Phase change memory has been ditched again – the only vendor using it in an SSD was Intel, and Intel said it was dropping it in its Q2 earnings report. “We continue to rationalise our portfolio in support of our IDM 2.0 strategy,” said Intel, “this includes evaluating divesting businesses that are either not sufficiently profitable ...
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Google and SkyWater, the hi-rel fab, are to develop an open source design capability for Skywater’s 90nm FD-SOI process. This will then give IC design houses a route to volume production. Skywater has been given $15 million for the project by the US Department of Defense (DoD). Google is to provide the expertise and computer ...
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Imec has joined euROBIN – a group of research labs across Europe which are researching AI-Based Robotics. The network is open to the entire robotics community and provides mechanisms of cascade funding for doubling its number of members over the next years. euROBIN comprises 31 partners across 14 countries. It is coordinated by the Institute ...
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Redwire, the space infrastructure company, has announced it will be creating a drug development and manufacturing platform for use in space. It is dubbed a Pharmaceutical In-space Laboratory – Bio-crystal Optimization Xperiment (PIL-BOX). Redwire will be partnering with Eli Lilly and Company, a U.S. pharmaceutical company, to conduct testing during initial flight missions for PIL-BOX. ...
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Imec’s project to reduce the semiconductor industry’s greenhouse emissions has attracted significant partners including Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, ASM, ASML, KURITA, SCREEN, and Tokyo Electron. Today, IC manufacturing is estimated to account for about 0.1 percent of global emissions. However, forecasts indicate that this percentage could increase to around 1.5 by 2030 if the semiconductor sector remains ...
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2022 semiconductor revenue will grow 7.4% to $639 billion, down from 2021 growth of 26.3%, says Gartner. In 2023, it is expected to fall 2.5%. “We are already seeing weakness in semiconductor end markets, especially those exposed to consumer spending,” says Gartner’s Richard Gordon, “rising inflation, taxes and interest rates, together with higher energy and fuel costs, ...
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The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has selected two companies – Lockheed Martin and Maxar Space – to advance its Earth observations from geostationary orbit. The contracts were officially awarded by NASA on behalf of the NOAA to meet the objectives of the GeoXO programme. The total value of each of the ten-month ...
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Q2 silicon wafer area shipments were up 1% q-o-q at 3,704 million square inches, topping the previous record high set in Q1, says SEMI’s Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG). Second-quarter silicon wafer shipments saw 5% growth from the 3,534 million square inches reported during the same quarter last year. “Silicon shipments and demand remain robust driven by ...
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Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Mihai Daniel Ivanescu, a Graduate Software Engineer at Imagination Technologies. Achievement Daniel studied ...
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Researchers in Japan have micro-fabricated a thermoelectric generator for IoT devices from non-toxic materials. The proof-of-concept consists of 36 junctions, each made from p-type Mg2Sn0.8Ge0.2 working against n-type bismuth. “The output voltages of thermoelectric conversion modules and devices generally decrease as their sizes diminish,” according to the Japanese National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS). “An ...
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3DGaN innovators Finwave Semiconductor today announced a $12.2 million Series A funding round. The round was led by Fine Structure Ventures with additional participation from Citta Capital, Soitec, Safar Partners and Alumni Ventures. The Series A follows an award of $4.3 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) ...
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Micron is shipping 232-layer TLC NAND flash fabbed in Singapore The device delivers I/O speed 2.4GB/s and the chip has a density of 14.6 Gb/mm2. The chip can store 1Tb which allows 2TB chip packages by stacking 16 232-layer dies. Micron has shrunk its packaging and a single chip package measures 11.5mm x 13.5mm (~155mm2). ...
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Global cumulative Open RAN revenues – radio and baseband excluding services – are forecast by Dell ‘Oro to approach $20 billion over the next five years, accounting for around 15% of the 2026 RAN market. The Asia Pacific and North America regions are projected to dominate Open RAN investments throughout the forecast period. While the ...
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With bidirectional charging, solar power from a photovoltaic system can be stored in electric cars and fed back into the home grid when needed. Infineon and Delta have developed a three-in-one-system that integrates solar, energy storage and charging of electric vehicles. Thanks to bidirectional inverters, the electric car is not only charged, but can also ...
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Research published by the United States-based Space Foundation suggests that the global space economy is now worth $469 billion. Its Space Report 2022 Q2 calculates the economic value of space developments to have grown 9% since last year’s total of $431 billion. Other headline figures include a 19% increase in government spending, as the geopolitical ...
