Farnell has added the Portenta H7, the latest offering from Arduino, to its range of single board computers. The device targets growing demand from enterprise, small medium business (SMB) and professional makers for low-code modular hardware systems to support IoT development. The Arduino Portenta family provides low-power boards designed specifically for industrial applications, artificial intelligence (AI) ...

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Synaptics has bought video compression specialist DisplayLink for $305 million in an all-cash transaction. The deal is expected to close in Synaptics’ first quarter of fiscal year 2021, subject to customary closing conditions, and be financed from existing cash on hand. Synaptics expects the transaction to add approximately $94million in annualised sales and be immediately accretive to non-GAAP ...

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TSMC has become the world’s most valuable chip company with a market cap of $313 billion. Samsung is worth $261 billion Nvidia $257 billion Broadcom $125 billion TI $124 billion Qualcomm $103 billion Hynix $59 billion Micron $57 billion NXP $34 billion MediaTek $32 billion Infineon $30 billion ST $28 billion        

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Applied Materials has  introduced a new technology that claims to remove a critical bottleneck to continued 2D scaling in foundry-logic nodes. Applied’s Selective Tungsten process technology removes the contact resistance bottleneck that impedes transistor power and performance scaling in advanced foundry-logic<. The technology gives chipmakers a new way to build transistor contacts, which are the ...

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CrowdScan, a spin-off from imec and the University of Antwerp, has developed a system that measures the density of a crowd in real-time using a wireless sensor network. Based on six years of research at the University of Antwerp and imec, CrowdScan has developed a system to measure crowd densities without using camera images, mobile phone data or other privacy-sensitive information. By transmitting low-energetic radio waves (868 MHz), CrowdScan measures the average signal attenuation of a wireless sensor ...

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Today, Varta is laying the foundation stone for the expansion of its lithium-ion production site in Nördlingen. The development will be funded as part of a the Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) programme and Bavaria is contributing €32 million euros for R&D  at the Nördlingen site, with the German federal government contributing another ...

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Samsung Foundry has low yields on its EUV 5nm process which could delay Qualcomm’s latest chip-sets, reports Digitimes. However Samsung had not expected to get to get ASML’s EUV equipment for the 5nm line installed until the end of June, so the process is at a very early stage.  It had not been thought that Samsung ...

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Japan has approached TSMC to build a fab in Japan in collaboration with local chip manufacturers, reports the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri. The idea is to boost the capabilities of the local IC companies and to give Japan access to the latest chip technology for national security applications.  Ironically, 14 years ago Japan was talking about ...

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University of Missouri engineers have demonstrated that pencils and paper can be used to create on-skin electronic devices. ‘On-skin electronics are usually fabricated by patterning conventional inorganic materials, novel organic materials, or emerging nanomaterials on flexible polymer substrates,’ say the researchers, ‘consequently, the state-of-the-art on-skin electronics usually suffer from expensive precursor materials, costly fabrication facilities, ...

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