Socionext, ZifiSense and Techsor developing SoC for ZETag

Socionext, ZiFiSense and Techsor are  jointly starting development of an SoC for ZETag – a low cost, low power consumption IC tag. The companies plan to complete a prototype chip in 2020 and start volume production in 2021. The ZETag SoC will incorporate the LPWA ZETA-G protocol proposed by ZiFiSense with Socionext’s design expertise in ...

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O-RAN compatible DC/DC converters for RFPA

Flex Power Modules is working with OpenRAN, and O-RAN Alliance to broaden its range of isolated DC/DC converters for RFPA. The IEEE, says Flex Power, is stating that existing LTE RFPA solutions are not suitable for operation in the 5G range due to frequency incompatibility and, therefore, will not achieve high efficiency if use continues. ...

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Murata claims smallest MLCC

Murata announces the development of what it believes to be the world’s smallest, laminated multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) with a capacitance value of 1.0 μF in the 01005 inch size (0402M) measuring just 0.4 x 0.2mm x 0.2mm. The GRM022R60G105ME01 with a rated voltage of 4 Vdc is already in mass production and the GRM022R60J105M, ...

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GloFo qualifies 12LP+ finfet process

GLOBALFOUNDRIES Says it has qualified its 12LP+ finfet process and is ready for production. GF’s differentiated 12LP+ solution is optimized for AI training and inference applications. 12LP+ introduces new features including an updated standard cell library, an interposer for 2.5D packaging, and a low-power 0.5V Vmin SRAM bitcell that supports the low latency and power-efficient shuttling ...

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EEVblog #1316 – Quantum Computing for Electrical Engineers

Quantum Computing from an Electrical Engineering perspective, with professor Andrea Morello from UNSW.

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PFC controller for 600W to 6kW comes with configuration software

STMicroelectronics has announced a power-factor correction controller for the front-end of ac-dc PSUs from 600W to 6kW. Called STNRGPF02, it implements a two-channel interleaved boost topology as well as in-rush current limiting. Operation is fixed-frequency continuous-conduction mode (CCM) with average current-mode control. “A blend of analogue and digital control combines a hardware analogue PI [proportional-integral] ...

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Self-hollowing nano-particles store lithium for batteries

Spontaneously-hollowing antimony particles could increase the capacity of lithium ion cells, according to the Georgia Institute of Technology. “Intentionally engineering hollow nano-materials has been done for a while now, and it is a promising approach for improving the lifetime and stability of batteries with high energy density,” GaTech research engineer Matthew McDowell. “The problem has ...

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Automotive 1A PoL converter has PWM and PFM for better efficiency

Diodes is aiming at automotive point-of-load converters with a 1A buck converter that can run from 5V and 3.3V rails. Output can span 600mV to 3.6V said the company, although one data brief says 800mV to 4V. Called AP61100Q, the chip has synchronous rectification – with a 110mΩ high-side mosfet and 80mΩ low-side mosfet. Operation ...

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DAB chips and modules for prettier user interfaces from Frontier

Frontier is aiming at better-looking DAB+ radio products with a ‘Pro’ range of chips, modules and software. Its Kino 4-Pro chip has a larger memory than its earlier silicon, allowing features to be added without compromising performance. Siena-Pro is a module built around Kino 4-Pro. To ease migration, Kino 4-Pro and Siena-Pro are pin compatible ...

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Memory test and burn-in for 5G development labs

Advantest’s H5620ES engineering test system is designed for burn-in and core testing of DDR4, DDR5 and LPDDR devices in laboratory environments. “Like its sister system, the H5620 production unit, the new tester parallel tests both DDR4 and DDR5 memories. It can accommodate memory ICs with 100MHz frequencies and 200Mbit/s data rates,” said the company, adding ...

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TSMC spent $3bn on R&D in 2019

TSMC spent $2.959 billion on R&D last year, employing 6,534 R&D staff. The R&D budget was 8.5% of its 2019 sales of  $36 billion- a ratio it intends to maintain. The company expects to increase revenues by 14-19% this year. TSMC expects 10% of its wafer output to be on 5nm this year and volume ...

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Varta gets €300m IPCEI R&D grant

VARTA is to get €300 million via an IPCEI  (Important Project of Common European Interest) project. Funds are coming  from the German Federal Ministry of Economics (BMWi) and the states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. The project will focus o developing small-format lithium-ion cells with higher energy densities.  These new battery formats are to be optimised on ...

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Keynotes and topics announced for first-ever Wales Tech Week

The first-ever Wales Tech Week has confirmed more than 50 virtual events as part of the festival, which runs 13 – 17 July and is free to access. It is designed to showcase the Welsh technology industry and its applications in use across the world, and the first keynote is by Lee Waters MS, Deputy Minister ...

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Raytheon wins THAAD contract for GaN-based AN/TPY-2 radars

Raytheon Technologies has been awarded a $2.3 billion contract, by the US government’s Missile Defense Agency, for seven gallium nitride (GaN)-based AN/TPY-2 radars. The radars will be part of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, which is designed to detect incoming ballistic missiles. Specifically, Raytheon Missiles & Defense – one of the four ...

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Multicrimp pliers for different cable diameters

For D-Sub as well as M12 and M8 crimp sleeves, PROVERTHA offers new cost-effective Multicrimp pliers in four versions (TMCCH1 to TMCCH4) for different cable diameters. The pliers can be used universally and flexibly with a Multicrimp die for four or eight spanner sizes. This means that one pair of pliers can be used for ...

