In addition to health fears, Covid-19 brings economic worries as goods the electronics industry around the world relies on become restricted as the main source of these components and goods restricts its output. “The factories we deal with in China are reporting 20% staffing levels, and operating at 60% below capacity,” said Steve Rawlins, CEO ...
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An initiative in the budget yesterday to set up a UK ARPA was said to have been inspired by Dominic Cummings. Chancellor Rishi Sunak (pictured) said the government will spend £800 million to create a blue skies R&D funding agency along the lines of ARPA. “We are the country of Newton, Hodgson, and Turing,” said ...
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Next month, TSMC is to start volume 5nm production according to Digitimes. The 5nm capacity is reported to be already fully booked out. 5nm doesn’t mean much these days when the line pitch is probably 30-40nm. TMSC’s 5nm node is said to have a density of 160Mtr/mm2, compared to Intel’s 7nm which is reported to ...
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HUBER+SUHNER’s POLATIS iSeries 7000 software-defined optical circuit switch platform has a architecture designed for volume manufacture with scalability from 8×8 up to 576×576 non-blocking fibre ports, enabling telecom and data center operators to remotely connect more fibres together in a compact form factor. “Our POLATIS optical switches bring network automation right down to the fiber layer ...
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