Chuck Peddle, designer of the 6502, has died at the age of 82 from pancreatic cancer. With Bill Mensch, who later founded the Western Design Centre, Peddle and five other engineers left Motorola in 1974 after being told to stop designing a low-cost processor and took the project to MOS Technology in Pennsylvania. There they ...
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China’s latest domestic chip boosting initiative – called 352 Project – intends to develop a PC CPU which will replace 30% of the CPUs used inside China-based PCs within a year. Within three years the aim is to have replaced 80% of foreign CPUs used in China-based PCs to be shortly followed by 100%. In ...
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Taiwanese DRAM design specialist Etron Technology has joined Lattice Semiconductor to develop a miniaturised AI+DRAM platform for applications to terminal edge computing, industrial robots, and multimedia such as AR/VR, says Digitimes. The platform contains Etron’s newly developed RPC (Reduced Pin Count) DRAM architecture (pictured) which has x16 DDR3 – LPDDR3 bandwidth but uses only 22 ...
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Q1 wafer orders are up, says Doris Hsu chair of silicon wafer manufacturer GlobalWafers, as reported in Digitimes. The company has seen “ a substantial ramp-up in 12-inch wafer demand”, says Hsu. Meanwhile, and the supply of its epitaxial wafers has become tight. The increase in demand has come from Taiwan, Japan and Korea. 8-inch ...
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Graphics DRAM is expected to lead the DRAM sector into a price uptick in Q1, says DRAMeXchange. Graphics DRAM contract prices are projected to increase by over 5% QoQ, the highest among all memory products. As GPU and game consoles become higher-spec, demand for high-capacity GDDR6 rises In the graphics card market, the majority of ...
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Holst Centre has developed several human-centric wearables for healthcare and wellbeing: MYSA – ‘Relax Shirt’ Due to chronic stress caused by high workloads, burnouts are a rising social and economic problem. MYSA is a “relax shirt” designed for daily use that reminds its wearer of taking regular breaks. During these breaks MYSA creates a ...
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LPWA connections will grow to around 400m connections by 2025, according to Strategy Analytics. While initial expectations were very optimistic for unlicensed LPWA, especially given the wealth of low power requirements in IoT and first mover advantage for companies like Sigfox, the reality has been tempered by the exaggerated death of 2G networks, which have ...
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The University of Waterloo and Nidec Mobility aim to have a proof-of-concept prototype for detecting children and pets stuck in hot cars, ready in early 2020. Nidec Mobility intends to start mass-production of a radar sensor for the application in 2022. By combining the radar sensor with an in-vehicle camera, it becomes possible to distinguish ...
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