Following Japan’s hobbling of supplies of photoresist and hydrogen fluoride to Korea’s chip industry, Russia has suggested that it may be able to fill the gap. According to Korea’s Hankyoreh newspaper: “Russia recently communicated to the government through a diplomatic channel that it may be able to supply its hydrogen fluoride to South Korean businesses.” ...
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RF front end component manufacturers are turning to GaAs as their main material of choice, says TrendForce, while 5G will double the number of components needed compared to 4G. Since the frequencies used for telecommunication between phones in the 4G era have already moved to the 1.8-2.7 GHz range, traditional 3G Si RF front end ...
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The ‘power by linear’ LTM4700 µModule regulator from Analog Devices is now available from Mouser Electronics. The step-down switching mode regulator combines high power with energy-efficient performance. LTM4700 µModule regulator is a dual 50A or single 100A step-down DC/DC regulator that incorporates analog control loops, mixed-signal circuitry, power MOSFETs, inductors and supporting components. The module’s ...
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Single-crystal perovskite solar cell efficiency has exceeded 21% at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, which is working on methylammonium lead-triiodide perovskites. The cell is part of a project to harness single-crystal growth as a way of avoiding the defects and restricted charge-carrier diffusion length associated with the polycrystalline thin-films ...
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Swansea University is to get a facility for semiconductor science and engineering, part-funded with £30m from the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund (UKRPIF), plus cash from local industry and Welsh Government sources. To be called the Centre for Integrative Semiconductor Materials (CISM), it will be built at the University’s Bay Campus. The University describes it as: a hub ...
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Q2 PC shipments grew 4.7% y-o-y to 64.9 million units, reports IDC, as Lenovo became the No.1 vendor. Improved supply of Intel CPUs helped boost the figure while some companies shipped early to avoid possible future tariffs. Another boost came from the January 2020 end-of-service date for Windows. The US saw high single-digit growth, Canada ...
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Blueshift Memory of Cambridge has a memory architecture that can speed up data processing performance a thousand times. Blueshift has implemented the architecture in an FPGA and have found it can speed up database searches by 100x. Google searches can be speeded up by 1000x. Blueshift looked at algorithms used to solve complex data problems ...
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June saw TSMC sales leap 21.9% y-oy. June revenues were 6.8% up on May at $2.78 billion. TSMC is giving no reason for the sudden rise. YTD revenues for TSMC are $14.5 billion – down 4.5% on the first six months of 2018. The June sales leap comes after five months of y-o-y sales contraction. ...
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A marketing initiative to promote STM32 MCUs has been launched by ST. Called MadeForSTM32 it labels qualified, reviewed, and approved products from ST Partners. Engineers designing with MCUs rely on the design ecosystem that provides configuration and development tools, ready-to-use software examples and libraries, and circuit boards to prototype their applications and bring them into production. ...
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Cisco is buying its supplier, Acacia Communications, for its optical communications technology. Cisco paid $2.6 billion for Acacia – 45% over Acacia’s pre-bid share price. The premium may turn out to be high because, as well as supplying Cisco, Acacia also supplies Cisco’s rivals Juniper and Arista Networks who may seek alternative suppliers. The rationale ...
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