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Infineon unveils 1200 V Silicon Carbide MOSFET technology for unprecedented efficiency and performance in power conversion designs

“Infineon Technologies has unveiled a revolutionary silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET technology allowing product designs to achieve previously unattainable levels of power density and performance. Infineon’s CoolSiC™ MOSFETs offer a new degree of flexibility for increasing efficiency and frequency. They …

Microchip Introduces Hardware Cryptography-Enabled 32-bit Microcontroller for Internet of Things Applications

“Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced a new hardware crypto-enabled 32-bit microcontroller. The CEC1302’s hardware-based cryptography suite offers significant performance improvements over firmware-based solutions. The CEC1302 makes it easy …

Samsung and Legrand Team Up to Deliver World’s First Thread-Enabled IoT Light Switch

“Samsung Electronics and Legrand today showcased, at the Samsung Developer Conference in San Francisco, the world’s first Thread-enabled IoT light switch powered by the SAMSUNG ARTIK end-to-end platform. The SAMSUNG ARTIK IoT platform is a fully integrated chip to …

STMicroelectronics Brings Superior Indoor and Undercover Navigation to Mobiles and Wearables

“Smartphones, as well as smartwatches, fitness trackers and other wearables are about to get better at guiding users and mapping their sporting achievements even where satellite navigation cannot work, using the latest electronic compass (eCompass) from STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) , a …

New Raspberry PI 8-Megapixel Camera Board on sale

“The 5-megapixel visible-light camera board was our first official accessory back in 2013, and it remains one of your favourite add-ons. They’ve found their way into a bunch of fun projects, including telescopes, kites, science lessons and of course …

Inside Pascal: NVIDIA’s Newest Computing Platform

“Today at the 2016 GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced the new NVIDIA Tesla P100, the most advanced accelerator ever built. Based on the new NVIDIA Pascal GP100 GPU and powered by ground-breaking technologies, Tesla …

Samsung is working on smart contact lenses, patent filing reveals

“In an ever expanding universe of wearables, Samsung is doing its best to keep all bases covered. Today, the publication of a patent application shows the company is developing smart contact lenses. The patent application, filed in South Korea, shows …

Open-source microprocessor

“In future, it will be easier and cheaper for developers at universities and SMEs to build wearable microelectronic devices and chips for the Internet of Things, thanks to the PULPino open-source processor, which has been developed at ETH Zurich and …

TI introduces the world’s first microcontroller with a configurable low-leakage transimpedance amplifier

“Texas Instruments customers can now extend battery life in sensing and measurement applications with the new MSP430FR2311 microcontroller (MCU), the industry’s only MCU with an integrated low-leakage transimpedance amplifier (TIA) consuming just 50pA of current. The new microcontroller – an …

ARM and TSMC Announce Multi-Year Agreement to Collaborate on 7nm FinFET Process Technology for High-Performance Compute

“ARM and TSMC announced a multi-year agreement to collaborate on a 7nm FinFET process technology which includes a design solution for future low-power, high-performance compute SoCs. The new agreement expands the companies’ long-standing partnership and advances leading-edge process technologies beyond …