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PCIM: Old ferrites get new life for GaN switching

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GaN power transistors are giving new life to old ferrites as PSU designers seek magnetic components that can keep up with multi-MHz switching, according to Ferroxcube. “We are providing a lot of samples of 3F46 and 3F36 around the world,” the company’s product manager Artur Pawlak told Electronics Weekly at PCIM in Nuremberg. A decade …

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The Internet of Shoes

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There seems to be someone with a good sense of humour over in San Diego. A month or so back Qualcomm was wanting to change the name of their processors to platforms and now they’ve filed a patent on the ‘Internet of Shoes’. The patent, filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office, alleges that …

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Revenge On A Roller

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Sir Allen Clark, who ran Plessey from 1946 to 1962, was a hire and fire merchant who once walked onto a factory floor and shouted: “Sack everyone from A to K.” There’s a good yarn about Clark told in Stephen Aris’ book ‘Arnold Weinstock and the Making of GEC’. Clark was a stickler for time-keeping, …

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