China has agreed to allow the export of chips critical to auto production, averting widespread shutdowns that had been ...

With a 4k1 collector resistor and 16mA drive into the led, the chosen (read ‘cheapest on ebay’) 6N135 is supposed to beat 1.5μs for both turn on and turn off, with typical figures of 90ns and 800ns.

The Dutch government’s move to take control of chipmaker Nexperia has provoked Chinese retaliation, constricting supplies of ...

For our 2025 Component Abuse Challenge there have been a set of entries which merely use a component for a purpose it wasn’t quite intended, and another which push misuse of a part into ...

Electromagnetic waves with frequencies between microwave and infrared light, also known as terahertz radiation, are leveraged ...

EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen will meet chipmaker Nexperia on Friday, she said on X, amid concerns about a deepening supply ...

If you cultivate an interest in building radios it’s likely that you’ll at some point make a simple receiver. Perhaps a ...

A simple way to stabilize the operating temperature of any components that need it. Part 1 shows the purely analog approach, ...