Automotive purchasing revs up
Electronics Sourcing asked Smith’s VP of business development, Renato Souza, to explore the evolution of automotive supply chains during the move to electric vehicles Q: With European countries fast-tracking the switch to electric vehicles, how will an automobile’s bill-of-materials evolve, especially as manufacturers move away from internal combustion engine production?…
Tough memory available now
Transcend and Impulse Embedded have announced a distribution partnership for memory and storage components in the industrial sector. The deal will see Impulse offering a line of standard and proprietary internal SSDs, different generations of DRAM memory modules, SD/microSD cards, eMMc memory and flash solutions. Transcend products are used in…
IGBTs: reliable supply, reduced lead times
Bourns has entered the insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) market with the company’s first high-efficiency 600/650V discrete product line co-packaged with a fast recovery diode. Designed using advanced trench-gate field-stop technology that provides greater control of dynamic characteristics, the five new BID Series discrete IGBTs are engineered to deliver lower collector-emitter…
Applauding semiconductor support
SEMI has applauded the signing of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 by US President Joe Biden. The legislation provides a 25 per cent tax credit for US facilities that produce semiconductors or chipmaking equipment and $52 billion in funding for new semiconductor programs. The funding includes $39 billion…
SBC takes on tough tasks
Newark is now stocking DFRobot’s LattePanda 3 Delta single board computer. The board is a pocket-sized hackable computer (125 by 78 by 16mm) which supports Linux, Windows 10 and Windows 11. Newark’s head of single board computing, Romain Soreau, said: “LattePanda 3 Delta is poised to define a new era…
How to recycle waste PCBs
For every PCB that is sourced, manufactured and used, comes an end-of-life opportunity to recycle and reuse. TCL Elektronika explains General military and civilian electronic systems are equipped with PCBs containing a variety of recyclable precious metals and important electronic components, some of which can be decomposed, recycled and reused,…
