• New air sensor to make chemical plants safer

    Chemical plants will become safer places to work with a reduced risk of injury, chronic respiratory ailments or even death, thanks to a new air sensor being developed to detect toxic and explosive solvents using photonics. Scientists from the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain have tea......view more

  • Apple's remaking Mac computers, and it's taking control to do it

    Apple's new MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac Mini look the same on the outside, but they're getting new tricks that PCs will struggle to emulate. For more information visit  https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-remaking-mac-computers-and-its-taking-control-to-do-it-one-more-thing-event-m1/ ......view more

  • Walmart To Launch Autonomous Vehicle Pilot With Cruise EVs

    Walmart's customers will be able to try out autonomous and electrified deliveries. Walmart announced that early next year it will launch, together with GM's Cruise, a new autonomous vehicle pilot in Scottsdale, Arizona. The company intends to deliver "groceries, essentials and a host of......view more

  • Apple, Google and LG join 6G development group

    Apple, Google and LG have joined the Next G Alliance, a coalition of companies founded in October by The Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) with the aim to establish North America as a leader in 6G. Members include: Ericsson, Nokia, Charter Communications; Cisco; H......view more

  • RCEP: Asia-Pacific countries form world's largest trading bloc

    Fifteen countries have formed the world's largest trading bloc, covering nearly a third of the global economy. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is made up of 10 Southeast Asian countries, as well as South Korea, China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. For more inf......view more

  • Looking Ahead to Electronica’s First Digital Showcase

    This year’s four-day Electronica trade show will be presented online, featuring over 200 international exhibitors, topical forums, interactive Q&As, a startup award program, and more. Electronica, a biennial power electronics industry tradeshow in Germany, is bringing its 2020 event onli......view more

  • STMicroelectronics Introduces High-Voltage Gate Driver with 6kV Galvanic Isolation in Compact SO-8W

    STMicroelectronics’ STGAP2HS is a compact, high-voltage gate driver for applications that require up to 6kV galvanic isolation between the gate-driving channel and the low-voltage control and interface circuitry. The 1200V device can sink and source up to 4A output current to simplify the de......view more

  • Integrated power for enterprise DC plant applications

    Transtector Systems has released a new line of enterprise rack-mount integrated power systems (IPS), combining AC-to-DC power rectification, power distribution and load control into a space-saving design that occupies as little as one standard rack unit (RU).  These new IPS units combin......view more