Avnet has hired its former head of components in the Americas, Phillip Gallagher, to head up its global distribution business.

Read full article: Avnet names Gallagher as new head of global distribution

TDK adds a 3,200W 48V (66.7A) model to its TPS3000 series of industrial power supplies.

Read full article: Three-phase input power supply delivers 48V at 66A

MicroMill is a 3-axis CNC (computer numerical control) milling machine with a fraction over an A4 footprint, and 115 x 100 x 64mm working area. Intended to cut wax, foam, wood, plastics, some PCBs, brass and aluminium (not all brass and Al, see below), it is controlled via USB from a computer running open-source software. “Whether you …

Read full article: Mini-CNC mill sits on A4 sheet

Tech companies have significant concerns about red tape and delays that could result from the UK’s departure from the Customs Union, says UK tech body, techUK.

Read full article: Brexit: tech firms fear threat of snap exit from customs union

At the turn of the century the great Japanese vertically integrated tech companies thought things were going their way. With worldwide defence spending reducing and rising prosperity the future was consumer electronics and they were the masters of consumer. Matsushita from Osaka and Sony in Tokyo bestrode both Japan’s consumer electronics industry and the world’s, …

Read full article: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

The Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2017 run by the Department of Culture Media and Sport reveals that nearly seven in ten large businesses identified a breach or attack

Read full article: 70% of large UK firms have suffered cyber attack, says DCMS

An interesting development for Android Pay – it is now supported by PayPal, tying it in with the popular online payment platform.

Read full article: Android Pay ties in with PayPal payment platform

Cree is to introduce a more dense led family, called XD16 – for which little information seems to be available. “The first product available in the new family of XD leds is the XLamp XD16 LED that delivers a breakthrough lumen density of up to 264 lm/mm2, which is 50% higher than the best leds …

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Wolfspeeed has introduced a 1,200V 75mΩ SiC mosfet. Called C3M0075120K, and available from Richardson RFPD, it comes in a four-lead TO-247-4 package – with a separate driver source explainng the fourth pin. The package has 8mm creepage distance between drain and source. The intrinsic diode is saisd to be fast, with low reverse recovery (Qrr). …

Read full article: 1.2kV SiC mosfet from Wolfspeed

Electronics Weekly joins forces with Goepel Electronics to discuss an important issue in the area of test, the X-ray inspection of solder joints in modern electronics productions.

Read full article: Webinar: Why only sample if a 100% x-ray inspection is possible?