For International Women’s Day, element14.com and Farnell, have launched a survey to help shed light on women’s experiences, career paths, and wider challenges and opportunities in the engineering/electronics industry. Insights from the survey will be published around Women in Engineering Day, 23rd June, 2021. The survey seeks to gain insight directly from members of the industry around ...
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We’re very proud to announce another new sponsor has signed up to support year’s virtual Elektra awards – Vox Power are now kindly sponsoring the Excellence in Product Design (Medical) award. We look forward to seeing Vox Power take part in the event by video. Don’t forget that this year’s Elektra Awards will take place as a free ...
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SEMI CEO Ajit Manocha has issued a statement on the support of funding incentives to expand U.S. semiconductor manufacturing and research by President Biden and a bipartisan group of members of Congress in a meeting at the White House on February 24, 2021. “We thank President Biden and bipartisan congressional leaders for their support of ...
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The imec.icon project DIASTOLE, involving VUB, UZ Brussels and Imec, is paving the way to safely implement 4D scans in cardiac surgery, raising the prospect of heart specialists could being able to test the placement of a new heart valve before surgery. 4D CT scanners add the dimension of time to three-dimensional images and capture ...
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Ahead of the ExoMars 2022 mission, the European Space Agency (ESA) has been advancing the testing of its spacecraft. Specifically, a complete composite of the ExoMars 2022 mission has been undergoing a dynamic balancing test in an anechoic chamber at Thales Alenia Space’s facilities in Cannes. The test ensures the spacecraft will be perfectly balanced ...
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Infineon has launched the 650 V CoolSiC Hybrid Discrete for Automotive. The device contains a 50 A TRENCHSTOP 5 fast-switching IGBT and a CoolSiC Schottky diode to enable a cost-efficient performance boost as well as high reliability. This combination builds a cost-performance trade-off for hard-switching topologies and supports high system integrity in addition to bi-directional ...
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With IC companies clamouring to have their leading-edge devices fabricated using 7nm and 5nm process nodes, and with TSMC the only foundry manufacturing ICs using both 7nm and 5nm process nodes, the company’s overall revenue per wafer increased significantly in 2020, reports IC Insights. 16 fabless IC companies with more than $1.0 billion in 2020 revenues ...
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January semiconductor sales of $40 billion were 13.2% up on the $35.3 billion of January 2020 and 1% more than December’s total of $39.6 billion, says the SIA. “Global semiconductor sales got off to a strong start in 2021, increasing both year-to-year and month-to-month in January,” says SIA CEO John Neuffer, “global semiconductor production is ...
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Melexis, the Belgian auto IC specialist, has entered into a license agreement with Chronoptics which designs and integrates Time-of-Flight 3D cameras. The agreement gives Melexis exclusive use of Chronoptics’ multipath and linearity error correction technologies in automotive applications. This includes ADAS for autonomous vehicles, and interior monitoring and safety systems. The companies will also work ...
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In Q4 memory avoided the shortage problems affecting the logic market with prices, demand and availability staying stable, reports TrendForce, Q4 DRAM revenue reached $17.65 billion, a 1.1% increase YoY, which is attributed to Chinese smartphone brands like Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi, buying more stock with a view to taking the market share made available after ...
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