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Anglia is stocking a shielded coaxial connector from Hirose aimed automotive and industrial applications. Called the GT43 series, they comply with the requirements of the CISPR25 radiated emission test standard, according to the distributor, which said: “Furthermore, this series has passed the BCI immunity test with positive results of the display unit working normally”. Six ...
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Diodes has put an array of seven 50V dmos open-drain transistors into a single IC for driving solenoids, relays, dc motors and LED displays, for example. Called ULN62003A, the output drop is 200mV and “far lower than the bipolar devices with which it is pin-compatible”, according to the company. This, according to the data sheet, ...
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The North East Advanced Material Electronics (NEAME) cluster has been formerly launched by companies in the UK’s North East, with “a mission to highlight and promote the region as a centre of excellence for advanced compound semiconductor technology design and manufacture”, according to NEAME. The cluster led by CEOs and other senior people within the ...
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TI has given an upbeat Q3 revenue forecast of $4.94 billion to $5.3 billion Q2 revenue was up 14.2% at $5.2 billion for a net profit of $2.29 billion which was up 19% y-o-y. Q2 analogue sales rose 15% y-o-y to $3.99 billion. Sales of embedded processors rose 5% y-o-y to $821 million. TI manufactures ...
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Russia is to pull out of the International Space Station (ISS) according to the head of Roscosmos Yury Borisov. Speaking to President Putin as reported by the Kremlin, Borisov said: “You know that we are working within the framework of international cooperation at the International Space Station. Undoubtedly, we will fulfil all our obligations to ...
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HawkEye 360, the space-based RF data specialist, has opened an Advanced Technology and Development Center, which centralises all its data engineering and satellite manufacturing in-house. Located in Herndon, Virginia, the 19,000 square-foot site supports data processing, software development, and the manufacture of its commercial RF-sensing satellites for gathering geospatial intelligence. Housing up to 70 employees, ...
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Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Samrudhi Inamdar, an MSc Astronautics and Space Engineering student at Cranfield University. Achievement ...
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KEMET has announced its new GTX series of metal box three-phase filters. This series addresses the need for EMI-RFI filters to suppress electromagnetic conductive noise in general purpose inverters and medical power supplies. The KEMET GTX metal case filters cover three-phase EMC requirements with a wide variety of characteristics. With a nanocrystalline core, these filters ...
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Display Technology is offering 46in displays from AUO for outdoor and public information use. There are two brightness options: P460HVN04.4 – 1,500cd/m2 (135W backlight), 1,920 x 1080 P460HVN05.0 – 2,500cd/m2 (166W backlight) There is also a less bright version, the 700cd/m2 P460HVN03.3, which has a 77.1W backlight. All 3 versions have the same LVDS connector, ...
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Eutelsat and OneWeb are to combine with OneWeb shareholders holding 50% of Eutelsat. The UK government, which had a 19.3% share in OneWeb before the merger, will retain rights over procurement, the location of the HQ and vetoing of customers on grounds of national security. OneWeb will keep its name and its role in low ...
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Mediatek of Taiwan has signed up as a customer for Intel Foundry Services (IFS). Long-time TSMC customer MediaTek will be using an upgraded version of Intel’s 22nm process now dubbed Intel16. Intel 16 is slated for tape-outs later this year, with volume in early 2023. “MediaTek has long adopted a multi-sourcing strategy,” says MediaTek svp ...
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Universities and telecoms firms have been invited to apply for up to £25 million to research and develop the next generation of 5G and 6G network equipment. The Future Open Networks Research Challenge will enable academics and the industry to conduct early-stage research into open and interoperable telecoms solutions, such as O-RAN, for use in ...
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Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Dr Ethan Gardner, an R&D Engineer at Flusso. Achievement Dr Ethan Gardner, we ...
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Digi-Key Electronics is celebrating its 10 years of support for the FIRST Robotics Competition. This is an international school robotics competition where teams of students build – over a six-week period competitive robots that can weigh up to 57kg. The exact tasks they face are changed each year. The distributor has received recognition for supplying ...
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Infineon has developed a programmable 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0 MCU with embedded NFC frontend to enable cost effective development of smart actuators, such as passive locks. Using the NFC interface, the NAC1080 MCU enables devices to be controlled directly by smartphones. Advanced local and cloud functions can be extended within the mobile app offered by regional ...
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Skeleton Technologies and Siemens have agreed to develop and implement a supercapacitor manufacturing line in a new Skeleton factory in Markranstädt, Leipzig. The factory will help to reduce production costs by around 90% in five years. The collaboration aims to achieve the digitisation of Skeleton’s entire value chain – from supercapacitor cell design to production ...
