WASHINGTON: Japan is on deck this year as the next US ally to formally tie a knot to Space Command, following in the footsteps of France and Germany. “SPACECOM is working on a memorandum of understanding for collaboration with Japan,” confirmed a spokesperson today. Source: SPACECOM To Tighten Ties To Japan « Breaking Defense – […]
The automotive industry is in a quandary, faced with an ongoing chip shortage that is forcing OEMs to temporarily cut production and update financial and volume trajectories, demonstrating the potential to be a problem for the length of 2021, according to Phil Amsrud, senior principal analyst for automotive at IHS Markit. Source: Automotive chip shortage […]
Impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, global smartwatch shipments in the fourth quarter of 2020 saw a slight year-on-year decrease to book an almost flat 2020, according to the latest Global Smartphone Shipments Tracker from Counterpoint Research.In a year where annual growth inched forward at only 1.5%, Apple maintained its solid number one position and increased […]
There is an on-going interest from space industry to accommodate commercial EEE components in space systems. The attention is especially paid to automotive grade components that comply to AEC-Q200 automotive qualification standards. Capacitors are the most critical EEE passive components for space applications due to their various number of applications and performances’ reliability. Source: COTS […]
La Mirada, CA – SSDI’s latest hermetic GaN FET device, SGR15E90M, utilizes a GaN FET in the place of a silicon MOSFET at the input stage to provide enhanced radiation tolerance. The SGR15E90M’s cascode device structure consists of a high voltage depletion mode GaN FET at the output stage and a low voltage enhancement mode […]
The PTX100R marks a breakthrough in NFC system performance, power and size.The PTX100R is fully compliant with the specifications of the latest EMVCo 3.0 standard for contactless payments. It is supplied with an application-ready EMVCo 3.0 L1 interface. The Panthronics product includes a set of facilities which makes the integration of a third-party EMV L2 […]
New Scale’s newest M3-LS Smart Stage is a cost-effective solution for instrument designers who need to embed precision motion into instruments designed for high-volume production and long life. Source: See our newest Smart Stage. Win a Focus Module dev kit. Join us at Photonics West Digital Forum and Marketplace
Semiconductor executive Tom Caulfield knew a crisis was brewing when he started getting frantic calls from big automakers just before Christmas.“Tom, you’re killing me. You need to make more,” Caulfield, the chief executive of chipmaker GlobalFoundries, recalls the auto executives saying. “Ford, Volkswagen, BMW, Daimler-Benz, Fiat Chrysler, GM — every one of them became my […]
The burgeoning semiconductor shortage of 2021 hit chipmakers “like a ton of bricks,” according to one distributor. Of course, that’s not the phrase semiconductor suppliers would use. Source: Managing 2021’s Semiconductor Shortage :: EPS News | MyNewsletterBuilder
As e-waste continues to head toward the world’s landfills and keeps on increasing, the push is on to recycle and reuse more end-of-life electronic products. Source: Addressing the World’s E-Waste Issues | Source Today
United Launch Alliance (ULA) has extended L3Harris Technologies’ (NYSE:LHX) contract to provide mission-critical avionics and related services in support of the Vulcan Centaur rocket for U.S. Space Force launches. Source: Mission-Critical Avionics + Services For ULA’s Vulcan Centaur Contracted To L3Harris Technologies
As per a report by Reuters, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire called for a new plan on electronic components to reduce European dependence on Asian suppliers in the domain this year. He told reporters such dependence was unacceptable and was making the European Union vulnerable in industries like car manufacturing that had run short […]
