Automotive
Aratas America Launches as Independent Company After OMRON Electronic Components Rebrand
Aratas America LLC has officially launched as an independent company following the transfer of shares previously held by OMRON Corporation to The Carlyle Group.Established in July 2026, Aratas America builds on OMRON's more than 90 years of engineering experti
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Vector and SCSK Bundle MICROSAR IO and QINeS-Lite for Renesas RL78/F2x
Vector and SCSK Corporation have developed a joint evaluation bundle for sensor and actuator applications based on Renesas RL78/F2x microcontrollers. The bundle combines Vector’s MICROSAR IO with SCSK’s QINeS-Lite platform and drivers to provide a pre-integrated software foundation. &
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Infineon XENSIV TLx49012 digital angle sensors: unique system self-calibration for automotive/industrial motor control
Infineon Technologies has introduced the XENSIV TLx49012, a family of four digital angle sensors based on Hall technology, built for demanding motor control applications in the automotive and industrial markets. As brushless DC motor adoption accelerates across automo
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Diodes Incorporated Field-Plated Super Barrier Rectifiers: Industry-Leading Automotive Efficiency, Reliability
Diodes Incorporated has announced a family of automotive-compliant field-plated Super Barrier Rectifier (SBRFP) products, including the 2A SBRFP2M60P1Q and SBRFP2M60SAFQ, the 3A SBRFP3M60SAFQ, and the 8A SBRFP8A60P5Q. The devices are drop-in replacements for comparabl
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Valeo to develop and produce sovereign electric drone motor in Sainte-Florine
During a visit to the Valeo site in Sainte-Florine, Laurent Wauquiez, Member of Parliament for Haute-Loire and Special Councillor of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region, and Valeo CEO Christophe Périllat announced that a production line for sovereign electric
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India's Car Software Market Is Growing Twice as Fast as the World's. dSPACE Is Building Locally to Ride It
German simulation and validation major dSPACE announced new AI and radar-testing tools, plans for a dedicated defense unit and a deeper Indian engineering base at a press briefing on the eve of its one-day customer event in India. Global tech firms have long treated India as a delivery centre. dS
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HARMAN joins SDVerse B2B marketplace for automotive software solutions
HARMAN, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics announced it has joined SDVerse, described as the automotive industry’s first B2B marketplace for software. The company is making its software products and services available to automakers through the platform as a channel to discover and compare
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onsemi Embedded Power Platform leverages silicon wafer for AI and automotive markets
onsemi unveiled the Embedded Power Platform (EPP), an architecture that uses the silicon wafer itself as the foundation of the package and applies a highly integrated approach to power system design across automotive, industrial and AI data center markets. The platform integrates mul
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OMNIVISION OAX7700 AI companion processor delivers lowest power for vehicle security
OMNIVISION has introduced the OAX7700, described as an ultra-low-power ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) that serves as an always-on vision (AOV) AI companion processor, designed to upgrade existing exterior vehicle camera systems, such as surround-view s
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OMNIVISION TheiaCel image sensor features industry-leading LED flicker mitigation for automotive cameras
OMNIVISION has announced the OX08D30, an 8-megapixel CMOS automotive image sensor built with its TheiaCel technology, designed for exterior cameras used in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving (AD) applications. The OX08D30 extends single-e
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Trio-Tech wins $4.7 million automotive semiconductor burn-in contract for three years
Trio-Tech International has secured a three-year production burn-in contract with a new automotive semiconductor customer across Europe and North America. The contract requires minimum billings of approximately $4.7 million over its term, with potential to scale up to
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Semtech TDS2621LP chip protects cobots from surge and ESD
Semtech has introduced the TDS2621LP, the latest addition to its SurgeSwitch family of protection devices, purpose-built for 24V DC power buses used in industrial robotics, collaborative robots (cobots), and automated manufacturing. The device delivers near-constant c
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