|
|
|
|
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Siemens €100m industrial AI R&D centre, Gowin's 12nm FPGA and custom AI tools for chip designs
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
All the news from Nvidia GTC 2024, a third battery gigafactory for the UK and the start of the self-diving VW ID.Buzz
|
LATEST NEWS |  |
|
 EENEWS POWER | |
Friday, March 01, 2024
Hallucinating radar and 5G on a Raspberry Pi 5 in top February stories
By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk
Hallucinating radar, a possible processor ban in Europe and 5G on a Raspberry Pi were all among the most read article on eeNews Europe in February.
The latest results from Renesas Electronics highlight the challenge so the industrial market for chip makers, while the results from Wolfspeed gave more insight into the challenges of ramping up its silicon carbide fab in the US. CHIPS Act funding in the US was also key to the GlobalFoundries expansion and new fab, which will include gallium nitride production.
At the same time there was significant interest in how to chose a charger for lithium batteries, which includes the developing use of GaN transistors.
- Renesas hit by fall in industrial market
- $1.5bn for GlobalFoundries GaN fab capacity
- Wolfspeed faces ramp up challenges at Mohawk SiC plant
- How to Choose a Charger for Your Li-ion Batteries
STMicroelectronics is continuing to drive integration in its STM32 microcontrollers, adding graphics controllers, while researchers in the US found a way to make car radar systems see things that are not there. The results of the research are a key message for the developers of radar sensors and processing algorithms.
February also saw the risk of some older Intel processors being banned in Europe. The patent case being brought by R2 Semiconductor has implications for the region.
- ST moves graphics accelerator into microcontrollers
- MadRadar makes cars hallucinate
- R2 Semi claims many Intel processors could be banned in Europe
The top stories in February covered emerging technologies. ARM launched its chiplet IP support for future devices, while Belgian research lab imec is aiming to set up a lab in Spain. This would be near to the Vodafone lab that has been working with ARM on the latest wireless chips, and also developed a second generation of its ‘basestation in a box’. Developed with Lime Microsystems in the UK, this provides 5G coverage and will support the use of the latest Raspberry Pi 5 boards.
Related articles
Thursday, February 01, 2024
Top articles in January: CES 2024, Onio and Innatera's neuromorphic RISC-V AI chip
With the industry returning after the holiday break, the CES 2024 show in Las Vegas quickly kicked off with substantial automotive and battery news.
Among the top ten articles in January were the latest radar system from Provizio and a low cost radar chip from TI, NXP launched single chip 28nm RFCMOS radar and ST moved its graphics accelerator into microcontrollers.
- ST moves graphics accelerator into microcontrollers
- AMD discontinues CPLDs, low end FPGAs
- Room temperature superconductivity shown in graphite
While AMD issues a notice that it is to discontinue its CPLDs and low end FPGAs, researchers have identified room temperature superconductivity shown in graphite. A variety of battery technologies were popular articles in January.
- Schaeffler to show silicon solid state battery
- Scalable nuclear battery uses diamond for 50 year life
- Acculon starts production of sodium ion battery cells
Schaeffler is set to show silicon solid state battery while a scalable nuclear battery developed in China uses diamond for 50 year life. Alongside these articles, Acculon in the US has started production of sodium ion battery cells and packs. This marks a key step in development of sodium battery technology where Europe is a major player.
- ONiO looks to kill the IoT battery with RISC-V
- CEO interview: MIPS’ Sameer Wasson on a RISC-V reboot
- Segger combines ARM and RISC-V in single IDE
- Innatera shows RISC-V neuromorphic edge AI
Technology around the RISC-V open instruction set architecture was also among the top ten articles. ONiO in Norway talked to Nick Flaherty about its ultra low power RISC-V microcontroller that aims to eliminate the battery in designs for the Internet of Things, while Sameer Wasson, the CEO at MIPS. Talked to Peter Clarke about the company’s continuing RISC-V reboot. Alongside, tool developer Segger combined ARM and RISC-V support in a single integrated development environment (IDE), while the most popular articles are Innatera’s launch of its RISC-V neuromorphic edge AI microcontroller at CES 2024.
Top articles on eeNews Europe
Tuesday, January 02, 2024
Top articles on eeNews Europe in 2023
The data from 2023 has highlighted key shifts in the
electronics market through the pages of eeNews Europe.
There was significant interest in the top 25 global and
Chinese chip companies, and the Chinese ownership of Nexperia in the
Netherlands leading to the sale of the Newport fab in the UK to Vishay has been
a major theme throughout the year. The supply chain issues have died down a
little, with new plants in India of particular interest.
Of the advances in quantum technology throughout the year, the Rigetti 84 qubit quantum processor was the most read article in the year, while the early use of ChatGPT showed that design IP was leaking out at Samsung and other chip makers.
Raspberry
Pi is of regular interest to the readers of eeNews Europe, and the coming
together with Arduino was a key article in the year.
- www.eenewseurope.com/en/chatgpt-leaking-samsung-chip-secrets-is-icebergs-tip/
- www.eenewseurope.com/en/arduino-and-raspberry-pi-under-one-hat/
RISC-V
was a key trend through 2022, but surprisingly hasn’t made it into the top ten
for 2023, perhaps indicating its move into the mainstream, with the first
general purpose microcontrollers from Renesas emerging in December.
The sanctions against China drove much of the interest in articles through the year, with the theft of data from equipment maker ASML and the development of a source of extreme UV light for leading edge chip manufacturing.
- www.eenewseurope.com/en/chinas-synchrotron-euv-litho-light-source-is-no-sanctions-buster/
- www.eenewseurope.com/en/asml-admits-chinese-data-theft-may-have-broken-export-controls/
- www.eenewseurope.com/en/reddmatter-the-future-of-superconductivity/
- www.eenewseurope.com/en/race-is-on-for-room-temperature-superconductor/
- ww.eenewseurope.com/en/room-temperature-superconductor-sees-key-patent/
Related top ten articles
- Top ten deeptech articles in 2022
- Top ten RISC-V articles in 2022
- Top ten semiconductor vendors in 2022