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News STMicroelectronics Reveals Fast-Starting Intelligent Power Switches for Demanding Safety Applications
“STMicroelectronics has added new fast-starting devices to its family of intelligent power switches for safety-instrumented systems. With power-on delay time of less than 60µs, the IPS160HF and IPS161HF satisfy standardized requirements for interface types C and D in Safety Integrity …
News Toshiba’s New Photorelays with Low Trigger LED Current Contribute to Low Power Consumption in Battery-Powered Equipment
“Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (“Toshiba”) has launched two new photorelays “TLP170AM” and “TLP170GM” in a small 4-pin SO6 package, for security systems, building automation and other industrial equipment. The new products feature a maximum trigger LED current of 1mA …
News Imec presents low-power 60 GHz radar chip for contactless health tracking in battery-powered devices
“This week at the virtual conference IEEE RFIC, leading research and innovation hub imec presents a millimeter-wave motion detection radar at 60GHz, integrated in standard 28nm CMOS. Achieving 2-cm range resolution, the ultra-sensitive radar is optimized for vital sign monitoring …
“Intel Corp (INTC.O) on Thursday disclosed a new method for making transistors on semiconductors that its chief architect said could boost the performance Intel’s next round of processors by as much as 20%. The Santa Clara, California-based company …
News Maxim Integrated’s USB-C Power Delivery Solutions Accelerate Industry Adoption by Cutting Development Time by Three Months and Reducing Solution Size in Half
“Out-of-the-box compliance, elimination of firmware development and 50 percent smaller solution size allow system designers to overcome challenges of implementing USB-C Power Delivery Overcome the challenges of implementing USB-C Power Delivery (PD) with the MAX77958 USB-C PD …
News Samsung Announces Availability of its Silicon-Proven 3D IC Technology for High-Performance Applications
“Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, today announced the immediate availability of its silicon-proven 3D IC packaging technology, eXtended-Cube (X-Cube), for today’s most advanced process nodes. Leveraging Samsung’s through-silicon via (TSV) technology, X-Cube enables significant …
“As data centers support more Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) workloads, there is a need for cloud scale infrastructure that provides more bandwidth to storage and more storage density per rack. The trend is therefore to adopt PCIe …
“Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (“Toshiba”) today announces collaboration with MikroElektronika (“Mikroe”), a designer and manufacturer of hardware and software tools used to develop embedded systems. Customers are now able to evaluate Toshiba motor driver ICs on Click boards™, evaluation …
News AMD Ryzen 4000 Series Desktop Processors with AMD Radeon Graphics Set to Deliver Breakthrough Performance for Commercial and Consumer Desktop PCs
“Today, AMD announced the world’s first and most advanced 7nm x86 desktop processors with built-in graphics for consumer and commercial PC markets2. The AMD Ryzen™ 4000 Series Desktop Processors with Radeon™ Graphics and the AMD Athlon™ 3000 Series Desktop …
“PSoC® 64 Standard Secure AWS MCU Includes Pre-Validated Security Firmware to Help Reduce Design Risks, Slash R&D Costs, and Accelerate Time-to-Market SAN JOSE, Calif., July 21, 2020—Cypress, an Infineon Technologies company, today announced production availability of its PSoC …