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Infineon adds package to CoolSIC module family

Infineon has added another industry standard package to its CoolSiC MOSFET 1200 V module family. The 62 mm device has been designed in half-bridge topology and is based on the trench chip technology. It opens up SiC for applications in the medium power range starting at 250 kW – where silicon reaches the limits of ...

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Eval board for fast charging over USB-C

 ST has created a USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) certified evaluation board for up to 100W PPS USB Power Sinking Devices (PSD) that helps developers accelerate new designs and supports certification of the end product. The aim is to facilitate modernisation of battery-powered products to capture the advantages of the latest USB Power Delivery (USB PD) ...

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High speed photo couplers work at 2.2V

Toshiba has introduced a pair of fast opto-couplers that will work from 2.2V, allowing them to work from the 2.5V rail of LVCMOS, for example, as well as up to 5.5V. Typical 3.3V data rates are: TLP2312 5Mbit/s TLP2372 20Mbit/s The threshold input current of 1.6mAmax and the supply current of 0.5mAmax at entire operating temperature ...

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Farnell launches AIoT e-book

Farnell has launched a new e-book: “The era of AIoT: Context, Capabilities and Future of AIoT” AI and IoT are changing the nature of work across the globe. AI is not a new concept, what began in the 1950s has grown into a key technology of today with significant potential, opening up new market opportunities ...

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Waterproof pogo pins connect in soaking environments

Adam Tech Interconnects has created waterproof spring-loaded ‘pogo’ pins. Such pins, soldered through one PCB, allow them to connect to copper pads on another PCB, or to other conductive objects, with some tolerance to mating distance variation. “These DIP Pins are designed with an inner rubber seal and offer an IP rating to prevent moisture ...

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Sony to add subscription service to image sensors

Sony is to try and establish a data analytics service as an extension of its image sensor business. Recently Sony produced an integrated image sensor and AI processor. It can be reprogrammed remotely by wireless. Sony’s idea is to establish a subscription-based or licensing-based service which will interpret the processed data for customers’ applications. Sony’s ...

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First Chinese memories to be on the market in H2

China’s first domestic NAND chips will be on the market in H2, according to the co-CTO of Yangtze Memories, “We will have built a wide range of system memory products with our own brand for not only personal computers, enterprises storage, cloud computing solutions, but also to high-end smartphones, and to setup boxes, tablets, and ...

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FB hit by ad boycott

Over 90 companies have pulled out of advertising with Facebook because of the company’s attitude to taking down hate speech. Former advertisers which have pulled out include: PepsiCo, Honda, Levi Strauss, Bauer, Hershey’s, Coca Cola, Mozilla,Upwork, Dockers, lululemon, Magnolia Pictures, Birchbox, Ben & Jerry’s, REI, The North Face, Patagonia and Verizon. Facebook attracts ad revenue ...

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LoRaWAN HAT for Raspberry Pi

A LoRaWAN Gateway with RAK2245 Pi HAT on a Raspberry Pi 4 mini PC is described on Hackster.io by  Attila Tőkés. The RAK2245 is a Raspberry Pi HAT featuring a LoRaWAN multichannel concentrator module (SX1301) and a GPS module (Ublox MAX-7Q). There are multiple versions with support for all the major frequency regions (EU433, CN470, ...

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SiC and GaN gain market traction

Following the glitch in auto production this year, the power SiC market’s growth will be only 7% in 2020, says Yole Developpement, with the biggest impact in Q2 and Q3. Automotive has now become the driver for SiC after the first commercialisation of SiC diodes saw the power SiC device market driven by power supply ...

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That’s not a ZIF socket, THIS is a ZIF socket!

That’s not a ZIF socket, THIS is a ZIF socket!
A look at the huge ZIF socket on the Philips ultrasound probe.
OK, I know it’s technically a ZIF plug/connector, but no one says ZIF plug.

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Tsinghua Unigroup to start on DRAM fab this year

Tsinghua Unigroup is to  break ground on a DRAM fab this year, accotding the the Nikkei, It will be China’s third venture into DRAM manufacturing.  Jinhua IC was abandoned when the US refused to send it equipment. Chanxin Memories, formerly called Innotron and before that called Hefei is said to have started production in Q4 ...

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Virgin Galactic completes second test flight of SpaceShipTwo

Virgin Galactic has successfully completed the second SpaceShipTwo test flight from Spaceport America, in the Jornada del Muerto desert basin in New Mexico. The company is specialising in human spaceflight for private individuals and researchers, as well as being a manufacturer of air and space vehicles. The flight marks a milestone toward the launch of ...

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Royal Society takes its Summer Science Exhibition online

This year, in the wake of Covid-19, the Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition is going online. Running from 13 – 17 July, the free event aims to celebrate advances in science and scientific research. It features a week of interactive quizzes, creative challenges and a range of talks on science topics, including the science of ...

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Government to buy 20% of OneWeb satellite system

The government is reported to be proposing to spend $500 million buying 20% of OneWeb, the bankrupt satellite company. OneWeb has launched 74 out of a planned constellation of 648 satellites. If a buyer cannot be found for them, the UK government, as the licensing authority, has to take responsibility for them. OneWeb makes low-orbit ...

