Samsung has asked for planning permission for 11 fabs in Texas - two in Austin and nine in Taylor - which would involve a total outlay of about $200 | Continue reading
Germany is prepared to stump up over $5.5 billion in subsidies to secure the Magdeburg site for its $18.7 billion 2nm fab, reports Bloomberg. Intel’s plan | Continue reading
Following the fall in GPU prices which sent Nvidia and AMD shares tumbling, TI has now raised fears that analogue ICs could be headed the same way. TI anno | Continue reading
NASA has chosen Aerojet Rocketdyne, the aerospace and defence rocket engine manufacturer, to build the primary propulsion element for its Orion spacecraft, | Continue reading
A team at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley have built a cobalt-doped van der Waals zinc-o | Continue reading
A team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has designed and commissioned the production of a computer chip that implements post-quantum cryptograph | Continue reading
Electro-hydraulic motion, the mechanism behind the Venus fly trap's ability to catch insects, could power soft robots, according to the University of Color | Continue reading
Apple and Intel will be the first customers for TSMC’s 3nm process, reports the Nikkei, with Intel securing the higher volume. The process is due to enter | Continue reading
Murata will begin mass-producing solid-state batteries in the autumn. “We will start production in small quantities in the first half of the year ending Ma | Continue reading
LG has pulled out of the smartphone market after losing $4.5 billion in six years. A statement from the company reads: ‘LG Electronics Inc. (LG) announced | Continue reading
The European Space Agency (ESA) is anticipating a new era of in-space servicing activities to prolong mission lifetimes, such as refuelling, refurbishment, | Continue reading
Lip movement and hand gestures could be combined with sonic information to improve hearing aids, according to a research project led by University of Wolve | Continue reading
Scientists at the University of Tokyo have combined biological smell sensors with an electrochemical electrode system to make a smell sensor. "The sensor c | Continue reading
The NSF (National Science Foundation) in America has provided a report to the US Congress concerning the collapsed Arecibo Observatory and options for futu | Continue reading
The top-10 fastest growing IC segments forecast for this year are shown in Figure 1. Each of the top-10 growing IC product categories is expected to see a | Continue reading
Microwave cookers are about to change as magnetrons are replaced by more flexible solid-state energy sources - or so says RF power transistor maker Ampleon | Continue reading
The fifth in our Friday weekly series on the invention of the microprocessor is an account of how, after getting the world's first microprocessor, the 4004 | Continue reading
Tokyo University of Science researchers have built a chip-based quantum annealing processor that can solve the classically thorny 'travelling salesman' mat | Continue reading
Microchip detailed an FPGA family with a quad core 64bit RISC-V processor alongside the programmable array. Called 'PolarFire SoC', the "architecture bring | Continue reading
SiFive has raised $65.4 million in a Series D funding round in which Qualcomm participated. Qualcomm is one of Arm’s biggest customers so, by taking a stak | Continue reading
Infineon is to buy Cypress in a transaction which should create a company with over $10 billion in revenue and take the No.8 position in the semiconductor | Continue reading
Q3 chip revenues grew 7.4% q-o-q, says IHS, reaching a record $129 billion. Samsung took 16.2% market share, followed by Intel at 14.5% and Hynix at 7.8%. | Continue reading
The Qualcomm-NXP takeover deal could have been back on the cards following the G20 meeting between Presidents Trump and Xi. The $44 billion deal fell throu | Continue reading
A flexible sensor can map blood oxygen levels over large areas of skin, tissue and organs. | Continue reading
Brainchip, the Australian spiking neural networks (SNN) specialist, is looking at sampling its first SoC incorporating its Akida SNN IP in Q3 2019. The chi | Continue reading
RS Components has some information on HiFive1 - and Arduino-compatible board with a RISC-V processor on its website, written by Andrew Black of the Free an | Continue reading
Arthur C Clarke’s concept of a space elevator could start to be realised by experiments beginning next month by a Japanese university and construction comp | Continue reading
French semiconductor lab Leti has used deep etching to created micro injection needles for Swiss firm Debiotech. | Continue reading
Check out a high intensity full-colour LED video wall module with emitters on a 1mm pitch, the result of a four-year project between German industry and academia, dubbed InteGreat. | Continue reading
Ferroelectric Memory Company (FMC) of Dresden has raised € 4.6 million in a financing round led by eCAPITAL. The funds will enable the company with base in | Continue reading
Q3 will see a new high for DRAM prices, forecasts DRAMeXchange, despite a 3.2% rise in Q2 bit output. DRAMeXchange estimates Q3 bit output growth at 4.8%. | Continue reading
An 8TB NVMe SSD based on the Next-generation Small Form Factor (NGSFF). | Continue reading
Element14 has launched a 6 part bi-weekly BeagleBone webinar series. Presented by Jason Kridner, the co-founder and board member at BeagleBoard.org Foundat | Continue reading
It is reported that Toshiba has received China's approval for its salew of its memory unit to a consortium led by Bain and Hynix. The announcement puts Tos | Continue reading
ARM and Imagination, the former UK IP vendors now owned by Japan and China, are both losing market share, reports IPnest. While half the top ten vendors gr | Continue reading
Q1 DRAM revenue increased 5.4% q-o-q, reports DRAMeXchange. Prices of graphics DRAM products rose 15% Q1. Prices of other DRAM types rose 3-6% Samsung’s Q | Continue reading