There’s Softbank liquidating its stake in Cruise, automotive mosfets from Nexperia, a Mannerisms Fable, the increasing industry chip capacity, the question of the Japanese ownership of Toshiba…

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The founding CEO of Infineon, Dr Ulrich Schumacher, believed fervently in the Silicon Valley free-wheeling management style but found it difficult to practise it inside Siemens. “Everybody talks about a new management culture but people always just look at it in a unilateral way”, said Schumacher, “the culture that you can criticise your boss, that …

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Pondering the lack of a numerically-controlled oscillator (NCO) peripheral on AVR-based Arduinos (compared to PICs), I started to look into doing it in software. But it turns out that the necessary 32bit adds will mean the 8bit ATmega will have little time left to do much else. Hand-coding the additions (and dropping it to 24bit …

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Under the tagline ‘Single is More’, Harting, ADI and Würth Elektronik have joined forces to promote Single Pair Ethernet. In order to further strengthen the industrial use of the Ethernet variant, which was originally introduced in the automotive industry, the four companies have summarised their matching products on a joint landing page created with Mouser: https://eng.info.mouser.com/adi-wurth-harting-single-pair-ethernet Additionally, …

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Digi-Key Electronics is launching a new video series called “Revolutionizing Automation”, which explores the cutting-edge of automation and control technologies. Sponsored by Omron and Siemens, the four-part video series highlights how Digi-Key itself processes 5.3 million orders annually, with the efficiency of the supply chain involving sensors, motors and controllers, robotics, connectors, power and RFID, …

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TT Electronics has aded  four new product families to its variable resistor portfolio. These include three new encoder lines and a new line of single turn potentiometers. These products are suitable for professional audio applications as well as medical and industrial applications, including machine controls and home appliances. The new encoder families (EN10, EN16AB, and EN18AB) …

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2021 fabless revenues grew 48% y-o-y to $127.4 billion, says TrendForce. Nvidia overtook Broadcom to take the second position behind No.1 Qualcomm. Taiwanese companies Novatek and Realtek rose to sixth and eighth place, respectively. Qualcomm had growth of 51% in phone chips snd 63% growth in IoT chips. Nvidia had growth of 64% in gaming …

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Need to deliver power and data 300m away, and you only have a coaxial cable to do it? Advantech might have just the thing for you, with its IMC-150LPC PoE (power-over-Ethernet) extender. “This device uses extant coaxial cables and and makes the IMC-150LPC an excellent choice for industrial and rail network infrastructure upgrade projects with limited …

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The effect of the war on the electronics industry in 2022 is uncertain and indirect, says Semiconductor Intelligence (SI). There is no significant semiconductor or electronics manufacturing in Russia, Ukraine, or neighboring countries. However, lower overall demand in 2022 will reduce electronics demand to some extent. The major electronics producing countries in Asia have mostly …

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Secured Linux on Arduino for enterprise users is the aim of a tie-up between UK-based Foundries.io and the Arduino organisation. The chosen hardware is the new multi-core Arduino Pro Portenta X8, which is a processing heavyweight with quad Arm Cortex-A53 cores, a Cortex-M7 and two Cortex-M4 cores. “Today, you cannot think about a Linux-based device …

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