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Huawei gets planning permission for $1bn Cambridgeshire R&D facility

South Cambridgeshire District Council has given Huawei planning permission to build a$1 billion R&D facility in Sawston village. The permission was granted despite reservations expressed by the Parish Council of Little Shelford about the development’s impact on nesting birds. Others to object were the US Secretary of State and the US ambassador to the UK. ...

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Battery balancing IC measures voltage in 12 cells

Infineon has come out with a sensing and balancing IC for Hybrid and EV car batteries. It measures the voltage in up to twelve battery cells with an accuracy of ± 5.8 mV over the entire temperature and voltage range as well as the operating life cycle. It supports up to five external temperature sensors, ...

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LoraWAN for tracking personal assets

Smart Mimic has integrated Semtech’s LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol into its MimicGO line of consumer products for securing rooms and belongings. The LoRa-based devices deploy indoor or outdoor to monitor condition changes in a range of applications, including door sensing, belongings movements and tampering, motion sensing in rooms, and open/closed status in drawers ...

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EEVblog #1315 – Ultrasound Probe Extreme Teardown!

What’s inside a Philips curved array ultrasound probe? Multi-element ceramic transducers: https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/pdf/10.1148/radiographics.13.5.8210599

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EEVblog #1314 – Ultrasound Machine Teardown!

Complete teardown of an ATL/Philips HDI 3000 ultrasound machine.
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EEVblog #1313 – Bad Luck Mailbag

Double 13 is worse than normal 13, obviously. More mailbag.

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SPOILERS: Back in the old lab! Vintage Soviet Union PC.
10:42 3G modem with a funky antenna.
13:52 IOMEGA ZIP drive teardown
18:56 USB to RS485 interface http://olegkutkov.me/
19:52 Another Byte magazine cover! http://bytecovers.com/
21:41 Smoke alarm sensor teardowns
26:58 Reverse engineering a Cooler Master PSU
34:45 $1 ebay power adapter teardown gets Widlarized!
38:39 Stonetech smart integrated LCD module https://www.stoneitech.com/

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100V half-bridge driver updates ISL2111

Renesas has introduced a pair of 100V half-bridge mosfet gate drivers. HIP2211 is a pin-compatible upgrade to the company’s existing ISL2111 and has separate high-side and low-side PWM input pins, leaving dead-time control up to the hose microcontroller. PWM inputs are 3.3V logic and Vdd tolerant. Comes in 8-lead SOIC or 10-lead 4 x 4mm TDFN. ...

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Infineon and Blumio to develop wearable radar-based blood pressure sensor

Infineon’s Silicon Valley Innovation Center (SVIC) has agreed with cardiovascular monitoring specialist Blumio to co-develop a wearable, non-invasive blood pressure sensor based on Infineon’s XENSIV radar chipset by 2021. The new sensor has the potential to disrupt the USD 45 billion market for wearable cardiovascular monitoring devices by enabling continuous and precise measurement without a ...

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Taiwan No.1 in wafer capacity but China closing the gap

Taiwan has the largest installed base for IC wafer capacity, says IC Insights, edging out Korea in second place. Next year China could be the No.2 with Korea slipping down to third place. In its Global Wafer Capacity 2020-2024 report, IC Insights breaks down the world’s installed monthly wafer capacity by geographic region (or country). ...

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Lattice sampling new FPGA family

Lattice is sampling a new FPGA family called Certus-NX family of FPGAs which support fast PCI Express (PCIe) and Gigabit Ethernet interfaces to enable data co-processing, signal bridging, and system control. Certus-NX FPGAs target a range of applications, from data processing in automated industrial equipment to system management in communications infrastructure. The Certus-NX devices are the ...

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Tuya joins Zigbee Alliance Board for Project Connected Home over IP

IoT specialist Tuya is the latest company to join the Zigbee Alliance Board of Directors, to help steer the low-power wireless comms standard. The aim of the alliance is to simplify product development for manufacturers and increase device compatibility for consumers. Tuya helps consumer electronics brands add IoT control and connectivity to electronic devices for smart control ...

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IEDM 2020 to be virtual

The organizers of the upcoming 66th annual IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) have decided to hold the conference virtually this year given the ongoing uncertainties posed by the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic. The virtual 2020 IEDM is scheduled for December 12–16, 2020, and both live and recorded sessions will be used to showcase and discuss ...

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Zebra acceleration for Xilinx’s Alveo card

Mipsology, which specialises in deep learning acceleration software, has had its Zebra neural net accelerating software integrated into the latest build of Xilinx’s Alveo U50 data centre accelerator card. The accelerator enables the Alveo U50 to compute convolutional neural networks with zero effort. This is the latest in a series of Zebra-enhanced Xilinx boards that enable ...

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Lattice puts fast I/O on low-power FPGA for IoT edge

Lattice Semiconductor has released the second family of devices developed from its Nexus 28nm FDSoI platform, equipping them with fast PCI Express (PCIe) and Gigabit Ethernet interfaces for co-processing, signal bridging, and system control. Certus-NX FPGAs, as they will be known, are intended to be general purpose, aimed at applications from data processing in automated ...

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Hermetic LVDT displacement sensor for tough contaminated environments

NewTek’s HATR series of ac-operated LVDT displacement sensors are hermetically-sealed for use in tough contaminated environments such as pulp and paper mills. “As ac-operated linear position sensors, HATR Series is not limited by internal electronics that can fail in extreme environments,” according to the company. They have welded 19mm metal housing and can operate at ...

