Infineon has launched power management designs for Intel’s Sapphire Rapids server CPUs. “These combine our software-defined digital controllers with integrated power stage and point-of-load converters,” said Infineon marketing director Rakesh Renganathan. There are three Arm Cortex-M0 based transient phase controllers (XDPE15284D, XDPE15254D and XDPE152C4D) with proprietary control algorithms for managing peaky processor loads. Taking the XDPE15284D as an example, it is an ...

Analog Devices, has introduced millimetre wave (mmW) 5G front-end chipsets spanning 24 to 47GHz. There are two 16-channel dual-polarisation beam formers and two single channel (one Tx + one Rx) up-down converters. ADMV4828 24 – 29.5GHz 16-channel beamformer >12.5dBm output at 3% EVM with 400MHz 64QAM 5G NR waveform 310mW/channel ADMV4928 37 to 43.5GHz 16-channel beamformer >11.5dBm output at 3% EVM ...

The boss of one of the largest companies in Europe once wrote these two memos: One was “It might be a good idea to remove every other bulb in offices and corridors” (to reduce electricity bills); Another was: “I wish every unit to undertake a monitoring procedure to make regular checks on private [telephone] calls”. Moral: Take care of the ...

Synopsys has picked Microsoft’s Azure HBv3 cloud to offer pay-as-you-go on-line IC design and verification electronic design automation (EDA) tools, to be called Synopsys Cloud. “As more design flows incorporate AI, requiring even more resources, the virtually unlimited compute and EDA access we’re providing will deliver a flexible, secure chip development environment for future demands,” said Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi. “Synopsys Cloud ...

We’re very pleased to announce another addition to the EW BrightSparks 2022 judging panel, with Nadja Yang – President, European Young Engineers (EYE) – agreeing to come on board. Nadja adds to what is an expertise-packed set of judges from across the industry, joining (alphabetically) Clive Couldwell (Group Editor, Electronics Weekly), Graham Curren (CEO, Sondrel), Dr. Ollie Folayan (Co-founder, Chairman, ...

The global smartphone display panel market revenue rose more than 5% to $46 billion in 2021, according to Strategy Analytics, with Samsung dominating the market with 49% share. BOE is in 2nd place with 16% share, followed by LG with 8%. The top 3 had nearly 72% of the market. “OLED display panels saw increased adoption in the supply chains ...

Septentrio has launched three products which support Japan’s high-accuracy Centimeter Level Augmentation Service (CLAS) – mosaic-CLAS, AsteRx-m3 CLAS and AsteRx SB3 CLAS, These multi-frequency GNSS receivers support CLAS on a single device, thanks to the latest GNSS technology which receives the L6 signal, which transmits high-accuracy corrections from Japan’s QZSS** constellation. This technology was developed in close cooperation with CORE, a ...

Vesper, a MEMS supplier of piezoelectric sensors, has launched the VA1210, Vesper’s 2nd generation analogue piezoelectric smart voice accelerometer. The VA1210 offers higher sensitivity (+17 dB) and higher (+6 dB) SNR than the 1st generation VA1200 in voice pickup. Additionally, new intelligent features of Wake-on-Voice (WoV) and hardware voice activity detection (HVAD) are introduced into the VA1210.  With WoV, the ...

The fastest growing company in Europe last year was Swappie of Finland which buys and sells refurbished smartphones, says a joint report from the FT and Statista which looked at companies on the FT1000 list. ‘The companies that made the final cut were sufficiently resilient — and, in some cases, lucky — to survive a collapse in demand caused by ...

The only certainty about the semiconductor market is its uncertainty, Winbond chairman and CEO Arthur Chiao Yu-cheng tells the Nikkei. “Over the past two years, you learned a great lesson in constant uncertainties and disruptions,” says Chiao, “in early 2020, everyone is forecasting gloomy demand and no one dared to place orders. But it turned out in the second half ...