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CorPower Ocean has revealed the first 9m diameter hull for its 300kW C4 wave energy converter. The hull was built composite machinery specialist Autonational and composite tank specialist CPT Tankwell, in Portugal using a custom-built machine in an environmentally controlled work cell. Yes, it’s that big “The C4 hull has been designed with a low-cost ...
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PCB manufacturer Nemco has joined the Manufacturing Assembly Network (MAN), the collective of eight sub-contract manufacturers and and an engineering design agency. As well as PCB-related services, MAN offers automation systems, control systems, precision machining, aluminium casting, forging, high-volume pressing, plastic injection moulding, tube manipulation and welded assembly. Its members employ more than 1,750 people ...
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Eutelsat, the French satellite operator, is expected to announce a merger with OneWeb this week Eutelsat already has a 23% stake in OneWeb and is its second largest shareholder. OneWeb was bought out of bankruptcy by the British government and India’s Bharti Global. Bharti has a 38.6% share in OneWeb, the British government has 19.3% and Softbank 12%. ...
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A team from Glasgow University has won £600,000 in a competition to design a satellite. The 10 students designed a satellite to analyse shorelines and coastal vegetation to help scientists and policymakers understand the impact of climate change on coastal regions. The Nanosat Design Competition was run by the UK Space Agency and Department for ...
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SMIC has been shipping a 7nm chip for a year, says TechInsights which has reverse engineered the device and says “initial images suggest it is a close copy of TSMC 7nm process technology.” Although it is a couple of nodes behind Samsung and TSMC, it is seen as an impressive achievement by SMIC because it ...
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Raytheon Intelligence & Space has been awarded a $21.7m contract by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to replace U.S. legacy weather systems with the NextGen Weather Processor (NWP) programme. NWP is intended to ensure the improved safety, security and efficiency of National Airspace System operations by processing weather data and identifying possible safety hazards ...
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IQM, the Espoo quantum computer developer, has raised a €128 million Series A2 funding round. The money will be used to expand international business and accelerate product development. The funding round follows a €39m Series A1 announcement in 2020 and includes part of a €35m venture loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) announced earlier ...
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The recently extended Elektra Awards entry deadline is closing on 28 July, so time is running out to submit an entry for this year. Particularly of note this year – as we celebrate the Elektra’s 20th anniversary – will be the achievements of design engineers from across the industry. Specifically, we are looking for entries ...
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Samsung has asked for planning permission for 11 fabs in Texas – two in Austin and nine in Taylor – which would involve a total outlay of about $200 billion, “We currently do not have specific plans to build at this time,” says Samsung, “ however, the Chapter 313 applications to the State of Texas ...
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Hyundai, Electrolux, Nokia and ABB have nade positive statements on chip supplies. “The good thing to know, it is easing up,” says ABB CEO Bjorn Rosengren “commitments from our suppliers are significantly better.” ABB says it expects double digit y-o-y revenue growth in the next three months thanks to an increased supply of chips. Hyundai ...
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The UK thermal infrared satellite firm Satellite Vu is looking to double its climate data collection capacity, it has announced. It has commissioned a clone of its original satellite, to again be produced in collaboration with Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL). It is a response to market demand for greater capacity and more frequent revisit ...
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Antenova of Hatfield has brought out a smaller SMD antenna for 5G and 4G frequencies. The antenna is named Minima, part number SR4L075. At 40 x 10 x 3.3 mm, Minima is the smallest 5G antenna that Antenova has brought to market so far. Its small volume and low weight, below three grammes, suit it to ...
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ST and VW’s software unit Cariad are joining up to co-design automotive chips and are “moving to agree” that TSMC will fab them “We are actively shaping our entire semiconductor supply chain,” says VW’s Murat Aksel, “we’re ensuring the production of the exact chips we need for our cars and securing the supply of critical ...
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SkyWater, the Minnesota hi-rel fab – plans to invest $1.8 billion for an IC R&D research facility in Indiana, in partnership with the state and Purdue University. The announcement comes a day after the U.S. Senate voted to move ahead with a slimmed-down version of a legislation, known as the CHIPS Act, to give billions ...
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US chip vendors continued to dominate R&D spending in 2021, says IC Insights, while companies in Asia-Pac accounted for nearly one-third. Despite political and national security concerns about U.S. domestic semiconductor production, American companies accounted for 56% of the global chip industry’s total spending on R&D. A large chunk of that came from Intel (19%, ...
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Astraius, the UK-based horizontal launch company due to operate out of Scotland, has announced Northrop Grumman and Exquadrum as its key propulsion suppliers. Specifically, Northrop Grumman’s Orion rocket motors have been selected for the first and second stages, and Exquadrum will provide the upper-stage motor to place satellites in their intended orbits. While it is ...