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Toshiba adds super junction n-channel power MOSFETs

Toshiba has introduced eight super junction N-channel power MOSFETs to strengthen its  DTMOSVI series. The  650V-rated devices claim to deliver a 40% reduction in terms of their drain-source on-resistance x gate-drain charge (QGD) figure of merit (FoM) when compared to the previous DTMOS generation. As a consequence, they can raise the efficiency of switch-mode power supplies ...

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Mil spec 24Vin 1kW PSU with multiple outputs

Vicor is aiming at VPX conduction-cooled chassis in avionics and ships with a 1kW multi-output PSU that runs from a 28V dc rail. Called VITA-62, it is designed for 6U OpenVPX rund runs on 18 – 42V, while producing 3.3V (0-30A), 5V (0-32A), 12V (0-70A), 12V (1A), -12V (1A) – the 5V rail and high-power 12V rail ...

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Renesas introduces magnet-free inductive position sensor

Renesas has introduced the magnet-free IPS2200 inductive position sensor. “Inductive position sensing is changing the game for industrial motor commutation as demands for high accuracy, high efficiency, and cost efficiency increase, particularly for multi-pole pair motors and off-axis applications,” says Renesas vp, Christian Wolf, “with the IPS2200, we are excited to offer a solution that ...

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Softbank to sell stake in T-Mobile

Softbank is to sell its stake in T-Mobile following T-Mobile’s purchase of Softbank’s US telco Sprint earlier this year. Softbank will reduce its 24% stake in T-Mobile to 0.4% in two transactions, First it will sell up to 198 million shares worth $21 billion to T-Mobile. Second, it will give Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile’s parent company, ...

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Siemens buys UltraSoC

Siemens is to buy UltraSoC and integrate its technology  into the Xcelerator portfolio  of Mentor’s Tessent software product suite. The addition of UltraSoC to Siemens enables a unified data-driven infrastructure that can enhance product quality, safety and cybersecurity and help customers overcome key pain points like manufacturing defects, software and hardware bugs, device early-failure and ...

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Imec QA tool accelerates inspection process and delivers finer granularity

Imec spin-off Deltaray has introduced a quality control technology called  ‘Accelerated 3D XRAY’. The technology allows manufacturers to inspect products for possible defects up to 100 times faster and with a much finer granularity (up to 50 microns). This speed enables total quality control, as every manufactured item is internally checked in a fully automated ...

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BLE mesh networking SIP

ON Semiconductor has introduced a new BLE mesh networking solution based on its RSL10 SIP which consists of two RSL10 Mesh Nodes and a Strata Gateway for connectivity to the Strata Developer Studio. Complementing SIP is an array of sensing and indicator devices incorporated into the node hardware, including an ambient light sensor (LV0104CS), temperature sensor ...

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Perovskite solar pushes up efficiency in hydrogen-making cell

Scientist in Australia have used a custom perovskite solar cell to increase the efficiency of solar hydrogen production close to the point thought to be commercially viable. Solar-to-hydrogen production from water and light was 17.6% efficient, despite the relatively humble solar materials involved – silicon and perovskite – compared to a 20% target set by ...

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AEC-Q101 qualified discrete semiconductors in DFN packages

Nexperia has announced a range of automotive-qualified discrete semiconductors in DFN packages, claiming it to be industry’s widest portfolio. Included are bipolar transistors, n-channel mosfets, p-channel mosfets, Schottkys, Zeners, switching diodes and protection diodes, as well as resistor-equipped transistors and LED drivers. “Automotive qualified discrete leadless packages range from the very small DFN1006BD-2 [1 x 0.6 ...

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Apple to start transition to Arm-based Macs

Macs will start the transition to  ‘Apple Silicon’ away from Intel silicon in Q4, Tim Cook announced at WWDC yesterday. The transition is expected to take two years in which time more Intel-powered Macs will be introduced. Intel-based Macs will get software updates for “years to come”, said Cook. Apple Silicon is called ‘A12Z Bionic’. ...

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GloFo buys option on 66 acres in New York for fab extension

GLOBALFOUNDRIES  has secured a purchase option for approximately 66 acres of undeveloped land adjacent to its most advanced manufacturing facility, Fab 8, in Malta, N.Y., near the Luther Forest Technology Campus (LFTC). The land parcel is located at the southeast end of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) Saratoga Technology + Energy ...

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Arm-based supercomputer is the most powerful in the world

Fugaku, an Arm-based  supercomputer jointly developed by RIKEN and Fujitsu, has been was ranked No. 1 in the 58th TOP500 list of the world’s supercomputers.  Fugaku also took the No.1 position in the international ranking HPCG (High Performance Conjugate Gradient), which measure the processing speed of the conjugate gradient method. The Fugaku system ranked first ...

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Virgin Galactic wins Nasa contract to commercialise ISS

Virgin Galactic Holdings has announced the signing of a Space Act Agreement with NASA’s Johnson Space Center, encouraging “commercial participation in orbital human spaceflight” to the International Space Station (ISS). Under the agreement, Virgin Galactic will develop a private orbital astronaut readiness programme. The company states that the program will include identifying candidates interested in ...

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Q3 NOR Flash ASP expected to drop

The NOR Flash ASP climbed by around 5% QoQ in 1Q20 and by about another 10% to 20% QoQ in 2Q20, as buyers re-stocked, says DRAMeXchange. However now, with inventories replenished, DRAMeXchange expects a drop of around 3% in Q3. As uncertainties in 5G demand grow, the SLC NAND Flash ASP, which is highly correlated ...

