Curiosity completes a decade on Mars
Last week Curiosity completed a decade on Mars.
This article was posted on Aug 15, 2022The 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, 2022Protonic 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, 2022Nexeon 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, 2022More 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, 2022First-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, 20221GHz 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, 2022Optical 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, 202228mm 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, 2022Fanless 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, 2022Man U and Qualcomm hook up
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processor will create ‘unique events and experiences’ for Manchester United fans, according to Man U.
This article was posted on Aug 12, 2022Hynix has 238-layer NAND
Hynix says it has developed a 238 layer NAND and will put it into volune production in H1 2023.
This article was posted on Aug 11, 2022Infineon forecasts a €14bn revenue year
Infineon had calendar Q2 revenue of €3.618 billion, up 10% on calendar Q1 and up 33% y-o-y for a profit of €842 million at a margin of 23.3%. Free cash flow was €440 million
This article was posted on Aug 11, 2022Dissimilar 2D materials stack harmoniously to turn photons into electrons
The interfaces in assemblies of 2D materials could produce opto-electronics devices, according to Monash University in Australia, which is designing them using density functional theory (DFT) based band-structure modelling.
This article was posted on Aug 11, 2022500W dc-dc converters power 12 or 24V loads from traction batteries
Recom has launched a range of 500W IP-67-enclosed dc-dc converters for powering loads from off-highway electric vehicle batteries.
This article was posted on Aug 11, 2022700V ac-dc ICs deliver down to 3.3V and up to 8W
Renesas has unveiled a family of 700V buck regulators that can deliver as little as 3.3V and as much as 8W from the mains.
This article was posted on Aug 11, 2022Element14 launches gesture recognition challenge
element14 has launched the Experimenting with Gesture Sensors Design Challenge.
This article was posted on Aug 11, 2022EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: Sarah Keane
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 11, 2022Memory supply bits grow faster than demand bits
DRAM market demand bit growth will be 8.3% in 2023 – sub-10% for the first time in history – while supply-side bit growth will be approximately 14.1%, says TrendForce.
This article was posted on Aug 11, 2022India 5G auction raises $19bn
72Ghz of spectrum was up for auction in India’s 5G airwaves sale and 71% of it has been sold for $19 billion.
This article was posted on Aug 10, 2022Hynix has 238-layer NAND
Hynix says it has developed a 238 layer NAND and will put it into volune production in H1 2023.
This article was posted on Aug 10, 2022