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Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Charlotte Fitzpatrick, a Digital and Technology Solutions Degree Apprentice at BT. Achievement Charlotte ...
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An over-supplied NAND market, which intensified in Q2 due to lagging demand and continued process advancement, will see Q3 prices down 8-13% with Q4 likely to see a continuation of the trend, says TrendForce, PC companies have reduced their purchase order volume in Q3 to digest H1 SSD inventory. 176-layer QLC SSDs have begun to ...
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ZapBatt is working with Toshiba to bring out lithium titanium oxide (LTO) battery cells for the micro-mobility marketplace. Toshiba expects ZapBatt to solve three challenges of using LTO chemistry in batteries: ICs did not exist to work with LTO, but ZapBatt’s custom LTO optimized battery management system (BMS) works at the unique voltages of LTO ...
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A British-built research satellite, the The UK Space Agency has announced, completes the payload for the UK’s first space launch, taking place this year with Virgin Orbit from Spaceport Cornwall in Newquay. A research satellite from RHEA Group, built in Oxfordshire by space company Open Cosmos, it will be sharing a ride with five additional ...
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Harwin had added another option to its Datamate series of hi-rel connectors. Complementing the existing Datamate J-Tek connector range (fitted with jackscrews for secure mounting) with a 7.3mm board-to-board height when mated, the new female connector gives a significantly larger 17.15mm connection height. Providing more space between PCBs allows designers the flexibility to use larger ...
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EPC Space has announced 100V and 200V rad-hard GaN power transistors for space use “with ultra-low on-resistance and extremely low gate charge for high power density solutions”, according to the company. Judge for yourself, these are the typical values: EPC7007B (200V 18A): 28mΩ 5.4nC EPC7018G (100V 90A): 6mΩ 11.7nC “These additions to our rad-hard product ...
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2022 sales of chip manufacturing equipment are forecast by SEMI to be up 14% y-o-y to $117.5 billion. 2021 sales were €102.5 billion and 2023 sales are forecast to be $120.8 billion. The wafer fab equipment segment, which includes wafer processing, fab facilities, and mask/reticle equipment, is projected to expand 15.4% to a new industry ...
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Prestwick Spaceport, in South Ayrshire near Glasgow, is planning to accelerate its satellite launch hub plans. At this week’s Farnborough International Airshow, representatives from the spaceport are set to meet with companies, academia and government organisations from across the global space industry, to establish its plans to become “Europe’s premier space launch location”. Prestwick Spaceport ...
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Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Ece Erkan, an Electrical and Electronic Engineering Student at the University of Sheffield. ...
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MagnaChip has produced a 24V MOSFET for wireless earphone batteries which addresses the issue of reducing conduction loss after a quick charge. The core cell density has been increased by 30% compared to the previous version, while the design of the core cell, termination and source pads has been enhanced in order to reduce the ...
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To cut weight from x-ray space telescopes, Tokyo Metropolitan University is micro-machining x-ray lenses from silicon. The lenses exploit the nature of x-rays, which can reflect if they approach a flat surface almost parallel to it, at a slight glancing angle. The Tokyo x-ray lens is machined from a 100mm silicon wafer using reactive ion ...
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The Treasury Select Committee inquiry into the UK’s venture capital market is looking at the efficacy of VCT (Venture Capital Trust) reliefs, with certain minsters signalling VCTs are not risky enough to justify current reliefs. New research from Wealth Club suggests changes to the current regime could put £990m of start-up funding at risk. Just ...
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TT Electronics announces that the company’s Kansas City facility has been awarded a Letter of Authority from long-term partner Honeywell Aerospace to proceed with the design of a new power supply for next-generation inertial navigation units. Honeywell Aerospace products and services are found on virtually every commercial, defence and space aircraft in the world and include ...
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Agile Analog has announced a major recruitment drive to support its process-agnostic, analogue IP. The company aims to recruit engineers to significantly increase its IP portfolio and customer engagements. Hybrid working allows experienced analogue engineers to work from anywhere, but the company also recognises the importance of having collaborative in person spaces to support the ...
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Socionext has announced a new series of smart display controllers, ‘SC1721/ SC1722/ SC1723 Series’, certified with ISO26262 for functional safety. Samples will be available at the end of July 2022. The automotive industry is currently undergoing major transformations that occur approximately once every 100 years. The E/E (Electrical/Electronic) architecture, which is the system structure of ...
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Danisense, the current sense transducer specialist, is introducing its DW series of closed-loop compensated zero-flux current transducer measuring up to 500A and offering excellent accuracy with 10ppm linearity and low offset at 15 ppm. To meet the increased requirements in terms of high frequency coming from the latest power conversion products based on wide bandgap semiconductor ...
