New Symphonie to study European multi-orbit satellite system

New Symphonie, a consortium of 22 European companies, has won the European Commission call for tenders called “New Space solutions for long-term availability of reliable, secure, cost-effective space-based connectivity”. It will be awarded a six month study contract for a total amount of 1.4m euros. Specifically, New Symphonie will investigate and recommend to the European ...

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CMA report highlights concern over Apple and Google’s grip on the mobile industry

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has come up with an interim report in its investigation of concerns that Apple and Google have too much control over operating systems (iOS and Android), app stores (App Store and Play Store), and web browsers (Safari and Chrome) that together form their ‘ecosystems’. Apple and Google are ...

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IBM beats finFETs with vertical CMOS at IEDM

IBM revealed vertical FET CMOS logic at a sub-45nm gate pitch on bulk silicon wafers at the IEEE International electron devices meeting in San Francisco this week. IBM’s VTFET with a vertical channel (yellow) and gate-all-around (blue). Contacts are brown and the white line shows current flow. It calls them VTFETs, for vertical transport FETs, and ...

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Intel harnesses R&D to realise it’s process ambitions

Intel has shown IEDM some of its research routes aimed at propelling the company to industry leadership in manufacturing technology by 2025. Intel has put a lot of money and effort into packaging. In the last seven months it has announced investments of $10 billion in its Rio Rancho and Penang packaging plants. At IEDM ...

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OneWeb to start manufacturing satellites in UK

OneWeb is to start work on a UK satellite manufacturing site next year, according to Chris McLaughlin, head of government affairs at OneWeb, in testimony to the House of Commons science and technology committee. The plan is to start building satellites in the UK by 2024-5 either with OneWeb’s current manufacturing partner, Airbus, or with ...

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OCXO offers frequencies up to 500MHz

RFX  of Livingston has launched a high stability Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator (OCXO) which offers frequencies up to 500MHz whilst still delivering low harmonics, extremely low ageing and excellent Allan Deviation performance. Designed around an in-house manufactured precision SC cut crystal, frequency stability is ±5ppb over a wide -40 to 65 Deg. C operating temperature ...

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TSMC revenues up 18.7%

TSMC had November revenues of  $5.3 billion, an increase of 10.2% from October 2021 and an increase of 18.7% from November 2020. Revenue for January through November 2021 totalled $51.5 billion, an increase of 17.2%  compared to the same period in 2020. TSMC November Revenue Report (Consolidated): (Unit: NT$ million) Period Net Revenues November 2021 ...

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SSTL to lead UK Space Agency LEOPARD project for removing debris

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has been selected to lead a UK Space Agency study, dubbed LEOPARD, to define the mission requirements to de-orbit two “non-operational space debris” targets. The Guildford-based company specialises in the manufacture and in-orbit operation of small satellites, and it highlighted its experience in two previous Active Debris Removal (ADR) demonstration ...

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Intel to put $7bn packaging investment into Malaysia

On Wednesday Intel will announce a decision to spend $7 billion expanding its packaging facilities in Penang, Malaysia, according to an invitation sent out by the company. In May, Intel announced a $3.5 billion investment into its Rio Rancho packaging facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Intel has emphasised that advances in a new generation of ...

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