Skywater moves in fab tools
Skywater the US foundry supported by the Department of Defence has started installing tools for its $170 million fab expansion.
This article was posted on Sep 16, 2020Lean mean MCU programming machine works off Raspberry Pi
Roey Benamotz has created the Lean Mean Programming Machine (LEMPA) – an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi that includes all the sockets, jumpers, and indicator LEDs necessary to successfully flash a whole suite of popular MCUs.
This article was posted on Sep 15, 2020Imec develops artificial iris
Imec and CMST (an Imec-affiliated research group at Ghent University), together with their partners the Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Fundación Jiménez Díaz and Imec’s Holst Centre have developed an artificial iris embedded in a smart contact lens.
This article was posted on Sep 15, 2020SEMICON Europa to go digital
SEMICON Europa has decided to go digital this year in the wake of the restrictions on European air travel.
This article was posted on Sep 15, 2020Read the first ever Electronics Weekly online: 7th September 1960
It is Electronics Weekly‘s 60th birthday today, and as part of the celebration we have had the very first edition scanned so that you can enjoy it.
This article was posted on Sep 15, 2020Government invests in XMOS
The government made a $6.4 million loan to XMOS earlier this year, reports the Telegraph.
This article was posted on Sep 15, 2020Rohm appoints Isao Matsumoto as President and CEO
Rohm Semiconductor has appointed Isao Matsumoto as its new President and Chief Executive Officer.
This article was posted on Sep 15, 2020A Turn Of The Screw
Uncle Sam is tightening the screw on the China tech industry by threatening to add SMIC to the Entity List.
This article was posted on Sep 15, 2020Compact LEDs for headlights
The latest versions of Osram’s Oslon Compact PL and the Oslon Black Flat S LEDs for headlights have been introduced.
This article was posted on Sep 15, 2020Harwin expands Archer Control connector portfolio
Harwin has expanded its Archer Kontrol board-to-board industrial connector portfolio to meet cable-to-board requirements.
This article was posted on Sep 15, 2020Disordered rock salt makes fast-charging anode for li-ion batteries
Researchers at UC San Diego have developed a new anode material that enables lithium-ion batteries to be safely recharged within minutes for thousands of cycles.
This article was posted on Sep 15, 2020Arm’s Cortex-R82 embedded processor for big-memory products
Arm has announced its first 64bit, Linux-capable Cortex-R processor, designed for computational storage solutions.
This article was posted on Sep 14, 2020Better x-ray photon detector for CT scanning
French research lab CEA-Leti has created a novel x-ray photon-counting detector module (PCDM) for CT scanners, based on cadmium telluride (CdTe).
This article was posted on Sep 14, 2020MediaTek sampling 5G CPE chipset
MediaTek is sampling its T750 5G chipset for 5G consumer premise ((CPE) applications like fixed wireless access routers (FWA) and mobile hotspots, to bring 5G connectivity into homes, businesses and anyone on the go.
This article was posted on Sep 14, 2020Eval board to facilitate power electronics projects
Infineon’s CoolSiC MOSFET Modular Application Design Kit (MADK) boards help to shorten time to market in power electronics designs.
This article was posted on Sep 14, 2020July semi sales up 4.9% y-o-y
July semiconductor sales of $35.2 billion were up 4.9% y-o-y and up 21% on June’s $34.5 billion, says the SIA.
This article was posted on Sep 14, 2020A year of two halves
Intel, the largest semiconductor supplier in the world, put its full-year 2020 sales growth guidance at 4% during a discussion of its actual 2Q20 sales results.
This article was posted on Sep 14, 2020‘Game Boy’ runs on button push power
Can something be made to run on the power of its buttons being pushed?
This article was posted on Sep 14, 2020Add noise for clearer signals
Adding just the right amount of noise can improve signal to noise ratio in certain non-linear systems.
This article was posted on Sep 14, 2020Electronica to be virtual
Messe München will hold Electronica 2020 as a virtual event.
This article was posted on Sep 14, 2020GDDR6 to overtake GDDR5 in Q4 driven by the Big 3 producers
GDDR6 graphic DRAM will overtake GDDR5 in Q4 to account for more than 60% of total graphics DRAM bit output, says TrendForce.
This article was posted on Sep 14, 2020