Q4 EDA revenues up 14%
Q4 Electronic System Design (ESD) industry revenue increased 14% to $4,423 million from the $3,879.9 million of Q3, according to SEMI’s Electronic Design Market Data (EDMD)report.
This article was posted on Apr 22, 2024Lockheed Martin invests in Q5D
Q5D Technology, a company specialising in tools for automating wiring harness manufacture, has closed a $3 million investment round led by Lockheed Martin.
This article was posted on Apr 22, 2024The 007 Contract
Huawei is building a $1.66 billion R&D complex in Shanghai as big as 224 football pitches to develop chip manufacturing equipment, reports the Nikkei.
This article was posted on Apr 22, 2024Sponsored Content: Five tips for predicting component temperatures
Historically, component temperature has been correlated with reliability, with early studies relating field failure rates to steady-state component temperature.
This article was posted on Apr 22, 2024Samsung gets $6.4bn Chips Act money
Samsung has been awarded $6.4 billion in direct funding under the Chips and Science Act. The company is investing $40 billion in Texas to make 4nm and 2nm chips.
This article was posted on Apr 22, 2024More on: Completely integrated inductive proximity switch IC
Last week Belgian fabless chip company Melexis announced a unique inductive sensing IC that includes a tiny transformer, drive circuit and sense circuit, so Electronics Weekly decided to have a closer look.
This article was posted on Apr 22, 2024Appointments: Lacey is first COO at Integrated Graphene, Midsummer co-founder steps up to CEO
Andrew Lacey is to fill the newly-created COO position at Integrated Graphene, a company built around a carbon-based electro-active material it brands ‘Gii’.
This article was posted on Apr 22, 2024UK quantum computing companies advised Go East
A new report is highlighting opportunities for UK quantum computing companies in Japan.
This article was posted on Apr 22, 2024Insight SiP launches BLE/WiFi6 module
Insight SiP, the miniature RF module developer, has launched its ISP5261 Wi-Fi 6 module.
This article was posted on Apr 22, 2024Siemens to acquire EBM-Papst’ industrial drive business
Siemens has signed an agreement to acquire the industrial drive business of EBM-Papst, for an undisclosed sum.
This article was posted on Apr 2, 2024The good and bad of red phosphorus anodes
Red phosphorus is a potential anode material for lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries, but like sodium itself, its positive values are counter-balanced by considerable challenges.
This article was posted on Apr 2, 20241.6Tbit/s Ethernet measurement demonstration
Keysight Technologies and Credo Semiconductor have demonstrated IEEE P802.3dj draft specification compliant 1.6Tbit/s Ethernet measurements for full line rate Layer 2 Ethernet traffic in hardware.
This article was posted on Apr 2, 2024Diamond CMOS at last?
P-channel diamond mosfets have been made many times because the carbon bulk can be doped with boron, or surface hydrogen can pull appropriate carriers into the channel.
This article was posted on Apr 2, 2024Four UK tech companies chosen for UK-APAC Tech Growth Programme
Four UK technology companies – including a space situational awareness specialist – have been selected to receive support from the UK-APAC Tech Growth Programme, to help accelerate plans for expansion in Japan.
This article was posted on Apr 2, 2024300mm front-end equipment sales to top $100bn in 2025
300mm fab equipment spending for front-end facilities is forecast to top $100 billion next year and reach €137 billion in 2027, says SEMI.
This article was posted on Apr 2, 2024Synopsys buys Intrinsic
Synopsys has bought Intrinsic ID, the provider of Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) IP for SoCs.
This article was posted on Apr 2, 2024Financing the chip business
U.S. President Biden announced on Wednesday an agreement to provide Intel with $8.5 billion in direct funding and $11 billion in loans under the CHIPS and Science Act, reports Semiconductor Intelligence (SI). Intel will use the funding for wafer fabs in Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico, and Oregon.
This article was posted on Apr 2, 20241mm Hall-effect switches need only 1μA at 1.1 – 2V
Diodes has created a trio of tiny magnetic field triggered sensors that operate from low-voltage rails between 1.1 and 2V.
This article was posted on Apr 2, 2024Additive allows perovskite solar cells to be made in the open air
Perovskite solar cells can be made in the open air rather than in an inert atmosphere, according to an international research team.
This article was posted on Apr 2, 2024Suppliers to TSMC and Intel Arizona fabs delay plant construction
Five companies which were building facilities to supply TSMC and Intel’s new fabs in Arizona have halted construction plans, reports the Nikkei.
This article was posted on Mar 28, 2024Saudi Arabia plans to muscle in on AI
Saudi Arabia plans to invest in AI with an investment plan estimated to be around $40bn, according to a report in the New York Times. The announcement was made in the same week as Nvidia held its developer conference in San Jose, California, which it billed as a conference “for the era of AI”.
This article was posted on Mar 28, 2024