MediaTek has announced 6nm processors aimed at 5G mobile phones. Dimensity 920 includes hardware-based 4K HDR video capture, supporting up to four concurrent cameras and sensors up to 108Mpixel, and the company is claiming a 9% boost in gaming performance compared to its Dimensity 900 predecessor. An octa-core Arm Cortex-A78 running at up to 2.5GHz is at ...
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Forefront RF is a Cambridge-based fabless semiconductor company set-up to make ‘adaptive passive cancellation’ ICs to replace conventional switched SAW and BAW crystal filters “across the increasingly wide range of 3G to 6G mobile telephony frequency bands”, it said. It was founded in 2020 by Leo Laughlin and Julian Hildersley. who have been joined by CSR ...
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Lockheed Martin has completed environmental testing of the cubesats for its geostationary ‘Linuss’ mission, intended to demonstrate how small satellites can be used to regularly upgrade satellite constellations by adding capabilities and extend spacecraft lives. “Space is a dynamic domain and our customers are demanding the ability to upgrade spacecraft on orbit – to provide greater ...
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Kioxia is sampling its newest generation of 256 and 512Gbyte 3D flash memory. Aimed at mobile applications, its ‘universal flash storage’ (UFS) version 3.1 devices “improve performance by 30% for random read and 40% for random write, making them faster than their predecessors,” according to the company, which added that, at 0.8mm, the new 256Gbyte parts ...
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Tractable and Graphcore are working together to accelerate the use of AI in accident and disaster recovery. Tractable – whose technology makes assessing damage to cars and property more accurate and efficient – achieved a 5X performance improvement with its image recognition system by switching from its existing compute platform to Graphcore’s IPU. The dramatic acceleration ...
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Lead times are trending up says a report from Susquehanna Financial Group. Average industry lead time is now 20.2 weeks says Susquehanna which is the longest it’s been since it began tracking chip lead times four years ago. MCU lead times increased in July and are at 26.5 weeks, says the report. However the lead ...
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Getting ESD protection right for CAN-FD NOVEMBER 30, 2020 By Lukas Droemer The expectations of travel and human interaction with vehicles is changing dramatically. As such, mega trends of increased connectivity, autonomous driving and electrification are pushing the evolution of automotive wiring harnesses and driving the growing demand for high-speed data transmission and bandwidth to ...
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Our part-search-and-price-comparison engine, dubbed EW Compare, is powered by OEMSecrets. And the team behind the Bill of Materials tool and API are celebrating their 10th anniversary with improvements to both their website and search tools. They have launched their latest update by removing the login and opening up to the tool for free use by ...
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A method for manufacturing electronics which prints high-performance silicon directly onto flexible materials has been described by engineers from the University of Glasgow’s Bendable Electronics and Sensing Technologies (BEST) group. The current transfer printing process has a number of limitations which have made it challenging to create more large-scale, complex flexible devices. Precisely controlling critical variables like ...
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Q3 contract prices of PC DRAM are up 3-8% up on Q2 – less than the 25% increase of Q2 on Q1, says TrendForce. The gradual lifting of COVID-related restrictions in Europe and the US is likely to lower the overall demand for notebook computers, thereby pulling down the overall demand for PC DRAM. TrendForce ...
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