Samsung Electronics expects a 23% y-o-y rise in Q2 operating profit on the back of datacentre demand as more people worked from home. Operating profit is expected to $6.8 billion – the highest since Q4 2019. Revenue is expected to be down 7% y-o-y to $43 billion. Rising DRAM prices pushed up the profit. DRAM ...

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SMIC has upped its proposed share offering on the Shanghai STAR market to raise between $6.5-$7.5 billion from the original intention to raise $2.8 billion.  The new  plan is to put 25% of SMIC’s shares on the market. The lower offering values SMIC at $27.75 billion. The China government is clearly keen for the offer ...

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Toshiba has  introduced a high-resolution, long-range light-receiving technology for deployment in solid-state LiDAR systems based on the company’s silicon photo-multiplier (SiPM). In general, SiPM are suitable for long-range measurement as they are highly light sensitive. However, the light-receiving cells composed on SiPM require recovery time after being triggered, and in strong ambient light condition they also ...

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ITRI, Taiwan’s IC research lab which brought advanced chip processing to the island in 1976 via a CMOS licence from RCA, has transferred transferred FRAM and SOT-MRAM processes to domestic IC manufacturers, reports Digitimes. Over the years, ITRI scaled the 7micron RCA CMOS process and, as each node became ready for commercial production, it was ...

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Google is offering to fab open-source chip designs for free. They have to be on 130nm and quantities are limited to 100 ICs. In a FOSSi (Free and Open Source Silicon) Dial-Up talk, Tim Ansell of Google announced SkyWater PDK, the first manufacturable, open source process design kit.  The PDK allows you to produce an ...

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Researchers from ETH Zurich have integrated photonics and electronics on one chip. “If you convert the electronic signals into light signals using separate chips, you lose a significant amount of signal quality. This also limits the speed of data transmission using light,” says ETH researcher, Ueli Koch. The integration was achieved by placing the electronic ...

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“COREnect” (European Core Technologies for future connectivity systems and components) has been funded under the EU Horizon 2020 to develop a  strategic roadmap of core technologies for future connectivity systems and components, This roadmap will provide the foundations for a sustainable European technology sovereignty in 5G and beyond. It will promote innovation and business opportunities, ...

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ST and Stackforce have announced a wireless M-Bus (wM-Bus) software stack that leverages the integrated sub-GHz radio and multiple modulation schemes supported by STM32WL MCUs to  cut bill-of-materials cost and enhance flexibility for developers of smart-metering systems. Developed by Stackforce, the wM-Bus stack complies with most of EN 13757-3/-7, covering the upper layers of the Wireless ...

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