“We need to prepare for the worst and hope for the best,” says ECSN and IDEA chairman Adam Fletcher, following the announcement that US proposes an additional tariff of 25% on electronic components produced in China and imported into the US. The list of electronic components included contains over 1,400 products includes all tantalum, aluminium, …

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Willow Technologies are selling a magnetic arc blowout relay from Durakool which has a maximum switching voltage of 145Vdc. It is designed for electric vehicle systems which might use 48Vdc, 72Vdc or 80Vdc, which can be difficult to switch using traditional relays. According to Willow, the DG85CM electric vehicle relay features AgSnO2 contacts with high …

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Toshiba has created a motor driver for brushed electric motors used in, for example, domestic robotic vacuum cleaners, banking terminals and cash dispensers. Called TB67H420FTG, it can separately control two 47V (10Vmin, 24Vnominal) motors running at up to 4.5A, or via a separate mode the bridges can be combined to power a single 47V 9A motor. The …

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The Zuckerberg hearing revealed a conflicted company which isn’t sure what it is. Is it a neutral platform – ‘a platform for all ideas’ – or is it a content provider – a publisher? Facebook is employing 15,000 – rising this year to 20,000 – ‘content checkers’ and with 20k people editing content it is …

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Lumina Italia, founded by designer Tommaso Cimini in 1975, has been making its Daphine lamp ever since. This year it has been updated to use leds to form the ‘Daphine Tri-R’, using Toshiba’s Tri-R high-colour-rendering leds which have a violet die and phosphors at multiple wavelengths – scoring >Ra97 for CRI and Qa96 for CQS. …

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The top  25 companies held more than three-quarters of the worldwide semiconductor market in 2017 as the leading semiconductor suppliers significantly increased their marketshare over the past decade, says IC Insights. The top 5 semiconductor suppliers accounted for 43% of the world’s semiconductor sales in 2017, an increase of 10 percentage points from 10 years earlier. …

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Dell and Fujitsu are to use Intel Programmable Acceleration Cards with Arria 10 GX FPGA and the Intel Acceleration Stack for Intel Xeon Scalable processor with FPGAs. “We are beginning our adoption of Intel Programmable Acceleration Card with Arria 10 GX FPGA with PRIMERGY server and engaging our priority customers,” says Fujitsu’s Kenichi Saka. Dell …

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Imec has made a solid-state Li-ion battery achieving an energy density of 200 Wh/liter at a charging speed of 0.5C (2 hours). “This battery is a milestone on our roadmap to surpass wet Li-ion battery performance and reach 1000Wh/L at 2C by 2024,”says Imec.  The future of mobility will be largely electrical, powered by fast-charging, …

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Huawei has achieved Cyber Essentials Plus certification. The Cyber Essentials scheme, which was launched by the UK Government in 2014 and is part of the Government’s National Cyber Security Strategy, involves an independent assessment of security controls that businesses need to have in place to mitigate risks from common cyber threats. By taking part in …

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