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Leti makes CMOS at 500°C for 3D sequential chips

CEA-Leti scientists have made FDSOI CMOS at 500°C, “while showing strong performance gains especially in p-type MOS logic devices”, according to the French lab, which has branded the process ‘CoolCube’. 500°C processing is important when trying to shrink die by building CMOS with p-channel mosfets above rather than next to their n-channel counterparts – called a ‘3D ...

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Maxim adds ECC memory to Cortex-M4, and cuts power

Maxim has added error-code correction (ECC) to both flash, RAM and cache in a increased-reliability microcontroller for industrial, healthcare and IoT use. Called MAX32670, it is built around an Arm Cortex-M4 with floating-point unit, and this EEC is capable of single error correction and double error detection. “In many industrial and IoT applications, high energy particles and other ...

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Farnell marks International Women In Engineering Day 2020

To mark International Women in Engineering Day 2020, Farnell talked to women across its global operations to celebrate their achievements within the industry and discuss key topics such as gender diversity in the workplace. 12 women leaders working within Farnell joined the discussion from different parts of the world. The aim of the collaboration was to ...

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Silicon Catalyst recruits four new startups

Silicon Catalyst, the silicon startup incubator, has admitted four more companies. The incubator enables new semiconductor companies to address the challenges in moving from idea to realisation, offering early-stage chip startups a coalition of In-Kind and Strategic Partners to reduce the cost and complexity of development. 5D Sensing Advanced CMOS Sensors for Smart City and ...

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Toshiba to sell off its stake in Kioxia

Toshiba intends to sell off its 40.2% holding in its former memory unit now called Kioxia, reports the Nikkei. In October the unit is to be floated on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Toshiba will start selling its stake after that. Half the proceeds of the sale will go to Toshiba’s shareholders. The unit was ...

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Nordic’s nRF52805 is optimised for low-cost, two-layer PCBs

Nordic Semiconductor, the wireless comms specialist, has expanded its nRF52 series with the nRF52805 Bluetooth 5.2 SoC. Supplied in a wafer level chip scale package (WLCSP), it measures 2.48 x 2.46mm and is optimised for two-layer PCBs enabling designs that are small and low cost, says Nordic. The nRF52805 includes a 64-MHz 32-bit Arm Cortex-M4 ...

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BioMEMS market growing at 9.2% CAGR

BioMEMS devices, defined as MEMS sensors and microfluidic devices integrated into medical devices and used for IVD and life sciences, were a  $3.7 billion Market in 2019 and is expected to reach $6.3 billion in 2025 with a CAGR between 2019 and 2025 of 9.2%, Says Yole Developpement. The microfluidic chips market represents 85% of ...

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400Gbps data transmission achieved over DCI in a 75 GHz DWDM channel

NeoPhotonics has completed experimental verification of the transmission of 400Gbps data over data center interconnect (DCI) ZR distances in a 75 GHz spaced Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) channel. NeoPhotonics achieved two milestones using its interoperable pluggable 400ZR coherent modules and its specially designed athermal arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) multiplexers (MUX) and de-multiplexers (DMUX). First, ...

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Contactless sensing in three dimensions

Melexis, the Belgian auto chip fabless specialist, has announced an automotive-grade (AEC-Q100) monolithic sensor that uses the Hall effect to provide contactless sensing in three dimensions. The dual-die version of the MLX90395 Triaxis Magnetometer Node provides redundancy for demanding scenarios, such as gear lever position sensing in automotive applications. The functionality of the MLX90395 is ...

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Viewpoint: Interview tips for graduate engineers

After three or four years of hard study, you have graduated. Well done, and now the job hunting starts, writes Ash Madni, Head of Silicon Design at CML Microcircuits (UK) and a veteran of 31 years in the Analogue Integrated Circuit industry. Here are a few interview tips that you may find useful. My undergraduate year at ...

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Portwell targets fanless LYNX-6000 series at industrial IoT

Portwell, the Fremont, California-based industrial PC specialist, has announced its LYNX-6000 Series of palm-sized, industrial IoT gateways. The fanless and rugged embedded computer systems are based on the Intel Celeron N3350 CPU and certified for Microsoft Azure IoT. According to the company, the new LYNX-6000 Series provides a rich portfolio of ultra-small form factor IoT ...

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MIND BLOWN: Quantum Computing & Financial Arbitrage

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CHIPS for America

The CHIPS for America Act proposes to revive domestic chip-making, fund R&D, and secure technology supply chains. CHIPS stands for “Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors.” The Act proposes $12 billion to fund existing Pentagon semiconductor support programmes, plus $5 billion to other federal agencies for IC R&D. $5 billion is intended to fund an IC packaging ...

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SAFE to design chips via the cloud

The Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem (SAFE) Cloud Design Platform (CDP) for fabless customers is designed to provide a virtual environment to design chips which can be accessed from anywhere through the cloud. It has been developed with  Rescale. SAFE CDP supports a design condition that has been verified with cloud companies. In addition, customers can ...

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GloFo hooks up with US foundry SkyWater Technologies

GLOBALFOUNDRIES has signed an MOU with US-based foundry SkyWater Technology to manufacture security-sensitive ICs. SkyWater is bringing to market a 90nm rad-hard process technology via an up to $170 million DoD investment which, when combined with GloFo’s processes, will add to its portfolio of defense technology offerings. SkyWater took over Cypress’ old fab in Minnesota ...

