It took 50 years for Intel to be run by an accountant and those 50 years have seen its fortunes rise and fall like a yo-yo. Now, despite it being the No.1 chip company with annual revenues topping $75 billion at a gross margin of 50%+, it is seen as falling. It is seen that ...
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Rapidly growing demand for EV quick charging poles, and recovering markets for consumer electronics and industrial controls will drive rising prices for photocouplers in 2021, says TrendForce. Major photocoupler suppliers, such as Taiwanese LED companies as well as Japanese, European, and U.S. companies, are planning to increase their quotes for photocouplers in response to the ...
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New Yorker Electronics has released the new advanced interface options of the UMR-AA and UMR-A Series of High Voltage Power Supplies from Dean Technology (HVPSI). Using additional pins, the advanced interface options provide for enhanced adjustment and monitoring features consistent with industry standards and known customer needs. The V05 and V10 options are available with ...
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China is to instal over 600,000 5G base-sations in 2021, almost doubling its 5G capacity reports the Xinhua news agency. Xiao Yaqing, China’s Minister of Industry and Information Technology, announced the plan saying it comes on top of at least 718,000 base stations nationwide. While shares of domestic switchgear providers Like Huawei, ZTE, Datang Telecom, Peers ...
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LG is to show a number of 4k and 8k TVs based on mini-LED I technology at virtual CES 2021. Mini-LEDS increase the number of light sources on the panel which improves brightness and contrast accentuating the difference between light and dark areas of the screen and making the difference more controllable. LG will designate ...
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Alpine Optoelectronics has begun production of its 400G PAM4 nCP4 optical engine on Tower Semiconductor’s PH18 Silicon Photonics technology platform. Alpine’s nCP4 chip converts 4 lanes of 56Gbaud electrical input into 4 lanes of optical output for use in 400Gbps DR4 transceivers to support high-speed connectivity in data center applications. “We were able to develop a ...
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2020 foundry revenue is forecast at $84.6 billion, says TrendForce, with the 23.7% increase over 2019 being the highest y-o-y growth in nearly 10 years. TrendForce has made the following three assumptions regarding foundry demand in 2021: First, pandemic-induced demand for networking products and from the stay-at-home economy will persist somewhat due to uncertainties in ...
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Graphcore of Bristol, the AI chipmaker, has raised $222 million in a Series E funding round led by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board. The round values Graphcore at $2.77 billion post-money and will be used to support the company’s global expansion and to accelerate product development. Graphcore has now raised more than $710 million ...
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The revenue share which fabless companies take of total semiconductor industry revenues will set a new record at 32.9% this year, says IC Insights, with fabless sales expected to grow 22% and IDM sales expected to grow 6%. There is a relatively close relationship between the annual market growth of the fabless IC suppliers and foundries. ...
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Airbus has shown designs for self-contained hydrogen fuel cell pods that attach to the underside of aeroplane wings. Each detachable pod contains a propeller and all the fuel, motors, cooling and engineering needed to power the plane. The current powers the electric motor, causing the motor shaft to rotate and turning the eight-bladed propeller. The ...
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New Yorker Electronics is shipping Innodisk’s 96-layer 3D NAND flash product lineup which has two models: 3TE7 and 3TG6-P, with the former being DRAM-less and the latter using an external DRAM chip and a Marvell controller. Both devices use pure industrial-grade 3D TLC NAND from Toshiba with a rated P/E cycle number of 3000, ensuring ...
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NevadaNano the gas detection sensor specialist, has had its Molecular Property Spectrometer (MPS) sensor adopted for Crowcon Detection Instruments’ Xgard Bright fixed gas detector. “The MPS sensor has features such as long life, no calibration, no poisoning and gas classification that deliver improved detection capabilities and performance as well as reducing the burden of calibration ...
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Facebook is closing down various Irish companies used to avoid tax, reports the Times. International subsidiaries of Facebook would pay the Irish companies for use of IP. The Irish government would tax these payments lightly. The stratagem allowed Facebook to pay $101 million in tax on worldwide profits of $15 billion in 2018. The move ...
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November billings by North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor manufacturing equipment were 23% up y-o-y at at $2.61 billion, reports SEMI, which is 1,4% down on October’s billings of $2.65 billion. “Billings of North America-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers remain robust, though November shows some expected tapering after billings registered record highs early this fall,” says Ajit ...
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SiPearl, which is designing the microprocessor for the European exascale supercomputer, is joining ETP4HPC, an association that groups together the leading European players for high performance computing technologies. From technology suppliers to research centres, software companies, service providers or end users, the members of this major think-tank, created in 2012, are driven by a shared ...
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Seeed Studio has brought out the GPIO Screw Terminal Hat which is expands the pins of the Raspberry Pi. The pin out information of the GPIO pin is on the top of the terminal and on the side. The status information of the pin is displayed. When the GPIO pin is operated and effective in ...
