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Nexperia has created ESD protection diodes for 48V vehicle communications networks. “Until now, automotive equipment manufacturers lacked suitable ESD protection solutions specifically designed for 48V data lines,” claimed Nexperia head of protection devices Alexander Benedix. “As a result, they often had to rely on workarounds – either including an additional 12 V power rail or connecting several lower-voltage protection diodes ...

Rohm has designed a mosfet for high-current 48V hotswap controllers in data centres. RY7P250BM is a 100V device nominally rated at 300A and comes in an 8 x 8mm DFN8080 package. “In hot-swap circuits used to safely replace modules while servers remain powered on, mosfets are required that offer both wide safe operating area and low on-resistance to protect against ...

Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with Ampleon, the Dutch RF specialist. Ampleon has been a making RF power devices for nearly 60 years including GaN and LDMOS ICs. Ampleon’s portfolio addresses a wide range of applications, including 5G infrastructure, industrial, medical, navigation, broadcast communications, and safety radio. ART1K6FH and ART2K0FE LDMOS RF power transistors, available from Mouser, are ...

Intel is considering whether to stop trying to sell its 18A process to foundry customers and concentrate on 14A, reports Reuters. 18A would still be used by Intel for its own products starting with Panther Lake later this year. The overwhelming choice of the big customers for a 2nm foundry process has been TSMC whose 2nm process has shown good ...

Codasip, the RISC-V developer, is asking for buyers either for the company as a whole or for parts of it. An inducement is €119 million in  grants and equity funding from various bodies of the EU and national authorities most of which is still to be received. Codasip reckons the follow-on phases of the grants will total a further €210 ...

The Q1 server market reached a record $95.2 billion, says IDC, up 134.1% y-o-y. The market forecast  for the year is $366 billion dollars for 2025 up 44.6% y-o-y. The x86 server market value is projected to increase 39.9% in 2025 to $283.9 billion while non-x86 servers will increase 63.7% y-o-y to $82.0 billion. Servers with an embedded GPU are ...

Skynopy, the end-to-end ground station service startup, has raised €15 million in a funding round that includes the French government. Those investing include Alven, Expansion, Omnes and CNES, the French national space agency. Heartcore, the European fund that has previously lead Skynopy’s investments, also participated in the round. This investment supports the startup’s ambition to deploy a global network of ...

Q5D, a manufacturer of robotic cells that automate product electrification, is doubling the resources at its Technical Assessment Centre (TAC) in Bristol. The TAC is used by customers for feasibility studies and prototyping for embedding wiring directly into the structure of a products, rather than using separate wire harnesses. The patented process, which uses a 5-axis manufacturing robot, is particularly ...

TE Connectivity is moving to nickel-phosphorus coatings to reduce the CO2 footprint of its connector contact plating processes. Branding the plating stack Econidur, “according to TE internal analysis and calculations, in alignment with ISO standard 14067/14040/44, CO2 emissions decrease over 44% compared to palladium nickel plating, depending on layer thicknesses, performance level and connector type”, said the company. Is it ...

The rapid growth of the data centre liquid cooling sector is driven by high-density servers, AI workloads and efficiency needs, says Aashi Mishra Do you know that global emissions from cloud computing range from 2.5%-3.7% of all global greenhouse emissions? It has been estimated that there are almost 10,970 data centre locations globally as of December 2023. Researchers have suggested ...