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Imec boosts MRAM write speed

Imec has  presented a deterministic write scheme for voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy (VCMA) magnetic random access memories (MRAMs), obviating the need for pre-reading the device before writing. This significantly improves the write duty cycle of the memory, enabling ns-scale write speeds. As a second improvement, a manufacturable solution for external-field-free VCMA switching operation was demonstrated. Both ...

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QORC delivers open source tools for QuickLogic FPGAs

QuickLogic has announced QORC (QuickLogic Open Reconfigurable Computing) initiative offering a fully open source suite of development tools for its FPGA devices and eFPGA technology. This initiative engenders the emerging trend toward open source tooling, significantly broadens access to the company’s products, and enables both hardware and software developers with tools supported by both the user ...

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Arrow extends InvenSense reach with global agreement

MEMS sensor company, InvenSense has signed a global distribution deal with Arrow Electronics. This extends the EMEA agreement, signed in 2019. Now, MEMS-based products from the TDK Group company will be available from the distributor in the Americas, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific regions. The product portfolio includes accelerometers, gyroscopes, compasses, microphones and pressure MEMS ...

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A new approach to skin chemistry sensing

Engineers at University of California Los Angeles have found a way to create a stretchable adhesive skin chemistry sensor without serpentine electrical conductors. Instead, they persuaded the liquid sweat to move sideways through the film – maintaining stretchability – while electrical connections are made through the thickness of the sensor to a rigid electrode array at the ...

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ADI sets up University of Limerick scholarship

Analog Devices and the University of Limerick have announced two scholarship programs to honour late ADI CTO Peter Real (pictured), a Limerick alumnus – ADI has research labs in Ireland and research connections with the University. “The Peter Real Analog Devices Bernal Fulbright PhD Scholarship will be awarded in partnership with the Bernal Institute at UL ...

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UK GaN transistor maker leads European power module consortium

Cambridge GaN Devices (CGD) is to lead a €10.3m project to develop intelligent GaN power modules. Called GaNext, and part of the Penta programme, its partners include academic and commercial organisations from the UK, German and The Netherlands – Infineon is one of the partners (list below) The modules are intended to address gate drive and ...

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Element14 electronic project video competition winner

element14.com has announced the winners of its most recent community challenge, encouraging female engineers to create an electronic project video in the style of the element14 Presents series. The Grand Prize winner is Surbhika Rastogi from Uttar Pradesh, India, who created an informative video for making an automatic soap/sanitizer dispenser system. In the video, Rastogi talked ...

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NXP launches virus-beating drone competition

NXP has announced HoverGames Challenge 2: Help Drones Help Others. The second installment of NXP’s challenge-based, interactive coding competition encourages developers to create drone and rover solutions for frontline support during pandemics. Participants will leverage NXP’s portfolio of automotive, industrial and IoT technologies for system control, networking, security and motor control to create solutions that ...

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US stymies digital services tax

US treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin (pictured) has written to Rishi Sunak and the finance ministers of France, Italy and Spain telling them that negotiations for a global digital services tax have reached an impasse. “As we have repeatedly said, if countries choose to collect or adopt such taxes, the United States will respond with appropriate ...

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Auto segment to show strongest semi market CAGR

The automotive IC segment is expected to show the biggest CAGR 2019-24 of all the IC segments at 9.7%, says IC Insights. Even so, auto will still represent under 10% of the total chip market in 2024. Over the past 21 years, the communications IC segment almost doubled its share of the total IC market ...

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Robotics enabler from Qualcomm

Qualcomm has launched a module for edge robotics  applications delivering AI acceleration and 5G connectivity aimed at machine learning, heterogeneous computing, and computer vision, It is engaged with various partners on end product development. Called RB5; the module has a Qualcomm QRB5165 processor tailored to robotics applications, with a heterogeneous computing architecture that’s paired with ...

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BlueNRG-2 dev kit

The ST  STEVAL-IDB008V1MBluetooth Low Energy 5.0 (BLE) evaluation platform accelerates application development with modules featuring BlueNRG-2, the Company’s second-generation BLE System-on-Chip (SoC). BlueNRG-2 supports the Bluetooth 5.0 certification, which allows enhanced security with LE Secure Connections, power-efficient privacy with Link Layer Privacy 1.2, and up to 2.6-times higher throughput with LE Data Length Extension. The ...

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SlothBot: Grown up, but still hanging around

Georgia Tech’s SlothBot concept has been turned into a demonstrator, that will hang around in the canopy of Atlanta Botanical Garden monitoring temperature, weather, and carbon dioxide levels. The concept was modelled on real sloths – animals that hang from branches and move slowly to conserve energy. “SlothBot embraces slowness as a design principle,” said GaTech ...

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Rohm’s 4th gen 1.2kV SiC mosfets

Rohm has announced a 4th generation of 1.2kV silicon carbide mosfets, honing them for driving the traction motors of electric vehicles as well as industrial equipment power supplies. “For power semiconductors, there is often a trade-off between lower on-resistance and short-circuit withstand time,” said the company. “Rohm was able to improve this relationship and reduce ...

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Linear position sensor works with rotating tilting target

CambridgeIC has added axial linear position sensing of rotating targets to the list of sensing capabilities available from its products. “The sensors are unique in measuring the continuous position of a freely rotating wireless target, from the side, and with a big gap, and without interference from nearby magnets,” according to the company. “Typically 10 ...

