High demand amid chip shortages have been pushing out lead times for chip manufacturing equipment reports the Nikkei. The lead time for wire bonding machines, mainly supplied by Kulicke & Soffa of Singapore said to be 10 to 12 months. For wafer dicing machines, led by Japan’s Disco, delivery times are up tob5 to 8 ...
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IBM Research has come up with the AI Hardware Composer Tool – a free, open-source platform for discovering and developing the latest AI hardware advances. By making the AI Hardware Composer accessible to students, researchers, academic institutions and commercial partners, IBM’s goal is to accelerate the process of discovering and creating new hardware systems that ...
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A Carbon Mapper consortium has announced a programme to accelerate reductions in global methane and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. It plans to deploy a hyperspectral satellite constellation with the ability to identify harmful emissions from air and space. Basically, the programme is about locating, quantifying and tracking methane and co2 point-source emissions. The tool will ...
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According to IDC, global tablet demand soared to the highest level since 2017 in Q4 2020, as people adapted to working, learning and teaching from home in the face of the pandemic. Tablet sales peaked at 230 million units in 2014. After that, the market cooled off significantly with the realisation that people would ...
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