Holtek Semiconductor EOL Notices

By Dan Crippen

These PDNs were published on 03/10/2015, 03/25/2015, 05/28/2015, 06/10/2015, 07/01/2015, 07/04/2015, 07/10/2015, 07/13/2015, 07/31/2015 and 08/19/2015 and list all parts with the LTB dates 09/03/2015, 11/30/2015, 12/01/2015, 12/05/2015, 12/15/2015, 12/31/2015, 01/03/2016, 01/13/2016, 01/31/2016 and 02/19/2016. Component…

Fueling the Phone Industry

By Dan Crippen

  So by this point most people have at least heard of hydrogen fuel cells and a few clusters may know people who are driving one of these futuristic eco-vehicles. What almost no one has…

Pericom EOL Notices

By Dan Crippen

These PDNs were published on 03/31/2015 and 07/08/2015 and list all parts with the LTB dates 10/08/2015 and 01/15/2016. Component Publish Date Replacement LTB Date PI6C18551WE 03/31/15 PI6C49X0204AWIE 10/08/15 PI6C18551WEX 03/31/15 PI6C49X0204AWIEX 10/08/15 PI6C4500DEDR 03/31/15…

Self-Assembling Robots

By Dan Crippen

Self-assembling robots have always always been a sci-fi milestone that science in the real world could never really achieve. One team at MIT has achieved just that, a group of robots that work together to…

DDN EOL Notices

By Dan Crippen

These PDNs were published on 05/31/2015 and list all parts with the LTB dates 08/31/2015. Component Publish Date Replacement LTB Date H07P0120125NH17 5/31/2015 H07P0180224CH14 8/31/2015  H08P0120125NH17 5/31/2015 H08P0180224CH14 8/31/2015  7K-600G6SC2QN 5/31/2015 H07P0090224CH14 8/31/2015  8K-600G6SC2QN 5/31/2015…

Quantum Crushes Record

By Dan Crippen

Quantum dots are making a comeback! After a few years of humbled excitement over quantum dots there comes a record breaking performance in speed of light emissions. What the researchers did was construct a plasmonic…