Shortly before the war, only 24% of Finns and 37% of Swedes supported their countries seeking NATO membership. At the start of May 2022, 76% of Finns and 48% of Swedes supported joining NATO. By mid- May the Swedish percentage had climbed to 60%. Despite being one of Putin’s stated reasons for launching the war …

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For David Manners, Malcolm Penn’s forecast that the semiconductor market will fall 22% next year caught his attention…

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Efficient Power Conversion has introduced a 1.7mΩ (typ) 100V 10.2mm2 footprint enhancement-mode GaN transistor. THe chip-scale part, named EPC2071, it from the company’s fifth GaN hemt generation and, compared with its fourth generation, gives the EPC2071 the same on-resistance as the prior generation with 26% smaller size according to the company, which sees it switching …

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At PCIM this week in Nuremberg, PEM has exhibiting a Rogowski current probe optimised for SiC transistors and other fast switching devices, with a -3dB bandwidth of 50MHz and a 12.5ns rise-time. Called CWTMini50HF, it has a slim (3.5mm thick) 100mm sense coil with 2kVpeak insultation. “It combines a screened Rogowski coil, providing excellent immunity to …

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Danisense launched a series of ultra-stable, ppm-accuracy fluxgate current transducers at PCIM this week, that are smaller than its previous offerings. For dc and ac measurement, DT series current transducers use closed-loop compensated sensing with fixed excitation frequency and second harmonic zero flux detection for “better than 2 ppm” linearity, according to the company. Signal …

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It was Spaceport Cornwall and Virgin Orbit that took the headlines yesterday for the UK’s first planned satellite launch this summer, but Shetland and Astra Space are also planning launches, expected to begin in 2023. Astra, the Californian space launch company, and the Shetland space centre, which is now named the SaxaVord UK Spaceport, are partnering …

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Innoscience Technology, the GaN-on-Si power specialist and Silanna Semiconductor have demo-ed , a 65 W Active Clamp Flyback (AFC) reference design with 30 W/in3 uncased power density which achieves efficiency levels of greater than 94% @ 230 Vac and has a no-load power consumption of less than 25 mW. The design combines the performance of …

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IQE, the compound semiconductor wafer supplier, claims to have the world’s first commercially available 200 mm (8”) VCSEL epiwafer. The wafers will be used in the wireless, sensing and display markets. IQE’s 200mm epiwafers will enable a step-change in unit economics for compound semiconductors, leading to the expansion of the market for IQE. The increase …

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Tachyum has launched a processor which combines the functions of a CPU, GPU and TPU. The Prodigy processor is claimed  to have  4x the performance of the fastest Xeon, 3x more raw performance than NVIDIA’s H100 on HPC and has 6x more raw performance on AI training and inference workloads, and up to 10x performance …

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TSMC has told customers it plans to raise its prices by “single-digits” by the start of 2023, blaming increasing costs. It is the second time in less than a year that it has said it will raise prices. Last August it raised prices 20%. Last year TSMC said it would discontinue its practice of reducing …

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