The fastest growing types of microprocessors in the last five years have been mobile SoC designs for tablets and data-handling cellphones and MPUs used in embedded-processing applications, says IC Insights.   IC Insights’  McClean Report 2018 forecasts that 52% of 2018 MPU sales will come from sales of all types of microprocessors used as CPUs …

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The  LTM4646 is  a dual 10A or single 20A output, step-down µModule point-of-load regulator from 5V or 12V input supply rails. The LTM4646 includes the inductors, MOSFETs, a DC/DC controller and supporting components, and is housed in a 11.25mm x 15mm x 5.01mm BGA package. Compared to the prior 2 x single 10A output module …

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Apple had Q4 sales of $88 billion for a profit of $20 billion. It sold 77 million iPhones in the quarter, It expects Q1 revenues of $60-62 billion. Apple’s market cap is now $860 billion. Amazon is catching it up with a market cap of $670 billion. In revenues, Apple outguns the other US tech …

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Harting’s har-flex series of miniaturised PCB connectors are now available with pre-leading contacts which offer sequential switching that can protect sensitive electronics from damage during operational plugging and unplugging. The miniaturised 1.27mm-pitch SMT connectors will typically be used to provide an electrical connection between the main module board and smaller boards. Devices can be damaged when boards are …

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Kazuo ‘Kaz’ Hirai is to hand over as CEO of Sony to CFO Kenichiro Yoshida as from April 1st. Yoshida is credited with being the behind-the-scenes guy who backed up Hirai’s transformation of Sony’s finances. The pair focussed on image sensors and Playstation as the routes to profitability, selling off the Viaio computer business and …

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Based on the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC, the Mercury+XUI is Enclustra’s fastest SoC module. It will be presented at Embedded World 2018 (Hall 3-210). The module has up to 747,000 systems logic cells across six Arm processors, a GPU and up to 294 user I/Os. Built-in interfaces include two Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0 and USB …

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At this year’s Embedded World, Advantech will introduce the ROM-7720, an NXP i.MX 8 QuadMax Q7 v2.1-compliant computer-on-module. It is intended for graphics-intensive IoT applications, and is designed for graphics computing in IoT edge nodes, multi-display human machine interfaces, advanced driver assistance systems, robotic vision and advertising systems as well as medical image processing. The …

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Amazon Aurora Parallel Query improves the performance of large analytic queries by pushing processing down to the Aurora storage layer, spreading processing across hundreds of nodes.

The Palestinian Water Authority has received six tenders, including designs, for a desalination plant in at Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, reports Ma’an News Agency.

ROHM has recently announced the development of a buck-boost DC/DC converter with built-in MOSFET making it suitable  for electronic devices powered by batteries such as electronic dictionaries, remote controls for home appliances, and items such as toys, and other portable electronic devices. In recent years, the number of portable devices such as smartphones and wearables …

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