Geneva, Ill. – Richardson RFPD, Inc. announced today the availability and full design support capabilities for a new LDMOS transistor from NXP Semiconductors. The MRF1K50H builds on the success of NXP’s 1250 W MRFE6VP61K25H, delivering 1500 W CW at 50 V, along with superior ruggedness and thermal performance. The MRF1K50H can reduce the number of transistors in high-power RF…
Electronics manufacturers are resigned to the stark reality that 2016 and the next several years will be marked more by restructuring, operational adjustments and management upheavals than strong growth. Across the industry, electronics firms are retooling everything for a vaguely defined “digital future” that everyone says requires a new growth strategy, a different set of…
Mouser Electronics, Inc. is now offering Hexiwear wearable platform products from MikroElektronika. Completely open source and developed in partnership with NXP, the Hexiwear device incorporates a low-power NXP Kinetis K64 microcontroller, Bluetooth® low energy (BLE) and wireless connectivity, and six onboard sensors into a compact wearable form factor for developers who need a complete Internet…
Hurt by slowing demand in the automotive industry and exchange rate fluctuations, the automotive semiconductor market only grew 0.2 percent in 2015, reaching $29 billion, according to IHS. Despite the challenges, there were a flurry of mergers and acquisitions last year, which caused a shift in the automotive semiconductor rankings. One of the biggest was…
Chicago, Ill. – Global electronics distributor Newark element14 today announces the addition of a new NXP® low-cost development platform to its extensive portfolio of products for the Internet of Things (IoT). The FRDM-KW40Z is enabled by the Kinetis® W series KW40Z/30Z/20Z (KW40Z) family and is ideal for applications in the IoT space, including home automation, building automation and healthcare. Built on the ARM® Cortex®-M0+ processor,…
Thanks in large part to LTE, the global RF power semiconductor market is expected to grow from $10.57 billion in 2015 to $31.26 billion by 2022, according to MarketsandMarkets. RF power semiconductor devices are used in application areas such as aerospace, automotive, military, medical, energy, consumer, telecommunications and data communications. The use of power amplifiers…
Mouser Electronics, Inc. is now stocking the NT3H2x11 NTAG I2C plus family of connected near-field communication (NFC) tags from NXP® Semiconductors. The NTAG I2C plus family is the latest development of NXP NFC tags, combining a passive NFC interface and a contact I2C interfaces together with a non-volatile memory. Designed to enable NFC in home-automation…
Mouser Electronics, Inc. today announced some very special ‘guest stars’ on its booth at Embedded World (Nuremburg Messe, Hall 4A-101). Microchip is demonstrating its new MPLAB Xpress IDE and development board. This is significant as it takes their development environment (IDE) into the cloud. It contains the most popular features of Microchip’s award-winning desktop MPLAB…
On the face of it the answer to the question in the headline above would have to be a definite yes. Many industry executives certainly believe this is the case, hence the recent spate of multi-billion dollar mergers and acquisitions. Since the beginning of 2015 there have been nearly 40 M&A deals in the semiconductor…
Mouser Electronics, Inc. is now stocking the PN7120 NFC controller from NXP Semiconductors. The highly integrated PN7120 provides a plug-and-play, full NFC solution for easy integration into any OS environment. The PN7120 helps create innovative 13.56 MHz NFC solutions and enables fast exploration of new applications and use cases for Internet-of-Things (IoT), including a variety…