Gelsinger asks EU to pay full cost of European fab

Intel CEO is reported to have asked EC Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton for $9.7 billion to build a fab in Europe during their meeting in Brussels this morning. “What we’re asking from both the U.S. and the European governments is to make it competitive for us to do it here compared to in Asia,” ...

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PCIM: 2.3kV gate driver has two-level slew control for IGBTs and mosfets

Infineon has introduced 2.3kV isolated gate drivers for IGBTs and mosfets with on-the-fly switchable dual slew-rates. Branded ‘2L-SRC Compact’ and numbered ‘1ED32xx’, 10 and 18A versions are available (see table), with or without Miller clamps. Dual slew-rates are controlled by a single pin (/INF). All members of the family have two complete output stages: ‘OUT’ ...

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Canbridge Quantum Computing hooks up with German Aerospace Centre

Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) has partnered with the German Aerospace Centre (Deutsches Zentrum für Luftund Raumfahrt; DLR) to explore how quantum computing could help create better simulation models for battery development to aid future energy utilisation. The collaboration will see DLR – the national aeronautics and space research centre of the Federal Republic of Germany ...

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Compact switching regulators are optimised for thermal management

Recom’s RPMH-1.5 series non-isolated switching regulators are 3.75 mm and can supply 1.5A across -40 to +100°C without derating. Versions with nominal output voltages of 3.3, 5, 12, 15, or 24V are available, each accepting input voltages up to 60V. “Switching regulators are particularly suitable for applications where the efficient handling of high ambient temperatures plays ...

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Taiwan blocks China recruitment

Alarmed by a brain drain to China, the Taiwan government has told employment agencies to drop job ads for China-located companies, reports the Nikkei. Taiwan’s Labour Ministry has told agencies not to list China-located jobs especially those in the chip industry. “Due to geopolitical tension between the U.S. and China, China’s semiconductor development has suffered ...

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Qualcomm and Vodafone hook up on O-RAN 5G

Vodafone and Qualcomm are to join forces to develop the technical blueprint for more equipment suppliers to help build 5G networks using O-RAN. The move aims to lower the entry barrier for many companies and drive diversification of network equipment vendors. In particular, the reference designs will be designed to support emerging and established network ...

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Samsung Foundry business to resume growth in H2

Samsung’s foundry business expects to improve profitability and sales in H2 after the disruption of production at its Austin fab (pictured). There was  a major snow storm and a cold snap in Texas on February 6. “This caused power and water outage,” says the svp at Samsung Foundry, Seung Hoon Han, “this caused us to stop ...

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Digi-Key video series examines “Smarter, Safer Cities”

Digi-Key is launching a new video series on the impact of technology in smart cities around the world. Dubbed “Smarter, Safer Cities”, it is a three-part exploration of some of the most advanced cities globally. Specifically, looking at how the latest technology and innovations can change the way people work, commute and live. “We’re excited ...

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UK made: Small Robot Company reveals is first commercial robot

Hampshire start-up Small Robot Company has revealed its first commercial robot (right), designed to pinpoint weeds using camera. Called Tom and manufactured in Northumberland by Tharsus, initial customers include Lockerley Estate, Waitrose’ Leckford Estate and the National Trust. “SRC’s first service using Tom will be per-plant weeding,” according to the company. “This is now in field ...

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Harwin sponsors GB Olympic bobsleigh team

Hampshire connector maker Harwin has become an official sponsor of Great Britain’s bobsleigh team – currently preparing for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing. “Harwin’s philosophy has always been about finding pioneering ways to set new benchmarks and striving to accomplish more,” said company spokesman Ben Green. “The technology that we develop has to ...

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Look to dragonflies for better drones

Flapping-wing drones are likely to look more and more like insects as their performance increase, according to researchers at the University of South Australia who have made a detailed study of dragonfly flight to improve the design of drones. “Dragonflies are supremely efficient in all areas of flying,” said UniSA professor Javaan Chahl. “They can ...

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And through the round window. . .

Suitable for indoor and harsh environments as well as more unusual designs for indoor displays, the FLR-0959MLV0PCFA1  is a series of round displays by FutureLabs which are now available from Relec Electronics. The 9.5-inch TFT and PCAP (projected capacitive) displays have an active display area of 240mm. Resolution is 1540 x 1540 with 1000 CD/M2 brightness. ...

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Industrial server motherboard for 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors

Aaeon has created a server motherboard for Intel’s 3rd generation Xeon Scalable Processors – codenamed Ice Lake-SP. The industrial ATX board is called ARES-WHI0. “This new generation of Xeon SP brings higher processing speeds and Intel’s deep learning boost technology, allowing for greater acceleration and more efficient processing for AI server applications,” according to Aaeon. ...

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80A non-isolated PoL sits up on edge

Flex Power Modules has announced a 198W point-of-load dc-dc converter in a 33 x 8.6 x 19mm single-in-line format. Called BMR474, it is a digital non-isolated PoL that can deliver 198W. Efficiency is as high as 95.1% at 12Vin 3.3Vout full load – chunky output pins help to keep resistive losses at bay. An optional pre-fitted heatsink is required ...

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ST looks at $12bn revenue year

ST had Q1 net revenues of $3.02 billion with a gross margin of 39%, an operating margin of 14.6% and net income of $364 million. Q1 capex was  $405 million. The company expects Q2 net revenues of $2.9 billion with a gross margin of 39.5%. “In the first quarter of 2021, net revenues increased 35.2% year-over-year,” ...