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ST is shipping an automotive high-side switch controller which combines enhanced system-protection and diagnostic features with ST’s I2-t silicon-fuse technology. As the first in ST’s new STi2Fuse family with integrated I2-t protection, the VNF1048F is compatible with 12V, 24V, and 48V automotive power subsystems (board nets). Its flexibility is suitable for the latest automotive zonal electronic/electrical ...
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The market for automotive SiC power components is forecast to reach $1.07 billion in 2022 and will climb to $3.94 billion by 2026, says TrendForce, in a total SiC device market estimated by Yole Developpement to be worth $6.3 billion in 2027. The leading suppliers are: ST ON Wolfspeed, Infineon China is operating an entire ...
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Cadence and Tower are collaborating on automotive IC development. The companies are developing an automotive reference design flow using the Cadence Virtuoso Design Platform and Spectre Simulation Platform to provide customers with faster design and verification of automotive chips. The objective is an integrated workflow using an all-Cadence toolset and Tower reference designs. By combining ...
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The Edinburgh-headquartered space company Skyrora begins rocket production in what it describes as the UK’s largest engine manufacturing facility in Cumbernauld, in Scotland’s Central Belt. The new Skyrora Vehicle Assembly Building consists of 55,000 sq ft of factory floor and office space, along with a 67,000 sq ft yard large enough to contain the entire ...
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Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Mohamed Elrayah, an Electrical and Electronic Engineering Student at Southampton University. Achievement ...
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Halo Microelectronics, a maker of analogue and power management ICs, is selling a UWB Type-C VBUS Combo Switch with Protection. Calked the HL5099, the device provides a dual-channel VBUS power switch with 3.3V low dropout (LDO) for USB power delivery (PD) applications. Hal The device includes a bi-directional high-voltage switch that can support up to ...
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TSMC’s Q2 profit was up 76.4% y-o-y at $7.94 billion. Q2 revenue was up 36.6% y-o-y at $18.16 billion. Gross margin was 59%; operating margin was 49%. H1 revenue is up 39.6% at $35.7 billion. The company is holding cash of $43.7 billion. For Q3 the company expects revenue of between $19.8 billion and $20.6 ...
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Funding into commercial fusion has accelerated in the last 12 months, according to a report from the Fusion Industry Association. The industry-wide survey – part of an EC-funded study on fusion energy development, has found that more than $4.8 billion of investment was declared by private fusion companies since this time last year, a 139% rise since ...
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With supply and demand imbalanced and inventory high, driver ICs are expected to fall 8-10% in Q3, says TrendForce, and prices may keep dropping for the rest of the year. Chinese panel driver IC vendors are the ones most willing to drop prices furthest offering falls of 10-15%. Despite sluggish demand in the terminal market ...
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Under a contract with U.S. Space Systems Command, BAE Systems is delivering its Miniature Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver Engine – M-Code (MPE-M) to German military forces. Germany is the first country outside the U.S. to receive such jamming-resistant, advanced M-Code GPS receivers, said the company. Providing precise geolocation and positioning information, they are aimed at ...
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Siemens Digital Industries Software has announced a range of expanded EDA early design verification functionalities for its Calibre platform. The new capabilities can help IC designers “shift left” their physical and circuit verification tasks by moving the identification, analysis, and resolution of complex SoC physical verification issues into earlier stages of the design and verification ...
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Diodes has announced precision bi-directional current monitors in a 2.2 x 2.2mm package. Called the ZXCT199 series, they are rail-to-rail voltage output type devices with gains of 50V/V, 100V/V or 200V/V (typically 120dB common-mode rejection). Input is taken across a shunts at common-mode voltages from -0.1V to +26V, independent of the 2.7 to 26V supply ...
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Distributor Saelig has introduced portable oscilloscopes from Micsig, which which have a choice of 200MHz bandwidth (model STO2202C) or 300MHz (STO2302C), and have an 8inch touch screen. Specs include 2Gsample/s (on one channel), 280Mpoints of memory, up to 270,000waveform/s refresh and a battery (7.5Ah) for field use. “This instrument combines a capacitive TFT LCD touch screen ...
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The 68th annual IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting will held from December 3-7 2022 in San Francisco. While the technical program will be announced in the fall, the Plenary Speakers and themes of the Focus Sessions, Tutorials and Short Courses are already set. The conference will be an in-person event, with on-demand access to recorded ...
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Japanese space startup GITAI will be carrying out a demonstration of its space robotics technology demonstration outside International Space Station (ISS) in 2023. Specifically, the company has announced it will demonstrate – working with Nanoracks – the capabilities of its autonomous robot when mounted external to the space station on the Nanoracks Bishop Airlock. Based ...
