French company SUEZ has signed a five-year partnership with South Korean company NK to develop ozone generators for ballast water treatment systems…

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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Toshiba expands its family of stepper motor drivers with an ultra-compact device offering a maximum output withstand voltage of 40V and output current of 2.0A.

Read full article: Toshiba stepper motor driver measures 7mm x 7mm x 0.9mm

Analog Devices has announced a biopotential analogue front end (AFE) which enables smaller, lighter, and less obtrusive cardiac monitoring devices.

Read full article: ADI has 2mm x 1.7mm biopotential AFE

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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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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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.

Read full article: Simulator tests self-driving car radar without moving

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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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

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 …

Read full article: Don’t Dilly-Dally