Uncle Sam is tightening the screw on the China tech industry by threatening to add SMIC to the Entity List. SMIC, helped by government support, has just raised $6.6 billion which it wants to spend on improving its process technology. Its best process is 14nm. When it was raising the money, SMIC warned in the ...

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The government made a $6.4 million loan to XMOS earlier this year, reports the Telegraph. The loan converts into equity if XMOS attracts new equity funding. The loan comes from the government’s Future Fund – set up with £250 million from the government and £250 million from private investors. The Future Fund has already invested ...

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SEMICON Europa has decided to go digital this year in the wake of the restrictions on European air travel. “With the approval of the SEMI Europe Advisory Board, we have made the decision to cancel SEMICON Europa 2020,” say the organisers. “We will take this as an opportunity to create a differentiated digital forum with ...

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Imec and CMST (an Imec-affiliated research group at Ghent University), together with their partners the Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Fundación Jiménez Díaz and Imec’s Holst Centre have developed an artificial iris embedded in a smart contact lens.   ‘We are convinced that this artificial iris prototype has all the potential to become a game changer in ...

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Roey Benamotz has created the Lean Mean Programming Machine (LEMPA) – an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi that includes all the sockets, jumpers, and indicator LEDs necessary to successfully flash a whole suite of popular MCUs. Benamotz has also  written a Python tool that handles all the nuances of getting the firmware written out. After ...

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GDDR6 graphic DRAM will overtake GDDR5  in Q4 to account for more than 60% of total graphics DRAM bit output, says TrendForce. The lowered production capacity and high demand have resulted in a tight supply situation for GDDR5. Spot prices of GDDR5 8Gb chips are 10% higher than 3Q20 contract prices. Therefore, the supply of ...

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