Melexis claims to have produced the world’s smallest medical grade FIR sensor. The device is assembled in a surface mount package for use in a variety of applications, including wearables and, in particular, in-ear-devices and clinical point-of-care applications where highly accurate human body temperature measurement is required. The MLX90632 is based upon Melexis’ established FIR ...

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Inventory corrections, slowing smartphone shipments, and pullbacks in purchase orders throttled sales growth in semiconductor sensors and actuators last year, resulting in a subpar 6% increase in 2018 to a record-high $14.7 billion after double-digit percentage gains in 2017 and 2016, according to IC Insights’ 2019 O-S-D Report—A Market Analysis and Forecast for Optoelectronics, Sensors/Actuators, ...

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Cypress Semiconductor is on the block, reports Bloomberg. Following takeover interest, Cypress has hired advisers to explore options for selling the company. Cypress shares went up 13% yesterday after news broke of the move. The shares have gone up 36% this year. In Q1 the company reported a 5.5% drop in revenues but forecast a ...

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China is in for an unprofitable decade-long slog if it wants to catch up with the world’s best in chip technology. “This is an extremely challenging and brutal industry, heavily reliant on long term industrial accumulation,” said Jay Huang Jie, founding partner of Jadestone Capital and former Intel Managing Director in China, speaking in Hong ...

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Infineon has come up with a miniaturised digital barometric pressure sensor is capable of measuring both pressure and temperature. Available now, the sensor offers an ultra-high precision of ±2 cm and a low current consumption for precise measurement of altitude, air flow and body movements. This makes the DPS368 suitable  for mobile applications and wearable devices ...

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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR1 Smart Viewer Reference Design aims to to help decrease product development time of both AR and VR Smart Viewers.  “By distributing the workload and tapping into the compute power of host devices via tethering to users’ smartphone or PC, the reference designs’ additional features like eye tracking and 6DoF controllers unlock a ...

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Next month Toshiba starts sampling its XG6-P solid SSD series, a derivative of its NVMe M.2-based XG6 Series offering up to 2,048 GB capacity. XG6-P SSDs are suitable for high-end workstation PCs and gaming systems, as well as cost-optimized data center and composable infrastructures. The SSDs use  96-layer BiCS Flash 3D TLC chips. The SSDs have ...

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Small Robot Company, a British agritech start-up for sustainable farming, featured in the Spring Reception for the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) earlier this week. Using robotics and artificial intelligence, the company has created an entirely new model for ecologically harmonious farming. The Spring Reception celebrated new possibilities for improving the ...

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