As the global semiconductor industry breaks ground on dozens of new fabs, there’s a side effect that chip makers don’t like to advertise: product obsolescence. Current supply chain dynamics could drive a large number of end-of-life (EOL) semiconductors into short supply. Typically, when demand and margins for a semiconductor line start to decline, chip makers […]
For months now, I have been drowning in my search to find an electric vehicle (EV). Weighing options. Living with car shortages. The batteries on these are huge. I got consumed with the question: How can the world sustain everyone driving an EV? Here is what I discovered about these batteries. Source: The Life Story […]
In 1922, on the vacant third floor of a building in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the founders of what was essentially a tech startup used chalk and string to trace the footprint of their first lab. Source: News | 100 years of era-defining innovation | Raytheon Technologies
JALISCO – The U.S. technology company Jabil Circuit confirmed an investment of US$400 million to create 6,000 new jobs in Jalisco this year, as announced by Governor Enrique Alfaro Ramirez, during his promotional tour of the Silicon Valley in San Jose, California. “It is great news that speaks of the confidence in our state, we […]
WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky unit won its 10th five-year contract worth $2.3 billion for 120 H-60 Mike-model Black Hawk utility helicopters with options for an additional 135 aircraft for both the Army and other customers through Foreign Military Sales, the Pentagon said. Source: Lockheed’s Sikorsky wins $2.3 billion Army Black Hawk multi-year contract
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army announced Tuesday its effort for a next-generation, software-centric ground system is transitioning to another phase. The service awarded $36 million each to software company Palantir Technologies and defense firm Raytheon Technologies for work on the Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node, which is currently under development. TITAN is expected to help […]
In a report published Monday (5/16), TrendForce announced that despite ongoing market challenges, global sales of new energy vehicles – a category that includes hybrid vehicles, battery electric vehicles and fuel-cell vehicles – topped 2 million units in the first quarter of 2022. TrendForce’s Caroline Chen noted that Q1 sales grew 80 percent year over […]
Copper is a metal that is consumed primarily in the electrical industry for multi-conductor cable, but which also is used in powder and paste form in the electronic component industry in a very limited but important capacity – as the termination material for the hundreds of billions of multilayered ceramic chip capacitors produced worldwide each […]
The supply chain bottlenecks we’re experiencing across the globe start with components. Rather, they start with component shortages. Of all the component shortages, by far the most severe is for certain semiconductors, or chips. The current global chip shortage rivals only a few of the past imbalanced markets. However, it’s unique in the breadth of […]
The future is increasingly bright for sensors. Sensor technology started from mechanical to digital measurement principles. Right now, we are seeing rapid growth in pressure, temperature, force and position sensing applications in devices of all scales. Lately, sensor development also has played a significant part in the increased development of electric vehicles and mission-critical medical […]
Two strong European-based electronics manufacturing services providers, Enics and GPV are merging. The transaction values the combined business at more than 500M€. The merger will create Europe’s second largest EMS company with more than 7,500 employees and operations worldwide. The Danish industrial conglomerate Schouw & Co., listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen and owner of GPV, will […]
The PTX30W will work in tandem with an NFC poller such as the Panthronics PTX130W in a charging cradle: it harvests power wirelessly without the need for a microcontroller in the listener device. Replacing four discrete components in current designs with a single chip and occupying less than half the board footprint, the PTX30W […]
