Sales of wireless semiconductors grew almost four percent, reaching $56 billion in 2015, while revenue for the total semiconductor market dropped two percent to $347 billion, according to IHS Inc. The wireless market includes logic and analog semiconductors used in a variety of connectivity, mobile phones, media tablets, and mobile infrastructure applications. Due to lower…
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LAKE WALES Fla.—Diamonds may soon be the semiconductor industry's “best friend.” Startup Akhan Semiconductor Inc. (Gurnee, Ill.) plans to make the promise of diamonds come true by licensing the diamond semiconductor process from the U.S. Energy Department's Argonne National Laboratory (Lemont, Ill.). Diamond semiconductors have been known to be faster, consume less power, be thinner…
DetailsTTI, Inc., a world leading specialist distributor of electronic components, now stocks the ultra-thin UFPMA/UFPMC series displacement sensors from Vishay for use in Defense, Aerospace & Space applications in Europe. The components are flexible potentiometer membranes and represent a new generation of linear or angular position measurement. UFPMA/UFPMC series sensors benefit from a very high…
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The increasingly global business of electronics has the supply chain at its heart, making supply chain resilience a crucial business strategy for executives to consider. Threats to resilience top the list of worries—but many organizations find it difficult to plan or measure these threats. “There's a fair amount of volatility with oil prices and that…
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I recently saw a video about the newest robotics capabilities and it gave me an eerie feeling. It showed robots from Boston Dynamics trudging through the snow and lifting and carrying, all on two legs. I cannot stop imagining a world where these robots acquired super intelligence and are fighting a war against the humans…
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – In an effort to speed soldiers’ access to new technologies, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter returned to Silicon Valley to reorganize the new outpost he set up here a year ago. Carter named a slate of high tech executives from companies including Google and Apple to oversee the Defense Innovation Unit…
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Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) displays are finally gaining traction after years of manufacturing and materials development. The displays, which can be manufactured on thin and flexible substrates are lighter, use less power and are more colorful than liquid crystal displays (LCDs). However, because OLEDs can be produced using ink-jet-type processes, materials development has been slow…
DetailsTTI, Inc., the leading global distributor of interconnect, passive, electromechanical and discrete components, has been awarded the 2015 America Distributor of the Year from Molex. The award was presented to TTI during the EDS Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada. The annual award recognizes the Molex distributor who has made the greatest contribution to Molex’s business…
DetailsRFMW, Ltd. announces design and sales support for the MiniRF MRFXF0032 transformer. The MRFXF0032 is an unbalanced to balanced design with a 1:1 impedance ratio. Configured as a transmission line transformer, it covers a frequency range of 45 to 1200MHz with superior insertion loss of 0.4dB to 0.6dB across this band width thereby supporting applications…
DetailsDistributor Rutronik presents Transcend’s new industrial-grade SuperMLC UHS-I Speed Class 1 (U1) microSD cards with capacities of 4GB, 8GB, 16GB and 32GB. Between SLC and MLC NAND flash, the new SuperMLC technology features a cost-effective solution yet with nearly equivalent performance to SLC NAND flash. The SuperMLC is ideal for industrial applications. By reprogramming the…
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