Electronics Supply Chain News & Analysis

Building PCs for the Factory Floor

Industrial computers offer features, communication capability and robustness suitable for a manufacturing floor that consumer-grade PCs can’t provide.

Ultra-thin Actuator Responds Fast, Has Low Driving Voltage

TDK’s PiezoHapt™ actuator responds in just 4 ms and can be driven with voltages less than 24 V.

Wet Tantalum Cap Has Wide Capacitance Range

Vishay’s M39006/33?wet tantalum capacitor meets MIL-PRF-39006/33 specs and provides a capacitance range from 15 µF to 680 µF.

Gas Discharge Tube Suits High Bandwidth Apps

Gas discharge tube protects against fast rising transients. Low off-state capacitance is ideal for high bandwidth applications.

Sager Stocking Schurter IEC Inlets

Sager Electronics is offering Schurter’s Polarized IEC Appliance Inlets for Class II Protection.

Multilayer Organic Filters Suit Wireless Apps

AVX’s HF Series of MLO high pass filters help engineers integrate high quality passive printed elements in thermally matched surface-mount packages.

Voltage Detector Chip Allows Batteries in Sensors to Last Longer

The chip requires only a few picowatts of power to activate other circuits

Perform Complex Operations – in Hardware or Software?

Getting a system to execute a suite of operations used to rest primarily with the hardware. Today, embedding those functions in software offers numerous advantages.

Intel to Invest $7 Billion in New Chip Fab

The facility will produce microprocessors for use in data centers and the Internet of Things

Tiny, Sticky Insect Drones Could Be the Future of Pollination

In Japan, researchers are working to pollinate lilies with insect-sized drones .The undersides of these artificial pollinators are coated with horse hairs and an ionic gel that’s sticky enough to pick up pollen from one flower and drop it onto another.

600 V MOSFET Lowers Conduction, Switching Losses

Superjunction device provides industry’s lowest RDS(ON)*Qg FOM for telecom, industrial and enterprise applications.

Sager Electronics Celebrates 130 Years in Business

The distributor sells interconnect, power and electromechanical components

Prototyping Service Offers Two-Week Turnaround

Proto Labs is now offering insert molding with a 15-day or less turnaround.

100 A POL Converter has PMBus™ Communication

TDK-Lambda’s iJC series non-isolated, point-of-load DC-DC converters comply with the PMBus™ and feature digital control.

Backplane Assemblies Suit Datacom, Telecom Apps

Molex’s BiPass I/O and Backplane Assemblies provide a low-insertion-loss alternative to PCB traces in datacom and telecom apps.

Panasonic and UMC Team for 40nm ReRAM

The non-volatile memory will be used to boost the performance in applications such as IC cards, wearables and the Internet of Things.

Thick Film Chip Resistors Are Sulfur-Resistant

Devices combine advanced Sulfur resistance with power ratings to 2.0 W for automotive, industrial apps.

STMicro Joins Charging Interface Initiative

STMicroelectronics has become a member of the Charging Interface Initiative.

Spring-Loaded Pins Have Removable Pick and Place Caps For Automated Assembly

The 806 series spring-loaded pins have removable caps that keep parts centered in the carrier tape pocket, easing vacuum pick up and removal after soldering.