Over half of the expected $80.9 billion 2017 capex spending will be for foundries (28%) and upgrades for NAND flash memory (24%), says IC Insights. With a projected 53% increase in 2017, and DRAM prices surging since Q3 2016, the DRAM/SRAM segment is expected to display the largest percentage growth in capital expenditures of the ...
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Antenova, the Hatfield antenna specialist, is about to launch Robusta – an antenna for metal surfaces operating in the 1559-1609 MHz bands, and designed for tracking metal objects. Antenova’s antennas for metal surfaces employ a patented two layer technique with one layer electrically isolated from the other, so as to provide RF shielding to the ...
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Samsung has agreed a budget of $2.3 billion for the first stage of a second fab at Xi’an, in China. The fab, for NAND, is expected to cost $7 billion over the next three years. Samsung’s first fab at Xi’an was built in 2014. Xian Fab 2 will be coming on-line as the Chinese ramp ...
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Full-color 3D printing at home has long been a wild-eyed dream of consumers and hobbyists alike. Thus far it’s been fun to print out little trinkets in a single color, but to create something more akin to a painted action figure would be a game-changer. And, thanks to inkjet technology, we just might have reached that milestone. XYZprinting, the maker of the popular Da Vinci line of… Read More
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Make a note for your diary - Wednesday 6 September, 10:00am - for a new Electronics Weekly webinar: Combining the Power of Functional Test and Embedded System Access
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Make a note for your diary - Wednesday 6 September, 10:00am - for a new Electronics Weekly webinar: Combining the Power of Functional Test and Embedded System Access
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148 letters and documents belonging to Alan Turing have been found at Manchester University. They are dated between 1949 and 1954 – the year he died. Here is an amusing correspondence with the editor of the magazine CHESS: In view of the rather caustic comment from the editor asking Turing “what you really claim for ...
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Semiconductor design house S3 Semiconductors has announced a new strategy to focus on supplying chips for industrial and communications OEMs as well as designing them.
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Connectors specialist Huber+Suhner has expanded its MXP series of multicoax connectors with a version that can handle up to 50Ghz.
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Sony is sampling two new image sensors which are the first to employ Sony’s 3rd gen CMOS Global Shutter Mode. They are designated IMX420 and 428. The IMX420 has a scalable bit depth of 8, 10, and 12 bits, and can be programmed for multiple regions of interest (ROI). The IMX428 sensor, optimized for ITS ...
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Google has come up with a tool, called ARCore, to allow developers to make AR apps for Android smartphones. The first phones to use the tool will be the Samsung Galaxy S8 and Google’s Pixel phone. Apple says it will make an AR tool-set called ARKit available to developers in a fortnight when it launches ...
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For the third year, MetaProp NYC is bringing together a group of startups focused on real estate tech. This time, the companies are tackling issues like green buildings, apartment entry and parking. Most of them are based in New York, but some come from as far away as Singapore. “Our incoming accelerator cohort is indicative of the increasingly fast global growth and demand for… Read More
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It’s called Jerry Before Seinfeld, but it looks like the comedian’s first Netflix special will deliver the Jerry Seinfeld we’ve already come to know and love/hate/shrug about. Netflix announced a deal with Seinfeld at the beginning of this year, with the streaming service paying a reported $100 million for two stand-up specials, plus old and new episodes of his online… Read More
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We get a lot of weed-related pitches at TechCrunch, but most of them don’t come with the pedigree of Herb‘s investors. Herb is announcing today that it has raised $4.1 million in seed funding led by Lerer Hippeau Ventures, with participation from Slow Ventures, Buddy Media co-founder Michael Lazerow, Shiva Rajarama, Liquid 2 Ventures (the firm led by football legend Joe… Read More
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IC design consultancy Sondrel has announced plans to recruit 100 electronic engineers in its European operations in the next three years.
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Intel has introduced a neural computing engine for accelerating deep learning inferences at the edge. It is included on an SoC called Myriad X, aimed at drones, robotics, smart cameras and virtual reality. “The Myriad X architecture is capable of 1Tops maximum performance, based on peak floating-point computational throughput on deep neural network inferences,” said the ...
