The semiconductor industry’s AI race is creating a thermal problem that is easy to overlook. More powerful processors generate more heat, and that heat must be removed continuously if servers are to maintain performance and reliability. Cooling fans remain an important part of this equation, particularly in conventional air-cooled servers. But their role is changing. […]
An IoT smart photoelectric proximity sensor combines optical detection with electronics capable of processing, communicating or transmitting information about an object’s presence, position, distance or movement. Traditional photoelectric sensors primarily answer one question: is an object there? The smart version can provide additional information to a PLC, industrial gateway, edge computer or cloud platform. This […]
Diodes Incorporated has completed its $250 million all-cash acquisition of ElevATE Semiconductor, expanding its analog and mixed-signal capabilities while increasing its exposure to the rapidly evolving semiconductor test market. Diodes Incorporated has officially completed the acquisition of ElevATE Semiconductor, a San Diego-based fabless semiconductor company specializing in high-performance integrated circuits for automated test equipment (ATE). […]
Hall effect switch ICs are moving from being a niche magnetic-sensing component to an increasingly important building block for automotive electronics, BLDC motors, smart appliances, industrial automation, portable devices and access-control systems. A Hall switch, in contrast to a traditional mechanical switch, senses the existence or lack of a magnetic field without making physical contact. […]
LED technology has spent years becoming more efficient, smaller and more controllable. The less visible consequence is that thermal engineering has become increasingly important. Every watt entering an LED system does not become visible light; part of the electrical energy ultimately becomes heat, and that heat has to travel away from the semiconductor junction before […]
An isolation drive chip, also called an isolated gate driver, is a specialized integrated circuit that transfers control signals and supplies drive current to power transistors such as MOSFETs, IGBTs, SiC devices, or GaN HEMTs while maintaining galvanic isolation between the low-voltage control side and the high-voltage power stage. Isolation is achieved through capacitive, magnetic […]
A motion detector used to perform a simple task: detect movement and switch something on. In connected environments, that same event can become a data point that triggers lighting, changes HVAC operation, activates security systems, updates an occupancy model or initiates an automation sequence. That shift is giving motion detectors a more important role inside […]
A tiny rectangular component can have an outsized role in modern electronics. General purpose chip resistors are used for current limiting, voltage division, signal conditioning and circuit protection across consumer electronics, vehicles, telecom equipment, industrial systems and countless other devices. Their importance is closely tied to where electronics are designed, assembled and increasingly localized. The […]
A processor can have billions of transistors, but those transistors still need something remarkably simple to keep them coordinated: time. That is where the Crystal Oscillator Market becomes strategically important. Quartz-based oscillators generate stable reference frequencies that support processors, communications equipment, networking hardware, measurement instruments and countless embedded systems. NIST explains that the quartz crystal […]
Acceleration sensors have become almost invisible inside modern electronics, yet they continuously measure changes in movement, vibration, orientation and shock. In a MEMS accelerometer, microscopic structures move when acceleration occurs. That mechanical movement changes an electrical signal, allowing the semiconductor system to translate physical motion into digital information. Bosch describes the sensing structure as tiny […]
