Industry Roundtable
continue to generate demand for our products over the longer term. These trends are driving our experts to design the innovations that will satisfy our current and future customer base, with focus on high- speed data, smaller packaging, increased power needs, smart devices, and intelligent systems.
“The huge demand for new consumer/commercial electronics, as well as for self-driving vehicles determined by digital acceleration requires high-test reliability and reduced test time. We have recently released an innovative semiconductor test socket, Joule 20, that provides first-class electrical and mechanical performance in testing peripheral ICs for the most demanding communication, consumer, wearable and automotive applications. Its innovative design allows for the housing to be disassembled without removing the socket from the PCB. This enables cleaning and repair to be done without taking production equipment offline, reducing equipment down-time and improving production throughput. “We also want to continue to be at the forefront of space technology supporting a broad range of applications and customers. Current/future services are dominated by data-satellites and these will compete with terrestrial alternatives with new investment driven by continued growth in data demand. “High capacity GEO satellites as well as new LEO satellite constellations are being developed to be flexible and reconfigurable to the extent these may in future be assembled in orbit from blocks that can be upgraded as business models evolve. This is another exciting growth opportunity as commercial enterprise and governments worldwide look to invest for the future. “And of course, we will continue to support medical customers with our products and technologies.”
William Heath, commercial director, OMC (UK): “After a brief pause while we dealt with the effects of the pandemic, we are resuming roll out of new fibre optic transmitter devices, with several new emitters designed to provide performance and cost advantages in specific applications to be released during 2021.
“Additionally, we’re seeing tremendous opportunity with O-RAN and Europe is a key driver of this technology with Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and Telefónica already announcing that they want to jointly promote this technology. With this technology, new players are coming into play, hardware and software are being decoupled so that applications can be moved to the edge of the network, which could benefit the automotive industry, for example”
What new projects, products or technologies are you currently focusing on or planning to launch in the coming months?
Roy Phillips, MD of Intelliconnect: “Our technology and design/ development focus currently are predominantly in the Cryogenics field, as well as new cable and connector products which we believe, will enhance our product portfolio significantly, whilst offering customers better supply chains, enhanced performance and cost reductions. In this world of the NDA it’s difficult to be too specific but development areas include non-magnetic products, high density connectors and various cable developments. Additionally, we are working with several university and government research labs in new product development.
“Intelliconnect is also developing multiple new interconnect products relating to specific projects in the defence industry.”
Eric Lakin, Vice president finance and strategy, Smiths Interconnect: “We believe that megatrends, such as increased digitisation, connectivity, mobility and globalisation, are likely to
“Another key development is the expansion of our UK-based LED production facilities. With the recovery and the easing of restrictions we will be in a position to resume commissioning from this summer. The expansion of our UK LED die bonding and wire bonding facility will allow us to offer bespoke, UK-manufactured LED devices optimised from chip level upwards for low, medium or high volume requirements.”
Steve Rawlins, CEO, Anglia Components: “During the whole of lockdown, our software team has continued to develop new services for Anglia Live, and we’re delighted to lift the curtain on what we’ve been working on. With our new BOM+ service, available free exclusively to registered Anglia Live users, customers can now upload a Bill of Materials (BOM) and get a quote in under two minutes. The tool doesn’t just give budgetary costings, it provides a competitive market level quote based on the quantities entered and takes into account any negotiated pricing the customer may already have in place with Anglia for each line item.”
Brendan Farley, managing director of Xilinx EMEA and VP of Wireless Engineering: “A growing trend we’re seeing is the need for compact, intelligent edge applications and this is driving demand for processing and bandwidth engines that provide higher performance, as well as new levels of compute density to enable the smallest form factor system.
“To meet this need, we’ve recently expanded our UltraScale+ portfolio for markets with new applications that require ultra- compact and intelligent edge solutions.
“We have also recently announced a partnership with Mavenir to launch a portfolio of massive MIMO products for the emerging 5G O- RAN market. O-RAN promotes the disaggregation and virtualisation of the 5G network to host innovative third-party applications at the network edge and an ecosystem of interoperable suppliers. The first mMIMO 64TRX joint solution is expected to be available in Q4 2021.”
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