New Technologies

Introduced as the industry’s most highly-integrated clock IC for wireless infrastructure applications including small cell and macro cell base stations, Silicon Labs has unveiled the Si5380 clock generator. The device is the industry’s fir

Silicon Labs | 16-06-2015

Altera has revealed architectural and product details of its Stratix 10 FPGAs and SoCs, the next generation of high-end programmable logic devices delivering breakthrough levels of performance, integration, density and security. Stratix

Altera | 11-06-2015

AMD has announced its 6th-generation A-Series processor - the world's first high-performance Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) in a System-on-Chip (SoC) design. Previously codenamed 'Carrizo', the new processor takes advantage of extensi

AMD | 08-06-2015

Rohm has announced the development and mass production of a SiC MOSFET that adopts the world's first trench structure. Compared to existing planar-type SiC MOSFETs, ON resistance is reduced by 50% in the same chip size, making it possible t

ROHM Semiconductor | 03-06-2015

Altium has announced the public release of never-before-seen roadmaps for their entire product lineup. These roadmaps provide a rare glimpse into years of development plans for the company’s PCB focused design and management tools, includin

Altium | 01-06-2015

GaN Systems has unveiled what it believes to be the world's smallest 650V, 15A gallium nitride transistor. With a footprint of just 5mm x 6.5mm, the GS66504B - one of a family of 650V devices that spans 7A to 200A - is 50% smaller than c

GaN Systems | 28-05-2015

Charcroft Electronics has announced it is now sampling a new pair of TT Electronics Optek optical port switches designed for smart metering and other applications. As an alternative to the conventional pairing of an LED and a phototra

Charcroft Electronics | 27-05-2015

Flat supercapacitors specialist CAP-XX has launched the Thinline series of single-cell supercapacitors - the world’s thinnest with a profile of just 0.6mm. Thinline was developed to address the size, weight and cost challenges of designi

CAP-XX | 22-05-2015

Maxim Integrated’s MAXREFDES73# is designed to improve accuracy, dynamic range, and power consumption for sensing galvanic skin response in mobile medical and fitness applications. Wearables developers can now immediately evaluate galvanic

Maxim | 21-05-2015

Introduced by Silicon Labs as the industry’s most energy-friendly USB-enabled microcontrollers (MCUs) - the latest addition to its award-winning EFM32 32-bit MCU portfolio, the new Happy Gecko MCUs are designed to deliver the lowest USB pow

Silicon Labs | 14-05-2015

Atmel and MXCHIP, a rising IoT start-up have announced the two companies are jointly developing an ultra low-power Internet of Things (IoT) platform with secure Wi-Fi access to the cloud, enabling designers to quickly bring their IoT dev

Atmel | 08-05-2015

Cypress Semiconductor has introduced a family of 4Mb serial ferroelectric random access memories (F-RAMs) - the industry's highest-density serial F-RAMs, says the company. The 4Mb serial F-RAMs feature a 40Mhz Serial Peripheral Interfa

Cypress | 30-04-2015

Intersil has introduced a pair of highly-integrated power management ICs (PMICs) that enable the industry’s first credit card-size motherboards for high-end ultrabook and tablet computers powered by 2-cell Li-ion batteries. The single-ch

Intersil | 23-04-2015

The Micro Crystal RV-8803-C7 is the first temperature-compensated RTC optimized for ultra-low power consumption to replace expensive batteries and super caps with low-cost MLCC capacitors for battery backup operation, says the company. T

Micro Crystal | 21-04-2015