Automotive MCU sales will surge 23% in 2021 despite the shortages, says IC Insights. 32-bit designs are expected to generate almost 77% of automotive microcontroller revenues this year, followed by 18% from 16-bit and 6% from 8-bit. The huge market for automotive MCUs — which accounted for about 40% of total MCU sales over the ...
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Chromacity, the Edinburgh ultra-fast laser manufacturer has completed a growth funding round of £1.2 million. Contributors to the round include existing investors, Kelvin Capital, EOS and Scottish Enterprise, as well as new investor ESM Investments. Chromacity will use the funding to expand the company’s workforce, particularly within its manufacturing and R&D divisions. To counteract the ...
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Lockheed Martin has completed construction of an advanced manufacturing facility at its Palmdale, California, campus and headquarters. The 215,000 square foot building will serve the company’s advanced-projects division, dubbed Skunk Works. Lockheed Martin says the “intelligent, flexible factory has digital foundations to incorporate smart manufacturing components, embrace the Internet of Things and deliver cutting edge ...
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Smiths Interconnect has launched its broad range of K-band waveguide components for satellite communication payloads in GEO/MEO and LEO orbits. Smiths Interconnect’s K-band waveguide components are qualified for spacecraft use in the company’s state-of-the-art test and qualification laboratory in Dundee, Scotland. Qualification for spacecraft use is completed for each product and comprises sine and random vibration, ...
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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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