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Transmissive Metasurface redirects cellular signals

Kyocera has developed a Transmissive Metasurface technology that can redirect wireless network signals in a specific direction to improve the coverage area and performance of 5G and eventually 6G networks. The Transmissive Metasurface will help deliver high-frequency millimeter-wave 5G and 6G to places where communication is impossible due to obstacles, expanding service areas beyond the ...

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Renesas adds to clock buffers and multiplexers

Renesas is offering 11 new clock buffers and 4 new multiplexers. The devices, which also support and provide extra margin for PCIe Gen5 implementations. The PCIe Gen6 standard supports data rates of 64 GT/s while requiring  clock jitter performance of less than 100fs RMS. The RC190xx clock buffers and RC192xx multiplexers have PCIe Gen6 additive ...

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AMD adapts ACAP for A&D and T&M markets

AMD-Xilinx has added Versal Premium with AI Engines to the Versal Premium series, providing high-performance signal processing for  wireless and radar systems. Part of the 7nm Versal Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP) portfolio, Versal Premium with AI Engines is optimized to meet the demands of signal processing-intensive applications in the aerospace and defense (A&D) and ...

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Q1 smartphone market down 11% y-o-y

Q1 smartphone shipments were down 11% y-o-y, reports Canalys. Samsung had 24% market  share, up from 22% in Q1 2021, Apple was second with 18%. Xiaomi stayed in third place with 10% due to the stellar performance of its Redmi Note series. OPPO (including OnePlus) and vivo had shares of  10% and 8% respectively. Worldwide ...

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NexWafe raises €39m

NexWafe, the Freiburg solar photovoltaic specialist, has had a Series C investment round which takes its total funding to  €39 million. The money will be used to complete product and technology development for NexWafe’s solar photovoltaic products on a prototype line. NexWafe is creating a process to develop and produce monocrystalline silicon wafers directly from inexpensive raw ...

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Loch Fyne aquaculture R&D centre

Agri-EPI Centre and  aquaculture specialist Otter Ferry Seafish (OFS) with funding from Innovate UK, have opened the Marine Aquaculture and Innovation Centre (MAIC) on Loch Fyne to offer fully serviced research and development facilities to aquaculture producers and technology providers. The MAIC comprises a series of replicated small and large land-based tanks, located indoors under ...

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China’s Q1 IC output down 4.1%

Q1 semiconductor production in China fell 4.1%, reports China’s National Bureau of Statistics. In March alone, production fell 5.1%. Production was hit by Covid-induced lock-downs, most recently in Shanghai. The Q1 fall was the largest since Q1 2019 when production fell 8.7%. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, IC output has been slowing since ...

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India can only supply 9% of domestic IC market

India’s domestic semiconductor industry can only supply 9% of its $27 billion local market, says a report by the Indian Electronic and Semiconductors Association (IESA). The Indian semiconductor market is expected to have a 16% CAGR of from 2019 to 2026 to reach $64 billion in 2026, representing 22 per cent of the total end-equipment ...

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Infineon shipping 2Mb rad hard FRAM

Infineon is shipping rad hard, SPI FRAM for extreme environments. The new devices  are more energy efficient than non-volatile EEPROM and serial NOR Flash devices for space applications. The addition of a QML-V qualified F-RAM to Infineon’s memory portfolio makes the benefits of nearly infinite endurance, instant non-volatile write technology, and over 100-year data retention ...

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Russia targeting domestic 28nm process by 2030

Russia has drawn up a plan to spend $38.4 billion developing a domestic semiconductor industry, reports Cnews, with the initial target of having a 90nm process in place this year, and a long-term goal of having  a domestic 28nm process by 2030. The plan is due to be finalised and sent to the prime minister ...

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