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Micsig oscilloscope from Saelig

Saelig has introduced the Micsig STO1004 four-channel battery-powered portable oscilloscope, which offers 100MHz bandwidth, 70Mpts memory, 1GSa/s sampling (single channel), 130,000wfm/s refresh rate, and a 7.5Ah Li battery for extended field use. Improvements over previous Micsig models include an intelligent bidirectional Universal Probe Interface for accommodating and powering smart probes such as those with differential ...

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Japan to give €3.5bn subsidy for TSMC fab

The Japanese government is to pay $3.5 billion to TSMC for building an $8.5 billion 55,000 wpm jv fab with Sony and Denso in Kumamoto. The 40% Kumamoto subsidy is in line with the support the Germany authorities are giving to Intel for its fab in Magdeburg. Intel will receive $7.3 billion in subsidies representing ...

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TSMC unveils upcoming processes

TSMC has unveiled  its latest technologies for advanced logic processes, a low power process and 3D ICs including the nanosheet-based N2 process and  FINFLEX technology for the N3 and N3E processes.   “We are living in a rapidly changing, supercharged, digital world where demand for computational power and energy efficiency is growing faster than ever before, creating ...

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Semi market struggling, says SI

The semiconductor market in 2022 is weakening, says Semiconductor Intelligence, driven by inflation, the Russian war on Ukraine, COVID-19 related shutdowns in China, and lingering supply chain issues. Four of the top 14 semiconductor companies (Intel, Qualcomm, Nvidia and Texas Instruments) are expecting lower revenues in 2Q 2022 versus 1Q 2022. All four cited COVID-19 ...

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Farnell adds to Toshiba stocking range

Farnell has expanded the range of  Toshiba devices it distributes. Toshiba products available  from Farnell will grow to 800 devices, increasing to more than 1000 items by 2023, while new products will also be introduced throughout 2022 and beyond. The enhanced portfolio will focus on Toshiba’s  range of opto couplers, opto (MOSFET) relays, low- and ...

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Hydrogen-Diesel piling machine

ULEMCo, the hydrogen fuel pioneer, Cementation Skanska and the building science centre Building Research Establishment (BRE), are working on a dual-fuel hydrogen and diesel piling machine. The project is being backed by Government funding from Phase 1 of the Red Diesel Replacement programme, part of the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP) under the Department for ...

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GaN Systems adds a new transistor

GaN Systems, the Ottawa GaN power semiconductor specialist, has introduced a new transistor to its portfolio of GaN power transistors. The GS-065-018-2-L expands the company’s high-performance, low-cost transistor portfolio and features lower on-resistance, increased robustness and thermal performance, and an 850V VDS (transient) rating. The new addition empowers designers to improve further efficiency, thermal management, ...

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Applied buys Picosun

Applied Materials has bought Picosun, a privately held semiconductor equipment company based in Espoo, Finland, which specialises in atomic layer deposition (ALD) technology, primarily for specialty semiconductors. Electronics are requiring greater numbers of specialty semiconductors built on non-leading-edge process nodes. Applied’s ICAPS (IoT, Communications, Automotive, Power and Sensors) group provides materials engineering solutions to customers ...

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Renesas fabs 22nm STT-MRAM

Renesas has developed a 22nm process for embedded spin-transfer torque magnetoresistive random-access memory (STT-MRAM). The test chip includes a 32Mbit embedded MRAM memory cell array and achieves 5.9-nanosecond (ns) random read access at a maximum junction temperature of 150°C, and a write throughput of 5.8-megabyte-per-second (MB/s). MRAM fabricated in BEOL is advantageous compared to flash ...

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Chip bosses write to Pelosi to speed up Chips Act.

The US chip industry is getting increasingly edgy about the hold-up in getting the Chips Act implemented. Although both Houses of Congress passed separate versions of the bill in February, wranglings continue over reconciling the different versions and over where the $52 billion should be allocated , while some Congressmen are having doubts about the ...

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