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IoT not fulfilling its promise

Despite 63% of manufacturers running at reduced capacity over the past year, the IoT wasn’t able to make its long-awaited transition from intention to adoption in 2020, says a report from Ubisense. The report has found that, at a time when its benefits were most needed, 43% of manufacturers no longer understand the value of ...

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Fabless take 32.8% industry share

Fabless sales took a record 32.8% of worldwide IC sales last year after growing 24% in 2020, says IC Insights. Typically, the sales growth rate of the fabless IC suppliers is better than that of the IDMs, and 2010 was the first year on record that IDM IC sales growth outpaced fabless IC company sales ...

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Si Catalyst adds six startups

Silicon Catalyst has admitted six new companies into its incubator: AlphaICs,  Lelantos, Oculi, Salience Labs, Sonical and Visual Dawn. The ecosystem that Silicon Catalyst has created lowers the capital expenses associated with the design and fabrication of silicon-based IC’s, Sensors, and MEMS devices by providing tools and services from a comprehensive network of In-Kind Partners ...

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Digi-Key partners with ArkX Laboratories for voice-enabled IoT

Digi-Key has announced a global distribution partnership with ArkX Laboratories to offer its Advanced Far-field Voice Capture AFE module and development kit for voice-enabled IoT products. “ArkX’s advanced far-field products enable engineers and developers to bring a powerful voice experience to their products,” said David Stein, vp of global supplier management for Digi-Key. “Digi-Key is ...

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UK made: Four channel 1GHz mixed-signal PC scope with active probes

Pico Technology has added four-channel models to its PicoScope 6000E Series of mixed-signal oscilloscopes, each of which can be configured with 16 optional digital channels. “With bandwidths of 750MHz or 1GHz, 8bit or 8-10-12bit flexible resolution and up to 4Gsample capture memory, these products enhance the existing PicoScope 6000E portfolio, adding to the 350MHz and 500MHz models ...

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Xing and Castrol to work on liquid-cooled vehicle batteries

Xing Mobility and BP subsidiary Castrol have teamed up to work on liquid-cooled batteries. The Taipei company’s ‘Immersio’ modular battery pack technology for vehicles directly submerges lithium-ion battery cells in non-conductive cooling fluid. “Immersion cooling in EVs is now widely considered to be the most effective method of cooling due to its 100% cell-to-coolant contact and ...

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There are now 1,000 different Click boards

MikroElektronika of Serbia has launched its 1,000th Click board: EtherCAT Click which can add EtherCAT to processors with an SPI interface. Click boards are used to add interfaces to microcontroller development boards – the company created its accompanying 16pin mikroBus standard ten years ago. Mikroe now releases a new Click board nearly every day at ...

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France buys stake in OneWeb

Eutelsat Communications, the Paris satellite operator, is to pay $550 million in cash for a 24% stake in the OneWeb satellite constellation owned by the UK government, Softbank and Bharti  Global. Last July the UK government and Bharti bought the bankrupt OneWeb for $1 billion with Bharti and the UK each putting up $500 million and ...

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Binder turns corner with right-angle connector versions

The circular connector specialist binder has announced right-angle housing versions of its M12 and M16 connectors. Specifically, the the 423, 713, 715 and 825 series will expanded with a shielded, two-part right-angle housing. This provides new options to widen the range of applications and increase future demand, says the company: “[The] 423, 713, 715 and ...

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Telecom Italia deploys O-RAN network

Telecom Italia (TIM) has deployed its first O-RAN network in Europe – establishing a 4G service in the city of Faenza near Bologna provided by JMA Wireless of the US. The radio node on the 4G network was built by combining JMA’s software baseband with the radio units provided by Microelectronics Technology (MTI) of Taiwan. ...

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How can I prepare for something I do not yet know?

How can I prepare myself for something I do not yet know? Scientists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and from the Fritz Haber Institute Of Berlin have addressed this almost philosophical question in the context of machine learning. Learning is no more than drawing new decisions on prior experience. In order to deal ...

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Tactile switch pushes miniaturisation envelope for wearables

C&K has developed a miniature tactile switch designed for wearable and portable IoT devices that occupies 4.6 x 2.2 x 2.6mm. The company describes it as ‘surface-mount’, but ‘edge-mount might’ be a better term as it is designed to fit onto the edge of a PCB, protruding  0.95mm above the PCB surface height. PTS847 is ...

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Beefed-up RJ45 is quicker to assemble

RJ Industrial MultiFeature from Harting is an updated version of the RJ45 connector, intended to save assembly time and be tough enough for industrial IoT use. The housing is metal and integrated knives automatically shorten wire strands to the correct length during assembly – although they still need to be de-shielded and un-twisted by hand. ...

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Mini slide switches on 2.54mm pitch

CUI Devices has added miniature slide switches as small as 10 x 2.5 x 5.9mm to its portfolio. Called the MSS series, the parts have 2.54mm pin pitches and are through-hole or gull-wing solder mount with single-pole change-over switching. Rating is 12V at 500mA or 24V at 300mA, and over -40 to 85°C. Taking the MSS-102545-14A-SV-SMT ...

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Rad-hard Arm Cortex-M7 MCUs for space

Microchip is offering a pair of radiation-hardened Arm Cortex-M7 ICs: the SAMRH71 MPU and the SAMRH707 MCU, developed with the support of the European Space Agency and French space agency Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales (CNES). “The introduction of Arm technologies for space applications opens up new perspectives by enabling the use of the same ecosystem ...

