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Digital special edition covers electronics 2024

Digital special edition covers electronics 2024

As the world’s leading electronics innovators and companies gather for electronica 2024 in Munich this week, Elektor and eeNews Europe have published a special digital edition to  showcase of the strengths of both publications. Both eeNews and Elektor are at the show...

Published on: November 10, 2024

ADI buys Flex Logix embedded FPGA assets

ADI buys Flex Logix embedded FPGA assets

Flex Logix has sold its embedded FPGA assets to Analog Devices (ADI), which has also hired the technical team.Flex Logix had been selling its low power EFLX and InferX embedded FPGA IP for artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) designs, having also...

Published on: November 10, 2024

Magnetic octupoles overcome problems with antiferromagnets

Magnetic octupoles overcome problems with antiferromagnets

Physicists at RIKEN have demonstrated how ultrafast, low-power-consumption memory devices could be realized by replacing conventional magnetic materials with novel onesIn conventional hard disk drives, the magnetic disk has to be physically moved to read to and write from the disk. This...

Published on: November 10, 2024

ModusToolbox to simplify motor control development

ModusToolbox to simplify motor control development

Infineon Technologies has launched a suite of software, tools and resources for developing, configuring and monitoring motor control applications using the triple core XMC7000 controller with PSoC support coming.The Infineon ModusToolbox Motor Suite supports industrial, robotics, and consumer applications such as home...

Published on: November 09, 2024

Innoscience comes out fighting after US trade judgement

Innoscience comes out fighting after US trade judgement

The US ITC trade regulator has ruled against Innoscience of China in an ongoing patent dispute with EPC over gallium nitride (GaN) chips.The ITC ruling will see certain GaN power chips from Innoscience banned from the US. However the company is set...

Published on: November 09, 2024

UK chip designer FTDI forced to sell China stake

UK chip designer FTDI forced to sell China stake

Future Technology Devices International (FTDI) in Glasgow is being forced to sell an 80% stake in the company owned by a Chinese company.The UK government has ordered the sale of the 80.2% stake held by Feite Holdings, a division of Beijing Jianguang...

Published on: November 09, 2024

IO-Link transceiver has integrated oscillator

IO-Link transceiver has integrated oscillator

Orca Semiconductor has announced its second product an IO-Link communications transceiver for industrial applications. The part is numbered OS2000.The OS2000 can be used in either IO-Link master or device applications and features two control interface options: I2C or GPIO (general input output)....

Published on: November 08, 2024

Europe is sinking in a buoyant global chip market

Europe is sinking in a buoyant global chip market

Europe is the only region in the world where chip sales were lower in 3Q24 than in the same quarter a year before, according to numbers published by the Semiconductor Industry Association.The global chip market was worth US$55.32 billion in the three-month...

Published on: November 08, 2024

Global battery passport boost from pilot schemes

Global battery passport boost from pilot schemes

The Global Battery Alliance (GBA) has detailed the results of pilot schemes for its Battery Passport.Ten consortia, led by the world’s leading battery cell manufacturers, successfully completed the largest pre-competitive effort to establish harmonized battery passport.Cell manufacturers representing over 80% of global...

Published on: November 08, 2024

IO-Link transceiver has integrated oscillator

IO-Link transceiver has integrated oscillator

Orca Semiconductor has announced its second product an IO-Link communications transceiver for industrial applications. The part is numbered OS2000.The OS2000 can be used in either IO-Link master or device applications and features two control interface options: I2C or GPIO (general input output)....

Published on: November 08, 2024