Taiwan has 26% of world chip revenues

Taiwan had a 26% market share of semiconductor revenue in 2021, says TrendForce, second only to the US. The island’s IC design and packaging & testing industries account for a 27% and 20% global market share, ranking second and first in the world, respectively. Taiwan accounts for 64% of the foundry market with TSMC possessing ...

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AFRL opens its Hack-A-Sat satellite hacking competition

The U.S. Air and Space Force has opened registration for its third annual Space Security Challenge: Hack-A-Sat 3. A satellite hacking competition with a chance to win one of ten $10,000 cash prizes. The idea is that the ethical challenge encourages security researchers to focus their skills on solving the cybersecurity challenges of space systems. ...

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2022 Queen’s Awards for Enterprise

The Queens Awards for Enterprise have been announce, and Electronics Weekly has taken a look through to find companies in electronics and related industry. Please forgive any omissions – hundreds of companies have won awards and, not all are described clearly – do comment below if you know of a company that has been missed ...

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Falling GPU prices raise expectations of an end to the shortage

GPU prices are down sharply giving rise to expectations that the chip shortage could be coming to an end. 3DCenter says that the price of AMD’s Radeon RX6000 and Nvidia’s GeForce RTX30 gaming GPUs has fallen from 80% to 20% above MSRP (Manufacturers Suggested Retail Price). Susquehanna reckons GPU prices have falken from 76% to ...

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UK made: Pico Technology wins second Queen’s Award

Pico Technology has won a second Queen’s Award for Enterprise, in its 30th anniversary year. The St Neots company designs and makes ‘Pico Scope’ PC oscilloscopes, PC data loggers and automotive diagnostics tools in the UK. It employs over 170 people worldwide. “I would like to thank the team at Pico, our customers and suppliers ...

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low-jitter oscillators in 2 x 2.5mm

Diodes is claiming “the world’s smallest crystal oscillator family” for the 2 x 2.5mm UF252 series. These are LVPECL output devices which come in 2.5V and 3.3V supply versions all with low jitter to suit them to high performance equipment. Maximum (RMS) phase jitter can be as low as 0.07ps (3.3V, 156.25MHz, 12kHz-20MHz offset, 0.05ps typical) ...

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Intel scales up qubit fabrication

Researchers at Intel and QuTech – consisting of the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) –  have created silicon qubits at scale at Intel’s D1 manufacturing factory in Hillsboro, Oregon. The result is a process that can fabricate more than 10,000 arrays with several silicon-spin qubits ...

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NewSpace India rescues OneWeb satellite launches

OneWeb has agreed a satellite launch programme with NewSpace India Limited (NSIL) to help complete its low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation. The Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC), located in Sriharikota and operated by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), is expected to see the first launch OneWeb later this year. The site will serve as an alternative to ...

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IEEE VLSI Symposium 2022 in Hawaii

The newly merged 2022 IEEE VLSI Symposium on Technology & Circuits is organized around the theme: “Technology & Circuits for the Critical Infrastructure of the Future.” The five-day hybrid event, combining both live sessions onsite at the Hilton Hawaiian Village, as well as on-demand access to selected presentations, is scheduled from June 12 – 17, ...

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