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While most of Europe and North America condemns Russia for its war in Ukraine, analysis by the Economist Intelligence Unit has found that Russia’s support base is slowly growing in some parts of the world. Where 29 countries used to lean towards Russia in 2022, that number has now risen to 35. Conversely, while the …
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So the government plan for semiconductors is to invest over ten years the same amount as TSMC invests every fortnight – that says all you need to know about the government’s attitude to the chip industry. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-1-billion-strategy-for-uks-semiconductor-sector ‘Up to’ £200 million will be spent in the next two years and ‘up to’ £1 billion over …
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By Steve Bush
Segger has added support for 64bit ARMv8-A cores to its Embedded Studio IDE (integrated development environment), now covering Cortex-A53, Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A72, for example. “We see a migration to 64bit cores, even for a typical embedded application, simply because many modern SoCs and FPGAs use them,” said Segger MD Ivo Geilenbruegge. Embedded Studio includes tools …
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By Steve Bush
Murata is offering a 4V 10μF ceramic capacitor with ±20% tolerance in a 0201 – 0603M package. “They are currently the smallest MLCC products on the market to deliver such capacitance levels,” claimed the company, “representing a 65% size reduction on the 0402 – 1005M products that would normally need to be specified. ” Called …
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By Steve Bush
Battery maker Exide Technologies has switched to silicon carbide transistors for a 7kW industrial electric vehicle charger. Its chargers convert 220Vac to between 24 and 80V for lead-acid and lithium-ion powered vehicles. The 7 kW unit uses 750V mosfets (G3R60MT07D) and 1.2kV Schottky diodes (GD10MPS12A) from Navitas, and the same SiC platform is good for …
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Almost 350 licences have been granted to companies in the UK space sector since July 2021, the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has announced, highlighting its work in this area. As well as the 343 licenses issued, the regulator is also monitoring more than 750 UK satellites in space, including supporting the deployment of the …
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GlobalFoundries, Samsung and TSMC have joined imec’s Sustainable Semiconductor Technologies & Systems (SSTS) research programmr. Launched in 2021, the SSTS program rallies stakeholders from across the semiconductor industry – including systems companies, (equipment) suppliers, and now also three of the world’s leading semiconductor foundries – to help reduce the ecological impact of the IC value …
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Stathera, the Montreal supplier of MEMS timing devices, announced today that the company has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round. The round was co-led by BDC Capital’s Deep Tech Venture Fund and Celesta Capital, with additional participation from strategic investors including MediaTek, Seiko Epson, and TXC. “Technology scaling using conventional timing architectures has …
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TSMC pointed up a differentiator between itself and its two foundry rivals – Samsung and Intel – at a technology symposium in Hsinchu yesterday. TSMC CEO C.C. Wei (pictured) said that TSMC was more reliable and trustworthy than its two rivals because “Our two competitors, one from South Korea and one based in California, develop …
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The rapid market expansion for robotics brings risks, writes Alexander Ford of intellectual property firm Withers & Rogers. Over the past decade, the robotics sector has been advancing at pace. Early-stage, experimental research projects have given way to major-scale R&D programmes aimed at finding new applications for robotics technologies in a variety of industry sectors. …
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