Toshiba’s latest eFuse lets a single external resistor set the overcurrent threshold, turning a once-fixed protection parameter into something a bill of materials can tune on the fly.
A new DC-link film-capacitor series is qualified for continuous case operation up to 135 °C, with no derating through 105 °C. The headline expands thermal design headroom, but voltage, ripple current,…
The completed C2i acquisition adds digital multiphase-control and system-architecture expertise to Infineon’s AI power portfolio. For passive components, the strategic signal is that fast load respons…
A new 100 V enhancement-mode GaN family targets low-voltage conversion stages in AI data centers, robotics, and industrial systems. Faster switching can shrink magnetics, but it also raises the import…
Power-over-coax reduces separate wiring for automotive cameras, but it makes the filtering network responsible for separating DC power from high-frequency data. A new multilayer inductor series target…
A resistor-programmed eFuse shows how one passive part can translate system-level protection policy into a measurable current threshold. The design still depends on coordination among the switch, sens…
A bench instrument restoration had to begin by replacing its mains-rated film capacitors before the unit could be safely powered at all. That ordering says something about how passive components age.
Thin film resistors are moving onto aluminum nitride substrates. The interesting part is not the material itself but what it says about where precision circuits are now expected to survive.
Anti-surge chip resistors are reaching 0.33 W in an 0402 footprint. The number is incremental; what it says about board area, transient exposure and second-source strategy is not.
A traction-inverter PMIC combines multi-rail power, resolver excitation and independent safety supervision, changing how engineers approach passives, layout, reliability and sourcing.