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Seeed Studio has brought out the GPIO Screw Terminal Hat which is expands the pins of the Raspberry Pi. The pin out information of the GPIO pin is on the top of the terminal and on the side. The status information of the pin is displayed. When the GPIO pin is operated and effective in ...
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With less that a week to go, there is some real information on how companies should deal with the consequences of Brexit. Sadly, it is only a summary of the main 1,200 page document, which remains unpublished at the time of writing. The UK government ‘UK-EU trade and cooperation agreement summary’ is here. Less than ...
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Today, SK Telecom and AWS announced the launch of ‘SKT 5GX Edge,’ the first 5G edge cloud service in Korea. Using AWS Wavelength at the edge of the 5G multi-access edge computing (MEC) networks, SKT 5GX Edge enables customers to build mobile applications that require ultra-low latency. With SKT 5GX Edge, applications are connected to ...
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TSMC is recruiting for its Arizona fab, reports the Nikkei. It is looking for 600 R&D engineers, process engineers, equipment engineers, IT software engineers among other positions needed to operate a fab. A team of 300 current employees will initially staff the fab. In addition to them, TSMC is recruiting 300 new graduates, and engineers ...
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IBM has been awarded a contract from the US DoD under its Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes (RAMP) project to develop three microelectronics assets for the US military: 1. A verifiable end-to end quantifiable assurance approach, for implementing a microelectronics supply chain and operational security standards based on commercial best practices and tools; 2. A multi-foundry SOTA product pipeline, to provide the ...
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Vishay BC Components 190 RTL automotive grade aluminium capacitors offer high ripple currents up to 3.36A, operating temperatures to +125°C and up to 6,000 hours of usable life. Compared to previous-generation solutions, the new devices capacitor series offer lower impedance and 10 to 15% higher ripple current. In addition, the AEC-Q200 qualified devices are available ...
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Designing electronic boards for use in space can be hindered by radiation, a vacuum environment and cost, write Thibault Brunet, Salvo Pappalardo and Ferdinando Tonicello. The design of electronics boards for space applications, whether for satellites or for manned missions, faces several challenges simultaneously. The presence of radiation can modify or destroy components, the vacuum ...
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In association with Analog Devices Two women had different expectations growing up, but both acknowledge the role of mentors in their careers, writes Caroline Hayes. Intrigued by the physics, mathematics, biology and chemistry, Aphrodite Tomou identified a Materials Science and Engineering degree as one that combined subjects she enjoyed and which could be applied in ...
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Researchers in Saudi Arabia have demonstrated white light emission from a phosphor-less LED. Generally, ‘white’ LEDs have a blue-emitting die topped with phosphors that convert some of that blue to broad-spectrum amber – which combined with the residual blue is seen by humans as cool white. Adding a red-emitting phosphor in the mix produces warm white ...
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Vehicle to everything (V2X) communication is a major automotive trend which can provide better and safer travel, but to implement it needs commitment, says Holger Rosier. The first key aspect V2X will need to encompass is continuous connection to cloud services. Many new models include support for the vehicle, including condition monitoring and maintenance alerts, ...
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Fully loaded foundries have stopped quoting for NAND controller ICs reports TrendForce, while they consider rasing prices. The potential increases in prices of controller ICs from outsourced suppliers (IC design houses) are currently estimated to be in the range of 15-20%. Demand from Chromebook and TV OEMs for medium density (64Gb and lower) eMMC chips ...
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Group14 Technologies, which provides silicon-carbon composite materials for lithium-ion markets, has secured $17 million in Series B funding led by SK Materials, the specialist gas supplier, and from previous investor OVP Venture Partners. Earlier financing came from Amperex, Showa Denko, Cabot Corp and BASF. Group14 will use the money to increase production of its flagship ...
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Imec has presented the smallest silicon finFET that functions as a biosensor. Achieving ultrasmall dimensions (13nm fin width and 50nm gate length), and fabricated with a CMOS-compatible process flow in imec’s 300mm cleanroom, imec envisions volume manufacturing and integration into high-throughput, cost-effective detection tools, with 10,000s of these ‘BioFETs’ working in parallel. With a demonstrated ...
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Qualcomm regained the fabless title from Broadcom is Q3, reports TrendForce. With $4.967 billion in Q3 quarterly revenue – a 37.6% YoY increase – Qualcomm retook the first spot on the top 10 list. Second-ranked Broadcom recovered from six consecutive quarters of YoY revenue declines to register $4.626 billion in quarterly revenue in 3Q20, a ...
