To support the growth in the EV charging infrastructure, needed to encourage EV adoption, Farnell has announced that it is shipping fast charging components from Murata, from stock. The company has added common mode choke coils, dc-dc converters and capacitors used in EV charging systems. The DLW series common mode choke coils (CMCC for signal and power …

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Microchip has unveiled a 3.3kV silicon carbide mosfet and mating Schottky diodes. MSC025SMA330 is the 25mΩ mosfet in a four-lead TO-247 package, and MSC090SDA330 is the 90A diode in a similar two-lead ‘T-Max’ package. Both are also available in die form. Further data on the mosfet is sadly not public at the moment, but the diode data …

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Video output is increasingly used in medical equipment and CCTV surveillance systems, as well as automotive, defence, marine and broadcast applications. Relec Electronics has announced a display design service to integrate video output using medium to large TFT displays. The service is intended to help developers fit a display into a thin form factor into systems …

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PragmatIC Semiconductor is building a second fabrication line for its flexible integrated circuits in County Durham, this time on a brown-field site in Meadowfield near Durham. ‘PragmatIC Park’ as it will be known, is starting with a 175,000ft2 (~16,300m2) building on the St John’s road industrial estate, the site of multiple re-developments. “We chose this site …

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UK fab-less semiconductor company Cambridge GaN Devices has finally revealed its initial product range, at APEC in Houston. The company is using monolithic GaN integration, branded ‘ICeGaN’, to modify the gate behaviour of GaN power transistors, without using cascode-pairing,  to make them compatible with drivers made for traditional silicon mosfets. At the same time, it …

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Amazon Connect now provides new machine-learning powered capabilities to make it easy for contact center managers to predict contact volumes and average handle time with high accuracy, determine ideal staffing levels, and optimize agent schedules to ensure they have the right agents at the right time. Enabling these capabilities takes just a click, eliminating the need to build custom applications or integrate with third-party products, which can be complex and expensive. These new capabilities help businesses optimize their operations, meet service level goals, and improve agent and customer satisfaction.

Although Americans are showing a united front in their support for helping Ukraine and putting sanctions on Russia, they are less enthusiastic  on taking in refugees and supporting military action. About one third of Americans do not support “admitting thousands of Ukrainian refugees”, as the survey by Pew Research Center puts it. Another third is in …

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Infineon is sampling a new EiceDRIVER 2EDN product family. The  2EDN family is now able to drive the power switch device performance in applications such as servers, telecom, DC-DC converters, industrial SMPS, EV charging stations, motor control, low-speed light electric vehicles, power tools, LED lighting, and solar energy systems. The  family comprises robust dual-channel low-side …

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MathWorks has released 2022a of the MATLAB and Simulink product families. Release 2022a (R2022a) offers hundreds of new and updated features and functions in MATLAB and Simulink along with five new products and 11 major updates. New capabilities in MATLAB include new apps and App Designer functions, graphics enhancements, and the ability to customize Live Editor tasks. Simulink updates enable users …

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GM is buying the Softbank Vision Fund’s stake in Cruise for €2.1 billion. GM will also put another $1.35 billion into Cruise which had been pledged by Softbank. GM will end up with 80% of Cruise. GM bought Cruise in 2016 for a price thought to be between $500 million and $1 billion.. In 2018, …

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