After growing 36% in 2021, semiconductor industry capex is forecast to jump 24% in 2022 to an all-time high of $190.4 billion, up 86% from just three years earlier in 2019, says IC Insights, Moreover, if capital spending increases by ≥10% in 2022, it would mark the first three-year period of double-digit spending increases in ...
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Following the introduction of the Telecommunications (Security) Act in November last year, the government has launched a public consultation on draft regulations for cyber security rules outlining the specific measures telecoms providers would need to take to fulfil their legal duties under the Act. A draft code of practice on how providers can comply with ...
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Q4 saw the biggest QoQ acceleration in smartphone production last year with 356 million units shipped – a QoQ increase of 9.5%, according to TrendForce. Apple took production leadership in 4Q21 with record high of 85.5 million units – a 66% QoQ increase. Capturing Huawei’s market share was the main factor behind Apple’s Q4 success. ...
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The UK Space Agency will co-host the 4th Summit for Space Sustainability, with the Secure World Foundation, in London on 22-23 June. The goal of the summit will be to agree ways of ensuring a more safe and sustainable space environment that’s also secure. It will bring together people from government, industry and civil organisations. ...
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Green Hills Software has teamed up with NXP to support driver assistance radar image processing. NXP is providing the hardware: the 16nm S32R45 imaging radar processor, while Green Hills is providing its Integrity real-time operating system (RTOS) and software development tools. “Common software and hardware architecture spanning the S32R45 and S32R41 radar processors enables OEMs ...
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Adlink has added Intel Xeon D processors to two computer-on-module form-factors: COM-HPC size-D and COM Express Type 7. They are the Ice Lake-D D-2700 and D-1700 series processors, some of which offer 8x 10Gbit Ethernet, 32 PCIe Gen4 lanes, and AI acceleration. “With industrial-grade reliability and extended temperature range make these modules especially suitable for mission-critical edge ...
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At DVCon US this week, Breker Verification Systems has announced SystemUVM, a framework which simplifies specification model composition for test content synthesis. It uses a universal verification methodology (uvm) /SystemVerilog syntactic and semantic approach to drive test content synthesis and uses AI planning algorithms for deep sequential bug hunting in existing uvm environments, said the ...
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Zortrax, Polish maker of professional 3D printers, has walked away from negotiations with Rusatom Additive Technologies, which was offering to invest up to $65m in exchange for <50% of Zortrax shares. The formal end was today, when Zortrax chose not to sign an annex prolonging negotiations. “Russian aggression against Ukraine left us all shocked and outraged,” ...
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Incremental zoom ADCs can be made in CMOS and are showing up in IoT sensing applications where high-resolution and accuracy has to be combined with low-power operation from low-voltage rails. In a nutshell, these use a coarse (~6bit) successive approximation ADC to set, via a DAC, the references of a ΣΔ converter – the latter is ...
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Cabling by Digitus which meets Category 8.2 for IT centres are now available from Transfer Multisort Elektronik (TME) The Digitus DK-1843 cabling (pictured) is constructed with a tin copper wire braid and twisted pairs of conductors, each covered with an aluminium-covered polyester film (AL-PET) shielding, all encased in a polyethylene sheath. They exhibit mechanical durability ...
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