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 Mouser Electronics, Inc., the industry's leading New Product Introduction (NPI) distributor with the widest selection of semiconductors and electronic components, is now stocking the Mini-Fit TPA 2 power connectors and cable assemblies from Molex. Part of Molex’s broad Mini-Fit family, the TPA 2 power connectors and cable assemblies provide a versatile, off-the-shelf solution that delivers current ratings up to 9...

The X-CUBE-AVS software package from STMicroelectronics enables Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service (AVS) to run on STM32 microcontrollers, allowing simple connected objects such as smart appliances, home-automation devices, and office products to support advanced conversational user interfaces with Cloud-based intelligence like automatic speec recognition and natural-language understanding. As an expansion package for the STM32Cube software platform, X-CUBE-AVS contains ready-to-use libraries and open routines that accelerate porting...

 The STEVAL-LDO001V1 is the first evaluation platform combining four different Low Drop Out (LDO) development boards into one solution to help engineers find the right component for their design. STMicroelectronics  delivering ultra-low power solutions and components with energy saving modes that can drop current consumption by one order of magnitude or more. For instance, the recent STM32L4+, for wearables and embedded systems, needs...

If we did not know before, now we are all aware: microLEDs for display applications is a very hot topic. Enabling microLED displays requires bringing together three major levels of expertise: LED, transistor backplanes (glass or Si-CMOS based) and chip transfer. The supply chain is complex and lengthy compared to that of traditional displays. Each process is critical and managing...

In just 15 years, WiFi has evolved from a sluggish technology to one that’s robust and versatile. And because it now plays an integral role in the lives of hundreds of millions of people, it is being improved almost constantly. But will these changes bring about the two most important things consumers and companies are looking for: range and speed? There are three recently-adopted WiFi...

No dust mops needed here. The inside of a chip factory is cleaner than about any other place you can visit on Earth. To avoid contaminating the chip-making process, the air in an Intel fab clean room is filtered to 1,000 times fewer airborne particles than a sterile hospital operating room. The “Team Room” inside Intel’s Fab D1X in Hillsboro,...

RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc, the global distributor for engineers, has introduced the MPLAB PICkit 4 in-circuit debugger/programmer from Microchip, which enables fast and easy debugging and programming of PIC microcontrollers (MCUs) and dsPIC digital signal controllers (DSCs) using the MPLAB X integrated development environment (IDE). Offering the features and performance at a fraction of the cost of comparable debugger/programmers,...

Fujitsu Limited and Blue Prism Group PLC today announced that they will be working closely together to deliver Blue Prism's market leading Robotic Process Automation(RPA)offering to enterprise clients across a wide range of industries. With the acceleration of digital transformation in recent years, the use of RPA has drawn attention in the context of automating processes to achieve improvements in...

MtM wafer demand reached almost 45 million 8-inch eq wafers in 2017. The wafer demand is expected to reach more than 66 million 8-inch eq. wafers by 2023, with an almost 10% CAGR between 2017 and 2023. According to Yole Développement (Yole)’s definition, the MtM applications include MEMS & sensors, CIS , and power, along with RF devices. Driven by the...

Fujitsu today announced that it has enhanced the features of Fujitsu IoT Solution Battery-free Beacon PulsarGum, and will begin sales of the new version today in Japan. Leveraging the research of Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., the new version can be powered by one-tenth the light of the previous version. It is therefore easier to use in a wider range of...