MCU adds EtherCAT and other time-sensitive Ethernet to industrial equipment

Renesas is aiming a set of microcontrollers at industrial equipment needing real-time Ethernet control.

This article was posted on Aug 16, 2022

Gradient doping improves triboelectric nano-generators

Graduated charge-confinement could be the key to much improved triboelectric nano-generators (TENGs), according to the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology and Chonnam National University in Korea, which have been working on suitable structures.

This article was posted on Aug 16, 2022

Henkel and CITC to co-develop high-thermal die attach

Henkel and Chip Integration Technology Center (CITC) have agreed to collaborate on the development of high-thermal die attach solutions for RF and power electronics.

This article was posted on Aug 16, 2022

Oxylabs launches free web data scraping service

Oxylabs, the Lithuanian data gathering site providing public web data scraping solutions, has launched “Project 4β” – dedicated to solving critical research questions and missions.

This article was posted on Aug 16, 2022

US may ban export of GAA EDA to China

The US is about to impose a ban on the selling of EDA software for ICs based on gate all-around transistors, reports the Protocol web-site.

This article was posted on Aug 16, 2022

Italy may pay 40% of Intel assembly plant cost

Italy looks like following the example of Germany and paying 40% of the cost of an Intel plant.

This article was posted on Aug 15, 2022

Yangtze announces 232-layer NAND

Yangtze Memory says it has a 232-layer NAND putting it on the same technological level as Micron and LG who announced, respectively, 232-level and 238-level devices last week.

This article was posted on Aug 15, 2022

Intel cancels N3 orders; TSMC pares back N3 expansion

Intel is cancelling the bulk of its orders from TSMC for N3 wafers in 2023 because of design and verification delays on the GPU tile for the Meteor Lake mobile processor, reports TrendForce.

This article was posted on Aug 15, 2022

CamGraPhic raises £800k

GamGraPhic, a Cambridge University spin-out, has raised £813,475 from Wealth Club clients through the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS).

This article was posted on Aug 15, 2022

EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: Sharon Kudenko

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.

This article was posted on Aug 15, 2022

MediaTek and UniSoc make gains in AP market

The global smartphone applications processor (AP) market grew 35% to $8.9 billion in Q1 2, according to Strategy Analytics (SA).

This article was posted on Aug 15, 2022

Curiosity completes a decade on Mars

Last week Curiosity completed a decade on Mars.

This article was posted on Aug 15, 2022

The next 20 years of IC evolution

At the recent Imec Technology Forum in San Francisco, Imec CEO Luc Van den hove laid out a 20 year roadmap for the evolution if semiconductor technology.

This article was posted on Aug 15, 2022

Protonic gate spintronics – a tool for low-power ‘electronics’ beyond CMOS?

Electric gate-controlled exchange-bias effect in van der Waals heterostructures has been has observed for the first time, according to RMIT University in Australia, which describes the effect as “a promising platform for future energy-efficient, beyond-CMOS electronics”.

This article was posted on Aug 15, 2022

Nexeon raises £90m

Nexeon, the Oxfordshire battery materials supplier, has raised £90 million, taking its total funding to £170 million.

This article was posted on Aug 12, 2022

More optically-active 2D heterostructures from Monash University

Monash University as been looking into stacks of differing 2D materials with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, yesterday revealing tuneable photon absoption from perovskites layered with transition metal dichalcogenides.

This article was posted on Aug 12, 2022

First-ever June decline in chip market

The IC market recorded its first-ever June sequential sales decline this year, based on data from WEMA, SIA, and WSTS dating back to 1976, reports IC Insights.

This article was posted on Aug 12, 2022

1GHz MCU for RTOS applications with complex HMIs

Renesas is aiming at applications that need a fast RTOS (real-time operating system) as well as a sophisticated user interface with a group of microcontrollers built around a single 1GHz 64bit Arm Cortex-A55 core.

This article was posted on Aug 12, 2022

Optical spectrum analysers cover 1,000-3,400nm

Yokogawa has launched two optical spectrum analysers that together can cover 1 – 3.4μm for product development and manufacturing.

This article was posted on Aug 12, 2022

28mm SAM9 Arm system-on-module includes dram, flash and Ethernet

Microchip has expunged some of the tricky bits of system design with its ARM926EJ-S based SAM9X60 MPU, by introducing a system-on-module that pre-pairs the processor with 1Gbit of DDR2 dram, a 4Gbit of NAND flash and 1kbit of serial eeprom – on top of the chip’s own 64kbyte of internal sram.

This article was posted on Aug 12, 2022

Fanless box PC runs 4K displays

Display Technology is aiming at driving displays up to 4K x 2K at 60Hz with a fanless box-PC from Aaeon.

This article was posted on Aug 12, 2022