Imec’s sustainable manufacturing programme attracts top partners

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.

This article was posted on Aug 4, 2022

US Chips Act passed

The US Chips Act finally made it through Congress yesterday with the House of Representatives voting 243 to 187 in favour.

This article was posted on Aug 4, 2022

BeagleBone gets ready for AI processing

The BeagleBone organisation has created a 64bit Linux single board computer with AI capability and other hardware accelerators. Eight Top/s of neural-network processing are accessible through Python libraries.

This article was posted on Aug 4, 2022

Stick-on antennas for Bluetooth, Zigbee and Wi-Fi

Linx Technologies has introduced a family of 2.4 GHz adhesive flexible printed circuit antennas for ISM applications including Bluetooth and ZigBee and Wi-Fi.

This article was posted on Aug 4, 2022

Redwire plans PIL-BOX space-based drug manufacturing platform

Redwire, the space infrastructure company, has announced it will be creating a drug development and manufacturing platform for use in space.

This article was posted on Aug 4, 2022

Shielded coax connector

Anglia is stocking a shielded coaxial connector from Hirose aimed automotive and industrial applications.

This article was posted on Aug 3, 2022

Space Foundation sizes global space economy, boosted by gov spending

Research published by the United States-based Space Foundation suggests that the global space economy is now worth $469 billion.

This article was posted on Aug 3, 2022

Bidirectional solar charging turns cars into buffer storage

With bidirectional charging, solar power from a photovoltaic system can be stored in electric cars and fed back into the home grid when needed.

This article was posted on Aug 3, 2022

O-RAN adoption growing

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.

This article was posted on Aug 3, 2022

Micron shipping 232-layer NAND

Micron is shipping 232-layer TLC NAND flash fabbed in Singapore

This article was posted on Aug 3, 2022

Finwave raises $12.2m Series A

3DGaN innovators Finwave Semiconductor today announced a $12.2 million Series A funding round.

This article was posted on Aug 3, 2022

ST looking for a $16bn 2022

ST had Q2 net revenues of $3.84 billion for a gross margin 47.4% an operating margin 26.2% and net income of $867 million

This article was posted on Aug 3, 2022

Economic storm clouds gather

PCs and smartphones are both showing declines in shipments in the first half of 2022, says Semiconductor Intelligence.

This article was posted on Aug 3, 2022

2D material offers novel spin state for spintonics

Students of spintronics have another spin state to add to their tool box: a 2D material hosting a ‘spiral spin liquid’ – in which magnetic spins form fluctuating corkscrew-like structures.

This article was posted on Aug 3, 2022

12 and 30V mosfets in 1mm wafer-level packaging

Nexperia has introduced 30V and 12V n-channel trench mosfets in 1mm packaging.

This article was posted on Aug 2, 2022

Micro ATX carrier board for COM-HPC Client modules sizes A-C

Congatec is aiming at high-end industrial workstations and desktop clients with a Micro ATX-compliant carrier board with a COM-HPC interface – avoiding committing to a specific BGA or LGA processor.

This article was posted on Aug 2, 2022

46inch displays bright enough for outdoor use

Display Technology is offering 46in displays from AUO for outdoor and public information use.

This article was posted on Aug 2, 2022

Metal box three-phase filters

KEMET has announced its new GTX series of metal box three-phase filters.

This article was posted on Aug 2, 2022

EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: Samrudhi Inamdar

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 2, 2022

HawkEye 360 opens RF-sensing satellite manufacturing facility

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.

This article was posted on Aug 2, 2022

Russia to pull out of ISS

Russia is to pull out of the International Space Station (ISS) according to the head of Roscosmos Yury Borisov.

This article was posted on Aug 2, 2022