Wolfspeed has introduced 28V GaN HEMT RF power devices  capable of higher frequency operation to 8GHz. The 28V GaN HEMT devices are made on Wolfspeed’s 0.25µm GaN-on-SiC process, and are designed with the same package footprint as the previous generation of 0.4µm devices, making it possible for RF design engineers to use them as drop-in ...

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Mouser  is now stocking the Feather nRF52 Bluefruit from Adafruit. The Feather nRF52 Bluefruit, part of Adafruit’s Feather line of standalone and stackable development boards, is a complete Arduino-compatible, Bluetooth low energy development board with built-in USB and battery charging. Using the onboard Nordic SoC,  engineers and makers can run code directly on the board ...

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Western Digital has issued a response to Toshiba’s statement regarding the transfer of its interests in its NAND flash-memory joint ventures operated with Western Digital’s SanDisk subsidiaries. The statement reads: “We are disappointed that Toshiba would take this action despite Western Digital’s tireless efforts to reach a resolution that is in the best interests of ...

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The various regional authorities of the Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) have signed an agreement to support the Cardiff Compound Semiconductor Cluster. The CCR regional cabinet previously agreed to contribute £37.9m from the CCR City Deal’s Wider Investment Fund towards the establishment of a facility to anchor in the region for the production of compound semiconductors. ...

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Intersil claims to be the first to develop av 42V single-channel DC/DC step-down power module that delivers up to 15A of continuous current. The ISL8215M operates from a single wide input voltage range that includes industry standard 12V, 18V, and 24V intermediate bus power rails. The module offers adjustable output voltages from 0.6V to 12V, ...

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Codeplay, the Edinburgh vision specialist, has teamed up with Renesas on driverless cars. The development will create 30 jobs in Edinburgh. “Codeplay has already worked directly with the world’s greatest processors providing advanced software solutions,” saysc Andrew Richards, founder and CEO of Codeplay Software, “we are excited to be enabling Renesas great products. It endorses ...

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JEDEC  has formed a new  committee –  JC-70 Wide Bandgap Power Electronic Conversion Semiconductors. Led by interim chairs from Infineon, TI, and Wolfspeed, the JC-70 committee will initially have two subcommittees: GaN and SiC and focus on Reliability and Qualification Procedures; Datasheet Elements and Parameters; and Test and Characterisation Methods. JC-70’s first committee meeting will be ...

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NXP has brought out a single-chip DSRC modem for connecting vehicles. The chip, designated SAF5400, has a scalable architecture, uses RFCMOS and SDR  technologies and delivers flexible options for cross-regional secure V2X adoption and field upgradeability. V2X technology allows vehicles to communicate with other cars, infrastructure and vulnerable road users to increase driver safety and smooth out the ...

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BrainChip Holdings has brought out a hardware acceleration board, BrainChip Accelerator. BrainChip Accelerator is an 8-lane, PCI-Express add-in card that increases the speed and accuracy of the object recognition function of BrainChip Studio software by up to six times, while increasing the simultaneous video channels of a system to 16 per card. The card is very ...

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