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The Retune VoiceSpot Wake Word Engine is now optimized and available for CEVA’s audio/voice DSPs, including the CEVA-BX, CEVA-X, and CEVA-TeakLite families. CEVA and Retune DSP say they are already engaged with a lead customer, deploying this collaborative solution in an upcoming smart home device. VoiceSpot is a high-performance embedded wake word and small vocabulary ...
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Panasonic has come up with a material called Graphite TIM (Terminal Interface Material) for dissipating heat from power modules operating in harsh industrial and automotive applications. Mounted on dedicated heat sinks, heat dissipation is traditionally achieved with a particular layer of grease – that, of course, has to be replaced from time to time which ...
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Innodisk’s InnoAGE flash storage devices developed with Microsoft have added InnoOSR (On-Site Recovery) and a 24/7 no-man monitoring feature. InnoOSR 3TO7, available in 2.5”, M.2 2242 and 2280, as well as mSATA form factors in capacities from 32 GB up to 1 TB. The brand new InnoOSR lineup brings superior recovery that can be triggered ...
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Efficient Power Conversion (EPC) is aiming at USB chargers and thin point-of-load converters with a 40V 3mΩ enhancement-mode GaN power transistor. Called EPC2055 it is a “good example of the rapid evolution of GaN FET technology”, according to company founder and CEO According to Alex Lidow. This 40 volt device offers both smaller size and reduced ...
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The Westcott Space Cluster in Aylesbury is to get a satellite propulsion test facility, the Science Minister Amanda Solloway has announced. The new centre is intended to enable companies and academics to test space propulsion engines at up to 1.5kN in high-altitude vacuum, an equivalent test altitude of 140,000ft, said the government. It will allow ...
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To complement its 1mm diameter terminal pins, Harwin now offers a range of 1.75mm diameter options. These pins will be suitable for use with larger sized sockets where a single connection is required. The new terminal pins have a current rating of over 9A, making them suitable for power applications. Thanks to their compatibility with Harwin’s existing portfolio of single contact sockets, ...
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MagnaChip has announced a new line of PMICs by introducing its first UHD display panel PMIC for laptops. The new PMIC is a monolithic IC which includes one boost regulator for the power supply to source and gate drivers, three high-current buck regulators for power supply to a timing controller, two Op-Amp for gamma buffer ...
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Rohm has a 2 channel high-speed ground sense CMOS op amp in mass production. Designated BD77502FVM, it is optimised for consumer and industrial equipment requiring high-speed sensing – such as industrial measurement and control systems. To mitigate noise issues common with conventional op amps, ROHM has developed the EMARMOUR series featuring superior noise tolerant op ...
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We are used to being told by the industry’s analysts that the IC industry tracks GDP. As with all rules, it’s the exception that proves it, and 2020 certainly put this rule to the test with the world heading South while the industry went North. “The year 2020 was a most unusual and challenging year ...
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Researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim have discovered a new method for controlling spin carried by quantized spin wave excitations in antiferromagnetic insulators. Elementary particles carry an intrinsic angular momentum known as their spin. For an ...
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Eight year-old Leti micro-LED spin-off Aledia has manufactured microLED ICs on 300mm (12”) silicon wafers. The company, which developed its technology on 200mm (8”) silicon wafers over the past eight years. “The larger size allows 60-100 smartphone displays to be made on a single 300mm wafer, versus approximately four-to-six using the present LED industry-standard, 4” ...
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Today, Renesas announced an ASIL D SoC for ADAS and automated driving (AD) systems. Delivering 60 TOPS with low power consumption for deep learning processing and up to 96,000 DMIPS, the R-Car V3U is built for the performance, safety, and scalability (up and down) demands of ADAS and AD architectures driving next-generation autonomous vehicles. The new ...
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Lunar samples successfully collected by China’s Chang’e 5 robotic probe have completed their journey to Earth, according to Chinese media. The rocks and dust from the moon had been previously been delivered from Chang’e 5’s ascender to its reentry capsule. It represents the first mission since 1976 – the Soviet Union’s Luna 24 mission – ...
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Cosemi, the optical cable specialist, has closed an $8 million strategic funding round, led by Nitto Denko Corporation of Osaka. The investment will be used to address the broad, growing market opportunity for its high-speed, hybrid active optical interconnect solutions. Cosemi designs and develops high-volume, high-performance, plug-and-play HDMI, DisplayPort and USB active optical cables (AOCs) that ...
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Infineon has added the X3 Compact version to its EiceDRIVER 1ED isolated gate driver family. This gate driver provides separate output options together with active shutdown and short circuit clamping in DSO-8 300 mil package. The active Miller clamp option is best suited for silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET 0 V turn off. The X3 Compact ...
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While graphene has some amazing physical, optical and mechanical properties, its lack of a natural bandgap limits its use in electronics. Methods of varying complexity have been found to add bandgaps, and now there is another tool in the box – a chemical whose molecules self-assemble into an evenly-spaced flat lattice as they bond down ...
