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Farnell signs ADI to bring legacy products into the mix

Farnell has signed a global distribution agreement with Analog Devices (ADI). The company’s mixed-signal and power management products, including new lines as well as legacy products from Maxim Integrated and Trinamic which was bought by Maxim before it was bought by ADI in July 2020. All products are now in stock and available from fast ...

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Navitas and Avnet Silica collaborate to expand GaN power across Europe

An agreement between GaN power IC and SiC power device manufacturer, Navitas Semiconductor, and the European semiconductor division of distributor Avnet, Avnet Silica is intended to grow the European market for GaNFast power ICs. The partnership will expand the distributor’s wide-band gap semiconductor portfolio, commented Gilles Beltran, president, Avnet Silica. “We envisage this cooperation will ...

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Farnell wants to keep “buzzy” at electronica

At next week’s electronica in Munich (15-18 November) Farnell is hosting a competition in association with  nearBees, an online platform designed to assist beekeepers in Germany in establishing and maintaining local honeybee colonies. Members of the element14 Community can enter the Save the Bees design challenge, using Ardunio’s MKR1310 and Arduino Pro Nicla vision boards ...

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DMASS reports strong summer but unpredictable future

The latest figures from DMASS show distribution sales grew in the summer quarter with 44.3% increase in semiconductor distribution sales for a record revenue of 35.8bn Euros. The total components distribution market grew by 34% (5.1bn Euros) of which interconnect, passive and electromechanical (IPE) grew 14.8%. A lot of this growth can be explained by ...

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Telonic adds Siglent’s latest RF instruments

RF instruments from Siglent, the SSA5000A spectrum analyser and the SSG5000A RF signal generator for satcom, radar and mobile comms developers are now available from Telonic Instruments. The SSA5000A spectrum analyser has an operating range of 9kHz-26GHz and the SSG5000A RF signal generator operates at 9kHz-20GHz. Both instruments support X- and K-band measurements for microwave ...

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TTI Europe acquires Ecopac (UK) Power

Electronic component distributor, TTI Europe, has acquired Ecopac (UK) Power which was established in 1995 to supply external power supplies, led driver and led power supplies. The UK and Ireland distributor is an authorised distributor for Mean Well, EU Chips and Vox Power. In addition to ac-dc power supplies ranging from 1.0W-20,000W, open frame, chassis- ...

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Untether AI moves to floating point for SpeedAI architecture

At this week’s HotChips 2022, UntetherAI has announced its second generation at-memory architecture to accelerate AI interference. SpeedAI (codenamed Boqueria) improves efficiency by up to 100x, compared to the company’s first generation architecture (runAI200) and has 80 times more throughput to accelerate neural networking. The second generation architecture also quadruples performance achieving 2Petaflops with a ...

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Polymer composite protect p-cap touchscreens

AMT’s Polym Touch is a polymer composite material placed over the top of a projected capacitive (p-cap) touchscreen to protect the substrate against impact. It is available through Review Display Systems (RDS). Thick glass cover lenses are specified in applications where health and safety regulations require the food industry as well as public information terminals ...

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DFRobot shrinks x86 SBC for LattePanda 3 Delta

Farnell now stocks the LattePanda 3 Delta, claimed to be the smallest X86 single board computer (SBC) available today. It measures 125mm x 78mm x 16mm. Developed by DFRobot it supports Linux, Windows 10 and Windows 11. The manufacturer produces hardware and software for the maker community, teachers and students as well as professional developers. ...

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Rebrand streamlines RS identity as RS Group reveals “great” ambition

Mike England (pictured) has two missions – the first to inform customers and investors that the company formerly known by the parent brand Electrocomponents is now RS Group; the second is to raise the company’s ambition levels and “take it from an average-to-good company to a great company,” he said. The streamlined, all-inclusive name reflects ...

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