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Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Shrouk El-Attar, a Lead Senior Electronics Engineer at emm Technology . Achievement Shrouk ...
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Siemens Digital has introduced Symphony Pro to extend Symphony’s mixed-signal verification capabilities to support new and advanced Accellera standardised verification methodologies with a visual debug cockpit with claimed productivity improvements of up to 10x. Automotive, imaging, IoT, 5G, computing and storage applications are driving strong demand for greater analogue and mixed-signal content in SoCs. Mixed-signal ...
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Kudelski IoT has announced a secure enclave intellectual property portfolio for integration into system ICs. When integrated, it is capable of “enabling compliance with most common industry security standards including NIST, FIPS, PSA and SESIP Level 3”, according to the company. Resulting hardware will be able to protect and manage keys, according to the company, ...
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CUI Devices has introduced ultrasonic transducers with ingress protection ratings of IP67 or IP68, operating up to 400kHz. There are 18 models, with beam angle spanning 7° to 80° and operational distance ranging from 30mm to 15m. “With combined transmit and receive functions in a single package, engineers can benefit from a simplified ultrasonic sensor ...
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Cambridge-based Agile Analog has announced RC oscillator intellectual property for IC designers. Called ‘agileOSC RC’, it “is based on a traditional architecture which allows the frequency to be trimmed to remove the effects of process variation,” according to the company. It can also be configured as a free running clock where a high accuracy clock is ...
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Are Micron and the Taiwanese semi suppliers the canaries in the coal mine? asks IC Insights adding that they could be early warning signs of a turning point in the semiconductor industry cycle becoming more evident. On June 30, 2022, Micron, the third largest memory supplier in the world, reported its fiscal 3Q results that ended ...
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Researchers at the Politecnico di Milano, Stanford University, the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa and the University of Glasgow have found a way to separate and distinguish optical beams even if they are superimposed and the form in which they arrive at their destination is drastically changed and unknown. This operation is made possible by a programmable ...
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For the Elektra Awards 2022 – which is their twentieth year – we have extended the entry deadline to Thursday 28 July, which gives you more time to get your entries in. The awards evening highlights and celebrates the best achievements in the UK and European electronics market. Enter for the Elektra Awards 2022 » ...
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Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Tom Culley, a Networks Degree Apprentice at BT. Achievement Tom, we were told ...
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ST and GlobalFoundries are to build a 300mm fab at Crolles. The fab will support a range of technologies, including FDSOI, down to 18nm. There will be significant financial support from France for the project which is said to be costing $4 billion. The fab is targeted to ramp to full capacity by 2026, with up ...
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Imec has presented options to reduce the metal line resistance at tight metal pitches, mitigating the resistance/capacitance (RC) increase of future interconnects using direct metal patterning. For the first time, high aspect ratio (AR=6) processing of ruthenium (Ru) in a semi-damascene fashion is experimentally shown to result in about 40% resistance reduction without sacrificing area. ...
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SiTime, the timing specialist, has opened SiTimeDirect – an online store to ship fully-customized precision timing devices; most ship as fast as 48 hours. With over 150 billion configurations available due to SiTime’s programmability, engineers get exactly what they want, when they want it. “Engineers can configure their exact specification online, get the part shipped in 48 ...
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CELUS, which uses AI to streamline circuit board engineering, has raised a €25M Series A funding round led by Earlybird Venture Capital, with participation from 2xN Venture, DI Capital and existing investors Speedinvest and Plug and Play. The following individuals also participated in the oversubscribed round and will be forming CELUS’ advisory board: Sir John ...
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SaxaVord Spaceport, in the Shetland Islands, has completed a test exercise at its site, up to the point of launch. Dubbed “Operation Freya”, it was intended to allow for a full testing of processes and procedures that are being developed for eventual spaceflight later this year. Specifically the spaceport is on the Lamba Ness peninsula ...
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May semiconductor sales were up 18% y-o-y at $51.8 billion compared to the May 2021 total of $43.9 billion and up 1.8% on April’s $50.9 billion, saysthe SIA. “Global demand for semiconductors remained high in May, with year-to-year sales increasing strongly across all major regional markets and product categories,” says SIA CEO John Neuffer, “continuing ...
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There has been a wave of foundry order cancellations for PMIC, CIS, and certain MCU and SoC orders, says Trend Force. Foundries are beginning to feel the strain of cancellations and capacity utilisation rates have declined. There has been a sustained downgrade of driver IC demand and inventory adjustment has begun for smartphones, PCs, and ...
