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AI drives the cloud/storage market, and ASIC chip demand climbs again
Feb
The artificial intelligence (AI) blessing further promotes the development of cloud data centers and storage, and stimulates the explosive growth of big data data. In order to improve the increasing amount of data, cloud and storage companies, such as Google, Amazon, Baidu and Alibaba, hope to improve the overall server cloud computing performance through the …
Grab the in-vehicle application, ADATA established the automotive electronics business center
Feb
Optimistic about the growth potential of the global automotive networking market, ADATA announced the establishment of the "Automotive Electronics Business Center" on the 24th, and recruited the core team of "Insurance Automotive Electronics", a leading manufacturer of automotive electronic control components (ECU) in Taiwan, to join the technology of ADATA "A…
IBM will use Samsung's 7-nanometer process to build Power and z CPUs
Feb
IBM and the Samsung fab have signed an agreement to manufacture its next-generation processor using Samsung's 7-nm EUVL process, which will be used in IBM Power Systems, IBM z and LinuxONE Systems. IBM's previous partner was GlobalFoundries, and earlier this year GlobalFoundries unexpectedly announced that it would abandon the development of the 7-nm process.
The…
SPS: CambridgeIC position sensing chips get faster
Feb
“CambridgeIC’s family of position measuring ICs are an effective alternative to traditional position sensing approaches such as optical encoders or Hall encoders,” said the firm. “They offers the performance of an optical sensor without the fragility, and the convenience of a Hall sensor in geometries where Hall sensors are not usable.”
The company’s …
Electronica: Time-of-flight distance sensor doubles in sensitivity for in-vehicle detection
Feb
The new device, the AEC-Q100 qualified MLX75024 has the same 320 x 240 (QVGA) resolution as the firm’s previous offering, but with twice the sensitivity and half the power consumption.
The sensitivity increase “allows it to operate in lower light levels or reduce the illumination power required by at least 30%”, said the firm. “Reduction in current consum…
Electronica: Electrolube shows electro-chemicals for auto
Feb
A combination of tighter regulation and the digital transformation of automotive control, passenger cabin comfort, entertainment and multimedia systems continue to deliver sustained growth for the automotive electronics industry.
As automotive electronics assemblies become smaller, more complex and are required to perform in harsher, more crowded conditions, manu…
12:1 input for railway dc-dc PSU
Feb
“The input voltage range covers all input voltages from nominal 24Vdc up to 110Vdc in a single product, including EN50155 transients making them a universal solution for railway rolling stock applications and high voltage battery systems,” said the firm.
The supplies are the 40W RP40Q-RUW and the 60W RP60Q-RUW.…
Electronica: Video Interview – Bridgetek on addressing trends within the IoT market
Feb
He talks about the company’s MCU offering and how Bridgetek addresses trends within the IoT market.
Thank you to Gordon for his time.…
Electronica: More on Rigol’s 350MHz scope
Feb
Bandwidth options range across 70 to 350MHz with two or four channels, sampling is at 8Gsample/s, and maximum capture 500,000waveform/s, with up to 200Msample record length. The display is 9in colour and touch-enabled.
The instruments use the firm’s UltraVision II, centred on its Phoenix chip-set where two custom ASICs provide analogue front end and signal pro…
Electronica: ISELED auto lighting alliance launched
Feb
At electronica 2016 Inova Semiconductors launched the ISELED Alliance to promote Inova Semiconductors’ ISELED technology for auto lighting.
At the heart of technology is a “digital” RGB-LED, with a controller inside the LED package.
The Alliance is committed to create a complete ecosystem around the ISELED concept including hard- but also corresponding soft…
UK team aims for commercial quantum-based gravity sensor
Feb
The aim is to build a portable technology demonstrator by April 2021, that is twice as sensitive as the industry standard (falling mass) technique and, importantly because the aims is for this to lead to a commercial product, 10x faster in operation. “Now it takes a few days to measure across a football field, we want to get that down to less than a day,” Clif…
MediaTek 5G Roadmap: Launched 5G Modem Chip Helio M70 in 2019
Feb
At the "2018 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology in the Future" held recently, Su Xiaofeng, deputy general manager of Lianfa Bo (Technology) Beijing Co., Ltd. introduced the challenges that 5G smart terminals will face from three different perspectives. He also said that MediaTek has prepared for the 5G machine change. In 2019,…
$185 million! Advantest acquires Astronics Semiconductor Systems Test Division
Feb
Advantest, a semiconductor test equipment company, announced that it has entered the final phase of the agreement to purchase its commercial semiconductor systems test division from Astronics Corporation for $185 million plus performance bonuses based on special performance of up to $30 million. Provides system level testing for semiconductor products and modu…
Silicon Labs Wireless Xpress Bluetooth Module Launched at MOUSER
Feb
Traders Electronics is now distributing Silicon Labs' Wireless Xpress BGX13x modules. The Wireless Xpress BGX13x module provides a configuration-based development experience that meets the needs of engineers quickly developing Bluetooth® technology-based Internet of Things (IoT) applications. Both system-in-package (SiP) and PCB modules offer Bluetooth 5 comp…
CEVA adds ONNX support to the CDNN neural network compiler
Feb
CEVA announced that the latest version of its award-winning CEVA Deep Neural Network (CDNN) compiler supports Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) format.
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