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Harwin has launched a range of multi-GHz multi-pin board-to-board connectors that tolerate slight misalignment, shock and vibration. Branded Flecto, they are double-row, with up to 160 contacts, and come in three pitches: 0.5, 0.635 (.025in) or 0.8mm, for mated board-to-board spacings between 7.2mm and 29.9mm. The connectors are two-part – one for each board. Controlled flexibility comes from making one ...

A new take on the concept of digital twins was announced by Nvidia at its developer conference in San Jose this week, as founder and CEO, Jensen Huang announced that the company’s Omniverse Cloud will be available as APIs (application programming interfaces). Customers will be able to use these APIs to design, simulate, test and build physically based digital twins ...

As accelerated computing reaches its tipping point, Nvidia’s CEO explained the company’s plan is not to drive down costs but to scale up performance. He was speaking at Nvidia GTC in San Jose, introducing the Blackwell AI superchip. It will democratise trillion parameter AI, promises Huang, to meet the 1.8 trillion parameters computing performance of accelerated computing. In the home ...

Corning has created an optical fibre connector system that aligns 12 fibres in a single operation to bring data to homes. “Multifiber Pushlok is a ‘stick-and-click’ [that] allows operators to deploy more fiber in tighter spaces,” according to the company. It takes “complicated splicing tasks out of the field to help installers connect homes and businesses”. The technology has been ...

Ennovi has introduced a 10Gbit/s Ethernet connector with USCAR interface and press-fit PCB pins. Called Ennovi-Net, “this innovation completely avoids the need for soldering”, the company said. “As solder usage is eliminated, there are no variations in the amount of solder paste applied and the capacitance associated with this. In addition, the shortness and lower capacitance of press-fit pins, compared ...

Renesas is aiming at industrial robots with a microcontroller that combines AI vision and real-time control processing. Called RZ/V2H, the ICs include the company’s DRP-AI3 ‘dynamically reconfigurable processor’ AI accelerator – recently revealed at ISSCC in San Francisco – in 10Top/s/W form. “Pruning technology employed in the DRP-AI3 accelerator improves AI computing efficiency, boosting inference performance to 80Top/s,” according to ...

Weidmuller has announced a series of battery connectors and battery connector cable assemblies. They are “engineered to handle high currents” and “designed to withstand harsh environmental conditions”, according to the company. Connectors for cables from 16 to 95mm2 are available, with contacts made from copper alloy finished with silver and, approved according to UL 4128. Predicted mechanical connection life, without ...

East Coast Microwave is stocking cryogenic isolators from DiTom Microwave, designed to operate “at or below 77K”, according to East Coast. Taking D3I4080Y as an example, it operates from 4 to 8GHz and can handle average forward inputs up to 30W, peaking at 50W. Maximum reverse input power is 2W. “The component provides more than 16dB of isolation and has ...

Navitas Semiconductor has demonstrated a 4.5kW 54V server power supply using both GaN and SiC transistors. Claimed density is “over 130W/in3 with efficiency over 97%. The architecture replaces the standard four diode bridge (and boost power factor correction) at the front end with an active all-transistor circuit – a multi-phase totem pole power factor corrector. While often called ‘bridgeless’ because ...

Bourns has created a series of self-resetting fuses that can carry from 12 to 20A at 60°C. Called Model NX, they measure 2.8 x 9.8mm including two 2.8 x 2.5mm flat connecting tabs, one at each end. Height is just under 1mm. “While our new Model NX Series has the same footprint as our Model NR series, it can carry ...