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Engineer Julio Vazquez wanted to help his friend Rami Wehbe play the Nintendo Switch after he lost the use of his right hand due to a cerebrovascular accident. Wehbe couldn’t play Breath Of The Wild with the Joy-Con controllers because he needed both hands to manage the two sticks. Vazquez built a few simple prototype solutions and settled on a modular system that lets him play the game… Read More
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Stormfront, the oldest neo-Nazi forum on the web, has been shut down by its name provider, Network Solutions, and the domain officially put on hold. The news followed the shutdown of DailyStormer, another supremacist site. Stormfront began in 1990s as a dial-up BBS and then morphed into a website and forum in about 1995. It has been registered at Network Solutions since 1995. The… Read More
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Facebook says it’s taking another step against Pages that share fabricated news stories. The company has already been working with outside fact-checkers like Snopes and the AP to flag inaccurate news stories. (These aren’t supposed to be stories that are disputed for reasons of opinion or partisanship, but rather outright hoaxes and lies.) It also says that when a story is marked… Read More
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“Smashing thru,” the caption reads, “Captain America came face to face with Hitler … ” The 10-cent book appeared on store shelves a full year before Pearl Harbor officially woke the sleeping giant and forced America to enter World War II. He wasn’t the first superhero (that matter is indeed, the subject of much debate), though he would help usher in a new… Read More
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I’ve seen, of late, a tendency for young, intelligent men (and sometimes women, although this is primarily a male phenomenon) to fight back against the inequity of the startup ecosystem by joining political movements that are far right of Libertarianism. This tendency, one borne out of helplessness and frustration, is also defined by a certain mindset: that the world owes them success. To… Read More
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Old malls are an eyesore. Built cheaply and then abandoned to chic outdoor “shopping experiences” and high-end destinations, they rot on parking lots in the hearts of small cities, taking up space and reminding folks of the way things used to be. Now, however, there’s hope. Amazon is going to repurpose what was once the world’s biggest mall in North Randall, Ohio,… Read More
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Facebook says it’s looking to become more open and transparent about its decisions, and it’s hired Liz Spayd, a former public editor of The New York Times, to consult on the process. The hire comes as Facebook — or at least, parts of Facebook — seems to be wrestling with its role in the public sphere. There have been specific controversies, like the debate over… Read More
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We were pretty enthusiastic when we reviewed The Defenders last week, but we’d only seen the four episodes that Netflix gave reviewers in advance. How did the rest of it hold up? In the latest episode of Original Content — TechCrunch’s new podcast discussing the latest streaming shows, movies and more — Darrell Etherington and Anthony Ha offer their thoughts on the… Read More
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Silicon Labs CPT212B and CPT213B TouchXpress controllers are self-contained touch controllers that link to a host MCU, saving firmware development when adding touch to home appliances, medical equipment, consumer electronics, instruments, control panels and lighting. CPT212B features up to 12 sensor inputs in a QFN20, consuming 200 µA in optimised active mode and 1µA sleeping. ...
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GapGun is a hand-held metrology tool designed and made in Bristol by Third Dimension. Not only does it measure gaps, but whether panels are level and the radius of edges. Data is logged, and linked via Wi-Fi for the quality control audit trail. The latest order is from train maker Bombardier, for Aventra electric multiple ...
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We are very pleased and proud to announce that we will be running a new EW BrightSparks programme for 2018, following on from its successful reception this year.
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The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has appointed Theo Blackwell as first chief digital officer (CDO) for London. The role ranges from coming up with initiatives to build the capital’s status as a global tech hub particularly in the creation of public services which efficient and responsive to the needs of Londoners. Blackwell was previously ...
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Lee Jae-yong, the Chairman of Samsung and grandson of the company’s founder, has been sentenced to five years jail in Korea for bribing the president of Korea, Park Geun-hye, who is herself currently on trial for extortion. Lee was accused of offering Park $38 million in return for governmental favours. The prosecutors had asked for a ...
