The announcement at the weekend that TSMC would build three more fabs in Arizona on top of the three it had previously announced, caused a few worries in Taiwan which …

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For those written in the last week, our most read stories on the site cover a frame-less brush-less dc motor, the value of the compound semiconductor market, TSMC fabs in Arizona, Samsung’s 2nm yield, and Microchip layoffs…

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18 years ago, Steve Furber, designer of the first Arm processor and Professor of Computer Engineering at Manchester University was thinking about an impending challenge for the chip industry. “We …

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Now in its seventh year, the EW BrightSparks awards see Electronics Weekly highlight and celebrate some of the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Continuing our …

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Open Cosmos and i2CAT have announced the launch of Europe’s first Low Earth Orbit (LEO) lab for R&D in non-terrestrial networks (NTN), The mission involves the 6GStarLab, a satellite designed …

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The US will have a 22% share of advanced node manufacturing by 2030, says TrendForce. TSMC’s Arizona Phase 1 has just entered mass production, while Phase 2 and Phase 3 …

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Intel’s 18A process js yielding at 20-30% according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, and will not be able to reach commercial yield levels in time to get the first processor it …

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January semiconductor sales of $56.5 billion were up 17.9% on the $47.9 billion of January 2024 and 1.7% less than the $57.5 billion of December 2024, says the SIA. “Following …

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Swansea University’s Centre for Integrative Semiconductor Materials (CISM) is joining the EU-backed SAFEPOWER power efficiency project as a partner. MVDC The project aims to improve energy systems by creating small, …

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TE Connectivity’s MultiGig HD connector has been selected by the VITA Standards Organization as the next-generation VPX plug-in module connector. Senior project manager, Mark Walmsley, revealed the VITA 100.30 connector …

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