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3-phase SiC power modules are liquid or AlSiC air-cooled

Belgium-based Cissiod has introduced silicon carbide three-phase intelligent power modules with either: liquid-cooling for e-mobility or with a lightweight AlSiC flat baseplate for natural convection or forced cooling in aerospace and industry. The products including sophisticated gate drivers. “The embedded gate driver solves multiple challenges related to fast-switching SiC transistors: negative drive and active Miller clamping ...

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PCIM: 650V GaN FETs for 2kW ‘Titanium’ PSUs

 Nexperia has decreased on-resistance in its second-generation 650V GaN power transistors. “With Rds(on) performance typically down to 35mΩ [Tj 25°C], the GaN fets target single-phase ac-dc and dc-dc industrial switched mode power supplies ranging from 2kW to 10kW, especially server and telecoms supplies that must meet 80 Plus Titanium efficiency regulations. Branded as ‘H2’ and numbered GAN041-650WSB, they ...

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SiPearl to add 1,000 jobs by 2025

 SiPearl, the company that is designing the processor for the European exascale supercomputer, is launching a recruitment campaign starting with 10 engineers a month leading to the addition, by 2025, of an additional 1000 staff  to its current headcount of 30. SiPearl’s first recruitment campaign is for its Maisons-Laffitte, Sophia-Antipolis and Duisburg sites. Convinced that ...

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Lyft follows Uber in selling autonomous driving unit

Lyft has followed the example of Uber in selling its autonomous driving unit. The buyer is Toyota and the deal is worth $550 million. Lyft says the deal will save it $100 million a year and allow it to show a profit in Q3. $200 million is being paid up-front with $350 million more to ...

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Imec realises 18.6% efficient near transparent perovskite solar cell

Solliance partners TNO, imec/EnergyVille and the Eindhoven University of Technology, realized a 18.6% efficient highly near infrared transparent perovskite solar cell. When combined in a four terminal tandem configuration with an efficient Panasonic crystalline silicon (c-Si) cell or with a Miasolé flexible CIGS cell, delivers new record power conversion efficiencies of 28.7% and 27.0%, respectively. ...

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Orange to exclusively deploy O-RAN from 2025

Orange will exclusively deploy O-RAN switchgear from 2025 onwards, says  CTIO Michael Trabbia, asserting that Orange wants to “encourage a strong European open RAN ecosystem”. “Open RAN will be important to have more agility and more automation in the network, but the objective is certainly not to attack our existing providers,” he says, “this is ...

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Apple to invest $430bn in US operations

Following its record $111 billion revenue Q1, Apple is increasing its commitment to invest $350 billion in its US-based operations between 2018 and 2023  to $430 billion. “At this moment of recovery and rebuilding, Apple is doubling down on our commitment to US innovation and manufacturing with a generational investment reaching communities across all 50 ...

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Further batch of OneWeb satellites nears constellation to service

OneWeb has added 36 further satellites to its constellation, the partly-UK government owned company has confirmed. This brings its total in-orbit constellation to 182 satellites, part of its intended 648 Low-Earth Orbit fleet for providing broadband connectivity services. The satellites were dispensed in nine batches, over a period of 3 hours 52 minutes, with signal ...

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GloFo moves HQ from Santa Clara to New York

Globalfoundries is moving its HQ from Santa Clara California to Malta, New York. GloFo has invested more than $15 billion in its Fab 8 Malta fab over the last decade. In 2021, the company is doubling its planned investment to expand global capacity, with $500 million targeted for Malta, NY alone. “I would like to ...

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Automotive three-axis linear accelerometer works across -40 to +115°C

ST has created  three-axis linear accelerometer for “non-safety”, it said, automotive applications including anti-theft, telematics, infotainment, tilt measurement, inclination measurement and vehicle navigation. Called AIS2IH, it has user-selectable full-scales covering ±2, 4, 8 and 16g (survivable shock is 10,000g), and output data rates between 1.6Hz and 1.6kHz. There are five modes all-told, one nominally high-performance and ...

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Dialog adds power-efficient SPI NOR memories

Dialog has launched a family of SPI NOR Flash devices to support power-conscious, size-constrained connected devices. The AT25EU aims to achieve the lowest power consumption and the fastest operation in order to achieve the lowest energy. The 2Mbit AT25EU0021A can perform a full-chip erase in under 10ms while, it claims, consuming less than 1% of ...

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Creality adds a lower-cost resin printer to its range

Creality has added an entry-level 2K monochrome resin machine to its 3D printer range. Resin printers create solid objects from a vat of liquid photo-polymer using ultra-violet patterning. In the sub-£1,000 market, these printers have rapidly converged to designs where the active layer of the print is at the transparent bottom of a vat, illuminated from ...

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Alphawave seeks $4.5bn valuation

Alphawave, the Canadian wired connectivity IP specialist, is to IPO seeking to raise $500 million cash at a valuation of $4.5 billion. BlackRock and Janus Henderson have committed to take $510 million worth of shares at an equity valuation of up to $4.5 billion. Alphawave plans to sell at least  a quarter of its shares ...

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TSMC building huge water treatment plant

TSMC is building a water purification plant in Tainan to come on-stream at the end of the year. The plan follows Taiwan’s worst drought in 50 years. The plant will be for TSMC’s sole use and will process re-used industrial water for its fabs. According to TSMC the plant will be the world’s first such advanced ...

