The key to Sir James Dyson’s electric car could be the battery technology he acquired with his $90 million acquisition of Sakti3 in 2015. Sakti3 was founded in 2012 by Michigan University professor Anne Marie Sastry, pictured with President Barack Obama at a White House Demo Day for entrepreneurs. Sakti3 was backed by GMVentures and ...
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Morris Chang will retire next June, says TSMC. Chang is 86 and has steered TSMC from start-up to $185 billion market cap in 30 years. Chang says he is retiring for personal and family reasons and that he would not sit on the board of directors or participate in management activities after retirement.. Chang started ...
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The LTM8065 is a power module step-down regulator with up to 40V input voltage (42V abs max), which can safely operate from unregulated or fluctuating 12V to 36V input supplies in noisy environments such as industrial robotics, test and measurement, medical, factory automation and avionics systems. The Silent Switcher architecture minimizes EMC/EMI emissions enabling the ...
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China may have its first EUV machine installed by 2019, reports Digitimes. According to Young-Sun Kim, country manager for ASML, several China foundries are talking to ASML about buying EUV machines to use for the 7nm node. Kim said that ASML did not prioritise customers and the China foundries will be treated the same way ...
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A Hard Brexit leading to the UK trading with the EU under WTO rules would cost the UK technology, automotive, health and consumer goods industries a combined £17 billion a year, says a report from Oxford Economics and law firm Baker McKenzie. The report finds that WTO rules would result in tariffs and trade barriers ...
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TSMC says its 3nm fab will be located in the Tainan Science Park in Taiwan. There had been speculation that the company might locate it outside Taiwan – perhaps in the USA. TSMC says it ‘recognises and is grateful for the government’s clear commitments to resolve any issues, including land, water, electricity and environmental protectioN.’ ...
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e-peas, the Belgian energy-harvesting IC start-up, has raised a new $4.2 million funding round. The round was led by Partech Ventures and comprises Airbus Ventures, JCDecaux Holding, Semtech, SRIW and Vives. Having initially gained both local government grants and private seed investment funding back in 2014, e-peas brought its AEM10940 energy harvesting chip to market. Through this ...
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ADI has brought out a metering IC that includes mSure diagnostics technology enabling direct and noninvasive monitoring of electric meter accuracy and faults in real-time. mSure-enabled meters, combined with a cloud analytics service, provide utility companies with real-time data and actionable insights to protect revenue from tampering, manage field resources more effectively, cut equipment cost, ...
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Toshiba is in mass production of optocouplers in a new wide leadform package type SO6L(LF4). The wide leadform option is available for three high-speed IC photocouplers and five IGBT/MOSFET driver photocouplers. The new photocouplers can be directly mounted on PCB pads intended for SDIP6(F type) products. The SO6L(LF4)’s 2.3mm (max.) low profile package offers a ...
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IQD’s low jitter, tight stability IQXT-316 series VCTCXO uses proprietary ASIC technology to meet the tight short and medium term stability requirements (±50ppb to ±250ppb depending on the operating temperature range) required for packet network synchronisation for small cells. This, combined with slope performance as low as ±20ppb/degrees and low power consumption makes the IQXT-316 ...
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