US semiconductor firm Texas Instruments (TI) has launched a 120-V automotive grade half-bridge gate driver, touted to be the fastest in the sector, offering negative voltage handling capability on the high-side pin for hybrid vehicles. ...
Tags: semiconductor manufacture, auto accessories, Texas Instruments
BMW Motorrad has designed a new brake light, capable of issuing warning to following drivers when the motorcycle ahead of them suddenly brakes or is about to do so, as part of its ‘Strategy Safety 360’. The system executes in ...
Tags: automobile manufacture, auto parts, BMW Motorrad, new brake light
LED lighting is forecast to reach 32% of total lamp revenue in office lighting in 2015, according to the latest projection by market research firm IHS Inc. Global revenue for office lamps is projected to be $3.5bn, of which $1.2bn is ...
Tags: LED, LED market, Lighting market, LED lighting, LED lamp
Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA - a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) - has announced the UltraCMOS 11 platform, the first RF SOI technology built on the ...
Tags: Peregrine CMOS, SOI, RF, UltraCMOS technology, Semiconductor
Axalta Coating Systems introduced its Voltatex family of insulation coatings at the Coil Winding, Insulations & Electrical Manufacturing Exhibition (CWIEME) in Shanghai June 23- 24, 2015. Voltatex products have been tailor-made to enhance ...
Axalta Coating Systems, a global supplier of liquid and powder coatings, introduces its Voltatex family of insulation coatings at the Coil Winding, Insulations & Electrical Manufacturing Exhibition (CWIEME) in Shanghai. Voltatex products ...
Tags: Axalta Coating Systems, liquid and powder coatings, paint pigment
What is decribed as the first European-made device based on gallium nitride (GaN) to be sent into space has completed its second year of operations. Hosted by the European Space Agency (ESA) on its Earth-observing Proba-V mini-satellite in ...
At the ANGA COM 2015 Exhibition & Congress for Broadband, Cable and Satellite in Cologne, Germany (9-11 June), Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has introduced the ARA2031 reverse-path amplifier, which delivers optimized performance for ...
Tags: DOCSIS 3.1, CPE Devices
S3 Group of Dublin, Ireland (an independent supplier of RF and mixed-signal IP and tailored silicon solutions to service operators, OEMs and semiconductor vendors) has made available what is claimed to be the first fully integrated, ...
Tags: RFIC, Single-Conversion Radio
Although wireless backhaul radio quantities will grow slowly to about 1.7 million units in 2019, price erosion will cause the corresponding RF component revenue in the segment to decline at a compound average growth rate (CAGR) of minus 2% ...
Tags: RF component, Electronics
Analog Devices Inc (ADI) of Norwood, MA, USA (which provides ICs for analog and digital signal processing applications) has introduced a highly integrated, 4-channel, 24GHz receiver downconverter monolithic microwave integrated circuit ...
Tags: Analog Devices, Electronics
Microsanj LLC of Santa Clara, CA, USA - a supplier of high-resolution, thermoreflectance imaging analysis (TIA) c, tools and consulting services - participated in three conferences during Microwave Week in Phoenix, Arizona. At the 2015 ...
Tags: TIA system, thermal imaging system
GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a fabless developer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications, has launched the latest addition to its range of enhancement-mode ...
Tags: GaN Systems, Power electronics
Qorvo Inc of Greensboro, NC and Hillsboro, OR, USA, a provider of RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and aerospace/defense applications, has launched a family of hybrid gallium nitride (GaN)/gallium arsenide (GaAs) power amplifiers ...
Tags: Power Amplifier, Qorvo
Diamond Microwave Devices Ltd of Leeds, UK (which was spun out in 2006 from the diamond electronics team of Element Six and specializes in high-performance microwave power amplifiers) has re-designed its range of gallium nitride (GaN)-based ...