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Compostable plastic invented at Lawrence Berkeley

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have designed an enzyme-activated compostable plastic which can be broken down by household tap water or soil composts into reusable small molecules, called monomers, in just a few days or weeks. Most biodegradable plastics are made of either polylactic acid (PLA) or polycaprolactone (PCL) which take months to break ...

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UV modulation by twisting crystal films

Films of the two-dimensional material hexagonal boron nitride can be used to control light emission from materials, according to the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (Smart). The phenomenon involves the creation of ‘Moiré superlattices’ as two films are rotated with respect to one-another, and works at room temperature with films made from stacks of atoms around 100nm ...

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Particle physics maths rescues laser array mode locking

How can anyone persuade an array of lasers to emit a single-mode coherent beam? was the question being asked by a team of US researchers. “One seemingly straightforward method to achieve a high-power single-mode laser is to couple multiple identical single-mode lasers together to form a laser array,” said University of Pennsylvania scientist Liang Feng. ...

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Intel Q1 datacentre revenues fall 20%

Intel had Q1 sales of $18.6 billion which was flat with Q1 2020.  Gross margin was 58.4% which was 6.1% down on Q1 2020. Profit was $5.7 billion which was down 6% on Q1 2020. PC revenues rose 8% to $10.6 billion while data centre revenues fell 20% to $5.6 billion. The company is expecting ...

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Skyworks buys auto unit from Si Labs

Skyworks is to buy the Infrastructure and Automotive business of  Silicon Labs in a deal  valued at $2.75 billion. The acquisition includes the technology portfolios and related assets of Silicon Labs’ power/isolation, timing, and broadcast product lines, which are highly complementary to Skyworks’ connectivity portfolio. The acquisition will accelerate Skyworks’ expansion into the industry’s most ...

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China has grappling satellite, says US general

China has a grappling satellite which can grab a satellite with a robotic arm and disable it, said US Space Command commander General James Dickinson in a submission to  Congress earlier this week. “Beijing actively seeks space superiority through space and space attack systems,” Dickinson told the Senate Armed Services Committee, “one notable object is ...

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Chips and Cars

Car companies which have announced temporary halts on production because of chip shortages include Volkswagen, Toyota, General Motors, Ford, Nissan, Honda, Suzuki, Mitsubishi, Daimler (Mercedes) and Stellantis (merger of Fiat-Chrysler), writes Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence. IHS Markit estimates 1Q 2021 light vehicle production was reduced by 1.3 million units due to the shortage. They stated ...

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Google releases Developer Preview 3 of Android 12

Google has made Developer Preview 3 available for the next major release of Android, version 12, which is due to appear before the end of the year. Note that the only devices that can run the preview are Google’s own Pixel 3, 3a, 4, 4a, 4a (5G), or 5. As always for these developer-only releases, ...

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Infineon adds EiceDRIVERs

Infineon  has expanded its EiceDRIVER X3 Compact (1ED31xx) and the X3 Enhanced Analog (1ED34xx) and Digital (1ED38xx) gate driver families. Both families now offer variants with superior reinforced isolation for higher application safety and long operating life. The new family members are VDE 0884-11 certified. With 8 mm wide-body packages, both families are suitable for ...

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Harwin adds to spring contacts

Harwin has expanded its range of spring contacts with the addition of two further versions. These new surface mount components are capable of supporting both horizontal and vertical connection orientations, but come in smaller size formats than were previously available. The S1961-46R has a 3.55mm height, while the S1971-46R has a height of 4.55mm. Although ...

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Arduino aims at edge AI in farming

Arduino Edge Control is designed to deploy AI on the edge. “Optimized for outdoor environments and easy to place anywhere, it is ideal for precision farming, smart agriculture, and any application requiring intelligent control in isolated locations,” according to Arduino. It can be expanded with 2G, 3G, CatM1, or NB-IoT modems, Lora, Sigfox, Wi-Fi, or ...

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High-end and always-on DSP cores for vision processing and AI

Cadence is aiming at high-end and always-on applications with DSP intellectual property for embedded vision and AI. There are two cores: Vision Q8 for multi-camera automotive and mobile markets 1,024bit SIMD and 3.8Top/s 2x performance and memory bandwidth compared with the Vision Q7 Vision P1 for always-on and smart sensor consumer applications, as well as ...

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Graphcore joins sparse computing group

Graphcore has joined a three year, €2.6 million, EU project called SparCity to develop algorithms and tools for sparse computing – where the matrices to be stored or manipulated have more zeros than not (pictured). Sparse computing is seen as a useful approach to machine learning and data analytics where its opposite – dense computing ...

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2cd from 1.6 x 0.8mm led

Rohm is offering 2cd from a 1.6 x 0.8 (‘1608’ = ‘0603’ = 1.28mm2) led. Called CSL1104WB, forward voltgage is 2.9V ar the rated 20mA. Max current is 40mA. Operation is over -40 tp +110°C. “The products are optimised for applications requiring high brightness white light emission such as IoT devices, drones and other battery equipped ...

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3kW ac-dc PSUs output 150 to 800Vdc

XP Power has  announced a single-phase input 3kW ac-dc power supplies delivering voltages from 150 to 400Vdc, or up to 800V connected in series. Called HDL3000-HV, all models feature output voltage and current adjustment ranging from 0 to 105% using analogue (voltage or resistance signal) or digital (isolated I2C, RS485 and RS232) interfaces. Outputs can also ...

