The latest news, developments and announcements from around the electronics industry.
JEDEC has officially updated its LPDDR5/5X Serial Presence Detect (SPD) Contents standard, adding support for calculating recovery time when switching operating modes, with JESD406-5D. Bill Gervasi of Monolithic Power Systems, and chair of the JEDEC SPD Task Group, commented: “Reducing power consumption has become imperative for computing systems as the use of AI and other demanding applications accelerate. The updates to ...
XJTAG, the automated test equipment specialist, is making its project exploration and sharing tools available as the standalone XJBoardExplorer. Basically, it allows design teams to securely share board data across production and service. This is both internally and with contract manufacturers, using controlled, read-only access. Test engineers can interrogate design data to investigate PCB assembly problems, without attaching to hardware. ...
Toshiba is expanding its DTMOSVI series lineup – for switched-mode power supplies for industrial equipment – with DTMOSVI 600V HSD (High-Speed Diode) N-channel power mosfets. Featuring a super junction structure, the seven new products are available in TO-247, TOLL and DFN8×8 packages. TK058V60Z5 The company highlights the TK058V60Z5, featuring an ultra-low drain-source on-resistance (RDS(ON)) of 0.050Ω (typ.) in a DFN8×8 ...
Rohm, Toshiba and Mitsubishi Electric are to start talks to integrate their power semiconductor businesses, reports the Nikkei The talks come shortly after Denso made an $8.3 billion bid to buy Rohm. Last week Rohm said it had set up a committee of outside directors and others to review Denso’s proposal, alongside other options to boost its corporate value. A ...
Imec has given Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, its 2026 Lifetime of Innovation Award. The honour recognises Huang’s instrumental role in enabling accelerated computing technologies and empowering critical AI applications across industries – fuelled by the invention of the GPU. The award ceremony, including a video interview with Huang, will be held on 19 May, during imec’s ITF ...
Samsung, Hynix and Micron at looking at sealing pre-paid 3-5 year memory supply deals with their biggest customers. A report in EBN News says a likely model would fix volumes over a multi-year period while linking pricing to spot market levels. Contract prices would adjust if spot prices move beyond a predefined range. Customers would make up-front pre-payments with the ...
Q4 spending on cloud infrastructure services reached $110.9bn, led by AWS, MS and Google, for y-o-y growth of 29%, says Omdia. Q4 was the sixth consecutive quarter in which the market expanded by more than 20%. Omdia forecasts that 2026 cloud infrastructure services spending will grow by 27%. During Q4, AWS’s growth accelerated to 24%, while Microsoft Azure and Google ...
Septentrio, the GNSS specialist, has brought out an enclosed multi-frequency GNSS receiver: AsteRx EB. It delivers high-accuracy positioning and GNSS heading for industrial robots, port logistics, marine, and scalable automation applications. Its IP67 enclosure protects the receiver from harsh weather conditions, while built-in advanced GNSS+ algorithms ensure reliable operation in environments that are challenging for GNSS, such as areas with ...
The Vishay Sfernice 40 LHE is a linear position sensor with non contacting Hall effect technology, for high accuracy in harsh environments. Possible applciations include servo loop motion control systems requiring small displacement monitoring, such as infrastructure integrity monitoring. And also digital farming (dendrometers), in-line process measurement, robotic grippers in industrial automation systems, and medical robotic grasping forceps. Measuring 35mm ...
The Sourceability lead-time report sees two futures: stable growth or elongating lead-times and dramatic price fluctuations. Memory is one of the most constrained market segments with AI demands draining the supply. Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron have shifted primarily to allocation-only contract models. Power semis have seen sales rapidly increase. The Nexperia conflict remains unresolved, thereby constraining the discrete market. For ...