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Semtech has teamed up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to integrate the LoRaWAN protocol on the Network Server with AWS IoT Core, AWS’s managed Cloud service that lets connected devices interact with Cloud applications and other devices. AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN is a fully managed service that enables enterprise IoT developers to easily connect low ...
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SMIC says it is ‘verifying’ media reports that its co-CEO, Liang Mong-song, has resigned. “The company understands that Dr Liang wishes to resign under certain conditions and is actively verifying Dr Liang’s true intentions,” SMIC said in a filing to the Shanghai stock exchange. Recently a TSMC exec, Chiang Shang-yi, was appointed SMIC vice chairman. ““I ...
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Nokia will sacrifice margin for 5G market share, says CEO Pekka Lundmark (pictured). “Customers are using a best-of-breed approach to build these networks, selecting network elements from multiple individual vendors who are able to offer the best performance per total cost of ownership,” says Lundmark, “Nokia is aiming to be the technology leader in the ...
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AIStorm, the Houston specialist in AI-in-Sensor processors, has closed $16 million in an oversubscribed Series B financing round. Investors include AsusTek, Egis Technology, Knowles, Meyer and Senvest Management. AIStorm is targeting a range of applications for AI-at-the-Edge in imaging and audio, facial recognition, access control, behavioural tracking, people counting, face detection, object tracking, and segmentation. ...
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Imec has come up with a novel DRAM cell architecture that implements two indium-gallium-zinc-oxide thin-film transistors (IGZO-TFTs) and no storage capacitor. DRAM cells in this 2T0C (2 transistor 0 capacitor) configuration show a retention time longer than 400s for different cell dimensions – significantly reducing the memory’s refresh rate and power consumption. The ability to ...
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NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) has awarded three contracts to launch small satellites (SmallSats) to space, including CubeSats, microsats or nanosatellites. The three US companies selected to provide the commercial launches are Astra Space, Relativity Space and Firefly Black LLC. And the value of their fixed-price contracts, $3.9m, $3.0m and $9.8m, respectively Miniature satellites help ...
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Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 678 Mobile Platform – an upgrade to the 675. 678 offers the following performance enhancements over Snapdragon 675: · Qualcom Kryo 460 CPU core clock speed up to 2.2GHz · Qualcomm Adreno 612 GPU performance increase Qualcomm Spectra 250L ISP powers the camera features on the Snapdragon 678. Users can ...
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After a year of massive disruption across the world, the Elektra Awards 2020 are going ahead as a free virtual event on March 25th 2021. And this Thursday, 17 December, is the last chance to enter the industry’s most prestigious awards. Despite the challenges of the global pandemic, electronics companies worldwide have been busy creating ...
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NEC has been selected by Telefonica Germany as system integrator for the first Open RAN pilot in Germany. The system has already completed a first call via Open RAN on a live O2 mobile network in the Bavarian city of Landsberg am Lech. During the pilot, NEC will help to define a customized Open RAN ...
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Manhattan Skyline has announced that Emerging Display Technologies (EDT) will release TFT LCDs to replace those discontinued by Mitsubishi Electric. The Japanese company announced in June 2020 that it will no longer produce small and medium sized TFT LCD modules, used for industrial and automotive applications. Taiwanese manufacturer, EDT, has grown from a monochrome ...
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The government intends to pass an Online Safety Bill next year to protect people in the UK from harmful content posted on sites accessible in the UK from whatever countries they are hosted. Firms failing to protect people face fines of up to ten per cent of turnover or the blocking of their sites and ...
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Eta Compute, the intelligent sensing specialist, has closed its Series C funding of $12.5 million, bringing the company’s total funds raised to $31.5 million. The round was led by Synaptics with participation from other existing investors. “We look forward to collaborating with Synaptics to address the massive multi-billion dollar opportunity in Edge AI,” said Ted Tewksbury, ...
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NAND ASP will fall throughout 2021, says TrendForce, as supply stays high. Q1 Will see a 6% q-oq decline it bit output and a 10-15% decline in ASP. Applications for NAND split: client SSD 31%, enterprise SSD 20%, eMMC/UFS 41%, NAND wafer 8%. Client SSD prices are expected to decline by 10-15% QoQ as inventory ...
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Thales Alenia Space have won the contract to design the mother ship for the Comet Interceptor mission, which will see one main spacecraft and two smaller robotic probes travel to an as-yet unidentified comet, and map it in three dimensions. The smaller probes (30cm in length) will be built by the Japanese Space Agency. For ...
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Advanced Energy Industries of Denver, Colorado, has introduced its new Excelsys CoolX3000 modular, configurable power platform designed medical and industrial applications. Optimised for use in medical diagnostics, imaging and treatment equipment, life science systems, clinical chemistry as well as specialized industrial equipment, the CoolX3000 rounds out AE’s CoolX family of configurable power supplies, which includes the CX600, ...