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MCU certified to Cryptographic Module Validation Program

Renesas has got Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) Level 3 certification for its 32bit RX65N microcontroller, under the FIPS 140-2 security standard by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) – CMVP is a joint effort between NIST and the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS). “The FIPS 140 standard is an essential security requirement for applications used by ...

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Vodafone to open O-RAN test and integration lab

Vodafone is to open an O-RAN test and integration lab at its Newbury HQ. Initially it will employ 30 engineers. Vodafone has taken a lead in O-RAN with trials in several European countries and establishing the UK’s first O-RAN site in Wales. The Test and Integration Lab will work with vendors to ensure their products ...

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EU sets out rules for AI

The EC has proposed a legal framework for regulating the deployment of AI technologies in the EU. “On Artificial Intelligence, trust is a must, not a nice to have,” says digital vp Margrethe Vestager (pictured), “with these landmark rules, the EU is spearheading the development of new global norms to make sure AI can be ...

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Lockheed Martin reports growth

Despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, Lockhead Martin has reported year-on-year growth in its first quarter 2021 results. The Bethesda, Maryland-based company recorded net sales of $16,258m and a consolidated operating profit of $2,182m (diluted earnings per share of $6.56), compared with revenues of $15,651 and profit of $2,122, from the same period in 2020 ...

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Rockwell and Comau to unify robot control

Rockwell and Comau are joining forces to maximise manufacturing efficiencies through unified robot control solutions. “Industrial companies are looking for efficient ways to integrate robotics into their operations for process optimization and agility,” says Rockwell’s Blake Moret, “Rockwell Automation’s collaboration with Comau will simplify programming and lifecycle management.”  Engineers be able to programme their machines ...

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Space instrument spurns stepper for brushed dc motor

BAMMsat-on-BEXUS is an attempt to create a miniaturised bio-lab compatible with 3U CubeSats, run by academics and students from Cranfield University and the University of Exeter. “Researching the effects of microgravity and radiation in on-ground facilities has technical constraints that can add complexity to data interpretation,” said project head and Cranfield PhD student Aqeel Shamsul. “However, ...

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Fridge compressor demonstration boards

Infineon has introduced two demonstration boards for driving rotary refrigerator compressors. “Both boards are turn-key solutions for low power compressors that can be easily copied by customers to build final mass-production application boards,” according to the company, although the associated paperwork for both carries the caveat: “Environmental conditions have been considered in the design…  … ...

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Sparkling Q1 at ASML

ASML had Q1 sales of €4.4 billion, with a gross margin of 53.9% and a profit of €1.3 billion. Q1 bookings were  €4.7 billion including $2.3 billion for EUV bookings. The company expects Q2 2021 sales between €4 billion and €4.1 billion and a gross margin around 49% “The primary driver for higher revenue and ...

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More on: Pre-Switch’s soft-switching power inverter

Earlier this week, Californian company Pre-Switch claimed 99.3% efficiency for a 100kHz electric vehicle traction inverter running at 100kW. It credits this impressive figure to the use of a resonant topology called ‘auxiliary resonant commutated pole’ (ARCP, one phase of three in diagram right) which enforces soft-switching – switching at either zero voltage or zero ...

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Lockheed Martin unveils ISR satellites for tactical warfare

Lockheed Martin has announced a new line of tactical Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) satellites, for tracking moving targets at long ranges. The new military satellites – based on Lockheed Martin’s LM 400 mid-size bus – are intended to provide both “global and persistent support” for tactical military forces, taking advantage of space-based capabilities. The ...

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Renesas and SiFive link on RISC-V cores for auto ICs

Renesas and SiFive are to co-develop RISC-V-based chips for automotive applications. The partnership includes SiFive licensing the use of their RISC-V core IP portfolio to Renesas. “RISC-V is an important element in providing additional capabilities and options,” says Renesas svp Takeshi Kataoka. Renesas is exploring the use of  RISC-V cores optimised for automotive applications to ...

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NanoDimension buys DeepCube

Nano Dimension, the Additively Manufactured Electronics (AME)/PE (3D-Printed Electronics) provider, is to buy ML specialist DeepCube. Nano Dimension will pay the shareholders of DeepCube approximately $40 million in cash and $30 million in American Depositary Shares of Nano Dimension, which are subject to stand still for various periods of up to 3 years after closing of this ...

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Teledyne e2v develops detector for improved weather forecasting

The European Space Agency (ESA) has contracted Teledyne e2v to design an ultraviolet detector that could help improve the quality of space-based weather forecasting. Specifically, the company will develop the performance and sensitivity of the previously supplied CCD69 detector (pictured above). It will use data available from the ESA Aeolus mission, which hosted the first ...

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Siemens certifies Aprisa for TSMC 6nm

Siemens has certified its Aprisa place-and-route solution for TSMC’s  N6 process. The Aprisa tools offer gate-level-to-GDSII hierarchical and block level physical implementation. Siemens acquired the Aprisa tools from Avatar Integrated Systems in August 2020 to extend its portfolio of world-class IC EDA software. To achieve this latest certification, the Aprisa tools passed a suite of ...

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ADI chip to steer satellite communications beams

ADI and Canadian space specialist MDA are working on a beam forming IC to be used in MDA’s phased array antenna for the Telesat Lightspeed low earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation. Telesat Lightspeed, initially comprised of 298 next-generation satellites, is planned to launch in the second half of 2023 and will provide broadband connectivity for commercial, government and ...

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Partnership creates a fast track for IoT design

A partnership between Solid State Supplies and TT Electronics offers a framework to accelerate IoT deployments via TT Electronics‘ Speed to Connect system. Speed to Connect is a framework, covering proof of concept to scalable products. It has been created to enable customers to collaborate to deploy IoT devices faster. It is described as an end-to-end ...

