Littelfuse has completed its acquisition of IXYS, bringing SiC expertise to the company. The deal, said to be valued at $750 million is the most recent, and largest made by the company, which acquired the TE Connectivity’s circuit protection business in 2015, for $350 million. “As the largest acquisition in our 90-year history, this is ...
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Research by ABI Research predicts the spread of smart city technology will more than double from $25 billion in 2017 to $62 billion in 2026 and at an average growth rate of 11%. ABI Research identifies 12 key smart city technologies and verticals, led by smart meters and video surveillance and EV charging stations, micro-grids, ...
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Israeli startup, Kado and South Korea’s Dongyang have teamed up to develop the world’s thinnest laptop charger. Kado is contributing its thin charging technology and collaborating with Dongyang to complete the development of laptop chargers, which will also become the world’s first foldable charger for laptops, says Kado. The joint work will take place at ...
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Horiba Automotive Test Services has supplied a four wheel drive (4WD) rolling road to Mahle Powertrain to simulate driving conditions at high altitudes. The 4WD chassis dynamometer, or rolling road, is in Mahle’s new Real Driving Emissions Centre (RDEC). The Vulcan II 4WD ExtraCold unit, will be used in a variable control temperature and humidity ...
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On the occasion of its 30th anniversary and the shipment of its four billionth chip, Peregrine Semiconductor has changed its name to pSemi. The Murata company has announced that it will broaden its scope and portfolio to include power management, connected sensors, optical transceivers, antenna tuning and RF front end products. “We’ve challenged the ...
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MIPS, provider of the eponymous processor architecture and IP cores, is once again in Silicon Valley, following the acquisition of MIPS from Imagination Technologies by Tallwood Venture Capital and Paxion Capital Partners. Tallwood’s managing director, Dado Banatao and Nicholas Brathwaite, founding partner of Riverwood Capital and WRV Capital, will represent Paxion on the board of ...
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EDA and IP company, Synopsys, has bought Kilopass Technology. The antifuse one time programmable (OTP) IP provider’s non volatile memory (NVM) IP has been incorporated into the DesignWare IP portfolio of logic libraries, embedded memories, embedded test, analogue IP, wired and wireless interface IP, security IP, embedded processors and subsystems. The OTP NVM IP for ...
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Disaster was averted at the Chocolate Factory in Rotterdam and production continued through the busy period in the run-up to Christmas. Hook-shaped metal machine parts on the conveyor belt have been replaced by FDM Nylon 12CF carbon-filled thermoplastic versions, created by Visual First, using Stratasys additive manufacturing. The hook-shaped parts lift the wrapped bars onto ...
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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) controls the way in which personal data is processed. Companies will have to implement the data protection rules set out in the regulation by 25 May, 2018, when the regulation becomes legally enforceable, or face fines of up to €20m euros or 4% of their global turnover. Distributor Rutronik ...
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Researchers at the University of Manchester have developed graphene sensors embedded into RFIDs. The team, led by Dr Zhirun Hu, hopes that the breakthrough could expand the IoT with the sensors able to connect to any wireless network for battery-free, smart, wireless monitoring. Humidity sensors could be used in manufacturing processes where mositure levels are ...
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