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SatixFy, a UK manufacturer of electronic systems for communications over satellite, has demonstrated a 5G link through a LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellite constellation. Using its compact fully electronically steered multi-beam multi-orbit antenna terminal, the Farnborough-based company described it as the first ever demonstration of a high-speed, low-latency link with a LEO constellation incorporating ...
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Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Sarah Cooper, who is a Senior Hardware Engineer at Leonardo. Achievement Sarah has ...
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RISC-V simulation company Imperas Software has announced a partnership with Breker Verification Systems, a provider of test content synthesis for verification environments, to develop interfaces and standards to unify functional verification design flows. “RISC-V represents an inflection point for semiconductor verification as the design freedoms provided by the open instruction set architecture means an assumption ...
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French research lab CAE-Leti has developed a sonic event-driven object-localisation system using analogue in-memory neuromorphic computation, inspired by a barn owl’s brain. “Real-world sensory-processing applications require compact, low-latency, and low-power computing systems,” according to CEA-Leti. “Enabled by their in-memory, event-driven computing abilities, hybrid memristive-CMOS neuromorphic architectures provide an ideal hardware substrate for such tasks.” It combines ...
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The New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE) has announced a scholarship totalling £5,000 for every woman who will be joining their undergraduate Master’s Degree in Integrated Engineering. The programme for this course will begin in September 2022. The aim of the scholarship – dubbed ‘She/Her=Future Engineer’ is to attract more women into engineering ...
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Review Display Systems (RDS) of Westerham, currently celebrating its 40th anniversary, has introduced a 3.5-inch subcompact SBC from AAEON. The GENE-TGU6 features the latest 11th Generation Intel Core i7, i5, i3 and Celeron SoC processors. Additional on-board features are designed to support digital signage, automation, AI processing and Edge IoT applications. Featuring mechanical dimensions of ...
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Micron has announced commercial and industrial channel partner availability of Micron DDR5 server DRAM in support of industry qualification of next-generation Intel and AMD DDR5 server and workstation platforms. The move to DDR5 memory enables up to an 85% increase in system performance over DDR4 DRAM. The memory maximises performance for AI, HPC and data-intensive ...
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With global demand for EVs growing at pace, the race is on for battery innovators to avert a supply crisis due to shortages of various elements found in the earth’s crust, such as nickel, cobalt and lithium, writes Ben Palmer, a partner and patent attorney at Withers & Rogers. Diminished availability of these much-needed raw ...
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BEC Distribution has announced the availability of Euro-style low-voltage PCB terminal blocks with screw or push fixings. They are intended to be alternatives to products from better known manufacturers such as Phoenix Contact, Sauro, PTR, Euroclamp or Stelvio Kontek. “The terminal blocks are available on short lead times, with many ex-stock,” according to the Buckinghamshire-based ...
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Nexperia has released 20V and 30V mosfets in DFN0603-3 (SOT8013), “the smallest DFN package”, it said. The company already offers ESD protection devices in the 0.63 x 0.33 x 0.25mm package. “Next generation wearable and hearable devices are creating several challenges for product designers,” it said. “Firstly, available board space is at a premium as ...
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QuiX Quantum, the Dutch quantum processor specialist, has raised a €5.5 million Seed Round investment from PhotonDelta, FORWARD.one and Oost NL. The funding is the first major investment by PhotonDelta since it secured €1.1 billion in investment to expand the Dutch photonics ecosystem. QuiX’s processors are widely used in photonic quantum processing due to their ...
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ASML is under pressure from the US to stop selling DUV immersion lithography tools to China. The company is already banned from selling EUV tools to China. Being the main workhorse litho tool, a DUV ban will have more effect on China’s plans to expand its chip industry than the EUV ban. Apart from Yangtze ...
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VIAVI has published the details of a recent O-RAN PlugFest VIAVI and Rohde & Schwarz partnered on O-RAN Fronthaul (OFH) conformance and 3GPP pre-conformance testing of O-RUs from Foxconn and other vendors. They also jointly validated an O-RU reference design with components from Analog Devices and Intel. The combined testbed includes the VIAVI TM500 O-RU Tester and ...
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The Current Sensor Simulator from Melexis simplifies the design and implementation of current-sensing solutions using the company’s proprietary IMC-Hall technology. This tool enables customers to make the right decisions about device and shield selection. The Current Sensor Simulator is a web application for rapidly selecting sensors from the company’s IMC-Hall portfolio. This interactive tool significantly accelerates ...