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Lithium sulphur cells can retain >95% Coulomb efficiency for 80 charge cycles at >300Wh/kg, according to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, which is working on a novel cathode design. The electrochemistry of lithium paired with sulphur (a low-cost material) make the combination desirable for lightweight high capacity batteries, but the elements, so far, ...
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Since its acquisition in 2017, EDA software company, Mentor, has styled itself ‘Mentor, a Siemens company’. From January, 2021, it will change its name to Siemens EDA. Announcing the name change, Joe Sawicki, executive vice president of IC-EDA, Siemens EDA (pictured), said that the name brings EDA software, simulation, mechanical design, manufacturing, cloud, IoT and ...
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Asic and foundry service specialist, Redtree Solutions has signed an agreement with Agile Analog, making the latter’s configure IP available as part of the RedASIC custom chip design service. Redtree offers turnkey asic services, including offshore and local design, analogue, RF, mixed and digital design, foundry prototyping to production services, packaging and testing for both ...
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CML Microsystems of Maldon has sold Hyperstone to Swissbit. Hyperstone-Swissbit joint development projects will focus on products for security and embedded IoT. Hyperstone expects to benefit from Swissbit’s system and market experience in these attractive future markets for the development of its controllers. At the same time both companies will continue to support and expand ...
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Automotive IC revenue is expected to grow from $18.67 billion in 2020 to $21 billion in 2021 – a 12.5% increase YoY, reports TrendForce. This is on the back of auto shipments of 83.5 million units in 2021. Examples of semi-auto partnerships pushing the tech are: NXP and TSMC developing 5nm automotive processors; the automotive ...
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Arduino and Seeed have collaborated to produce the Arduino Sensor Kit. Based on the Arduino UNO, the STEM kit is aimed at those getting started with electronics and sensors easier. It contains a Base Shield and ten Grove modules that can be connected either through the digital, analog or I2C connectors on the shield (there ...
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Marvell and ADI have announced a 4G/5G radio unit (RU) design that supports high antenna counts and multi–gigabit per second throughput for both integrated RAN and Open RAN deployments. Leveraging the companies’ complementary radio silicon and RU software suite, the next–generation massive MIMO RU design that results from this collaboration will deliver power, weight and performance improvements ...
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Following Infineon Technologies’ acquisition of Cypress Semiconductor, distributor Rutronik will now offer the memories, microcontrollers and other products in the Cypress portfolio. Infineon Technologies acquired Cypress in June 2019 and has added its memory, microcontrollers, sensor, Bluetooth and WiFi technologies to its own offerings. Rutronik was already a fanchised distributor for Infineon and the franchise has ...
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As we always say, this is your chance to shape the destination of another Elektra 2020 Award. We are looking for readers’ votes in the University Research category. In this category, visitors to the Electronics Weekly website are invited to select the University research project which they feel will make the largest impact on the ...
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Diodes is aiming at automotive USB Type-C ports with a four channel protection chip. “There has been increasing adoption of the USB Type-C interface, particularly by automotive manufacturers keen to provide future-proof ports for smart devices and other peripherals,” said Diodes. Called DPO2039DABQ, is is intended to be used in line with the CC1, CC2, and D+ ...
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TSMC had November revenues of NT$124.87 billion ($4.43bn), an increase of 4.7% from October 2020 and an increase of 15.7% from November 2019. Revenues for January through November 2020 totaled NT$1,221.89 billion ($43.2 billion) an increase of 26.4% compared to the same period in 2019. TSMC November Revenue Report NT$
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Imec’s Yao-Hong Liu has been awarded a €2 million European Research Council (ERC) grant for his project Intranet of Neurons (IoN). IoN aims to revolutionize the way neuroscientists collect and process neural data by enabling the efficient transfer at high data rate from high-density sub-dural implanted recording probes while maintaining a small footprint required for ...
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Keysight Technologies has announced 800G test solutions for validating electrical and optical interfaces, supporting development of next generation data centre technologies. In the context of data-hungry applications – such as video conferencing, streaming and digital entertainment, delivered via wireless comms such as 4G, 5G and Wi-Fi – 800G technology is seeking to meet a growing ...
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Schurter is expanding its portfolio of fuse holders with the CFO fuse clip series, which is designed for fuses with 10.3 mm diameter and is available as M3 version for screw and rivet mounting or alternatively for THT. They are suitable for use with voltages up to 1000 VDC / 600 VAC and currents up ...
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Murata has introduced an ultra-thin LW reversed, low equivalent series inductor (ESL) multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) with a capacitance value of 1.0 µF ±20% for 4 Vdc-rated automotive applications. With a 0204 inch size (0.5 x 1.0 mm) footprint and maximum thickness of just 0.22 mm, the LLC152D70G105ME01 decoupling capacitor can be implemented on the ...
