Infineon has added a 150V device to its OptiMOS 5 series of power MOSfets. It is optimised for high performance applications which require low charges, high power density and yet high ruggedness and aimed at low voltage drives, synchronous rectification in telecom rectifiers and brick converters as well as solar power optimizers. The device helps …

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Imagination Technologies has announced a MIPS core for multi-threaded, multi-core, multi-cluster computing design.

Read full article: MIPS core tackles multi-core multi-cluster designs – up to 384 cores

Populism is a word which gets used a lot these days, and always in a pejorative sense. Which is odd really because it means popular. And popular is good, isn’t it? Well this wide use of the word populism seems designed to make us think that popular is bad. It’s designed to make us think …

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National Instruments has demonstrated a simulator that allows the radar systems of self-driving cars, and the algorithms behind them, to be tested in limited space, without the car moving.

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Infineon is developing reference designs for solid-state cooking – microwave ovens using power transistors rather than a magnetron. The idea is improved cooking uniformity and speed by replacing a single magnetron with multiple transistor sources. This allows inter-source phasing and frequency control to steer power within the cooking cavity and move standing-waves. Measuring forward and reflected …

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Since 2009, installed 200mm fab capacity has increased, and by 2020, 200mm capacity is expected to reach 5.5 million wpm According to SEMI’s data, by 2019, installed capacity will reach close to 5.38 million wpm, almost as high as capacity in 2006. From 2015 to 2020, 200mm facilities are forecast to add 618,000 wpm net …

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Sammy has dilly-dallied and shilly-shallied itself into a right b. cock-up. The world is used to recalls, and cellphones are the among the most complex products on the planet, and the world understands the problems, but the world also expects instant action when a product is dangerous. On Sept 2, two weeks after the Note …

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Amazon EC2 Container Registry (Amazon ECR) now provides additional metadata for ECR resources in the AWS Management Console and in the Describe* APIs.

This new Quick Start helps you deploy Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition on the AWS Cloud.  

Starting today, you can launch Amazon EC2 instances with encrypted Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) boot volumes in AWS GovCloud (US). This feature simplifies security compliance processes by now providing encryption for both EBS data and boot volumes using the AWS Key Management Service (KMS). It can also help simplify your auditing processes because you now have the ability to ensure all data on EBS is encrypted at rest and in transit. This feature is supported with all EBS volume types.