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u-blox has announced that Xpeng Motors has selected u-blox F9 high precision GNSS (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou) technology for use in its P7 super-long range sports EV sedan. u-blox F9 has been incorporated into the vehicle’s XPILOT 3.0 advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) used for navigation-guided driving, automated parking, and autonomous driving.

In October 2020, the UK Government announced plans to invest £160 million to upgrade wind turbine factories and ports. These plans could allow the nation’s offshore wind farms to generate enough electricity to power every home by 2030. Here, Martin Frederiksen, Managing Director ofRecab UK, explores the technological advancements required to make plans like this a reality.

Clarion Defence and Security has appointed Dr Michael Holden as DSEI Space Adviser as the event will focus on the development of space capabilities to support international requirements. The appointment of Dr Holden as the first Space Adviser for DSEI expands its growth as a truly multi-domain event across the aerospace, land, naval, and cyber domains.

Vicor has announced the launch of its first radiation-fault-tolerant DC/DC converter power modules, housed in the new Vicor plated SM-ChiP package. Capable of powering low-voltage ASICs of up to 300 watts from a 100V nominal power source, the ChiPs were tested by Boeing to be resilient to 50krad of total ionising dose and immune to single-event upsets.

To complement its 1mm diameter terminal pins, Harwin now offers a range of 1.75mm diameter options. These pins will be suitable for use with larger sized sockets where a single connection is required.

Texas Instruments (TI) has announced that it is making most of its HiRel semiconductor products immediately available for online purchase on TI.com, helping aerospace and defence companies quickly get the authentic TI products they need for their next-generation space-grade and military-grade designs.

EPC announces its Phase-12 Reliability Report, documenting the strategy used to achieve a remarkable field reliability record. eGaN devices have been in volume production for more than eleven years and have demonstrated very high reliability in over 226 billion hours of operation, most of which are in vehicles, LTE base stations, and satellites, to name just a few applications with rigorous operating conditions.

In this latest edition of the Electronic Specifier Insights podcast we speak to Sam Bennett, New Product Introduction (NPI) Manager at Harwin. Sam will discuss his journey at the Southampton-based company and his involvement in the design and development of Harwin's new Pitch Power Connector family.

Septentrio has announces the launch of AsteRx-m3 Sx OEM board. This new dual-antenna receiver combines Septentrio’s latest core GNSS technology with the SECORX-S sub-decimetre correction service, enabling convenient plug-and-play positioning. High-accuracy positioning is available directly out of the box as GNSS corrections are automatically streamed to the receiver.

Renesas Electronics hasannounced the industry’s highest performance single-chip 14-Bit, 1-MSPS Successive-Approximation-Register (SAR) Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) for radiation-hardened (rad-hard) space applications. Renesas’ Intersil brand ISL73141SEH delivers best in class dynamic and static performance, including Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR), Effective Number Of Bits (ENOB), Integral Non-Linearity (INL) and Differential Non-Li...