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"Automotive is the new El Dorado for microelectronics,” announces Emilie Jolivet, Director, Semiconductor & Software at Yole Développement (Yole). The market is showing significant market drivers that are daily supporting the growth: electrification, connectivity, autonomy and comfort are the key words of the today’s automotive industry. “For the first time, we clearly see packaging innovations for automotive components,” comments Emilie Jolivet from Yole. “Step by step,...

Secure Thingz and Renesas Electronics announced their collaboration aimed at ensuring secure Internet of Things (IoT) applications are more easily developed on leading microcontrollers (MCUs), and that a secure production flow is available to deliver a secure global supply chain. As part of the collaboration, Renesas will support the Secure Thingz Secure Deploy architecture for the secure provisioning of...

NVIDIA announced broad adoption of the NVIDIA HGX-2 server platform, the world’s most powerful accelerated server platform, for AI deep learning, machine learning and high performance computing. Delivering two petaflops of compute performance in a single node, NVIDIA HGX-2 can run AI machine learning workloads nearly 550x faster, AI deep learning workloads nearly 300x faster and HPC workloads nearly 160x faster,...

North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $2.06 billion in billings worldwide in October 2018 (three-month average basis), according to the October Equipment Market Data Subscription (EMDS) Billings Report published today by SEMI. The billings figure is 0.9% percent lower than the final September 2018 level of $2.07 billion, and is 2.0 percent higher than the October 2017 billings level of $2.02 billion. "October billings of...

Mouser Electronics is now stocking the MAX17250 DC-DC synchronous boost converter from Maxim Integrated. The MAX17250 offers up to 93 percent efficiency to minimize heat dissipation, with an ultra-low quiescent current that helps extend battery life in digital cameras, battery-powered Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and other connected designs. The Maxim MAX17250 DC-DC boost converter includes a selectable input peak...

Bel Fuse-Circuit Protection announces their latest surface mount resettable PTC fuses, the 0ZCN Series, which are solid state 2016 chip size fuses, with a faster time-to-trip than standard SMD devices. The 0ZCN Series is designed for low voltage (≤ 60 V) applications where reset and flexibility in the selection process is desired, such as automotive and Ethernet applications. Bel’s 0ZCN Series fuses...

New STM32L0x0 Value Line microcontrollers (MCUs) from STMicroelectronics present an additional, low-cost entry point to the STM32L0 series, delivering ultra-low-power technology and efficient 32-bit performance with the Arm Cortex-M0+ core for designers facing tight cost, size, or power constraints. With up to 128Kbyte Flash memory, 20KByte SRAM, and 512Byte true embedded EEPROM on-chip the STM32L0x0 MCUs save external components to cut down on board space...

Samsung Electronics, a world leader in advanced digital component solutions, today announced new horticulture LED lineups, including full-spectrum packages and modules as well as color (monochromatic) LEDs. Optimized for lighting in greenhouses and vertical farming, the new LEDs provide a broader spectrum of light for healthier plant growth, enhanced farming environments and reduced lighting system costs. Full-spectrum light encompasses a...

Mouser Electronics, Inc., the authorized global distributor with the newest semiconductors and electronic components, is now stocking the LMG3410R070 600 V 70 mΩ gallium nitride (GaN) power stage from Texas Instruments (TI). Boasting ultra-low input and output capacitance, the LMG3410R070 supports new requirements for high-power-density electric motor applications, including industrial and consumer power supplies. The high-performance GaN power stage supports higher currents, temperatures, voltages, and switching frequencies...

During the state visit of His Excellency Emmanuel Macron President of the French Republic, the Belgian research center imec and the French research institute CEA-Leti, two world-leading research and innovation hubs in nanotechnologies for industry, announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that lays the foundation of a strategic partnership in the domains of Artificial Intelligence and...