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Ultrasonic proximity and fibre optic sensors extend RS factory automation

Over 340 new products have been added to the PRO factory automation sensors range by RS Components. The range now includes ultrasonic proximity sensors and fibre optical sensors which join the photoelectric proximity sensors (through-beam, retro-reflective and diffuse), inductive proximity sensors and capacitive proximity sensors. The sensors are used to detect a range of materials ...

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Touch control for very wide automotive displays

Microchip is aiming at ultra-wide automotive display screens screens with a touch screen controller. Called MXT2912TD-UW, it works with display up to 45in with a very wide aspect ratio, and supports LCDs and OLEDs. “Driven by the ISO 26262 specification for functional safety in road vehicles, MXT2912TD-UW contains a variety of safety related features, simplifying ...

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SOMs based on Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC put AI vision at the edge

Adaptive system on modules (SOMs) make up the Kria family, developed by Xilinx for AI applications at the edge. The range consists of production-ready embedded boards and developer kit. The small form factor embedded boards are available with a software stack for adaptive computing. The first product released is the Kria K26 SOM, which has ...

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DAC opens nominations for Marie R. Pistilli Women in Electronic Design Award 2021

The organisers of DAC have opened nominations for the 2021 Marie R. Pistilli Women in Electronic Design award. This award recognises people who have advanced women in electronic design and is named after the DAC organiser. Last year’s recipient, Cadence’s engineering group director, automotive, Alessandra Nardi, was profiled in the 12 August issue of Electronics ...

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Foxconn in talks to buy Macronix fab

Earlier today, Foxconn confirmed it is talking to Macronix about buying a six inch fab in Hsinchu. “Our team has expressed interest in their 6-inch fab and will proceed with the talks,” says Foxconn Chairman Young Liu (pictured). Liu says that Foxconn needs the fab as a source of ICs for its EV production plans. ...

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Nanya to build $10bn DRAM fab

Earlier today,  Nanya Technology  announced it will build a $10 billion 10nm fab in New Taipei. “The investment will come over the next seven years and create at least 2,000 new jobs,” said Nanya Chairman Wu Chia-Chau (pictured),”construction will start by the end of 2021, and the plant will be completed in 2023 with mass ...

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Automotive ESD protection for USB and HDMI

Nexperia has announced a range of ESD protection devices aimed at protecting high-speed interfaces in automotive applications, especially in-vehicle networks for infotainment and communications. There are 12 four-channel devices in the PESD4USBx series, according to the company, with headline figures of  0.25pF line capacitance, <0.05pF line matching and 0.4Ω dynamic resistance. That said, only eight ...

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Mouser adds embedded FPGAs with QuickLogic signing

Mouser Electronics has signed a global distribution agreement with FPGA and embedded FPGA IP company, QuickLogic. The distributor will initally stock Quicklogic’s EOS S3 low power microcontrollers (pictured) and QuickFeather development kits, supported by open source software. The agreement means Mouser will stock the EOS S3 sensor processor. This is a multi-core SoC based on low power, ...

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10th Generation Intel Core processors on 3.5in sub-compact motherboard

Aaeon has created a 3.5in sub-compact LGA1200 socket motherboard for Intel 10th Generation (Comet Lake) Core i3, i5 and i7 processors, as well as Pentiums and Celerons. GENE-CML5 supports processors up to 4.4GHz and up to 64Gbyte of DDR4 memory delivering “fast processing speeds on par with desktop systems”, according to the Taiwanese company. “Additionally, ...

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99.3% efficiency from soft-switched 100kW electric vehicle traction inverter

Silicon Valley start-up Pre-Switch is claiming >99.3% efficiency at 100kHz and 100kW from its 200kW space vector modulated automotive traction inverter design, which uses 18x 35mΩ SiC mosfets in its three-phase bridge. The company’s topology, ‘called auxiliary resonant commutated pole’, is soft-switched to save switching losses, using a separate bank of relatively-small carefully-timed silicon IGBT series ...

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Q2 DRAM prices up by 18-23% QoQ

Q2 DRAM prices will rise by between 18% and 23% over Q1, reports TrendForce. The ASP of DDR4 1G8 2666Mbps modules has already increased by nearly 25% QoQ and prices are rising across various DRAM product categories in 2Q21, including DDR3/4 specialty DRAM, mobile DRAM and graphics DRAM. Server DRAM  prices are expected to rise ...

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End is nigh for not-spots, says DCMS

Mobile signal blindspots will be wiped out under government plans to level up rural areas with better connectivity and unlock tech innovation in the countryside, says the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. The government is proposing law changes to boost ongoing efforts to improve connectivity for  people who live, work and travel in rural ...

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Amazon secures launchers for 3,236 satellites

United Launch Alliance (ULA) is to provide Amazon with nine Atlas V rockets to launch the 3,236 satellites in Amazon’s Project Kuiper aimed at delivering broadband to remote parts of the planet. “We’re determined to make affordable broadband a reality for customers and communities around the world,” says Jeff Bezos,“ULA is a fantastic partner that’s successfully launched ...

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Imec’s Neuropixels 2.0 track individual neurons

Imec’s Neuropixels 2.0 build on the original Neuropixels probes released in 2017 and currently used in more than 400 labs. Neuropixels 2.0 are much smaller — about a third the size of their predecessors. They’re designed to record the electrical activity from individual neurons and have the unique ability to track this activity over extended ...