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Researchers from the University of Bristol and quantum start-up, Phasecraft, have discovered algorithms and analysis which significantly lessen the quantum hardware capability needed to solve problems which go beyond the realm of supercomputers. The research demonstrates how optimised quantum algorithms can solve the Fermi-Hubbard model on near-term hardware. The Fermi-Hubbard model is of fundamental importance ...
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Tsinghua Unigroup, which was planning to build a DRAM fab, is to default again on a second debt obligation, reports the Nikkei. Last month Unigroup defaulted on a $199 million onshore bond. Now it has defaulted again on on $2.5 billion of offshore bonds after failing to repay a $450 million Eurobond, Yesterday, Tsinghua said “payments ...
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TI opens its inventory of thousands of space-grade and military-grade products to help aerospace and defense electronics companies meet growing demand. Texas Instruments is making most of its high-reliability (HiRel) semiconductor products immediately available for online purchase on TI.com, helping aerospace and defense companies quickly get the authentic TI products they need for their next-generation ...
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Farnell has signed a global franchise with XinaBox to broaden its market leading range of educational devices and kits. The XinaBox range provides a low-cost entry into the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and automation and helps educators combine Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) learning with the experience of ...
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Socionext, the automotive SoC specialist, is sampling its new display controller SC1702 to meet the growing needs for high-resolution widescreen automotive displays. The company has also developed a new addition to the existing SC1701 series, providing low-cost, optimal safety functions for meter clusters. This lineup of “smart” display controllers delivers scalable in-vehicle remote display systems that achieve ...
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Foundry capex will account for 34% of all semi capex in 2020, says IC Insights, with 7/5nm processes driving foundry spending and total semi industry capex expected to rise 6%. Following spending of $106.1 billion in 2018 and $102.5 billion in 2019, worldwide semiconductor capital spending is expected to grow 6% to $108.1 billion in 2020. ...
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Imec has prototyped a high-resolution short-wave-infrared (SWIR) image sensor with record small pixel pitch of 1.82 µm. It is based on a thin-film photodetector that is monolithically integrated on a custom Si-CMOS readout circuit. A fab-compatible process flow paves the way to high-throughput, wafer-level manufacturing. The presented technology largely exceeds the capabilities of today’s InGaAs-based ...
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The European Investment Bank (EIB) has awarded up to €20 million of funding to Spire Global, the US company with the world’s largest multi-purpose constellation of satellites. The financing will back capital expenditure and research and development (R&D) activities, says the EIB. Specifically, to help develop Spire’s constellation of small satellites and high-quality maritime, aviation ...
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The UK government is investing £7 million, via the National Space Innovation Programme, in 21 UK organisations working on innovative space technologies. The idea is that it represents cash injections for “high-risk, high-reward” projects of both companies and universities. Areas addressed include monitoring climate change through Earth Observation and satellite communications to provide greater connectivity to ...
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Flex Power Modules has added to in its BMR491 series of high-density DC/DC converters with built-in digital interfaces. The BMR491 converter can deliver 2450 W peak power for periods of up to one second, with a continuous output power rating of up to 1540 W, thus making it the highest power density digital DC/DC isolated ...
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Digi-Key Electronics has announced a global distribution partnership with GLF Integrated Power, the maker of ultra-efficient, ultra-small, silicon power control and protection ICs. The products target the IoT, smart wearable, TWS earbuds, smart medical device, automotive, smartwatch optical modules, asset tracking, and home security markets. The agreement means GLF Integrated Power silicon power control and ...
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Renesas has expanded its RA4 Series MCUs with RA4M3 devices operating at up to 100 MHz using the Arm Cortex-M33 core based on Armv8-M architecture. The M3 MCUs have Arm TrustZone technology, Renesas’ Secure Crypto Engine, and a suite of new memory enhancements. They arevdesigned for low-power IoT applications that require a balance of high ...
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Graphcore has released the first set of performance benchmarks for its latest AI compute systems – the IPU-M2000 and scale-up IPU-POD64. Across a range of popular models, Graphcore technologies significantly outperformed nVidia’s A100 (DGX-based), both at training and inference. Highlights include: Training EfficientNet-B4: 18x higher throughput ResNeXt 101: 3.7x ...
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Electronics Weekly are very pleased to highlight that Swindon Silicon is again backing the industry’s prestigious Elektra Awards. The company is once again sponsoring the Design Tools and Development Software category in the virtual event taking place on 25 March 2021. “Swindon Silicon Systems are delighted once again to sponsor the Elektra Awards 2020,” said ...
