TI has brought out  its 40-A SWIFT DC/DC buck converter, offering  stackability of up to four ICs. The TPS546D24A PMBus buck converter can deliver up to 160 A of output current at an 85°C ambient temperature. The device’s efficiency allows engineers to reduce power loss by 1.5 W in high-performance data center and enterprise computing, medical, ...

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Farnell has published research on the IoT which confirms strong adoption of AI within IoT devices, alongside new insights on key markets, enablers and concerns for design engineers working in IoT. Research showed that almost half (49%) of respondents already use AI in their IoT applications, with Machine Learning (ML) the most used technology (28%) ...

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Sixty homes in the Monmouthshire village of Llanddewi Rhydderch can now have Full Fibre to the Premise (FTTP), able to receive Ultrafast Broadband, with a choice of speeds from 100Mbps to 1Gbps – a huge technological leap forward for this ‘once forgotten’ village where speeds of less than 1Mbps were the norm. Despite the recent ...

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The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is advising caution with internet connected cameras. Owners of smart cameras and baby monitors in the home are being urged to take three steps to protect their devices from cyber criminals. 1. If your camera comes with a default password, change it to a secure one – connecting three ...

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With Coronavirus causing concern, we thought it might be instructive to see how the industry was affected by SARS back in 2003. Here’s the analysis we wrote then: While SARS  is dealing devastating blows to service industry in China, its damage to the electronics industry in the country appears to be limited in the short-term. Long-term, ...

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Xilinx has brought out a product which combines networking, storage, acceleration and compute functions on a single device called a SmartNIC SmartNIC is designed to bring greater efficiency and lower TCO to cloud service providers, telcos, and private cloud data centre operators The Alveo U25 SmartNIC combines a SmartNIC platform with an FPGA-based engine that ...

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Xerox has made a tender offer direct to HP’s shareholders to buy all HP’s shares for $24 per share, comprising $18.40 in cash and 0.149 Xerox shares for each HP share, valuing HP at nearly $35 billion. Xerox has a market cap of $7.24 billion. “Our proposal offers progress over entrenchment,” said John Visentin, vice ...

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Researchers from Purdue University’s  biomedical engineering school  have developed a handheld paper device that quickly and accurately detects coronavirus MERS-CoV and could be used to detect COVID-19. Developing a process to manufacture it would cost at least a couple of million dollars. “Paper-based devices are already manufactured – pregnancy tests are paper-based. Because this device has ...

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