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Vishay Intertechnology announced that Vishay Milwaukee (a product line of Vishay Dale Resistors) NGR series neutral ground resistors are now available for CSA code special inspection. An independent, not-for-profit, member-based…

We use our smartphones so often that it's hard to believe they aren't covered in layers of filth and germs. Even if they're waterproof, there's very little we can do as users to keep them completely germ-free. Japanese mobile phone…

Back in the 1400's, Leonardo da Vinci had some ideas for flying machines. He designed a machine in which a pilot would lie face down on a board and power the wings with a pedal connected to a rod-and-pulley system. What 18 students from…

EnSilica and Express Logic have collaborated to port Express Logic’s popular ThreadX real-time operating system (RTOS) to EnSilica’s eSi-RISC family of silicon-proven, highly configurable embedded processor cores.

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation announced a development platform for use in designing low-power wearable devices for consumers. Based on the iCE40 Ultra FPGA, the platform features a large number of sensors and peripherals, making it a…

Cadence Design Systems announced the delivery of the new Virtuoso Advanced-Node Platform that is enabled for all advanced 10nm FinFET designs. This next-generation custom design platform delivers up to 5X improvement in designer…

Exar announces the XR33202, a half-duplex, 20Mbps RS-485 (TIA/EIA-485) transceiver optimized to operate over a wide 3V to 5.5V supply voltage range. The transceiver includes an adjustable low voltage logic interface and features the…

Vishay Intertechnology introduced a new series of surface-mount, high-precision dual-in-line thin film resistor networks featuring improved performance and a smaller size than previous-generation SOIC devices. Offering a slim maximum seated…

Ambiq Micro announces that Fumihide (Humi) Esaka has joined the firm as Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Esaka takes over from Mike Noonen who was interim CEO since July this year. Fumihide Esaka has twenty years’ senior management…

Google has just announced what it calls "the largest purchase of renewable energy ever made by a non-utility company" — a whopping 842 megawatts, bringing the grand total up to 2 gigawatts. That's enough energy needed to take one million…