“Leaving today,” the famous scientist wrote on a postcard to a friend and to another friend wrote a note saying: “Leaving Vienna for good today.” In his diary he wrote: “Departure 3.25 Orient Express”. Here he is on that trip. The lady with him is Napoleon Bonaparte’s great-grandniece. Moral: Give shit the slip when you can

Kioxia has begun sampling 128Gbyte and 256Gbyte and 1Tbyte UFS v4.1 embedded flash memory for automotive applications, with 512Gbyte to follow. “They meet AEC-Q100/104 Grade 2 standards, supporting case temperature up to 115°C,” according to the company. “The UFS 4.1 devices are designed to fit the needs of infotainment, ADAS, telematics, domain controllers and vehicle computers.” Inside is its eight generation ...

Electromechanical specialist, Devlin Electronics has acquired Purekeys UK, the exclusive UK and Ireland distributor for Purekeys medical keyboards. The wired and wireless keyboards and input devices are for use by doctors, dentists, hospitals and vets. They can be cleaned to reduce the risk of contamination in clinical settings. The flat, waterproof keyboards are IP66-rated and can be cleaned using hospital-grade ...

Toshiba is aiming at 800V electric vehicles with an SO16 photo-relay with 1.8kV output mosfets. “Photo-relays commonly used in battery systems must withstand a voltage of approximately twice the system voltage, therefore, an output withstand voltage of over 1,600V is required for an 800V system,” according to the company. “Toshiba’s TLX9165T meets and exceeds this requirement.” The high-voltage mosfets inside ...

Cinch Connectivity Solutions has qualified an SMA connector-saver for space environments. SQM-4733-MF-29M-02 is made of stainless steel and “supports SMA, 3.5mm and 2.92mm connections, and operates reliably up to 40GHz” said the company. It “has been designed with lessons learned from major missions”. The connector is tested with a 100% swept frequency protocol and is compliant with or exceeds NASA’s ...

The European electronic components distribution market is suffering from a declining automotive sector, reports DMASS Europe. The electronic components distribution industry body represents approximately 85% of the European components DTAM. DMASS said that European semiconductor distribution sales in Q2 2025 fell 14% compared to Q2 2024. Austria experiencing the steepest drop (36.6%) followed by France (20%), Germany and Ireland both ...

Harwin has added a through-hole retention option to its surface-mount ‘Kontrol’ industrial connector range, increasing it by 72 parts. “Industrial environments are evolving rapidly, with applications and modern equipment needing to tolerate higher levels of vibration and allow increased data throughput while being afforded less space,” according to the company. “Tests show through hole retention offers up to twice the ...

Samsung’s Q2 chip profit was down 94% y-o-y at $288 million on sales of $20 billion. In Q2 2024, the profit was $4.7 billion. Samsung attributed the loss to  a one-time inventory cost as US export controls led to unsold AI chips for restricted China customers, The foundry business is expecting more big orders after Tesla gave it an order ...

Calendar Q2, Arm’s Q1 2026, saw the company make revenues of $1.05 billion with royalty revenue growing 25% y-o-y to $585 million and licensing revenue of $468 million  down  1% y-o-y. The company said it expects FY Q2  revenue in the range between $1.01 billion and $1.11 billion. Arm claimed that more than 70,000 enterprises now run AI workloads on ...

aiMotive, the Budapest ADAS software and hardware IP specialist, has signed a licence agreement with Socionext. This agreement grants Socionext access to aiMotive’s aiWare IP and development tools to support the development, including tape-out of next-generation custom SoCs based on chiplet technology for automotive ADAS applications. The collaboration is expected to accelerate the adoption of aiMotive’s technologies while enabling Socionext ...