August semiconductor sales of $34.2 billion were 15.9% down y-o-y – the eigth consecutive month of y-o-y decline – but up 2.5% on July, reports the SIA. “While worldwide semiconductor sales remain well behind the totals reached in 2018, month-to-month sales increased in two consecutive months for the first time in nearly a year,” says ...
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Cambridge-based Rob Percival, former maths teacher turned entrepreneur, has created a maths learning system using artificial intelligence (AI) called Blutick. The program was developed in close collaboration with The Perse School in Cambridge, and backed by investment from the Cambridge Angels network. “We are delighted to be working in partnership with Blutick to create this ...
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Focalspec is introducing two line confocal sensors, the LCI1220 and LCI1620. With them, the firm says, consumer electronics manufacturers can capture not just 3D topography and 2D intensity data, but also 3D tomography with a speed of up to 27m data points per second. They can be used to inspect any surface types, including curved, ...
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Xilinx embraces open source community and introduces the Vitis software platform for hardware and software development. At this year’s Xilinx Developers Forum, the company introduced the Vitis software platform, which tailors the hardware architecture to the software of algorithm code without intervention. President and CEO, Victor Peng, explained that the unified platform was developed to ...
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TSMC has retaliated against Globalfoundries’ lawsuit against it for allegedly infringing 15 GloFo patents by launching a lawsuit against GloFo alleging it violated 25 TSMC patents. TSMC is suing GloFo in every country in which GloFo manufactures – Germany, the USA and Singapore. “TSMC has invested tens of billions in innovations,” says TSMC’s lawyer Sylvia ...
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Hyundai has formed an ‘urban air mobility’ unit to pursue flying taxis and drones for deliveries. Heading up the unit is Shin Jaiwon who used to head aeronautics research at NASA. “The new team at Hyundai will develop core technologies that will establish the company as a driving force in urban air mobility, a sector ...
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Following WeWork’s cancellation of its IPO, the Nikkei has done a study of for how much Arm’s owner SoftBank is on the hook as a result of its investment in WeWork. The headline investment is $10.6 billion made up of $7.5 billion direct investment, $1.5 billion to be paid under a warranty next year and ...
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After graduating, one of the biggest challenges for any electronics engineering student is translating in-depth, specific technical knowledge into business success in the real world. Kamga Siewe is one such student from Georgia, US, who decided to start his first commercial venture while still in study. This past summer, Siewe launched Circuit-Pop, an online components ...
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Syntacore has been developing processor core intellectual property based around the Risc-V instruction set for four years, and its SCRx family now includes eight industry-grade cores. These range from the compact SCR1 MCU core, introduced in 2017 and available free, to the high-performance Linux-capable multi-core 64bit SCR7. SCR1 executes the RV32I|E[MC] instruction set and can be ...
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Munich-based Minres was promoting the use of virtual prototypes at the London ‘Getting started with Risc-V’ seminar, held on 26 September. It offers: Know-how in system modelling, virtual prototype/platform implementation, embedded software development, educational services, methodology services and design consultation. “Our key competency is to enable customers to materialise the full benefits of virtual platforms – ...
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