Technology Articles

2024-01 Passive Components TDK

[Jan 18 2024] TDK Corporation introduces the latest inductor series KLZ2012-A with dimensions of 2.0mm (L)x 1.25mm (W)x 1.25mm (H). Designed to meet the needs of automotive audio bus (A2B) applications, this series of stacked inductors offers a wide operating range, high durability and excellent inductance tolerances. The series will begin mass production this month, in January 2024. The new low-resistance sof ...

2024-01 Passive Components Littelfuse

[Jan 17 2024] Littelfuse Corporation is an industrial technology manufacturing company dedicated to powering a sustainable, connected and safer world. The company announced the launch of MATE-12B magnetic spring switch series. Compared to existing 12.7mm magnetic spring switches, these ultra-small magnetic spring switches have a longer service life and higher reliability, enabling millions of cycles. Its servi ...

2024-01 Connectors Infineon Technologies

[Jan 17 2024] Edge computing and inference on the satellite enable near real-time data analysis and decision making. This is becoming increasingly important as the number of connected devices and the amount of data they generate continues to grow. To meet the demand of space application of the high performance computing, infineon technologies co., LTD's InfineonTechnologiesLLCMemorySolution recently announced ...

2024-01 Power Display Visions

[Jan 16 2024] Japanese semiconductor equipment giant Disco has developed a new SiC (silicon carbide) wafer cutting equipment DFG8541, which can process silicon and silicon carbide wafers with a maximum size of 8 inches, and increase the cutting speed of SiC wafers to 10 times. Silicon carbide (SiC) as a semiconductor material has high power efficiency, but the material is hard and difficult to process. Disco w ...

2024-01 Sensors TDK

[Jan 16 2024] TDK announced at CES 2024 the launch of two high-performance MEMS sensors for consumer and industrial applications. The new InvenSense SmartMotion ICM-42370-P is a 3-axis accelerometer for consumer applications that require low noise and high sensitivity. InvenSense SmartInduscial IIM-42653 is a high FSR, 6-axis IMU for industrial applications. The new SmartMotion ICM-42370-P accelerometer is ide ...

2024-01 Power TDK

[Jan 15 2024] TDK Corporation and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company have announced a partnership to drive next-generation tire solutions designed to accelerate the development and adoption of integrated intelligent hardware and software in the tire and automotive ecosystem. The two companies plan to combine TDK's software, sensor and electronic component expertise with Goodyear's expertise in tire development, sm ...

2024-01 Connectors Infineon Technologies

[Jan 15 2024] At CES 2024, Infineon Technologies AG and Aurora Labs announced a new set of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that improve the long-term reliability and safety of critical automotive components such as steering, braking and airbags. The joint solution combines AuroraLabs' award-winning Line-of-Code Intelligence™ (LOCI) AI technology with Infineon's 32-bit TriCore AURIX™ TC4x family of micro ...

2024-01 Connectors Texas Instruments

[Jan 12 2024] Texas Instruments has introduced new semiconductor products designed to make cars safer and smarter. The AWR2544 77GHz millimeter wave radar sensor chip is designed with a satellite radar architecture to enable a higher level of autonomy by enhancing sensor fusion and decision making capabilities in Advanced Driver assistance systems (ADAS). Texas Instruments' new driver chips, the DRV3946-Q1 Int ...

2024-01 Power Monolithic Power Systems Inc.

[Jan 12 2024] Mobileye announced that it has secured a series of production projects from a major Western automaker: Several international brands are expected to implement new autonomous driving solutions based on Mobileye's three core platforms - Mobileye SuperVision, Mobileye Chauffeur and Mobileye Drive. The partnership involves 17 fuel and electric vehicle models, with deliveries scheduled to begin in 2026 ...

2024-01 Semiconductors ON Semiconductor

[Jan 12 2024] Onsemi, a leader in smart power and intellisense technologies, announced the renewal of a long-term supply agreement with luxury smart electric vehicle brand Li Auto. Ideal Car uses Onsemi's proven 8-megapixel image sensor in its Extended Range Electric Model (EREV). With this agreement, Ideal Automotive will use ON's high-performance EliteSiC 1200V bare chip in its next generation of 800V high-v ...

2024-01 Connectors Banner Engineering Corporation

[Jan 11 2024] The new ASI8100 Drive Integrated stepper motor from the Beckhoff Compact Drive Technology product range (up to 48 V DC) combines the stepper motor, the stepper motor output stage and the fieldbus interface in one compact package. The ASI8100 can be used as an EtherCAT slave station and is mounted directly on the device, eliminating the need for a control cabinet and upstream I/O layer, enabling a ...

2024-01 Sensors Toshiba Memory America, Inc.

[Jan 11 2024] Vision inspection systems for vision sensors provide image-based automated inspection for a variety of industrial and manufacturing applications. While 2D and 3D vision sensors are not a new technology, they are now commonly used for automated inspection, robot guidance, quality control, and sorting. These intelligent detection systems are equipped with one or more cameras, even video and lightin ...