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2021’s Top 5 Things for an EE to Be Thankful For

2021’s Top 5 Things for an EE to Be Thankful For

It’s the start of the holiday season and almost a new year. There’s always something to be thankful for, but here are the things we’re grateful for the most at AAC.


News Nov 24, 2021 by Kimber Wymore
A Roundup of GNSS Receivers Bringing Pinpoint Positioning

A Roundup of GNSS Receivers Bringing Pinpoint Positioning

Vehicles and wearables alike require increasingly precise positioning technology—and this innovation is often fine-tuned starting with GNSS receivers.


News Nov 23, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Rounding Up Schottky Barrier Diode’s Exploits With Wide Bandgap Materials

Rounding Up Schottky Barrier Diode’s Exploits With Wide Bandgap Materials

Wide bandgap materials like SiC and GaN keep finding their way into more and more devices, like Schottky barrier diodes (SBDs). Let's take a look at some recent releases and check the status of GaN SBDs.


News Nov 22, 2021 by Abdulwaliy Oyekunle
Renesas Breaks Into the FPGA Market With ForgeFPGA Family

Renesas Breaks Into the FPGA Market With ForgeFPGA Family

A first in company history, Renesas is branching into FPGAs. Hoping to bypass the limitations of FPGAs, especially in IoT applications, Renesas claims its ForgeFPGAs is a low-power and low-cost solution.


News Nov 22, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Infineon Tackles High-frequency Switching Losses With Latest OptiMOS 6 MOSFETS

Infineon Tackles High-frequency Switching Losses With Latest OptiMOS 6 MOSFETS

With increased performance of drain-source on-state resistance, gate charge, and figures of merit, Infineon's latest 100 V MOSFET technology seeks to improve high-frequency switching applications.


News Nov 21, 2021 by Ikimi .O
The Next Gen of Memory: Micron and MediaTek Team Up to Validate LPDDR5X

The Next Gen of Memory: Micron and MediaTek Team Up to Validate LPDDR5X

Hoping to unlock AI and 5G smartphone innovations, Micron and MediaTek, leveraging 1α node technology, have validated the next generation of memory: the LPDDR5X.


News Nov 19, 2021 by Jake Hertz
IBM Quantum Summit 2021: QPU Eagle Breaks the 100-qubit Barrier

IBM Quantum Summit 2021: QPU Eagle Breaks the 100-qubit Barrier

Building on year-over-year engineering advancements IBM unveils Eagle, a 127-qubit quantum processor, and the next generation of cloud-based quantum systems.


News Nov 18, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
CubeSAT Project Launches Deep Learning Into Space

CubeSAT Project Launches Deep Learning Into Space

An onboard image processor from Teledyne e2v will bring deep learning capabilities to a smart nanosatellite.


ADI’s Battery Management IC Hopes to Strengthen Runtime for Li-ion Batteries

ADI’s Battery Management IC Hopes to Strengthen Runtime for Li-ion Batteries

Combining fuel gauge techniques in its ModelGauge m5 technology, ADI aims to improve Li-ion battery health and life with its latest battery management IC for consumer applications.


News Nov 17, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Renesas Introduces Battery Management ICs to Protect High-voltage BMS

Renesas Introduces Battery Management ICs to Protect High-voltage BMS

A new family of multi-cell, battery front-end ICs may speed battery development in a number of high-voltage applications—including energy storage systems, UPS, and mobility.


News Nov 17, 2021 by Ikimi .O
New Technique Side-steps Shot Noise for Precision Optics in a Photonic IC

New Technique Side-steps Shot Noise for Precision Optics in a Photonic IC

A new technique eliminates the limitations of shot noise on laser interferometry.


News Nov 16, 2021 by Jake Hertz
NVIDIA Hits the Road with Autonomous Vehicle Hardware at GTC

NVIDIA Hits the Road with Autonomous Vehicle Hardware at GTC

At NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference, the company unveiled its roadmap to bring autonomy to more vehicles—dependent on chipsets, sensors, GPUs, cameras, and more.


News Nov 16, 2021 by Tyler Charboneau
AMD Teases More Data Center Processors at 2021 Accelerated Data Center Premiere

AMD Teases More Data Center Processors at 2021 Accelerated Data Center Premiere

At last week's Accelerated Data Center Premiere, AMD revealed a plethora of new processor technology including the 3rd Gen of EPYC processors (the Milan-X), the shift to 5 nm, and a Zen 4 architecture.


News Nov 15, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Introducing the Alveo U55C: Xilinx’s Answer To Modern HPC Data Center Demands

Introducing the Alveo U55C: Xilinx’s Answer To Modern HPC Data Center Demands

Distributed high-performance compute (HPC) is the cornerstone technology for climate forecasting, signal processing, and more applications. To address this, Xilinx brings forth their Alveo U55C HPC Accelerator.


News Nov 15, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons
ST’s NFC Tag Type 2 ICs Boasts Energy Harvesting, Privacy, and Increased Protection

ST’s NFC Tag Type 2 ICs Boasts Energy Harvesting, Privacy, and Increased Protection

STMicroelectronics aims to guarantees privacy in common near-field communication (NFC) applications such as contactless transactions, healthcare records, seamless access to digital content with new NFC tag ICs.


News Nov 14, 2021 by Abdulwaliy Oyekunle
As Lead Times Grow, European Automakers Call for More EU-made Chips

As Lead Times Grow, European Automakers Call for More EU-made Chips

Manufacturers in Europe are increasing pressure on chipmakers to improve their production capacities.


News Nov 13, 2021 by Luke James
Data Center HPC Zooms Forward with AMD’s “Worlds Fastest” Accelerators

Data Center HPC Zooms Forward with AMD’s “Worlds Fastest” Accelerators

At this year’s Accelerated Data Center Premiere event, AMD announced a new family of accelerators, the Instinct MI200 series, that claims to literally speed up high-performance computing (HPC) in data centers.


News Nov 11, 2021 by Jake Hertz
ROHM’s Waterproof Barometric Pressure Sensor Is More Than a Weather Forecaster

ROHM’s Waterproof Barometric Pressure Sensor Is More Than a Weather Forecaster

The MEMS piezoresistive pressure sensor stands apart from traditional barometers with a waterproof package, built-in temperature compensation, and high tolerance to stress.


News Nov 10, 2021 by Dr. Steve Arar
NXP Unveils Edge Processor—One to Balance Complex ML, Power, and Security

NXP Unveils Edge Processor—One to Balance Complex ML, Power, and Security

The new processor—the first of NXP's new i.MX 9 family—is customized to IoT and automotive applications.


News Nov 09, 2021 by Jake Hertz
Kneron’s RISC-V AI Chip Intends to Bring L1 and L2 Autonomy to “Any Vehicle”

Kneron’s RISC-V AI Chip Intends to Bring L1 and L2 Autonomy to “Any Vehicle”

The push for autonomous vehicles has seen a lot of momentum for 2021. Aiming to keep it going is a new AI chip from Kneron that claims to bring the capacity for autonomous driving capabilities to any vehicle.


News Nov 08, 2021 by Jake Hertz