Manufacturing

West Midlands-based Kasdon Electronics is to supply 180,000 PCB assembles for the giant SKA-Low radio telescope, to be built in Australia. The two year contact is with Italian receiver maker Sirio Antenne. “Sirio Antenne is a developer of high-quality antennas, and they were picked to design and manufacture the antennas used in the SKA-Low observation product,” according to Kasdon. “After ...

The power and control business of TT Electronics had opened its research, development and manufacturing facility in Rochdale, near Manchester UK, to work on products for “mission-critical aerospace and defence technology”, it said. “TT’s recent acquisitions of the Power Supply business from Excelitas, Torotel and Ferranti Power and Control have enhanced our customer portfolio as well as significantly strengthening our ...

Broanmain Plastics will be showing recent prototype-to-production projects at the Southern Manufacturing & Electronics exhibition in February. The company offers tool design and various plastic moulding and finishing technologies on a single site in Surrey. One of the projects was a motion sensor housing (right) for Cucumber Lighting Controls, which was seeking a UK-based moulder. “Manufacturing components on UK shores ...

Molex has opened a production campus in Katowice, Poland. “The facility’s initial 23,000m2 manufacturing space will serve as a strategic central location to facilitate delivery of medical devices for Phillips-Medisize, [owned by Molex], as well as electric vehicle and electrification solutions,” according to Molex, which claims to have invested $110m there so far. “Future expansion of up to 85,000m2 is ...

Caroline Hayes finds out how PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group president Jess Isquith became disenchanted and then enamoured with engineering and technology. Jess Isquith has been the president of PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG), a consortium of more than 140 companies, since 2016. The group was originally formed to adapt PCI technology for use in high-performance telecommunications, military and ...

Vites has chosen a beamforming IC from Oxford-based Ensilica for a vehicle satellite communication terminal. The terminal, called Visat-Ka, is intended to provide high-speed connectivity from moving vehicles anywhere on the Earth using low earth orbit (LEO) and other non-geosynchronous (NGSO) satellites. As such, it has to steer its Ka-band phased-array antenna to maintain link gain. As well as satcom-on-the-move ...

Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (PSMC) of Taiwan is about to sign an agreement with Japanese investment fund SBI Holdings to build a foundry fab in Japan, reports the Nikkei. The fab will cost $2.6 billion and run 55nm and 28nm processes starting in 2026. The fab will be set up to run 10k 300mm wpm. Japan’s Ministry of  Economy Trade ...

Delvitech is proud to announce and show a new generation of Automated Optical Inspection systems for the electronic and mechanical manufacturing. Electronic assembly process is moving towards more and more hidden complexity. Varied shaped parts increasing difficulties related to shadows, large components with small pins, high components with short pins, continuous changeover in production due to parts availability, mix of ...

To prevent intellectual property leakage, Segger has introduced a package that programmes microcontrollers securely at third party locations such as contract manufactures. Even the programmer-to-MCU connection is secured against ‘sniffing’, because captured signals are one-time encrypted. The scheme is implemented by the company’s Flasher Secure programmer hardware, combined with software dubbed ‘Telp’ for ‘target encrypted link package’. It works like ...

China’s share of mature (28nm and older) process capacity is expected to grow from 29% this year to 33% by 2027, says TrendForce, while Taiwan’s is expected to fall from 49% to 42%. The result could be a price war in mature process products  and increasing localisation for driver ICs, CMOS image sensors, and  power discretes. Leading China’s charge are:  ...