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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New trends in semiconductors bring fresh challenges and innovative solutions. Next-generation SoCs are designed for electronic systems that require higher levels of reliability, safety, performance, and security. The end products have already been subject to product lifecycle management (PLM), pioneered by Siemens, which helps to trace and manage the entire lifecycle of a product from ...
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The Intel Foundry Services (IFS) Cloud Alliance which enables design facilities in the cloud and optimised EDA tools while meeting the requirements of Intel’s PDKs, now consists of AWS, Microsoft Azure, Ansys, Cadence, Siemens EDA and Synopsys. “By leveraging the scalability of cloud-based design environments, the IFS Cloud Alliance will enable broader access to Intel’s ...
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Avio, the Italian aerospace engine specialist, has won contracts worth €338 million from the Italian government to boost the country’s space industry and liquid propulsion expertise. They are the first two contracts of Italy’s implementation of the “Next Gen EU” initiatives for Space – with the European Space Agency (ESA) as the official Contracting Authority – ...
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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 Daisy Bristow, a student at the University of the West of England, and a ...
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ROHM is sampling ISO 26262 and ASIL-B compliant PMICs, BD868xxMUF-C (BD868C0MUF-C, BD868D0MUF-C), for automotive camera modules that are increasingly being adopted in ADAS. Shipments Of OEM quantities start August. These ICs are ‘FS (Functional safety) process compliant’ products (the highest grade), indicating compliance with the ISO 26262 standard. Meeting the requirements for functional safety allows these ...
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Power Integrations has unveiled new control software for three-phase BLDC motor drives. Combined with Power Integrations’ BridgeSwitch integrated half-bridge motor driver and Motor- Expert configuration and diagnostics tool, this hardware-software solution claims to enable 98.2% efficiency, reduce board space by more than 70% and requires on,y three components for current feedback circuitry, compared to 30 components in ...
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The top five MPU suppliers took their market share to 86% in 2021, says IC Insights, with Intel edging closer to half the total sales in microprocessors. Total microprocessor sales are expected to maintain double-digit percentage growth in 2022, rising nearly 12% to a record-high $114.8 billion, thanks to higher ASPs. Total MPU sales grew ...
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The US and its allies are squeezing the Russians by denying them technology, said the US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo (pictured) earlier this week. “Since the controls were put in place, global exports of semiconductors to Russia from all sources have declined by almost 90 percent,” said Raimondo, “leaving Russian companies without the chips ...
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May’s menory inventory in Korea rose by its highest amount in four years, says Statistics Korea. Memory inventory rose 53.4% in May from a year earlier, the statistics office said yesterday. A 54.1% gain in March 2018 coincided with a slowdown in revenue growth in the memory chip industry. Chip stockpiles have been rising on ...
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded a contract to Airbus in the UK to build its Earth Explorer FORUM satellite, due to launch in 2027. The deal is worth €160 million. Airbus in Stevenage will lead the development of the satellite, with Airbus in Germany responsible for the Instrument signal detection chain, and Airbus ...
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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 Simon Betts, a MEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering student at Cardiff University. Achievement ...
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The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today published “Wi-Fi 6/6E for Industrial IoT. The paper can be downloaded here: “Wi-Fi 6/6E for Industrial IoT: Enabling Wi-Fi Determinism in an IoT World.” Produced by the WBA’s Wi-Fi 6/6E for IIOT work group, led by Cisco, Deutsche Telekom and Intel the white paper provides an overview of Wi-Fi 6 ...
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Foundry capacity will increase by 14% in 2022, says TrendForce. 8-inch capacity will grow 6% annually, while 12-inch capacity will grow 18% annually. About 65% of new 12-inch capacity will be in mature processes (28nm and above) with an annual growth rate of 20%. Most foundries will focus on 12-inch wafer production capacity, with the ...
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Weebit Nano has taped out demonstration chips integrating its ReRAM module at SkyWater. This is the first tape-out of Weebit’s ReRAM technology to a production fab and is a major milestone toward commercialisation. The technology will be available on SkyWater’s 130nm CMOS process, which is suitable for applications such as analogue, power management, automotive, IoT ...
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Intel Labs has demo-ed an eight-wavelength DFB laser array integrated on a silicon wafer which delivers output power uniformity of +/- 0.25 decibel (dB) and wavelength spacing uniformity of ±6.5%. This enables the production of the optical source with the required performance for future high-volume applications, such as co-packaged optics and optical compute interconnect for emerging network-intensive workloads including ...
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SiFive has opened a UK R&D centre in Cambridge. The company plans to hire over 100 people. “As part of our global expansion, we’re proud to open our UK R&D Centre in Cambridge to access the considerable local technical talent, especially CPU experts,” said Patrick Little, CEO and Chairman, SiFive, “with long-term plans to grow talent ...
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Leonardo is highlighting a ‘common data environment’ has gone live at its electronics sites across the UK in Edinburgh, Luton, Basildon and Southampton. It promises a more data-driven approach to design and manufacturing, says the company. The goal is to speed up development and cut costs for engineers researching and building technology such as radars ...
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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 Sergio Miguez Aparicio, a MEng Hons Electronics and Computer Science Student, University ...
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Guerrilla RF is sampling the GRF5526 and GRF5536 ¼ W linear power amplifiers. These InGaP HBT amplifiers were designed for 5G wireless infrastructure applications requiring exceptional native linearity over large 100MHz bandwidths and temperature extremes of -40°C to 85°C. Spanning frequency ranges of 2.5–2.7GHz and 3.3-4.2GHz respectively, the GRF5526 and GRF5536 are tuned to operate within the ...
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