France becoming the fifth European Union country (alongside Italy, Luxembourg, Poland ...
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Schneider Electric has launched of the Schneider Electric Sustainability Impact Awards as part of its Partnering for Sustainability Program. The Partnering for Sustainability programme includes education and training, a simplified product portfolio, an open and collaborative support ecosystem and digital knowledge and expertise. By providing four easy steps for partners to follow to future proof their businesses for life, ...
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Vishay has introduced three series of 24V surface-mount transient voltage suppressors (TVS) that offer peak pulse power dissipation equivalent to the 7kW of conventional TVS at 10/1000μs in SMC (DO-214AB) packaging and 10/10,000 μs in DO-218AB, it said. The bidirectional devices work over -55 to +175°C for automotive, telecom and industrial applications. With 24V maximum ...
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NXP will be launching its new microcontroller portfolio at Embedded World next week, which will be replacing its LPC family and the (formerly Freescale) Kinetis family. Called MXC, “we have taken the best of LPC and Kinetis”, NXP product manager CK Phua told Electronics Weekly. MCUs will span from highly-secured high pin-count processors with 4Mbyte flash ...
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This year, Electronics Weekly’s Elektra Awards celebrate 20 years of recognising excellence, innovation and expertise in the electronics industry. And today we interview one of the judges to highlight the role in the awards of the Elektra’s judging panel: taking his place on this year’s panel is James Hayman, award-winning electronics engineer at Taylor Hobson. ...
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Front-end fab equipment spending is expected to increase 20% y-o-y to an all-time high of $109 billion in 2022, marking a third consecutive year of growth following a 42% surge in 2021, reports SEMI. Fab equipment investment in 2023 is expected to remain strong. “The global semiconductor equipment industry remains on track to cross the ...
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TSMC’s May revenue of $6.22 billion was 7.6% up on April and 65.3% up y-o-y. Revenue from January to May was $28.5 billion – up 44.9% y-o-y. TSMC May Revenue Report (Consolidated): (Unit: NT$ million) Period Net Revenues May 2022 185,705 April 2022 172,561 M-o-M Increase (Decrease) % 7.6 May 2021 112.360 Y-o-Y Increase (Decrease) ...
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