Electronics Supply Chain News & Analysis

60 V Synchronous Buck Battery Charger Handles Lead-Acid, Li-Ion Types

Step-down battery charger has intelligent charging algorithms to handle various battery types.

650 W AC/DC Supplies Meet Medical Needs

The CNS650-M series power supplies carry medical and ITE safety approvals and incorporate 2XMOPP (Means of Patient Protection) to protect patients from the powered medical equipment.

LED Tube Light Is Cost-Effective Fluorescent Replacement

Maintains 80% Luminosity for 50,000 Hours, Nearly Double That of Fluorescent Lamps

UMC Strikes MEMS Partnership with APM

The partnership will allow UMC to broaden its reach in the MEMS sector to applications in the Internet of Things.

Fujitsu Gambles to Replace DRAM with NRAM Using Carbon Nanotubes

NRAM achieves several thousand times faster rewrites and many thousands of more rewrite cycles compared to embedded flash memory.

TSMC and Renesas Team Up to Develop 28 nm MCUs for Autonomous Vehicles

The collaboration will result in microcontrollers ready for mass production by 2020.

AMD to Partner with GlobalFoundries Through 2020

The agreement will give AMD access to 14 nm and 7 nm technology nodes for future semiconductor products.

Littelfuse Completes Acquisition of Automotive Components from ON Semiconductor

Littelfuse has acquired several lines of TVS diodes, switching thyristors and IGBTs from ON Semiconductor to strengthen its automotive market presence.

Heavy-Duty Connector Replaces Splices

Amphenol’s ATHD connector has size 12 contacts and can replace splices in industrial applications.

Sony’s 4K Streaming Service Powered by Intel Processors

Computers powered by Intel Core 7th-Generation processors will be able to access 4K content through the service.

Noise Filter Operates From 700 MHz to 2.5 GHz

TDK’s MAF1005G noise suppression filter features a high attenuation of cellular bands from 700 MHz to 2.5 GHz and can suppress the spurious emissions from these bands by up to 50 dB.

Hirose, Harting Team Up on 10 Gbit Ethernet Connector Standard

Hirose Electric and Harting Electronics are leveraging their strengths in interconnection technology to develop a 10 Gbit ethernet connection standard.

Dynamic Range and Gain Control: Simple Definitions, Complex Implications

The maximum/minimum ratio of a signal can be extremely wide, so there are special considerations when dealing with wide dynamic ranges.

Zinc-Ion Battery Developed for Grid Energy Storage

A newly developed zinc-ion battery could better enable power grids to store renewable energy.

TI Adds Wi-Fi to Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

A new reference design allows for remote monitoring and control over the charging of vehicles.

Strides in Soft Robotics

Soft robots have become an area of interest due to the fact that they would make possible tasks and environments previously unachievable by traditional and rigid robotic systems.

Frequency Dividers Cover 0.5 to 18 GHz Range

Pasternack’s new line of high-reliability?frequency dividers cover wide frequency bandwidths from 0.5 to 18 GHz and are available?in 2, 4, 5, 8 and 10 divide-by-prescaler configurations.

Soft 3D-Printed "Octobot" Contains Absolutely No Rigid Electronics

The small, 3-D-printed robot, which the team calls “octobot,” paves the way for a new generation of entirely soft, autonomous machines with the potential to change the way humans interact with machines.