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STMicroelectronics has introduced a dual 5V op amp with 50MHz gain-bandwidth product with low input offset voltage and 6.5nV/√Hz input voltage noise. Called TSV792, the op amp is unity-gain stable and has rail-to-rail inputs and outputs. “The typical 50MHz gain-bandwidth product enables accurate amplification of high-frequency signals,” according to the company. “Adding a slew rate of ...
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Marvell has introduced its 5G O-RAN portfolio with a virtualized radio access network (vRAN) platform. With Open Ran Alliance compliance, Marvell’s O-RAN platform solution brings established, leading-edge DPU and connectivity technology to the emerging open RAN and vRAN markets. Marvell’s OCTEON Fusion baseband processors, OCTEON multi-core DPUs and Prestera switches have enabled telcos to deploy ...
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BrainChip, the Australian spiking neural network specialist, started shipping evaluation boards last month. The board complements the Company’s Akida Development Environment (ADE) for Early Access Partners (EAP) that have developed Akida compatible networks. The ADE is a development environment that allows potential customers to design a neural network as a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and ...
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The second generation of Mach FPGAs from Lattice Semiconductor have heightened security features and the processing capability to implement a real time hardware root of trust (HRoT) operation for servers, computing, comms, industrial and automotive systems. Mach-NX FPGAs are based on the company’s Nexus FPGA platform. To thwart bad actors attempting to exploit firmware vulnerabilities, ...
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Excel Cell Electronics (ECE) ESR5 series of solid-state relays are available with or without LED Indicators, with ac or dc control inputs, and, separately, with ac or dc-type outputs. “Characteristics include its zero voltage turn-on, zero voltage turn-off to minimise EMI and RFI, and output snubber circuit protection. It also has a high surge rating ...
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C&K’s ILT series is the first illuminated toggle switch range in the company’s portfolio. The switches have metal bushing to toughen them up for environments such as control panels, heavy equipment, industrial instruments, LED lights, lifts, escalators, medical equipment and security system. They are intended for 12V operation and ratings are: up to 10,000 cycles, 20A and -25°C to ...
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The LoRa Alliance has introduced its LoRaWAN Device Identification QR Codes for Automated Onboarding that simplify and accelerate LoRaWAN network management. These new QR codes carry all the required identification information to add devices to a network. The new QR codes enable zero-touch onboarding by facilitating network acceptance of LoRaWAN devices via automated information exchange. Now, ...
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European VC tech investment is likely to hit $41 billion this year, says Atomico, which is sbout $500 million more than last year. The increase was due to more big funding rounds in the $100-$250 million bracket. September saw the highest-ever month of investment into European tech with more than $5 billion invested, Atomico said. ...
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The UK component industry association ecsn is forecasting a minus 0.2% decline to 4% growth for the market in H1 2021 and a flat market to 6.5% growth for H2. Brexit concerns are leading to buyers to bring forward orders originally for delivery in January and February next year into December this year. This demand ...
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Uber is divesting its driverless car unit – the Advanced Technologies Group -to startup company Aurora which is backed by Amazon and Sequoia. There is no price being paid for the deal. Instead Uber is to invest $400 million in Aurora and transfer its driverless technology to Aurora in return for a 26% stake in ...
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Q4 has seen an 18% y-o-y hike in top ten foundry revenues to $21.7 billion driven by fully loaded fabs, a hike in prices and tight supplies of raw wafers, reports TrendForce, Thanks to high demand for 5G smartphone processors and HPC chips, TSMC has been seeing continued revenue growth from the 7nm process technology. ...
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Thales Alenia Space and ESA have signed a €482 million contract, confirming the development of the ROSE-L (Radar Observation System for Europe in L-band) environmental monitoring system. The contract was signed in the presence of Riccardo Fraccaro, Undersecretary of the Italian Prime Minister’s Office, and ESA’s Director General, Jan Wörner. Thales Alenia Space is a Joint ...
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ST has created an integrated three-phase half-bridge driver IC with performance optimized for low-voltage industrial applications up to 75V, delivering a space-efficient and power-saving solution to control three-phase brushless motors in e-bikes, power tools, pumps, fans, light machinery, gaming consoles, and other equipment. The STDRIVE101 embeds three half-bridge drivers for external N-Channel MOSFETs, each able ...
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Melexis, the Belgian auto IC specialist, is sampling its second-generation of isolated integrated current sensors MLX91220 (5 V) and MLX91221 (3.3 V). The Hall-effect based current sensors are qualified for use in a range of automotive and industrial applications, such as on-board chargers (OBC), DC/DC converters, power supplies, and small electric drives. With 300 kHz bandwidth, ...
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Multiple transmit coils can ease positional constraints in wireless charging systems, but it is not easy to optimise power transfer. Now Korean engineers have found an elegant way to do it, only measuring the reflected receiver impedance from each transmit coil and processing that to decide how much current each transmitter should deliver. “Our strategy breaks ...