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2kV 20kW tester for electric vehicles

Keysight has added a 2kV ±30A 20kW model to its RP7900 series of instruments for battery and electronics testing in hybrid and electric vehicles. Called RP7973A, it is desigend to run from 400V or 480V three-phase and is capable of two quadrant operation – if can feed power back into the mains. “The regenerative design enables ...

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Picocom chooses UltraSoc analytics for 5G O-RAN baseband SoC

Picocom, the 5G O-RAN baseband semiconductor and software specialist, has selected UltraSoC’s hardware-based analytics and monitoring IP for use in Picocom’s upcoming baseband SoC for 5G small cells. The UltraSoC IP enables Picocom and its customers to monitor, analyse and fine-tune the performance of their systems throughout the whole product lifecycle, starting in the lab ...

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18V 1.2MHz buck converters with 30ns minimum on

Alpha and Omega Semiconductor has released 18V input 1.25MHz fixed-frequency synchronous buck regulators with 30ns minimum on-time. “The low minimum on-time enables low output voltages from a 12V bus, making the device a suitable power converter for next-generation SoCs, FPGAs, and ASICs using deep sub-micron processes,” according to AOS AOZ6762DI and AOZ6763DI are capable of ...

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NI rebrands itself to Engineer Ambitiously

National Instruments is rebranding itself as NI. With the slogan “Let’s Engineer Ambitiously”, the Austin based company has also updated its logo. You can read a letter from Eric Starkloff, president and CEO of the company (right), explaining the changes. He cites “the events of the last several months” as a catalyst for the move. ...

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Webinar: Select a reliable motion sensing technology for your application

Texas Instruments is hosting a webinar today on motion sensing technology – on how to accurately detect objects and how to select the correct motion detector technology. Industry experts will highlight the three most common motion and occupancy detecting systems: PIR, mmWave and Time of Flight. It takes place today, on Wednesday June 17th, 2020 ...

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Infineon adds Semper Secure to NOR flash offering

Infineon’s memory expertise has been boosted by  the Cypress acquisition and it is now sampling Semper Secure as an addition to its Semper NOR Flash family. Based on Semper NOR Flash’s memory architecture, Semper Secure NOR Flash claims to be the first memory solution to combine security and functional safety in a single NOR flash ...

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Sumco near full capacity for Q3

Formosa Sumco Technology (FST), which ships silicon wafers to mainly Taiwan- and China-based logic and memory foundries, is expected to see its production lines run at nearly full capacity utilization in the third quarter of 2020, according to a report by Taiwan’s Central News Agency (CNA). FST has seen its 8- and 12-inch wafer manufacturing ...

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Q1 10% drop for Western Europe smartphone sales

Despite ASP growth, wholesale smartphone revenues in the Western European region fell 10% in  Western Europe – the third largest region by value. Apple and Samsung continue to have a duopoly, as the two together account for more than 80% of the overall revenues in the region. Huawei was ranked third with 7%. In Western ...

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Imec shows excellent performance of finfet devices with integrated tungsten buried power rails

Imec has shown a tungsten (W) buried power rail (BPR) integration scheme in a FinFET CMOS test vehicle, which does not adversely impact the CMOS device characteristics. When interfacing the BPR with Ru M0A lines through a Ru via contact, excellent resistance values and electromigration behavior have been measured. A complementary assessment study shows the ...

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USB 3.0 Type A socket can survive 20,000 mating cycles

GCT has created a USB 3.0 Type A socket rated at 20,000 mating cycles – exceeding the standard value of 1,500 cycles minimum, and the ‘high-durability’ class spec of 5,000 cycles. “When designing equipment with USB Type A connections, engineers often take for granted how many times they are mated and unmated in its lifetime,” ...

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Edge AI for smart city and camera based vision

iWave Systems has launched an artificial intelligence processor that can support convolutional neural networks (CNNs), based around a Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ FPGA. “Edge AI devices are expected to run complex neural networks and deep learning algorithms whilst maintaining latency, power efficiency and accuracy. These devices are finding their way into smart security, autonomous driving, robotics and ...

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To improve self-driving algorithms, add the concept of empty space

Teaching self-driving artificial intelligence about the empty space around it could improve the recognition of surrounding objects, according to researchers at Carnegie Mellon University – combining the merit of classic mapping and deep learning for 3D object detection. According to the university, when tested against a standard benchmark, the new method outperformed the previous top-performing ...

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Xilinx targets live gaming audiences with Alveo appliances

Two real-time video appliances based on Xilinx‘s Alveo data centre accelerator cards target the computationally intense live broadcast applications, such as live gaming and Twitch audiences, as well as data centres. The video transcoding appliances are based on Xilinx’s Real-time Server architecture and reduce the bandwidth and matching costs for bit rates required by users or ...

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Walsin MLCCs and chip resistors available from Anglia

Passive components from distributor, Anglia Components now includes multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) and chip resistors from  Taiwanese manufacturer, Walsin. Capacitors, resistors, inductors, RF components and antennae will be included in the distribution agreement. In addition to expanding the passive components available, the signing also means there will be more choice if demand outstrips supply, for ...

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Aerospace GaN power company re-booted

The space-qualified GaN power transistors, driver ICs and modules of Freebird Semiconductor will now be available from EPC Space, a new company which includes Freebird and its assets, and is a joint-venture between GaN power transistor maker EPC and high-rel power supply company VPT. None of those concerned are revealing the exact nature of the deals ...

