The UK has come up with a plan to provide alternative sources to China for telecoms, pharmaceuticals and other key supplies. The government has proposed to Washington a plan to form a D10 group of ten democracies – the G7 plus India, Korea and Australia – to create alternative sources of supply of 5G and ...
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The 10 largest suppliers of analogue ICs collectively accounted for 62% or $34.2 billion of the $55.2 billion analog IC market in 2019. That was an increase of two points from 60% in 2018, according to data compiled and presented in the April Update to the 2020 McClean Report. The update ranked the top semiconductor ...
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Globalfoundries has filed papers to officially close its FD-SOI fab in Chengdu, China and lay off its 74 employees. GloFo and the town of Chengdu had a jv to build a $10 billion 300mm fab for 22nm FD-SOI. The plan was to begin production of mainstream process technologies in 2018 and then focus on manufacturing 22FD-SOI, ...
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UltraSoC and Canis Automotive Labs are addressing a cybersecurity vulnerability in the automotive industry – the lack of security features within the CAN bus. The bus is commonly used to interconnect in-vehicle systems such as brakes, steering, engine, airbags, door locks, and headlights. The partnership between the two companies will yield hardware-based intrusion detection and mitigation ...
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Farnell is launching a new variant of the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B computer with 8Gbyte of on-board memory, offering double the capacity of the existing high-end model. The additional memory improves the performance of data-intensive applications, making the 8Gbyte version an attractive solution for general desktop computer users, hobbyists and makers, and professional developers ...
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The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today invited all organisations in the Wi-Fi ecosystem to join WBA OpenRoaming and become part of a globally available Wi-Fi federation that offers an automatic and secure connection of billions of devices to millions of Wi-Fi networks. WBA OpenRoaming provides a new global standards-led approach, removing public-guest Wi-Fi connectivity barriers ...
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The US Entity List of black-listed Chinese organisations has received another 33 members to add to the 28 companies and institutions put on the list last October. Being on the list means that a US potential supplier to an Entity List member has to get a licence from the US government to do the supply ...
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DARPA has announced two research teams to address its Automatic Implementation of Secure Silicon (AISS) programme. They are: Synopsys, Arm, Boeing, Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research at the University of Florida, Texas A&M University, UltraSoC, and University of California, San Diego Northrop Grumman, IBM, University of Arkansas, and University of Florida AISS aims to automate ...
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Lattice Semiconductor and Etron Technology have brought out a memory controller reference design for Etron’s low pin-count RPC DRAM to enable low power Edge AI and video processing in applications requiring a compact form factor. A low power ECP5 FPGA from Lattice provides processing for the AI or smart vision workload and serves as the memory controller ...
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (pictured) issued this statement on Hong Kong yesterday: “Last week, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) National People’s Congress announced its intention to unilaterally and arbitrarily impose national security legislation on Hong Kong. Beijing’s disastrous decision is only the latest in a series of actions that fundamentally undermine Hong ...
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