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As a fan of wine and guides, WineryGuide got my attention. Created by Aga and Mariusz Andryszewski, the service offers detailed guides to wineries in Napa Valley in a compact and smart way. “The WineryGuide app puts all of the expertise of a professional wine concierge or tour guide with years of experience in Napa Valley at users’ fingertips. We use latest technology to answer… Read More
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Lorries will be electronically bound together in ‘platooning’ trials in UK motorways, according to the Department of Transport. Up to three heavy goods vehicles will be bound in convoy with acceleration and braking controlled by the lead vehicle. All lorries in the platoon will always have a driver ready to take control. “If successful, this ...
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WeWork just announced that it’s receiving a massive $4.4 billion investment from SoftBank Group and SoftBank Vision Fund. It’s been less than a month since WeWork announced $500 million in funding for a standalone WeWork China business, which SoftBank participated in. It’s also launching in Japan through a joint venture with SoftBank — so this funding deepens an… Read More
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The battle against the Daily Stormer has ended in retreat as the racist website has pulled back to the dark web where it is available only via Tor. Former gray hat hacker Andrew Aurenheimer announced the impetus for the decision on alt-right website Gab. The website is now accessible via tools like the Onion browser and the address is available on Wikipedia. The server, now hidden from… Read More
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Harting has added EtherCat connectivity to its modular industrial computing architecture (‘MICA’). “MICA’s modular open-source software makes it the ideal solution for developing edge and cloud applications in production,” claimed the firm. “Creating the EtherCat functionality as an internal function module enables MICA to deliver benefits such as protection class IP67, connectors suitable for industrial ...
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BAE Systems has announced a radiation-hardened single-board space computer. Called RAD5545, it has a quad-core 32/64bit QorlQ Power Architecture processor running at 466MHz and offering 5.6 Drystone Gips of processing with 512kbyte/core L2 cache and 1Mbyte x2 L3 cache on a ANSI/VITA 78.00 SpaceVPX compliant 6U-220 board. Up to 16Gbyte of DDR3 ram can be ...
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WR-BTB is a family of surface-mount board-to-board signal connectors from Würth Elektronik. The plugs with coded guide are available in versions with 40, 64, 80 or 100 pins. Models with 0.8 and 1mm pitch are also available in various heights. Various male and female plugs can be combined to achieve a defined spacing between two ...
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Three leaders have been identified for the next phase of the UK’s Supergen Programme – to design research ‘hubs’ that will investigate sustainable energy technology. They received six-month grants (see below) to build consortia, investigate research strategies, devise networking plans and device engagement plans for their fields, according to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research ...
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Rohm is claiming the smallest two-colour LED with the launch of the 1608 size SML-D22MUW, intended for use behind seven-segment displays. Red, green die are included, and intermediate colours are possible using both die. The 1.6 x 0.8mm footprint is down 35% from 1.5 x 1.3mm two-colour LEDs. “In recent years, chip LEDs are being ...
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A shortage of components will hit premium smartphone sales in H2, says Gartner. “We expect a shortage of flash memory and OLED displays will affect premium smartphone supply in the second half of 2017,” says Gartner’s Anshul Gupta, “we’ve already seen Huawei’s P10 suffer from a flash memory shortage, and smaller, traditional brands, such as ...
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Q2 shipments of mobile DRAM were up 14.8% on Q1, reports DRAMeXchange. Samsung and Micron had 10%+ growth. Samsung has over 60% of the market folloeed by Hynix with 21% and Micron with 15%. Micron’s outage at its Taiwan fab which lost 50K wafers, mainly for mobile DRAM, will affect its H2 numbers. Returning demand and higher ...
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Ethan and Hila Klein, the husband-and-wife team behind the popular H3H3 YouTube channel, appear to have won their legal battle against Matt Hosseinzadeh, a.k.a. Matt Hoss. A New York judge today issued a summary judgement in favor of the Kleins. Read More
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Today, the government sets out its plans to ensure personal data would continue to move back and forth between the UK and the EU in a safe, properly regulated way. In the latest of a series of papers looking at the UK’s future partnership with the EU after we have left, the Government will consider ...