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Raytheon selected to develop US Air Force’s vision of JADC2

Raytheon Intelligence & Space (RI&S) has been selected to participate in development of the US Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS). ABMS is a command and control network designed to connect military platforms across the globe and better enable joint service operations. The contract is valued at up to $950 million over the next ...

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Leti demoes GAA nanosheet device

CEA-Leti has demonstrated fabrication of a new gate-all-around (GAA) nanosheet device as an alternative to FinFET technology targeting high-performance (HPC) applications such as smartphones, laptops, and mobile systems with data collection and processing involving low-power and high-speed operation.  Institute researchers fabricated GAA nanosheet transistors with seven levels of stacked silicon channels, more than twice as ...

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CryoCoax signs Delft Circuits

CryoCoax, which manufactures cryogenic cable assemblies, has become the sole UK and US distributor for Delft Circuits’ product family. The Delft Circuits product combines flexible cryogenic cabling with standard RF connector interfaces in order to produce an interconnect solution which offers both single and multi-channel cables combining microwave performance with compactness, durability and a low ...

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Moscow researchers observe plasmon nanojet

Russian and Danish researchers claim to have made a first-ever experimental observation of a plasmon nanojet. This physical phenomenon enables nanoscale focusing of light and, theoretically, allows engineers to bypass one of the fundamental limitations of the ordinary converging lens. Tight compression of light waves is necessary to use them as signal carriers in compact ...

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Brainchip announces early access programme

BrainChip has announced an Early Access Program (EAP) for the Akida neural processor SoC. Since announcing the start of wafer fabrication in April 2020, there has been demand for evaluation systems, including engineering prototypes. In response, BrainChip has established an EAP for select partners to ensure availability of initial devices and evaluation systems for key ...

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Synopsys, TSMC and MIcrosoft deliver timing signoff in the cloud

Synopsys, TSMC and Microsoft have delivered a timing signoff flow for use in the cloud. This extensive, multi-month collaboration among the three industry partners speeds up the path to signoff  SoCs. The flow improves throughput using Synopsys PrimeTime  static timing analysis and StarRC parasitic extraction on the Microsoft Azure platform. “With increasing design complexity due to advanced ...

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3.3THz laser emits 2W in single narrow beam

Phase-locking has improved the beam purity of a 3.3THz (88−94µm) quantum cascade laser (QCL) to create a single-mode 2W output with 2.3% wall-plug efficiency. “To the best of our knowledge, the radiative efficiency of our terahertz lasers is the highest demonstrated for any single-wavelength QCL to-date and is the first report of a radiative efficiency ...

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Nokia and Broadcom to collaborate on 5G SoCs

Nokia and Broadcom today announced that they are collaborating on the development of SoC processors which will be integrated into Nokia’s “5G Powered by ReefShark” portfolio. The collaboration will expand the range of Nokia ReefShark chipsets available for 5G applications and will improve both the system performance and energy footprint of 5G networks.     The two ...

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Lynx hones secure firmware for industrial, drone and avionics markets

Lynx Software Technologies is aiming at high-reliability multi-core edge computing with three custom software bundles for industrial, avionic and UAV/satellite applications. Each includes its Mosa.ic framework for integrating multiple operating systems in safety-related or secure systems, and each is built around the LynxSecure separation kernel hypervisor. They “leverage the safety and reliability of Mosa.ic to enable mission critical ...

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NASA chooses Griffin to deliver Viper lunar rover

Astrobotic, a lunar logistics specialist, has been selected by NASA to deliver the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (Viper) to the south pole of the Moon in 2023. Under the terms of the $199.5 million contract – part of Nasa’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) programme – Astrobotic will provide an end-to-end delivery for VIPER ...

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NXP chooses TSMC for 5nm auto ICs

NXP is to use TSMC’s 5nm technology for its automotive chips. The 5nm SoC portfolio will address connected cockpits, high-performance domain controllers, autonomous driving, advanced networking, hybrid propulsion control and integrated chassis management. NXP will adopt N5P, an enhanced version of TSMC’s 5nm technology, which provides about 20% faster speed or about 40% power reduction ...

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Demand for thinned wafers growing at 5% CAGR

Demand for thinned wafers will grow at a 5% CAGR from 2019-2025,  says Yole Développement, to reach more than 135 million thinned wafers at the end of the period. The market is mainly pushed by memory, CIS and power SiC components as well as LED and laser diodes. The thinning equipment market is dominated by the ...

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Q2: Good for Qualcomm; less so for Broadcom

After  six successive y-o-y quarterly revenue declines Qualcomm grew revenues 10,2% in Q2, says TrendForce, while Broadcom’s 2,4% Q2 revenue decline marked five successive down quarters. Qualcomm became part of the supply chain for Chinese brands’ flagship and high-end smartphones in Q1 and its 5G RF front-end products enjoyed increased market adoption. These factors, combined ...

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Fab equipment spend to hit record $67.7bn next year

Fab equipment spending is expected to grow 24% y-o-y in 2021 to reach a record $67.7 billion according to  SEMI’s World Fab Forecast. Memory fabs will lead worldwide semiconductor segments with $30 billion in equipment spending, while leading-edge logic and foundry is expected to rank second with $29 billion in investments. The 3D NAND memory subsegment ...

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