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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...
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...
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...
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...
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)....
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...
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...
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)....
Graphcore ramps AI chip design jobs
UK AI chip and system developer Graphcore is ramping up for its next generation chip design.The company was recently bought by Softbank in Japan and is creating 75 new jobs across logical and physical design and verification in Bristol and Cambridge as...
Marelli taps Infineon Aurix TC4x for zone controller
Automotive supplier Marelli is to use the latest Aurix TC4x microcontrollers from Infineon for the next generation of Zone Control Units (ZCUs).Marelli has built a ZCU platform with a Data Routing Engine that ensures communication with ultra-low latency and improves the efficiency...
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