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Find the latest electronics industry news covering new electronics components releases in various electronics domains such as embedded, power electronics, analog, digital, IoT and Automotive industries. 

 

Enabling new application areas to ease down the customer interaction, the new NFC transceiver, ST25R3918 from STMicroelectronics supports peer-to-peer functionality and NFC card-emulation mode as well as NFC reader operation. This multi-purpose device delivers most of the functionality of the flagship ST25R3916 NFC reader at a highly competitive price, the…

Toshiba has added new Arm Cortex-M4 Microcontrollers to its TXZ4A+ series. The mass production of 12 new devices in the M4K group for motor control as first products in the TXZ+ family advanced class has already started and the company plans to start the mass production of 10 products in the M4M group next month. These new products that have lately been added to the M4K…

LUNA is a powerful multi-tool designed by Great Scott Gadgets for building, analyzing, and hacking USB device in a cost-effective manner.  Based on a Lattice Semiconductor, LFE5U-12F ECP5 FPGA, this all-in-one tool is built around a unique FPGA-based architecture with fully customizable hardware. LUNA can be used as high-speed USB protocol analyzer, USB-…

Renesas Electronics Corporation and Syntiant Corporation have jointly developed voice-controlled multimodal AI solution that enables low-power contactless operation for image processing in vision AI-based IoT and edge systems. The new solution combines Renesas RZ/V Series vision AI microprocessor unit (MPU) and the low-power multimodal, multi-feature Syntiant…

Microchip Technology has expanded its silicon carbide portfolio with high-efficiency, high-reliability 1700V silicon carbide MOSFET die, discrete and power modules. The new 1700V silicon carbide technology is smart alternative to silicon IGBTs and unlike previous technology doesn’t ask designers to compromise on performance and eliminates the need to use complicated…

Digi-Key has launched a new video series “Factory Tomorrow” that showcases the latest innovations in robotics, automation and connectivity, as well as cutting-edge manufacturing technologies. Sponsored by Banner Engineering and Weidmüller, the video series comes in three parts and focuses entirely on advancements in industrial automation. The first of three videos in…

The average electronic component cost per passenger vehicle is projected to reach nearly Rs 2 lakh (USD 2,685) by 2027

International research firm Counterpoint in its new report has now stated that the automotive electronics market in India is speculated to reach USD 18 billion by the end of 2027 coupled with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of…

For improving his Table Tennis game, an engineer, Samuel Alexander develops an AI-powered bat.

To kill boredom during the Covid restrictions, Samuel and his flatmates acquired a complete Table Tennis setup for their apartment and in no time, got addicted to the game. But lack of prior experience and a passion to defeat his housemates led Samuel to…

Tech-based organisations witnessed the largest number of cyberattack from IoT malware that includes 40 percent of infections

The U.S. based cloud-oriented security firm Zscaler in its new security research report has mentioned that over the past one and half year, cyberattackers have unleashed ‘out of the ordinary’ malware attacks against IoT…

Ricoh Electronic Devices has launched a high-voltage buck DC/DC controller series with a wide input voltage range of 5.0 V to 60 V and maximum rating of 80 V. The R1260 Series is optimized for use in automotive and industrial applications and its output voltage is externally configurable in the range of 1.0 V to 16.0 V. Due to its high operating voltage up to 60 V, it can…

With the shift to self-driving and other high-functionality vehicles, the demand for multilayer ceramic capacitors has increased. This further has raised the demand for the reduction in the number of components being used.

Meeting the market needs of compact capacitors with large capacity and low ESL to improve the reliability and decrease the…

MLX81130 from Melexis is a programmable, multi-channel OLED controller that drives up to 25 static and animated interior/exterior lights. Designed to support ASIL B system integration, this new OLED controller in a QFN 5x5 package features programmable constant current sources and operates in single-master, multiple-slave configurations. Suitable for Rear…