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Astrocast, the Swiss nanosatellite IoT network operator, has announced a partnership with ArrowSpot, a supply chain logistics specialist. The agreement will see Astrocast integrating its Satellite IoT (SatIoT) technology into ArrowSpot’s tracking devices and its ArroWatch application. Specifically, Astrocast’s technology will be in ArrowSpot’s new ArrowTrack SAT device (pictured), which combines cellular and satellite communication ...
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Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Mihai Ciortuz, an IC Engineer at Crypto Quantique. Achievement His nominator, from Crypto ...
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MicroSys Electronics announced a module built around NXP’s S32G3 vehicle network processor at Embedded World 2022. Intended for real-time mixed-critical safety applications, “thanks to the NXP S32G3 processor, the MPX-S32G399A system-on-module surpasses its NXP S32G2-based predecessor with 2.5 times more application processing performance,” according to MicroSys. Improvements include eight Arm Cortex-A53 cores instead of four, ...
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Today the EU is expected to announce its strategy for promoting startups which are pursuing significant technological innovation – dubbed deep-tech. “Europe needs to draw in institutional investors to invest in deep-tech innovations,” says Mariya Gabriel, the commissioner in charge of research and innovation, “increasing the proportion of European capital invested in innovative companies and ...
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Infineon has bought the Romanian chip verification and design specialist NoBug. By acquiring NoBug, Infineon is adding to its ability build IoT infrastructure enabling cybersecurity, AI and machine learning as well as connectivity. NoBug brings along specialized expertise in the digital verification of complex SoCs. Now with over 500 R&D engineers, Infineon Romania has become one of ...
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Q3 DRAM ASPs are expected to show a 5-10% fall q-o-q, says TrendForce, With average PC DRAM inventory levels at more than two months, unless a huge price incentive exists, there is no urgent demand for procurement and the Q3=price of PC DRAM is forecast to fall 5-10% q-o-q. Server DRAM clients have 7-8 weeks ...
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The success of a recent Virgin Orbit mission brings the first UK launch of satellites a step closer. On Saturday 2 July, Virgin Orbit successfully completed its fourth satellite delivery mission, which was a night launch from Mojave in California via Cosmic Girl, a modfied Boeing 747. It was seen as a preliminary stage before ...
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Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Nishika Chettry, an MEng Student at Aston University, who is also working as ...
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The FingerTip FTG2-SLP touchscreen controller from ST enables advanced features to support AMOLEDs. The device supports both synchronous and asynchronous display operations. This gives the OEMs the ability to maintain seamless user interactions as the refresh rate changes dynamically. The controller is also suitable for smartphones with flexible AMOLED displays that integrate the touch-sensitive panel directly ...
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The Translational Research Hub (TRH), designed to foster collaboration between industry and scientists, has officially opened at Cardif University. It is the home of the Institute for Compound Semiconductors (ICS) and Cardiff Catalysis Institute (CCI), and was funded by UK and Welsh governments – including £17.3m through UKRPIF, £12m from Welsh Government, £13.1m in European ...
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Inec has presented a scalable neural readout IC featuring one of the world’s smallest recording channels for the simultaneous acquisition of local field potentials and action potentials in neurophysiology experiments. The chip is based on a novel AC-coupled 1st order delta-delta-sigma (Δ-ΔΣ) architecture that enables the conversion to the digital domain very close to the weak ...
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The National Epitaxy Facility, a collaboration between the Universities of Sheffield, Cambridge and UCL for semiconductor R&D, has been awarded a further £12 million in funding. The funding, from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), is to enable semiconductor research and development, in both UK academia and industry, over the next five years. Sheffield University says ...
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Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Virginia Cangelosi, an Electrical and Electronics Engineering Student at the University of Edinburgh. ...
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Harwin has announced an addition to its Datamate family of 2mm-pitch high-reliability (Hi-Rel) connectors. The Datamate pin-in-hole reflow (PIHR) products have been engineered to give designers a reliable solution that is highly suited to automated assembly. Part of the company’s Datamate L-Tek series, these connectors feature a locking latch. Compared to the standard Datamate connectors, ...
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Melexis has launched the MLX90381 AEC-Q100/ISO 26262 compliant pico-resolver for industrial and automotive applications. Its DFN-6 (2 mm x 2.5 mm) package enables sensored mechatronic miniaturization. This ASIL-ready solution is programmable at module level and is best suited to rotor position detection. This device combines the advantages of a small outline and reliable analog outputs ...
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Berkshire Asic design consultancy Sondrel has recruited industry veteran Gareth Jones, with over 25 years of asic and foundry experience, to head up its asic services. Jones (pictured) joins from TSMC where he was EMEA director of marketing. “Gareth has the perfect set of skills to drive the expansion of our turn-key asic services,” said ...
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