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AMD industrial motherboard from Kontron’s Fujitsu purchase

Kontron has announced a series of industrial mini-STX motherboards built around AMD’s Ryzen Embedded V1000 and R1000 processors, including Vega graphics. This is its first completely new motherboard since the acquisition of Fujitsu’s industrial motherboard division. Aimed at Windows 10 or Linux-64, and called D3714-V/R mSTX, they support up to four independent 4K displays for industrial PCs, medical ...

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Deep red led light exposure in the morning makes your eyes work better for a while

Three minutes of 670nm exposure in the morning appears to make the eyesight of humans over 40 years old better for a week, according to Imperial College London. The improvement is shown in cone-mediated colour contrast thresholds, tested in people from 37 to 70 years old in this research. Improvements have been seen before, using light ...

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40V bi-direction GaN transistor for power rail switching

Chinese GaN device maker Innoscience is introducing a bi-directional transistor amongest its more conventional devices. Called INN40W08, it is a 40V device that can block in both directions (unlike single silicon mosfets where two are needed for bi-directional operation). Nominally it has a gate, two drains and no source. The company sees it being used in ...

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In-field programmer gets external branding options

Segger is offering custom versions of its Flasher Portable Plus stand-alone in-field programmer, “enabling corporations to supply their service technicians with a branded tool”, it said, Visual custom options include injection moulding the case in different coloured plastic and printign logos and slogans on the outside. The display content, for example changing the splash screen, ...

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Arduino makes mini-sized Uno to celebrate 10 million shipped

Arduino has shipped 10 million of its Uno boards since its introduction in 2010, and has produced a collector’s item to celebrate. True you pay more (€40), but it comes in a nicer box, in a non-standard colour, and it also has a footprint that has never been seen before – a squarish 34.2 x ...

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IBM: Compute-in-memory beats GPUs by 10x, sometimes

IBM presented its ultra-low power AI processor at its Zurich technology meeting today. Called Hermes, the core is a scientific demonstrator made on 14nm CMOS that has scored a record energy efficiency of 10.5Top/s/W, plus a density of 1.59Top/s/mm2. The technology is mixed analogue and digital compute-in-memory, using multi-level phase-change memory – the latter added to ...

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High in-rush relay for solar and vehicle-to-home charging

Omron has launched its second high in-rush relay in a month, this time aimed at energy storage for solar panels or vehicle-to-home charging – the previous one was for smart lighting. Called G5PZ-X, it is a PCB-mount 200Vdc 20A SPST-NO relay with a 15.2 x 26.4mm footprint, and designed so that two can be connected in series to switch ...

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Correction receiver modules for centimetre GNSS positioning

u-blox is aiming at centimeter-level positioning for industrial navigation and robotics with a pair of GNSS (global navigation satellite system) correction receivers and a corresponding up-grade to its existing ZED-F9P high-precision GNSS receiver module. The correction receivers stream correction data from communication satellites. The “new correction service receivers offer broad geographical coverage across Europe, continental US ...

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IBM: Quantum advantage coming into view

Quantum advantage, the point at which a quantum computer out-perform classical computers in some tasks, may only be two years away if improvements in error rate and qubit count continue as they have over the last two years. The figures were presented by IBM at a quantum computing event held at its Zurich research centre ...

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Thermal trips protect power semiconductors at 175°C

Schurter has added a low-trip-temperature variant to its RTS thermal fuse range, originally launched in 2018. Rather than >210°C, they are rated at >175°C. They have been developed to protect power semiconductors from over-heating – particularly from thermal-runaway when the semiconductors are in a confined space. In such an event, the thermal fuse interrupts the circuit, ...

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