Q3 wafer shipments up 6.9% y-o-y
Q3 silicon wafer area shipments fell 0.5% on Q2 to 3,135 million square inches but were up 6.9% from the 2,932 million square inches shipped in Q3 2019, says the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG) in its quarterly analysis of the silicon wafer industry.
This article was posted on Nov 17, 2020Q3 chip sales up 11%
Q3 semiconductor sales were 11% up sequentially at $113.6 billion and up 5.8% y-o-y, says the SIA.
This article was posted on Nov 17, 2020Airbus mission to measure Earth’s reflected light
Airbus has been awarded a climate change space contract to prepare a mission to collect the first ever absolute measurements of the light reflected off Earth’s surface.
This article was posted on Nov 17, 2020250W LDMOS for solid-state cooking and 2.45GHz ISM applications
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This article was posted on Nov 17, 2020‘Largest IPO in human history’ called off
The ‘largest IPO in human history’ – Ant Group’s $37bn public offering in Shanghai and Hong Kong – has been suspended by Chinese regulators.
This article was posted on Nov 17, 2020Electronica: Maxim majors on industrial automation with new parts and designs
Maxim has announced a suite of integrated circuits and reference designs for industrial automation using IO-Link communications.
This article was posted on Nov 16, 2020Smiths adds to L Series connectors
Smiths Interconnect has extended its L Series of modular connectors with the addition of two new types – fibre optic and pneumatic.
This article was posted on Nov 16, 2020Murata introduces tiny DC/DC converters
Murata has introduced the UltraBK family of compact, low-profile, fully integrated DC/DC converters.
This article was posted on Nov 16, 2020Infineon extends Optiga Trust for wireless charging
Infineon is extending its OPTIGA Trust product family with a dedicated solution for secured inductive charging Which is sampling now.
This article was posted on Nov 16, 2020Space engineering apprenticeship scheme
England’s first Space Engineering Technician apprenticeship will be available to students from January 2021
This article was posted on Nov 16, 2020Farnell shipping fully enclosed $100 Raspberry Pi computer
Farnell is shipping a fully enclosed Raspberry Pi 400 desktop computer which integrates the keyboard and electronic components into a fully-enclosed compact unit and is available in six language variants.
This article was posted on Nov 16, 2020Hands on Raspberry Pi 400 – your favourite little computer inside a keyboard
Electronics Weekly has been trying out a Raspberry Pi 400 for a few days, and can report that it really is a desktop replacement for writing documents, editing photos and general web use.
This article was posted on Nov 16, 2020Volvo and Daimler form fuel cell jv
The Volvo Group and Daimler Truck AG have now a signed binding agreement for a joint venture to develop, produce and commercialize fuel-cell systems for use in heavy-duty trucks as the primary focus, as well as other applications.
This article was posted on Nov 16, 2020UK design: 30bn transistor chip tapes out at Sondrel
Berkshire-based Sondrel has tape-out of its largest chip design for a customer – with a 500mm2 footprint, over 30 billion transistors, 40 million flip-flops, and 23 thousand pads for I/O, power and ground.
This article was posted on Nov 16, 2020COM-HPC supercomputer-on-module evaluation kit
Advantech is to offer a COM-HPC evaluation kit in the fourth quarter of 2020, with a server pin-out equipped with Intel Xeon D processor.
This article was posted on Nov 16, 2020Leti to build entangled photon comms system
CEA-Leti today announced plans to build a quantum-photonics system for hack-proof communications.
This article was posted on Nov 12, 2020Electronica goes virtual
Electronica will take place digitally for the first time from November 9 to 12, 2020.
This article was posted on Nov 12, 2020Floadia raises $11.5m Series C
Floadia, the Tokyo-based Renesas spin-out specialising in embedded non-volatile memory IP, has raised $11.5 million in a Series C financing round.
This article was posted on Nov 12, 2020Kioxia to start building Fab 7 In the Spring
Kioxia is to start buildIng a new fab, Fab 7, at its Yokkaichi site in Spring 2021.
This article was posted on Nov 12, 2020Untether AI rethinks Von Neumann architecture for AI inference accelerator cards
AI chip provider, Untether AI, has based its tsunAImi accelerator cards on its runAI200 chips, which, the company claims, are the first at-memory computation engines. They offer up to 8TOPS/W efficiency to deliver more than twice the computation rates of any other PCIe card, says the company.
This article was posted on Nov 12, 2020Stronger haptic feedback for unambiguous automotive control
Alps Alpine has revealed more about its high-power haptic vibrator, following Dialog Semi’s announcment of the driver chip inside it yesterday.
This article was posted on Nov 12, 2020