Toshiba intends to sell off its 40.2% holding in its former memory unit now called Kioxia, reports the Nikkei. In October the unit is to be floated on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Toshiba will start selling its stake after that. Half the proceeds of the sale will go to Toshiba’s shareholders. The unit was ...
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Nordic Semiconductor, the wireless comms specialist, has expanded its nRF52 series with the nRF52805 Bluetooth 5.2 SoC. Supplied in a wafer level chip scale package (WLCSP), it measures 2.48 x 2.46mm and is optimised for two-layer PCBs enabling designs that are small and low cost, says Nordic. The nRF52805 includes a 64-MHz 32-bit Arm Cortex-M4 ...
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BioMEMS devices, defined as MEMS sensors and microfluidic devices integrated into medical devices and used for IVD and life sciences, were a $3.7 billion Market in 2019 and is expected to reach $6.3 billion in 2025 with a CAGR between 2019 and 2025 of 9.2%, Says Yole Developpement. The microfluidic chips market represents 85% of ...
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NeoPhotonics has completed experimental verification of the transmission of 400Gbps data over data center interconnect (DCI) ZR distances in a 75 GHz spaced Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) channel. NeoPhotonics achieved two milestones using its interoperable pluggable 400ZR coherent modules and its specially designed athermal arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) multiplexers (MUX) and de-multiplexers (DMUX). First, ...
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Melexis, the Belgian auto chip fabless specialist, has announced an automotive-grade (AEC-Q100) monolithic sensor that uses the Hall effect to provide contactless sensing in three dimensions. The dual-die version of the MLX90395 Triaxis Magnetometer Node provides redundancy for demanding scenarios, such as gear lever position sensing in automotive applications. The functionality of the MLX90395 is ...
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After three or four years of hard study, you have graduated. Well done, and now the job hunting starts, writes Ash Madni, Head of Silicon Design at CML Microcircuits (UK) and a veteran of 31 years in the Analogue Integrated Circuit industry. Here are a few interview tips that you may find useful. My undergraduate year at ...
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Portwell, the Fremont, California-based industrial PC specialist, has announced its LYNX-6000 Series of palm-sized, industrial IoT gateways. The fanless and rugged embedded computer systems are based on the Intel Celeron N3350 CPU and certified for Microsoft Azure IoT. According to the company, the new LYNX-6000 Series provides a rich portfolio of ultra-small form factor IoT ...
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The CHIPS for America Act proposes to revive domestic chip-making, fund R&D, and secure technology supply chains. CHIPS stands for “Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors.” The Act proposes $12 billion to fund existing Pentagon semiconductor support programmes, plus $5 billion to other federal agencies for IC R&D. $5 billion is intended to fund an IC packaging ...
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The Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem (SAFE) Cloud Design Platform (CDP) for fabless customers is designed to provide a virtual environment to design chips which can be accessed from anywhere through the cloud. It has been developed with Rescale. SAFE CDP supports a design condition that has been verified with cloud companies. In addition, customers can ...
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GLOBALFOUNDRIES has signed an MOU with US-based foundry SkyWater Technology to manufacture security-sensitive ICs. SkyWater is bringing to market a 90nm rad-hard process technology via an up to $170 million DoD investment which, when combined with GloFo’s processes, will add to its portfolio of defense technology offerings. SkyWater took over Cypress’ old fab in Minnesota ...
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