Moxa is aiming at rail vehicles and trackside use with PCs that comply with the E1 Mark (applied for), ISO 7637-2, and EN 50121-4 standards for vehicular and wayside applications. The V2403C series industrial computers are built around Intel’s 7th generation Core i7, Core i5, Core i3 or Celeron processors, and come with up to 32Gbyte RAM, one mSATA slot ...

Luso Electronics is handling the MIL-PWR-VIC series of rugged military ac-dc and dc-dc power supplies from AJ’s Power. They either have a 28Vdc (20 – 36Vdc) MIL-STD-1275 dc input, or a 100 – 264Vac input, with surge suppression. The aluminium case is watertight (IP66), according to Luso, with a central heat plenum taking air flow from front to back. External heat sinks can ...

Samsung’s Q1 profit was up 50% y-o-y at $11.1 billion on revenue of $61.3 billion. Memory sales were up 40% y-o-y at $15.8 billion. Samsung warned about the effects of supply chain issues, geo-political conflicts and lockdowns.    

Pat Haggerty, the great former president and chairman of TI who led the company’s push into transistor manufacturing, once took an unusual line when making a case for investment funds. Up before some hard-nosed New York money men, he said: “Man needs three things: to love, to be loved, and to be able to create. Any institution that offers him ...

Arm says it has got rid of  its Arm China CEO Allen Wu and has appointed Liu Renchen, vice dean at the Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen, and Eric Chen, managing partner at SoftBank Vision Fund, as co-CEOs of Arm China. “Arm China is in the process of resolving its long-standing corporate governance issue, and its Board of ...

Researchers at MIT have produced a prototype water purifier that can turn cloudy seawater into drinking water using ~20Wh/litre. Developed under electrical engineer Professor Jongyoon Han, the unit fits into a small suitcase, and relies on multiple stages of ‘ion concentration polarisation’ (ICP), followed by electrodialysis to reduce residual salt concentration. ICP, pioneered by Han’s group, applies an electrical field to ...

C&K has created long operation life versions of its 12 x 12mm PTS125 tactile switch range, in through-hole and surface-mount versions, with a new selection of plungers. “With the growing demand in long lasting instrumentation and machinery, the PTS125 has had to be improved to fit industry needs,” said C&K product manager Daisy Liu. “Flexibility in design is important since ...

Intel’s  $18.35 billion Q1 revenue beat expectations though down 7% y-o-y. Gross margin was 50.4% down from 55.2%. “We expect the industry will continue to see challenges until at least 2024 in areas like capacity and tool availability,”  Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger told the earnings call. PC chip revenue of $9.29 billion  was down 13% y-o-y. Datacentre and AI ICs, ...

Bosch is buying Arioso Systems of Dresden,. “The planned acquisition of Arioso Systems further enlarges our sensing solutions expertise for consumer electronics in the field of micro speakers,”  explains Dr. Stefan Finkbeiner, CEO at Bosch Sensortec. Arioso Systems which emerged from the Fraunhofer IPMS and research activities at the BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg in 2019, is a provider of MEMS micro speaker ...

 Rohm and  Delta Electronics, the power supply manufacturer, have entered into a strategic partnership to develop and mass produce GaN power devices. The aim is to develop 600V breakdown voltage GaN power devices optimised for a wide range of power supply systems. Rohm has already established a mass production system for 150V GaN HEMTsfeaturing an 8V gate withstand voltage. The ...