The latest news, developments and announcements from around the electronics industry.
CEA-Leti and Soitec are to use the natural attributes of fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) to enhance the cybersecurity of integrated circuits. “With FD-SOI’s advantages against laser fault injection attacks due to its thin-film architecture and channel isolation, the technology presents a compelling foundation for next-generation secure IC design,” according to French semiconductor research lab Leti. The two organisations aim to gain ...
The Trump Organisation intends to launch an Android smartphone in August called the T1 selling for $499 and made in America. The Trump Organisation says it will be manufactured in Florida, Alabama and California. “Trump Mobile is going to change the game, we’re building on the movement to put America first, and we will deliver the highest levels of quality ...
China’s car makers are planning to use 100% domestically designed and manufactured chips by 2027 under a project initiated by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), reports the Nikkei. Two major Chinese car brands are said to be aiming to achieve the goal by 2026. The project represents an acceleration of the China government’s domestication goal for locally ...
The Q1 enterprise WLAN market grew 10.6% q-o-q to reach $2.3 billion, according to IDC. The market grew in each sequential quarter of 2024, including rising 4.8% between Q3 and Q4 and growing 5.8% between Q2 and Q3. The latest Wi-Fi standards are driving growth in the enterprise WLAN market. Wi-Fi 6E, which enables Wi-Fi to utilize the 6GHz band ...
Astroscale UK has won a £5.15 million satellite contract for the Orpheus space domain awareness mission. This aims to both characterise the ionosphere (the ionised portion of Earth’s upper atmosphere) and capture image data to support Space Domain Awareness. The space debris company was selected by the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) to operate the mission. Collaboration The ...
The durable Arduino Opta micro PLC enables industrial and building automation. It integrates with existing machines, devices, and the modular Arduino ecosystem – from sensor modules to SOMs and gateways – for a tailored solution. Opta supports OTA updates and ensures security from hardware to cloud, compliant with the X.509 Standard. It is available at TME, making it easily accessible ...
Hampshire-based Barnbrook Systems secured a “six-figure” contract for refurbishing over 100 of its brake controllers, which will be used on Class 15x engines operating across the UK. “Our first order for the brake controller was more than a decade ago when we re-engineered an original model which was out of service and no longer commercially available,” said Barnbrook MD Andrew ...
Q-Tech has announced less accurate versions of its QT2020 and QT2021 series of space-qualified MCXOs (microcomputer compensated crystal oscillators). “By expanding the selection of stability levels to include 50ppb and 100ppb versions, we’re able to supply with shorter lead times and at lower cost,” said Q-Tech v-p of marketing Scott Sentz. The list of options is now: ±10ppb, 0 to ...
Menlo Micro announced an 80Gbit/s PAM4 loop-back switch for testing asymmetric SerDes busses at IMS 2025, the International Microwave Symposium in San Francisco. “MM5625 delivers over 100 different configurations for the most complex SerDes bus test challenges,” according to the company. It can “support the high-speed differential signal switching required in the latest PCIe Gen 5, Gen 6, and other ...
Google is releasing Android 16, the latest major update to the mobile and embedded operating system. As always, the rollout begins with Pixel devices. Completed to its expected timeline, the major release marks the availability of the source code at the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). You can examine this code at cs.android.com. Edge-to-edge Highlight features include progress-centric notifications, the ...
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