Intel sets out roadmap to ‘unquestioned’ industry process leadership by 2025

Intel has set out its roadmap for reaching process parity with industry leaders by 2024 and process leadership in 2025. It has also announced that Qualcomm has committed a ‘major mobile platform’ to Intel’s 2024 process. The process roadmap is on an annual cadence. After the current 10nm process,  Intel moves to ‘Intel 7’ which ...

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ST aims for 50% renewable power at Moroccan back-end plant

STMicroelectronics will procure 50% of the energy for its Bouskoura site in Morocco from renewable sources by 2022, compared to 1% in 2020. The electricity of 12 wind turbines in North Morocco will be fed into Morocco’s national power grid and then purchased by ST. These are on a 10ha wind farm near the coast at Oualidia, ...

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AI looks for trouble at the Nuerburgring motor racing circuit

Fujitsu is developing artificial intelligence based safety cameras at the German Nuerburgring motor racing circuit. The 21km Nordschleife version of the circuit is where the experiments are taking place. “In contrast to the Grand Prix circuit, the Nordschleife has not yet been equipped with cameras and is therefore out of sight from race control,” according to Fujitsu. ...

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Design kit for touchscreen human-IoT interfaces

Adlink has teamed up with Candera to provide a way to create touchscreen user interfaces for IoT applications – demonstrating it with a 2D – 3D washing machine GUI (graphical user interface). The tools are Adlink’s Rockchip PX30 SoC based I-PI Smarc IoT prototyping platform and Candara’s CGI Studio. “Intuitive touch feedback of displays and devices ...

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Bankrupt Tsinghua Unigroup advertises for investors

Bankrupt Tsinghua Unigroup is looking for investors to bail it out. It has debts of $30.8 billion. The website of China’s  National Enterprise Bankruptcy Information Disclosure Platform is asking for investors saying that they must have $7.7 billion in minimum total assets or $3 billion in minimum net assets. It also says: “The strategic investors ...

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TSMC considers German fab

TSMC is looking at building a fab in Germany. “We are currently doing reviews on Germany seriously, but it’s still in very early stages,” TSMC chairman Mark Liu told shareholders earlier today, “we continue to communicate with our major clients in Germany to see whether this is most important and effective for our clients.” Liu ...

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Warwick University wins £5.2m Prosperity Partnership

Warwick University has received £5.2 million in funding under one of the government’s Prosperity Partnerships to work with Element Six, a De Beers Group company, to develop and establish a supply chain for the next generation of diamond-enabled technologies. They include: the thermal management of semiconductors in high powered communications (enabling all of our high demand ...

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U.S. Air Force DSX satellite captures Medium Earth Orbit environment data

After two years of gathering data from space, the U.S Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is celebrating the completion of its Demonstration and Science Experiments (DSX) satellite mission. It says scientists will spend years studying a treasure trove of valuable data captured by 1300 experiments carried out by the satellite, covering radiation hazards, space weather, ...

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Melexis OLED controller drives point and area lighting

Melexis has developed an intelligent OLED controller that integrates all of the active components needed to realize combined point (LED) and area (OLED) lighting applications inside and outside the vehicle. Each MLX81130 can drive 25 LEDs/OLEDs and it supports the Melexis Light Bus (MeLiBus) interface. It allows simpler static and animated lighting system development. It ...

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Winbond OctalNAND and Synopsys SSI IP interoperable

Winbond has announced the interoperability of Synopsys’ DesignWare Synchronous Serial Interface (SSI) IP and Winbond’s OctalNAND Flash Memory. The DesignWare SSI IP, offering high transfer rates and low latency in serial flash memories and OctalNAND Flash deliver a complete NAND flash memory solution for automotive, mobile and IoT SoCs, enabling faster adoption of octal non-volatile ...

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