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DARPA plans a DRACO nuclear-powered rocket to cislunar space

DARPA – the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – has chosen General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) to lead the design of a novel Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system that will allow a rocket to operate in cislunar space. This is the region outside of Earth’s atmosphere to just past the moon’s orbit. Specifically, the ...

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NASA chooses SpaceX to land next astronauts on Moon

Nasa has confirmed that it has chosen SpaceX to develop the first commercial human lander to carry astronauts to the lunar surface. The Moon exploration will part of the wider Artemis programme, which eventually aims to send people to Mars. The chosen Space Launch System rocket will launch four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft for ...

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Piezo contact microphone picks up voice through bone

Vesper of Massachusetts is claiming high fidelity for a MEMs piezo microphone that picks up the vibration of the user’s voice through the skull. Inside is the mems, an amplifier and a power regulator. Called VA1200, the company describes it as “the world’s first analogue piezoelectric voice accelerometer. Unlike a traditional microphone, the VA1200 is ...

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5V data line protection for 0.37pF

Protecting USB and HDMI connections in commercial and automotive applications is the aim of Vishay’s VBUS05M2-HT5 bidirectional symmetrical (BiSy) two-line ESD protection diode. Supplied in a 1 x 1.1 x 0.45mm DFN1110-3A package with wettable flanks for automated optical inspection, it typically offers only 0.37pF of additional load (0.45pF maximum). “Due to its short leads and ...

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Touch controlled for mid-sized industrial displays

Data Modul is aiming at industrial displays from 12.1 to 23.8in with a projected capacitive (PCap) touch controller PCB built around Microchip’s TD series of touch controller chips. The mXT2952TD touch controller board is compatible with Data Module’s earlier mXT2952T2, but includes differential mutual sensing to increase signal-to-noise ratio. “Neither thick gloves up to 5mm nor ...

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UK government to intervene in Nvidia-Arm takeover

National security grounds are being cited by the government as a reason to intervene in the Nvidia bid to buy Arm from Softbank. “Following careful consideration of the proposed takeover of ARM, I have today issued an intervention notice on national security grounds,” states Secretary of State for Digital Culture Media and Sport Oliver Dowden, ...

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Nasa’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter takes flight on Red Planet

The first test flight of NASA Ingenuity Mars helicopter has successfully completed. It becomes the first ever aircraft to achieve powered flight on another planet. Telemetry analysis reports the craft as having performed: spin up, take off, flying, hovver, descent, landing, touch down and spin down. You can hear ground control, in the video below, ...

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Siemens and Google Cloud hook up on factory automation

Siemens intends to integrate Google Cloud’s data and AI/ML technologies into its factory automation products. By combining Google Cloud’s data cloud and AI/ML capabilities with Siemens’ Digital Industries Factory Automation portfolio, manufacturers will be able to harmonise their factory data, run cloud-based AI/ML models on top of that data, and deploy algorithms at the network ...

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ULEMCo raises £500k

ULEMCo, the Liverpool hydrogen-powered vehicle pioneer, has closed an equity funding round of almost half a million pounds from Equity Gap and Scottish Enterprise. ULEMCo converts large vehicles to run on hydrogen dual fuel, on hydrogen alone and in hydrogen fuel cells. The new funds will be used within the overall business plans to build ULEMCo’s ...

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Biden and Suga to spend $4.5bn on 6G

Following their weekend summit in Washington, President Joe Biden and and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga are to co-develop key technologies including a $4.5 billion investment in 6G. Together, the United States and Japan will: Advance secure and open 5G networks, including Open Radio Access Networks (“Open-RAN”), by fostering innovation and by promoting trustworthy vendors and diverse ...

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TSMC fab hit by power outage

A power outage last Wednesday at TSMC’s Fab 14 P7 in the Tainan Science Park has affected automotive chip supply, reports TrendForce. The mains power went off from 11:06 a.m. to 6:23 p.m disrupting the 40nm production line. Although the diesel UPS kicked in, there was a short interruption in power supply and a voltage ...

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Equipment and component lead-times lengthen

High demand amid chip shortages have been pushing out lead times for chip manufacturing equipment reports the Nikkei. The lead time for wire bonding machines, mainly supplied by Kulicke & Soffa of Singapore said to be 10 to 12 months. For wafer dicing machines, led by Japan’s Disco, delivery times are up tob5 to 8 ...

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Hardware Composer Tool from IBM

IBM Research has come up with the AI Hardware Composer Tool – a free, open-source platform for discovering and developing the latest AI hardware advances. By making the AI Hardware Composer accessible to students, researchers, academic institutions and commercial partners, IBM’s goal is to accelerate the process of discovering and creating new hardware systems that ...

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NASA JPL spectrometer in Carbon Mapper to spot greenhouse gas super-emitters

A Carbon Mapper consortium has announced a programme to accelerate reductions in global methane and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. It plans to deploy a hyperspectral satellite constellation with the ability to identify harmful emissions from air and space. Basically, the programme is about locating, quantifying and tracking methane and co2 point-source emissions. The tool will ...

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Tablet growth resumes

According to IDC, global tablet demand soared to the highest level since 2017 in Q4 2020, as people adapted to working, learning and teaching from home in the face of the pandemic.   Tablet sales peaked  at 230 million units in 2014. After that, the market cooled off significantly with the realisation that people would ...

