#China #Netherlands #politics #news about #Nexperia, perhaps related following the new rare-earths restrictions that might prevent European cars from being exported to the US
#China #Netherlands #politics #news Daan summarizes: “According to a just published article by the NRC newspaper [0], the owner wanted to use #Nexperia’s funds to finance another business (WingSkySemi) which was in financial trouble. He would have done this by making Nexperia place large orders for wafers it did not need. The article mentions Nexperia only requiring $70-80 million in wafers, while Nexperia would have ordered wafers from WingSkySemi with a value of $200 million.
In order to achieve this, the owner is said to have put strawmen without financial experience in place and fire European directors. When other directors raised the alarm about this, they were fired according to the article. This issue was raised to the Dutch government, which then intervened.”
more on the #China #Netherlands #politics #news #toread
#video #toread about common-base amplifier design in #electronics #hardware for #RF #communications
#video on using #e-ink from Waveshare #tutorial #toread (but what I really want is current measurements)
#video #toread about voice coil #robotics #hardware #mechanisms from #Breaking-Taps. Inspired by birds. Using Dyneema cable actuation. Glass-filled PTFE bushings, carbon-fiber bones pressed into holes in fittings. He actually gave up on the rolling-contact cable-ligature joints and switched to conventional sleeve-bearing pin hinges. Using voice-coil actuators.
Currently cheapest #microcontrollers #pricing on LCSC: PMS150G-U06 (a SOT-23-6) for 2.02¢ in quantity 3000. #Padauk has broken the 3¢ barrier! One-time programmable. #electronics #hardware
Almost cheapest #microcontrollers #pricing on LCSC: NY8A054ES8, a SOP-8, for 3.91¢ in quantity 1000. This is from JSMSEMI (Shenzhen JSMicro Semiconductor Co., Ltd.) 1T 8-bit 8MHz chip, 128 bytes RAM, 2k × 14-bit EPROM program memory (but no quartz window, so one-time programmable). 8-level hardware stack. The datasheet is full of descriptions of peripheral registers and pin circuit schematics, and then the 55-instruction instruction set is documented on pp. 76–91.
#3Blue1Brown #video on the Laplace transform. #math #toread
41' #CodingAdventure #video on simulating smoke #graphics #toread
5.35 GW #Esmeralda-7 #solar #photovoltaic #energy project in Nevada, #USA, canceled due to #Trump #politics