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At about 9pm on Tuesday, August 22 a hacker swapped his or her own SIM card with mine, presumably by calling T-Mobile. This, in turn, shut off network services to my phone and, moments later, allowed the hacker to change most of my Gmail passwords, my Facebook password, and text on my behalf. All of the two-factor notifications went, by default, to my phone number so I received none of them and… Read More
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Square Roots isn’t your normal startup incubator. Sure, the people who participate are entrepreneurs — but instead of sitting at desks building new gadgets or smartphone apps, they’re growing food in hydroponic farms housed inside long, metal containers. Founded by executive chairman Kimbal Musk (brother of Elon Musk, and board member at SpaceX, Tesla and Chipotle) and CEO… Read More
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Moortec Semiconductor, the Plymouth-basedIP specialists for on-chip monitors and sensors, have brought out an embedded monitoring subsystem for TSMC’s 7nm FinFET (FF) process. Within the subsystem the 7nm Temperature Sensor is a high precision low power junction temperature sensor that has been developed to be embedded into ASIC designs. It can be used for a ...
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Body sensors have long been bulky, hard to wear, and obtrusive. Now they can be as thin as a Band-Aid and about as big as a coin. The new sensors, created by Kyung-In Jang, professor of robotics engineering at South Korea’s Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, and John A. Rogers, Northwestern University, consists of a silicone case that contains “50 components… Read More
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The July SEMI billings figure was $2.27 billion – 1.4% down on June’s $2.3 billion and 32.8% higher than the $1.71 billion of July 2016. “We observed softening in the equipment billings in July following the strong surge in the first half of the year,” says SEMI CEO Ajit Manocha, “however, overall, equipment billings remain ...
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China will deploy 14nm technology next year, says Ye Tianchun, director of the Institute of Microelectronics at the Chinese Academy of Science (pictured). However Ye did not say where the process or processes would be installed. China imported chips worth $227 billion last year and exported chips worth $61.4 billion. The deficit is due mainly ...
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Semiconductor capex will rise 20% this year, forecasts IC Insights. Although there was a slight pause in the upward trajectory in 1Q17, 2Q17 set a new record for quarterly spending outlays. Moreover, 1H17 semiconductor industry spending was 48% greater than in 1H16. IC Insights believes that whether industry-wide capital spending in the second half of ...
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Microsoft has selected Intel’s Stratix 10 FPGAs as the main hardware accelerator in its new accelerated deep learning platform – code-named Project Brainwave. The aim is to use the accelerated deep learning platform to deliver artificial intelligence in real-time for its cloud services. This will provide facial recognition and voice recognition on smartphones. As well ...
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The Village Voice, the oldest and best-known of the alternative weekly newspapers, announced today that it will no longer publish a print edition. The decision was made by new owner Peter Barbey, who emphasized that this isn’t the end of The Voice itself — the company says the publication will “maintain its iconic progressive brand with its digital platform and a variety of… Read More
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The latest trend in electric bike (e-bike) design is the use of integrated batteries built into bicycle frames. The advantages of integrated batteries include better weight distribution and aesthetic design. An example, is the URV8 battery from BMZ Group. This is an integrated battery in an aluminum housing which is removable from the top, bottom, ...
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The latest Raspberry Pi3 model B, Keysight instruments and 3D printers are among a list of key items now used to equip schools and colleges in the teaching of electronics, says Farnell element14. The distributor has created a list of hardware and software products which are highly relevant for teachers and educators. Items on Farnell ...
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TowerJazz has received the first payment of $18 million under its agreement with Tacoma Technology and Tacoma (Nanjing) Semiconductor Technology which makes binding their earliet agreement to set up an 8-inch fab in Nanjing. The fab will be funded by Tacoma, the Nanjing Economic and Technology Development Zone through its Administration Committee, Credito Capital and other potential ...
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Markforged, a 3D printer manufacturer based in Boston, has just announced two new models – the X3 and the X5. Both of these printers are designed to create carbon-fiber infused objects using a standard filament printing system and both can produce items that can replace or are stronger than steel objects. Both printers have auto-leveling and scanning systems to ensure each printed object… Read More
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