Segger announces Sifive Insight support for J-Link probes

Segger says its strengthening its position in relation to the risc-v instruction set architecture by implementing support for Sifive’s Insight debug/trace on J-Link probes. The company’s products are already fully compatible with Sifive’s RISC-V processor cores. The Insight support includes Sifive’s latest Nexus-based trace implementation, which enables ongoing monitoring and recording of processor instruction execution. ...

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STEM Learning organisation assists classrooms with online resources

With UK schools closed for the foreseeable future due to covid-19, classrooms have been moved online. STEM Learning, a government, charity and industry backed education provider, has made a tranche of resources available on its site to assist teachers during current circumstances. The organisation has launched an area on its website to host materials generated ...

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TSMC implements remote working after employee tests covid-19 positive

Following one of its Taiwan employees testing positive for covid-19 on 18 March, TSMC has put a remote working policy in place for non-production line workers, Taipei Times reports. 30 other employees have been asked to enter quarantine while the infected member of staff has been taken to hospital for treatment. Additional measures include the ...

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Würth producing PCBs for ventilators to help meet covid-19 demand

Würth Elektronik is supplying the PCBs needed for the rapid manufacture of intensive care and mobile ventilators from its three production sites in Germany. In order to ensure the supply of medical ventilators for coronavirus patients in Germany, the German government has placed several orders with different manufacturers at short notice.   At the plants in ...

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100 fabs taken out of production in the last decade

100 fabs have been closed or repurposed in the last decade, says IC Insights. Figure 1 shows the number of fabs closed by geographic region while Figure 2 shows a distribution of those fabs by wafer size and year. Figure 1 Japan and North America, have accounted for most of the wafer fab closures since 2009.  ...

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US considers extending Huawei chip sales ban to foreign companies

A US proposal to tighten the screw on chip supplies to Huawei would be to control sales by foreign chip companies, reports Reuters. At the moment it is only a proposal, and President Trump has declined to implement the idea in the past but, with anti-China rancour growing in Washington, it could be revived, The ...

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Arm down in an up market

Arm’s revenues declined slightly in 2019 in a market that grew, says IPnest, reflecting similar situations in 2018 and 2017. Arm’s royalty revenue declined by 6-7%, says IPnest,  but its licensing revenues  – including physical IP – were up 13%. Companies ranked by semiconductor design IP revenue in 2019 (millions of dollars). Source: IPnest (March ...

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miDiagnostics raises €14m

miDiagnostics, which is using an Imec-invented IC technology  to bring lab-quality tests with built-in connectivity direct to the patient and clinician regardless of location, has secured a €14m investment round. The round was supported by existing shareholders as well as leading life science and tech investors Dr. Rudi Pauwels and Dr. Ir. Urbain Vandeurzen. The ...

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Double-booking could be bolstering NAND ASPs

The Q2 NAND ASP is projected to rise by 5% QoQ, boosted by enterprise SSD demand and a 2020 bit increase as low as 30%, reports DRAMeXchange. Prices may be being bolstered by OEM fears of shortages leading to double-ordering, reckons DRAMeXchange. However H2 pricing, starting as early as Q3, could head south, as buyers ...

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