Schaffer, the EMC specialist,  has produced a whitepaper for designers of battery and hybrid electric vehicle charging stations, providing guidance on the following key topics: •         Which safety requirements must be met in EV charging. •         Which EMC limit values are set for EV charging stations. •         The critically important requirements for galvanic isolation in ...

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The US and UK have agreed a Technology Safeguards Agreement making it easier for US and UK companies to launch rockets from the UK. “This agreement marks an exciting new area for UK-US space collaboration and represents a significant step towards US companies launching from UK spaceports,” said the UK ambassador to the US Dame ...

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Bridgestone has brought its low rolling resistance tyre technology called ENLITEN to the roads in Volkswagen’s all-electric ID.3 ENLITEN Technology enables a super low rolling resistance to help conserve the ID.3’s battery power. Battery power is also conserved by the fact that tyres with ENLITEN Technology are lighter, requiring up to 2kg less raw materials ...

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Imec and GLOBALFOUNDRIES have announced a hardware demonstration of an AI IC Made with Imec’s Analog in Memory Computing (AiMC) architecture Using GloFo’s 22nm FD-SOI process. The chip performs neural network calculations on in-memory computing hardware in the analogue domain. Achieving record-high energy efficiency up to 2,900 TOPS/W, the accelerator is a key enabler for ...

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Arm is unloading its IoT unit onto its parent Softbank, taking the operation off the Arm balance sheet. Arm’s two IoT businesses, IoT Platform and Treasure Data will be transferred by the end of September. Moving away from its core business of designing processor IP was a controversial move for Arm because it looked as ...

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Comau of Turin has added thermography to its vision system family Machine Inspection Recognition Archetypes (MI.RA). Designed for industrial-scale battery manufacturing, MI.RA/Thermography uses thermal imaging and artificial intelligence to perform non-invasive automated assessment and control of welded joints, to ensure battery integrity and prevent waste. Its non-destructive testing methodology protects cycle times without changing the ...

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Synaptics is to buy  Broadcom’s Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS/GNSS products and business in the IoT market for $250 million. Synaptics expects the transaction to add approximately $65 million in current annualized sales and provide significant revenue growth potential. The transaction is expected to be immediately accretive to Synaptics’ non-GAAP gross margins and non-GAAP earnings post-close. ...

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TSMC will start producing 5nm Arm-based SoCs for Macs costing $100 in H1 2021, says TrendForce. The cost is about half the current price of Intel Core i3 processors. The Arm-based SoCs to be introduced in Macs starting in Q4 will be made on a 7nm process. The 5nm SoCs will first appear in Macs ...

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Infineon is sampling motor control ICs for brushed and brushless DC motors with mass production planned in Q4. Called Motor System ICs, they are claimed to be the world’s first multiple half-bridge drivers for MOSFETs with integrated power supply and communication interfaces. The chips complement the existing Infineon motor control IC portfolio, ranking between discrete ...

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