Researchers from Northwestern University have created a robot crab which can bend, twist, walk, turn, crawl and jump and is 0.02 inches wide. The robot was inspired by peekytoe crabs. ‘Robotics is an exciting field of research, and the development of microscale robots is a fun topic for academic exploration,’ says Professor John Rogers the ...
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Crypto Quantique, a specialist in quantum-driven cyber security for the internet of things (IoT), announces it has integrated its QuarkLink onboarding and device management technology for IoT devices into the Microchip Trust Platform Suite tool. Adopting QuarkLink means that customers own their Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and can create a zero-trust security environment for their ...
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Another investigation on national security grounds is to be held into the sale of Newport Wafer Fab to Nexperia which is a subsidiary of the Chinese company Wingtech. Kwasi Kwarteng, Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy announced the investigation via a tweet. “There will now be a full assessment under the new ...
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UK connector sales growth slowed in Q1 of 2022 but orders accelerated, says ITSA. Headline performances: – Q1 2022 revenues decreased slightly by 7% over Q4 of 2021, however they are still up 9% as a run rate over 2021. Member’s revenues are back at +12% over pre pandemic levels Book to Bill is incredibly ...
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Siemens Digital Industries Software announced today availability of its leading Nucleus™ ReadyStart™ solution for embedded development targeting the fast-growing adoption of the RISC-V architecture. Building on one of the industry’s first commercial real-time operating systems (RTOSes) for RISC-V devices, released in 2021, Siemens’ newest Nucleus ReadyStart embedded development solution includes a host of new ...
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The Japanese bail-out fund JIC (Japan Investment Corporation) is weighing up a bid for Toshiba, reports Bloomberg. JIC has signed a confidentiality undertaking to allow it to access Toshiba data to evaluate an offer. JIC, a public-private partnership, is majority owned by the Japanese government. Toshiba has had ten offers from buy-out funds to take ...
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The top three suppliers held 94% of 2021 DRAM marketshare, with Samsung and SK Hynix accounting for 71% of DRAM sales, according to IC Insights’ May 2Q Update to The McClean Report 2022. Over the past 30 years, the DRAM market has been characterized by periods of spectacular growth and years of devastating crashes (Figure 1. Most ...
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The memory market will grow to over $260 billion in 2027, says Yole Developpement, with DRAM reaching $158.5 billion and NAND reaching $96 billion. The production ramp-up of China-made memory is opening up new business opportunities for OSATs. “The stand-alone memory market has been expanding throughout the last two years,” says Yole’s Simone Bertolazzi, “revenue ...
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Researchers at imec are developing high-speed electronic and photonic integrated circuits for 100 to 130Gbaud transceivers, both for intensity-modulated direct-detect (IMDD) and for coherent optical transceivers. For a coherent transceiver, the specifications and functionality for the optics and electronics are much more demanding. The receiver DSP is also significantly more complex (compared to IMDD). Scheme ...
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Foundry revenues topped $100 billion last year after a rise of 31%, says Gartner, with ASPs up 11.8% and units up 8%. The semiconductor industry was up 26% at $595 billion. Foundry fab utilisation was 95% with 8” particularly tight, driven by PMIC, display drivers and fingerprint sensors. TSMC saw its market share slip 3% ...
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