Fugaku, an Arm-based supercomputer jointly developed by RIKEN and Fujitsu, has been was ranked No. 1 in the 58th TOP500 list of the world’s supercomputers. Fugaku also took the No.1 position in the international ranking HPCG (High Performance Conjugate Gradient), which measure the processing speed of the conjugate gradient method. The Fugaku system ranked first ...
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The NOR Flash ASP climbed by around 5% QoQ in 1Q20 and by about another 10% to 20% QoQ in 2Q20, as buyers re-stocked, says DRAMeXchange. However now, with inventories replenished, DRAMeXchange expects a drop of around 3% in Q3. As uncertainties in 5G demand grow, the SLC NAND Flash ASP, which is highly correlated ...
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To mark International Women in Engineering Day 2020, Farnell talked to women across its global operations to celebrate their achievements within the industry and discuss key topics such as gender diversity in the workplace. 12 women leaders working within Farnell joined the discussion from different parts of the world. The aim of the collaboration was to ...
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The CHIPS for America Act proposes to revive domestic chip-making, fund R&D, and secure technology supply chains. CHIPS stands for “Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors.” The Act proposes $12 billion to fund existing Pentagon semiconductor support programmes, plus $5 billion to other federal agencies for IC R&D. $5 billion is intended to fund an IC packaging ...
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The Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem (SAFE) Cloud Design Platform (CDP) for fabless customers is designed to provide a virtual environment to design chips which can be accessed from anywhere through the cloud. It has been developed with Rescale. SAFE CDP supports a design condition that has been verified with cloud companies. In addition, customers can ...
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GLOBALFOUNDRIES has signed an MOU with US-based foundry SkyWater Technology to manufacture security-sensitive ICs. SkyWater is bringing to market a 90nm rad-hard process technology via an up to $170 million DoD investment which, when combined with GloFo’s processes, will add to its portfolio of defense technology offerings. SkyWater took over Cypress’ old fab in Minnesota ...
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Imec has presented a deterministic write scheme for voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy (VCMA) magnetic random access memories (MRAMs), obviating the need for pre-reading the device before writing. This significantly improves the write duty cycle of the memory, enabling ns-scale write speeds. As a second improvement, a manufacturable solution for external-field-free VCMA switching operation was demonstrated. Both ...
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QuickLogic has announced QORC (QuickLogic Open Reconfigurable Computing) initiative offering a fully open source suite of development tools for its FPGA devices and eFPGA technology. This initiative engenders the emerging trend toward open source tooling, significantly broadens access to the company’s products, and enables both hardware and software developers with tools supported by both the user ...
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element14.com has announced the winners of its most recent community challenge, encouraging female engineers to create an electronic project video in the style of the element14 Presents series. The Grand Prize winner is Surbhika Rastogi from Uttar Pradesh, India, who created an informative video for making an automatic soap/sanitizer dispenser system. In the video, Rastogi talked ...
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NXP has announced HoverGames Challenge 2: Help Drones Help Others. The second installment of NXP’s challenge-based, interactive coding competition encourages developers to create drone and rover solutions for frontline support during pandemics. Participants will leverage NXP’s portfolio of automotive, industrial and IoT technologies for system control, networking, security and motor control to create solutions that ...
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