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AMD to Purchase Xilinx for $35 Billion in Stock Deal

AMD to Purchase Xilinx for $35 Billion in Stock Deal

Advanced Micro Devices has agreed to buy rival Californian chipmaker Xilinx in a $35 billion all-stock deal, the latest in a wave of high-profile mergers and acquisitions currently sweeping the semiconductor industry.


News Oct 27, 2020 by Luke James
RICOH ELECTRONICS RP122Z Series Low Dropout (LDO) Regulators | New Product Brief

RICOH ELECTRONICS RP122Z Series Low Dropout (LDO) Regulators | New Product Brief

This New Product Brief (NPB) is part of a video series highlighting the features, applications, and technical specs of newly-released products.


Understanding Terminal Blocks for Safe Connections

Understanding Terminal Blocks for Safe Connections

Learn about the key electrical and mechanical considerations, safety ratings, and more in greater detail to aid in the terminal block selection process.


Xilinx Brings FPGA DNA to a Custom Hybrid System-on-Chip for 5G Radio Units

Xilinx Brings FPGA DNA to a Custom Hybrid System-on-Chip for 5G Radio Units

Xilinx solutions are surfacing for each new wave in the 5G rollout. Appearing in 2021, the new RFSoC DFE is forecasted to break all existing benchmarks.


News Oct 27, 2020 by Adrian Gibbons
COILCRAFT Flyback/Forward Transformers for PoE | Featured Product Spotlight

COILCRAFT Flyback/Forward Transformers for PoE | Featured Product Spotlight

This Featured Product Spotlight is part of a video series exploring the specifications, applications, and market context of new products.


Nexperia Creates a New FET Category: the Application-Specific FET (ASFET)

Nexperia Creates a New FET Category: the Application-Specific FET (ASFET)

FETs and MOSFETs don't always cut it for dynamic applications. Nexperia says it has created a new flavor of FETs designed to rise to the challenge.


AMPHENOL ICC BASICS Minitek MicroSpace™ Connector System | New Product Brief

AMPHENOL ICC BASICS Minitek MicroSpace™ Connector System | New Product Brief

This New Product Brief (NPB) is part of a video series highlighting the features, applications, and technical specs of newly-released products.


As 5G Begins and Moore’s Law Ends, Multichip Packaging May Be a Memory Solution

As 5G Begins and Moore’s Law Ends, Multichip Packaging May Be a Memory Solution

As 5G speed and storage demands collide with the end of Moore's law, chipmakers are turning to multichip packaging to save space and power.


News Oct 26, 2020 by Dr. Steve Arar
MICROCHIP AgileSwitch® 2ASC-12A1HP SiC Gate Driver Core | New Product Brief

MICROCHIP AgileSwitch® 2ASC-12A1HP SiC Gate Driver Core | New Product Brief

This New Product Brief (NPB) is part of a video series highlighting the features, applications, and technical specs of newly-released products.


Dropping the LDO: New Buck Converter from TI Integrates Ferrite Beads

Dropping the LDO: New Buck Converter from TI Integrates Ferrite Beads

Last week, TI announced its newest product: a low-noise buck converter bolstered by integrated ferrite beads.


News Oct 26, 2020 by Jake Hertz
LITTELFUSE DCN High-Current, High-Voltage DC Contactor Relays | Featured Product Spotlight

LITTELFUSE DCN High-Current, High-Voltage DC Contactor Relays | Featured Product Spotlight

This Featured Product Spotlight is part of a video series exploring the specifications, applications, and market context of new products.


Op-Amps as Low-Pass and High-Pass Active Filters

Op-Amps as Low-Pass and High-Pass Active Filters

In this video we will explore a particularly important application of op-amps, namely, the design of high-performance filters that do not require inductors.


Engineers Tackle the Challenge of Miniaturizing Organic FETs

Engineers Tackle the Challenge of Miniaturizing Organic FETs

A Hong Kong engineering team claims to have made an important breakthrough in developing staggered structure monolayer organic field-effect transistors, which they say are important for future flexible electronic devices.


News Oct 24, 2020 by Luke James
Menlo Micro Claims to Have “Reinvented the Electronic Switch”

Menlo Micro Claims to Have “Reinvented the Electronic Switch”

Menlo Micro says that it’s reinventing one of the most basic technological innovations: the electric switch. To enable volume production, it has raised $44 million in a Series B funding round led by 40 North Ventures alongside other capital groups.


News Oct 23, 2020 by Luke James
New Sensor is So Tiny That an Insect Can Drop It Into Dangerous Research Areas

New Sensor is So Tiny That an Insect Can Drop It Into Dangerous Research Areas

Tiny insects or drones can carry the high-tech sensor, which weighs less than a gram, into places that are too dangerous or inaccessible to human researchers.


News Oct 23, 2020 by Luke James
Reviewing the Broad Strokes of 5G Technology

Reviewing the Broad Strokes of 5G Technology

With 5G closer than ever, it may be useful to brush up on the basics.


News Oct 23, 2020 by John Koon
Machine Learning and Intelligent Vision for the Industrial Edge

Machine Learning and Intelligent Vision for the Industrial Edge

NXP’s i.MX 8M Plus applications processor enables machine learning and intelligent vision for consumer applications and the industrial edge. Learn about the features of this processor and how it can be used in embedded vision systems.


Researchers Bring Sintering Heat to Room Temperature to Print Sensors on Human Skin

Researchers Bring Sintering Heat to Room Temperature to Print Sensors on Human Skin

A joint research effort between China and the United States has culminated in a method for printing sensors directly onto human skin at room temperature.


News Oct 22, 2020 by Luke James
SK Hynix to Acquire Intel’s NAND Memory Business

SK Hynix to Acquire Intel’s NAND Memory Business

US chipmaker Intel is selling part of its NAND memory chip business to SK Hynix for $9 billion in a deal that will see the South Korean semiconductor supplier become the world’s second-largest flash memory chipmaker.


News Oct 22, 2020 by Luke James
KEMET TRS Thermal Reed Switch | Tech Specs

KEMET TRS Thermal Reed Switch | Tech Specs

This episode of Tech Specs is part of a video series highlighting the features, applications, and technical specs of newly-released products.


new products Oct 22, 2020 by TTI, Inc