Resources have been wasted as companies “with insufficient knowledge of integrated circuit development have blindly entered into projects”, said Meng Wei (pictured) of  China’s National Development and Reform Commission, yesterday. “We have also noticed that the enthusiasm for domestic investment in the integrated circuit industry is constantly rising,” said Meng, “some companies with no experience, ...

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AMD and HPE have said that EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct GPUs will power a “pre-exascale” supercomputer built under the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) initiative. Delivering up to 550 petaFLOPs, the machine will help researchers across Europe advance R&D.  The supercomputer  – one of the world’s fastest  – will be located at ...

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Renesas has announced a pair of 80V DC/DC controllers that support the extra voltage margin needed for data center servers, 48V telecom and rugged industrial equipment. The ISL81801 buck-boost controller acts like a “UPS on a chip” by enabling bidirectional current flow (forward or reverse) using constant-voltage and constant-current regulation. This allows a battery or ...

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Nokia has been selected by Telia Company as the exclusive provider of 5G RAN in Finland adding to its 5G standalone (SA) core customer base in Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden in the Nordic and Baltic regions. The Telia deal in a five-year contractthat includes the modernization of legacy networks and will cover 7,500 ...

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Qualcomm is to make modules for 5G telecoms infrastructure ranging from macro base stations with massive MIMO to micro base stations with compact designs, to accelerate the cellular ecosystem transition toward virtualized and interoperable radio access networks (RAN).  Qualcomm is introducing three 5G RAN platform offerings: Qualcomm Radio Unit Platform, Qualcomm Distributed Unit Platform, and ...

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In its efforts to promote UWB as the standard for fine-ranging and high-precision sensing, NXP, has expanded its UWB offering from mobile and automotive ICs, to chips to enable IoT use cases such as smart locks and real-time location system (RTLS) tags delivering “relative position”. The new UWB ICs are  dubbed Trimension SR040 and SR150. ...

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GaN Systems has announced availability of the first product in a family of new 650V, 60A transistors for the automotive market. The GS-065-060-5-T-A is designed to meet automotive reliability standards including AEC-Q101 qualification and GaN Systems’ AutoQual+ testing and qualification. AutoQual+ is an enhanced AEC-Q test sequence based on the company’s collaboration with automotive partners ...

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Semtech has announced two enablers for its LoRa Edge platform: LoRa Basics Modem-E, a software modem leveraging the LoRaWAN protocol for the LoRa Edge platform that runs inside the LoRa Edge transceiver, and the LoRa Edge Tracker Reference Design, a device-to-Cloud commercial grade reference solution for asset tracking applications. LoRa Basics Modem-E, which forms part ...

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