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Maxim Integrated Unveils Industry’s First Data Acquisition System to Achieve ASIL-D Compliance for Voltage, Current, Temperature and Communication of a Battery Management System

“MAX17852 battery monitor IC with integrated current sense amplifier offers up to 16 percent space savings and up to 20 percent cost savings Designers of automotive battery management systems (BMS) can now deliver the highest level of safety for voltage …

MediaTek Unveils New M80 5G Modem with Support for mmWave and Sub-6 GHz 5G Networks

“New modem supports SA and NSA architectures, with a peak speed of 7.67 Gbps MediaTek today announced its new M80 5G modem which combines mmWave and sub-6 GHz 5G technologies onto a single chip. The M80 supports ultra-fast speeds …

Microchip Accelerates Machine Learning and Hyperscale Computing Infrastructure with the World’s First PCI Express® 5.0 Switches

“Switchtec™ PFX PCIe® Gen 5 high performance switches double the data rate of PCIe Gen 4.0 solutions while delivering ultra-low latency and advanced diagnostics Applications such as data analytics, autonomous-driving and medical diagnostics are driving extraordinary demands for machine …

Molecule from nature provides fully recyclable polymers

“Plastics are among the most successful materials of modern times. However, they also create a huge waste problem. Scientists from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) and the East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST) in Shanghai produced different …

New fiber optic temperature sensing approach to keep fusion power plants running

“MIT’s Erica Salazar shows that faster detection of thermal shifts can prevent disruptive quench events in the HTS magnets used in tokamak fusion devices. The pursuit of fusion as a safe, carbon-free, always-on energy source has intensified in recent …

NTU Singapore team develops portable device that creates 3D images of skin in 10 minutes

“A team from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed a portable device that produces high-resolution 3D images of human skin within 10 minutes. The team said the portable skin mapping (imaging) device could be used to assess the …

NXP Launches Flexible IoT Cloud Platform to Securely Manage and Connect Edge Devices

“NXP Semiconductors N.V.(NASDAQ: NXPI), a global provider of secure Internet-of-Things (IoT) embedded solutions serving customers across a broad spectrum of applications and markets, today introduced its new EdgeLock 2GO IoT service platform for easy, secure deployment and management …

Physicists create tunable superconductivity in twisted graphene “nanosandwich”

“Structure may reveal conditions needed for high-temperature superconductivity. When two sheets of graphene are stacked atop each other at just the right angle, the layered structure morphs into an unconventional superconductor, allowing electric currents to pass through without resistance or …

Physicists discover important new property for graphene

“MIT researchers and colleagues have discovered an important—and unexpected—electronic property of graphene, a material discovered only about 17 years ago that continues to surprise scientists with its interesting physics. The work, which involves structures composed of atomically thin …

Propelling satellites into the future

“Candidate ‘green’ satellite propellants within a temperature-controlled incubator, undergoing heating as a way to simulate the speeding up of time. Today hydrazine is the most common propellant employed by thrusters aboard satellites: it is highly energetic in nature but also …