From bulky vacuum tubes to compact high performance microprocessors the evolution of electronic components over the years has always been evident. This section covers all the recent technological advancement in the electronics industry and the new-age products that have hit the electronics market recently.
Car makers in the US are requesting the government to permit chipset fabs to produce a few volumes of chips for their exclusive use.
At first, TSMC will give preference to Apple’s chip and integrated circuits, which will be then followed by orders from server and PC makers.
The Taiwanese global semiconductor…
With the advent of 5G IoT networks, the need for scalable and robust communication systems to deliver drastically high data rates and low power consumption has risen. Backscatter radios or passive sensors in which wireless communication is achieved via reflection rather than radiation is a low-complexity approach that requires a minimal number of active elements. The major…
CaribouLite from Caribou Labs is a new open-source dual-channel Raspberry Pi SDR HAT that offers up to a 6 GHz tunable range. Easily customizable, this new open-source board has been specifically designed for Raspberry Pi 40-pin mini PC range and complements the SDR current eco-systems offering a scalable, standalone dual-channel software-defined radio.
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With the integration of BlueSky GNSS Firewall with TimePictra 11 synchronization monitoring and management platform, Microchip Technology aims to address the security threats and performance issues in 5G wireless networks and smart power grids. The TimePictra 11 software suite provides full control and monitoring of all synchronization sources and distribution…
Alauda Mk3, the remotely-piloted eVTOL multicopter from Airspeeder has successfully made its first flight in the South Australian desert. During the entire flight, it was controlled remotely and the country's Civil Aviation Safety Authority was present there for observation. The full-sized remotely-operated electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle (eVTOL), Airspeeder…
Renesas Electronics Corporation has added an IP67-certified waterproof package and a new AI-based algorithm to its popular ZMOD4510 Outdoor Air Quality (OAQ) gas sensor platform, which can enable ultra-low-power selective ozone measurements. ZMOD4510 is a compact and fully calibrated digital OAQ sensor system that can detect particular ozone levels while consuming less than…
Power Integrations has announced the release of a new compact switching power supply IC, LinkSwitch-TNZ that reduces the component count in smart home and appliance applications. Housed in a compact SO-8C package, this highly efficient compact switcher is ideal to be used for the non-isolated buck and buck-boost power supplies up to 575 mA output current and provides up to…
AI-based technology requires a lot of power to run and needs to be permanently connected to the cloud, raising data protection, energy efficiency, and security concerns. As a solution to this, Engineers from the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) have developed an AI system-on-chip that runs on Solar Power. This integrated circuit is capable of carrying…
Renesas Electronics Corporation announced that customers designing with all mainstream Renesas 32-bit MCU families now have access to Microsoft Azure Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) embedded development suite, including its powerful Azure IoT middleware for Secure Embedded IoT Development. The e2 studio integrated development environment provides Azure RTOS support for…
Last September, NVIDIA, a renowned name in graphics chips powering video games announced that the company was officially be starting the process of acquiring ARM Holdings from SoftBank for $40 billion but the deal hasn’t been approved or shut down by the regulators. A few months ago, the UK government decided to block the deal, thereby leading to fair chances that the deal…
If you are an electronic enthusiast, you surely would be interested in the latest Arduino-based tools released to ease the development process. QUARK is one such device that ensures to helps you in simplifying the development of electronic devices on Arduino, ESP32, STM32, and more. Simple and 100% open-source, this wireless Arduino-based electronics multi-tool comes…
Digi-Key Electronics, the leading global electronic components distributor, was honored with both the Vishay North America Catalog Distributor of the Year and Vishay North America Catalog Semiconductor Distributor of the Year awards for 2020 from Vishay Intertechnology, Inc., one of the world's largest manufacturers of discrete semiconductors and passive electronic…
