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By Steve Bush
‘The Book: A cover-to-cover exploration of the most powerful object of our time’ is a charming and fascinating Radio 4 series that played over the weekend in omnibus form. I loved every minute of it, although was jarred by its final line, which described books as ‘unrepentingly analogue’. But surely, they are digital, as there …
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The Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Sir Jon Cunliffe, sounds like a bit of a plonker. Up before Parliament’s Treasury Committee last week, Cunliffe said it’s hard to pinpoint problems which a digital currency could solve. Nonetheless he wants one – he wants a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) backed by the Bank. Since …
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The New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE) has outlined a five-year vision, and also unveiled its ‘Employment Pledge’. An initial group of six employer partners – ABT Products, ETL Systems, Kirintec, REHAU, TRP Sealing Systems and Welsh Water – have pledged 15 job offers to NMITE students, on a pay scale starting at …
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DRAM revenue fell by 32.5% QoQ to $12.3 billion for 4Q22, says TrendForce. The QoQ decline for 4Q22 is larger than the QoQ decline of 28.8% for 3Q22 and comes close to the QoQ decline of 36% for the final quarter of 2008, when the global economy was in the midst of a major financial …
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Imec has developed a virtual fab to assess the environmental impact of patterning in advanced IC manufacturing. The fab has been developed in the imec.netzero modeling platform. The resulting analysis enables imec and its partners to assess current manufacturing choices, identify areas of focus, and project the future. In imec’s physical fab, environmentally friendly process …
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January chip sales of $41.3 billion were down 5.2% on December’ $43.6 billion and 18.5% less than the January 2022 total of $50.7 billion, says the SIA. “Despite record-high sales in 2022, the global semiconductor market cooled considerably during the second half of the year, and that trend continued during the first month of 2023,” …
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NXP’s MCUXpresso toolset streamlines software development for complex embedded applications, adding an IDE to enable use of open-source projects, simplified access to specialist middleware, and hardware abstraction to enable code reuse across NXP’s MCUs. The MCUXpresso toolset empowers developers with enhanced scalability, usability and portability, making it easier and faster to develop complex embedded applications. …
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Sondrel has extended its license agreement with Synopsys for its EDA tools so that it will run for three more years. Graham Curren, Sondrel’s Founder and CEO, said, “We are one of the few companies able to create complex designs for companies with solutions based on the latest EDA technologies. Our enterprise agreement with Synopsys …
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By Steve Bush
X1 Wind’s X30 prototype floating wind turbine has delivered power though its 1.4km sub-sea cable to the Canary Islands’ Plocan off-shore laboratory. “Local teams will now enter the last phase of a test and verification programme which started with the platform installation in November 2022, in preparation of the technology industrialisation and certification for commercial …
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By Steve Bush
Omron is aiming to replace conventional contactors with its most powerful ac PCB relay yet: G9KA-1A-E, which handles up to 1kVac and carries up to 300A. Sitting on a 51 x 51mm footprint, the relay is 54.5mm tall and weighs ~235g. The contacts are cadmium-free silver alloy and offer 200μΩ on-resistance (at 200A). Maximum timing …
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