A smidgeon of realism about self-driving cars is beginning to creep into auto execs’ public statements. The real people doing the real work talk about self-driving cars as a 2040 kind of thing but execs have  tended to over-enthuse and over-promise.  “I have had another German carmaker saying, ‘it sounds like we wasted a lot …

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C&K, the electromechanical switch specialist, has announced its SAM series multiway switch. This switch is defined by its direct motor management based on SPDT (single pole, double throw) contacts, and flexible mechanical characteristics including travel, shaft shape and dimensions. The switch is valuable for applications such as seat adjustment systems for automotive, off-road vehicles and …

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Siltectra of Dresden will begin offering “outsourced wafering” services to customers

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Analog Bits has demo-ed its low picojoule-per-bit SERDES macro on TSMC’s 12nm process geometry. Implementations of this same multi-protocol SERDES architecture are available on a variety of TSMC process nodes and support speeds of up to 25Gb/s. The combination of high performance and low power make this suitable for short reach, chip-to-chip applications while support …

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Microchip has introduced the next generation of its MPLAB X Integrated Development Environment (IDE) which supports designs based on its AVR microcontrollers.  This release, MPLAB X version 5.05, will allow designers who traditionally used PIC microcontrollers and developed with the MPLAB ecosystem to evaluate and incorporate AVR MCUs into their applications.  Microchip said that design …

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Amazon Neptune is now available in the EU (London) region.

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DRAM ASP reached $6.79 in August which is 165% up on August 2016  (Figure 1), says IC Insights. Figure 1 Although the DRAM ASP growth rate has slowed this year compared to last, it has remained on a solid upward trajectory through the first eight months of 2018. The DRAM market is known for being …

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Theorem Solutions of Tamworth, Staffordshire, have released V21.2 of their CATIA V5i to JT visualization solution – part of the Visualize 3D product suite. Theorem’s CATIA V5i- JT is a uni-directional direct database converter between the Dassault Systems’ V5 modelling application and the JT file format used by the Siemens VisMockUp visualization product. It can …

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Anritsu has introduced a range of W1 coaxial components that are  designed for high-frequency measurements.  The W1 range includes a three-resistor power divider, two-resistor power splitter and a set of attenuators that provide coverage from DC to 110GHz, along with a 20-110GHz directional coupler with typical performance down to 110MHz.  The components are designed with …

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