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NXP has announced a suite of 77GHz tranceivers and radar processors “that address NCAP requirements for corner and front radar applications while offering ‘4D’ imaging radar’s first commercially viable path to volume production, according to the company. ‘4D imaging’ radar adds direction, angle of arrival and elevation measurement to simply measuring range and speed. The parts are ...
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A group of companies and universities called Hexa-X is being funded by the EU to pursue 6G telephony. Hexa-X includes Ericsson, Orange, Telefonica, Intel, Siemens and the universities of Oulu and Pisa. “The main goal will be to develop the vision, the road map and the timeline,” says Nokia’s Devaki Chandramoulishe who is leading the ...
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WSTS expects the semiconductor market to be up 5.1% to $433 billion in 2020 and up 8.4% next year to reach $469 billion. The only sectors WSTS does not expect to grow in 2020 are optoelectronics and discretes. In geographic terms the Americas will do better than previously expected – with annual growth of 18.7% ...
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Later this week, Imec is showing how photolithography can be used to pattern organic semiconductors and the cathode in an OLED-display stack which has the potential to eliminate the use of fine metal masks (FMM). The demonstration is important for display manufacturers as photolithography enables higher resolutions, or an increased transparency of the cathode, to ...
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Ricoh has launched the R1526 – a voltage regulator featuring 300 mA output current and 42 V maximum input voltage. Since this device has excellent noise immunity to external electromagnetic interference, it is suitable for use in environments where electromagnetic waves may cause malfunctions. This regulator can be used under high temperature environment. It offers ...
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GeneSiC Semiconductor of Dulles Virginia has immediate availability of 3300V and 1700V 1000mΩ SiC MOSFETs – G2R1000MT17J, G2R1000MT17D, and G2R1000MT33J. These SiC MOSFETs claim to enhance and simplify power systems across energy storage, renewable energy, industrial motors, general-purpose inverters and industrial lighting. Products released are: G2R1000MT33J – 3300V 1000mΩ TO-263-7 G2R™ SiC MOSFET https://ift.tt/2JG2sg0 G2R1000MT17D ...
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Canon Ecology Industry has developed two types of 3d printing filament, made 100% from parts of discarded multi-function printer/scanners. These are the first in-house developed products from the company, which was set up in Japan to meet the sustainable development goals of Canon by recycling or arrange re-use of products made by the company. The ...
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Leonardo and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE-UK) have formed a partnership to increase diversity at the defence engineering company, which has over 7,500 employees across the UK, to “build an inclusive culture for all of its people and to help attract a richer diversity of job applicants to the business”. Dr Ollie ...
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Sundance Multiprocessor, the embedded module specialist, has joined Digital Catapult’s Machine Intelligence Garage business incubator, in a move that will accelerate and deepen its knowledge and expertise in the deployment of AI and MLtechniques. Sundance is part of an additional, new cohort of 10 early-stage and scaleup companies joining Digital Catapult’s Machine Intelligence Garage providing ...
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With estimated sales of $65.2 billion, DRAM was the biggest IC product category last year, says IC Insights, with NAND second biggest on $55.2 billion. DRAM has been the largest revenue-generating IC segment since 2017, even through the steep memory market downturn in 2019, and is forecast to retain is place as the largest IC ...
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Semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings rose 30% y-o-y and 16% m-o-m to $19.4 billion, says SEMI in its Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Market Statistics (WWSEMS) Report. Region Q32020 Q22020 Q32019 3Q2020 / 2Q2020 3Q2020 / 3Q2019 China 5.62 4.59 3.44 23% 63% Taiwan 4.75 3.51 3.90 36% 22% Korea 4.22 4.48 2.20 -6% 92% Japan 2.24 1.72 1.67 ...
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MagnaChip Semiconductor of Korea has announced eight 700V and 800V series high-voltage Super Junction Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors (SJ MOSFETs), optimised for TV, LED lighting and fast charger applications. MagnaChip began SJ MOSFET development in 2013. Cumulative shipments have now reached 1.5 billion units, and the company is now launching new generations of high-voltage ...
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A flexible wearable sensor might one day guide treatment for chronic (long-lasting) wounds such as diabetic foot ulcers or pressure ulcers. Researchers from Russian institute Skoltech and the University of Texas at Austin have created a prototype for such a sensor, and demonstrated it in a simulate wound environment where it measured three biomarkers, all of ...
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Infineon is shipping EiceDRIVER X3 Enhanced analog (1ED34xx) and digital (1ED38xx) gate driver ICs. These devices provide a typical output current of 3, 6 and 9A, precise short-circuit detection, a Miller clamp and soft turn-off. In addition, 1ED34xx offers an adjustable desaturation filter time and soft turn-off current with external resistors. These features combine to ...
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