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Cyber crime up 6%: Watch out for emails, texts, phone calls

Data on cyber crime from the Office of National Statistics has been analysed at https://ift.tt/3mVR0fl The research shows that 68% of cyber crimes happened after the victim responded to fraudulent emails, texts and phone calls, resulting in them transferring money to the fraudster. There was a fairly even split between those who sent money in ...

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Viewpoint: HSR, PRP and TSN – at the cutting edge of embedded military comms

Andy Conway, sales manager at military embedded system specialist Recab UK, looks at the critical technologies at the edge of the battlefield and beyond, such as the Ethernet-based HSR, PRP and TSN protocols. Technology becomes more important to military and defence operations with each passing year. We need only look to the UK Government’s recent ...

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Rutronik accelerates automotive semiconductor range

Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente has signed a franchise agreement with Elmos Semiconductor to offer Elmos’ range in Europe (including Russia, Turkey and Africa).  From June this year, the franchise agreement will extend to North, Central and South America. Elmos has a strong presence in the automotive sector, with application specific standard products (ASSPs) for driver assistance ...

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Need an AEC-Q103 qualified MEMS microphone?

Infineon is claiming a first: AEC-Q103 qualification for a MEMS microphone. It is the IM67D130A, which operates over -40°C to +105°C and has an acoustic overload point (AOP) of 130dB SPL which “allows the microphone to capture distortion-free audio signals in loud environments. Because of that, it can be placed inside or outside of the vehicle”, ...

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TT Electronics opens Plano facility and looks to recruit.

TT Electronics is consolidating its North American sensors and specialist components operations and moving into a facility in Plano. The new location will support administrative, R&D, engineering, and manufacturing functions advancing the company’s optoelectronic sensors and resistors business. The phased opening of this facility will commence at the end of April, with the current Carrollton, ...

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2020 design IP sales grew 17.6%

Design IP sales grew 16.7% in 2020, to reach $4.6 billion – the best growth since year 2000. The Top 3 IP vendors, each of them growing more than the market and confirm the importance of the wired interface IP market, aligned with the data-centric application, hyperscalar, datacenter, networking or IA. ARM is again a ...

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Cyber crime up 6%: Watch out for emails, texts and phone calls

Data on cyber crime from the Office of National Statistics has been analysed at https://ift.tt/3mVR0fl The research shows that 68% of cyber crimes happened after the victim responded to fraudulent emails, texts and phone calls, resulting in them transferring money to the fraudster. There was a fairly even split between those who sent money in response ...

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PixCell LEDs enable adaptive beams

Samsung has brought out PixCell LED for automotive LED modules optimised for intelligent headlights, such as adaptive driving beam (ADB) systems. ADB headlamps powered by Samsung’s PixCell LEDs will help improve driver visibility and safety to enhance the overall driving experience at night and in poor weather conditions such as fog or heavy rain. In ...

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ICEYE opens spacecraft production facility in California

The Finnish satellite imagery specialist ICEYE has opened a new spacecraft production centre in Irvine, California. The company’s U.S. headquarters will also contain a research and development lab, offices, and a “customer engagement space”. The Irvine location also houses a Mission Operations Center for monitoring and operating U.S. licensed spacecraft. “Like other aerospace hubs around ...

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Bat ear bio-mimicry locates sound source to half a degree

A single twanged rubber bat ear, backed by artificial intelligence, is enough to locate the direction from which a sound arrived to within half a degree, according to researchers at Virginia Tech. “I have long admired bats for their uncanny ability to navigate complex natural environments based on ultrasound and suspected that the unusual mobility ...

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32bit DAC for Hi-Fi

Rohm has announced a 32bit mono/stereo Hi-Fi DAC, claiming for it a typical signal to noise ratio of 130dB and -115dB THD+noise. Called BD34301EKV, it can accept PCIM inputs from 32 to 768kHz and DSD at 2.8, 5.6, 11.2 or 22.4MHz. FIR filters are provided for: PCIM sharp roll-off, PCIM slow roll-off and DSD. The two outputs ...

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Haptic touch display activated by LEDs

LEDs could be used to deform and vibrate a haptic touch display, according to researchers at Korea’s Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). Proving the concept, the team made a 3 x 3 matrix with nine 10 x 10mm vibrating units (touchels perhaps?). Its mechanism involves a plastic bi-morph layer – the two-dimensional polymer equivalent of a ...

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Wireless-to-DALI Gateway specification from DALI Alliance

The DALI Alliance has specified wireless-to-DALI gateways to link existing DALI wired products with Bluetooth mesh or Zigbee wireless ecosystems. “Wireless to DALI gateways provide the flexibility to incorporate DALI luminaires and other DALI devices into the control network, so it becomes straightforward to add lighting capabilities alongside the other features of the wireless ecosystem,” ...

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Compact air quality particulate sensor detects PM10, PM2.5 and PM1

Panasonic is aiming at indoor air quality monitoring with a particulate matter sensor based on laser scattering. “SN-GCJA5 features an innovative optical sensor assembly to provide reliable operation over a long lifetime while accurately detecting particles as small as 0.3µm,” according to Farnell, which is stocking the sensor. It has an “optimised air pathway structure ...

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TSMC on a roll

TSMC’s Q1 profit was up 19.4% at $4.93 billion with revenues up 25.4% at $13.92 billion. TSMC expects 2021 capex of  $30 billion after spending $8.8 billion in Q1. Q2  sales may reach $13.2 billion, while full-year revenue may be up  20%. “We see the demand continue to be high and the shortage will continue throughout this ...

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