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Silanna signs Astute for Europe and India

Caroline Hayes — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 11:59:08 +0000

Astute Group has signed a distribution agreement with Silanna Semiconductor to distribute its Plural ADCs in Europe and India. According to Astute, Plural ADCs offer a more affordable and versatile ...

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Innovation in liquid cooling is revolutionising data centres

Staff — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 09:00:49 +0000

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 ...

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Octal 12V 260mA low-side driver protected to ASIL-B

Steve Bush — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:28:40 +0000

STMicroelectronics has made an eight-channel low-side driver for vehicles with extra functional safety hardware that “eases system-level ISO 26262 certification up to ASIL-B”, said the company. The nominal ratings of ...

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Surface-mount wire-wound fuseable power resistors

Steve Bush — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:32:16 +0000

Did you ever dream of surface-mounting wire-wound power resistors? If you do, Vishay has turned that into reality with a series of pick-and-place-friendly cemented wire-wounds. They are actually the company’s ...

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Modular SiC inverter modules accompanied by reference designs

Caroline Hayes — Fri, 30 May 2025 09:45:56 +0000

Modular SiC intelligent power modules and inverter control modules by Cissoid are now available from Rhopoint Components. The Cissoid CMT-PLA3SB12340A SiC mosfet intelligent module is available from the distributor with ...

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JANS rad-hardened GaN hemt for space

Steve Bush — Thu, 29 May 2025 14:04:11 +0000

Infineon Technologies has announced a rad-hardened GaN transistor designed to operate in harsh space environments. It “is the first in-house manufactured GaN transistor to earn the highest quality certification of ...

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High power connectors for aircraft

Steve Bush — Wed, 28 May 2025 11:55:34 +0000

Aiming at aircraft, Powell Electronics is offering high power connectors and cables from Glenair. The 972 series is designed for up to 2kVac, 1,500Hz and between 150 and 800A. With ...

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Infineon wins Rivian traction inverter power module deal

Steve Bush — Mon, 19 May 2025 13:45:24 +0000

US car maker Rivian has signed up Infineon to supply traction inverter power modules, microcontrollers and power ICs for its ‘R2’ vehicle platform, expecting to start in 2026. The power ...

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Auto hi-voltage detector claims fastest response time

David Manners — Fri, 16 May 2025 05:08:28 +0000

ABLIC claims that its S-19116 Series automotive high-voltage detector has the industry’s fastest detection response time of max. 6.8μs while achieving ultra-low current consumption of 2.0μA typ The detector is ...

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PCIM: Automotive LLC controller

Steve Bush — Thu, 08 May 2025 14:15:43 +0000

At PCIM in Nuremberg this week, Texas Instruments announced an automotive-qualified LLC controller for light electric vehicle charging, and demonstrated it in a three-stage ac-dc battery charger for electric two-wheelers. ...

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