You may not be familiar with the Apple Mac Studio a (very expensive, circa £2K) larger update of the (already expensive, £1K) Mac Mini – but here comes iFixit, the repair specialists, to expertly tear the new kit down… The Mac Studio is basically the stand alone computer unit, sans, display, keyboard, mouse and any …

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24 years ago, after their success in DRAM,  the Japanese chip industry had to look for a new mainstream product. “In 1985 the US moved to microprocessors and logic and their choice proved to be very right,” Dr Tsugio Makimoto, president of Hitachi Semiconductor, told me in 1998. “Now it’s our turn,” added Makimoto, “the DRAM …

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There’s RISC-V and AI, Spain investing in semiconductors via the EU, Nexperia buying the Newport Wafer Fab and, finally, Intel, Micron, ADI and MITRE Engenuity forming an alliance for ‘American Growth’…

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February chip sales of $52.5 billion were up 3.4% on January’s $50.7 billion and up 32.4% on the $39.6 billion of February 2021, reports the SIA. “Global semiconductor sales remained strong in February, increasing by more than 20% for the eleventh consecutive month on a year-to-year basis,” says SIA CEO John Neuffer, “sales into the …

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Spectrolab has been selected to provide approximately 4,000 XTJ Prime solar cells for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The Boeing company – which is based in Sylmar, California – will manufacture, integrate and test the cells under the terms of the agreement with NASA. They will provide power to both the telescope and the …

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Semiconductor manufacturing equipment lead-times are stretching out, threatening the capacity expansion plans of device manufacturers, reports the Nikkei. Shortages which are affecting the build plans of equipment makers include lenses, valves,  pumps, MCUs, engineering plastics and electronic modules. Lead-times for parts and materials quoted by the Nikkei in months are: Valves, Pumps, Engineering Plastics – …

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At the end of 2021, 57% of the industry’s total monthly wafer capacity was owned by the top five companies, according to Knometa Research’s Global Wafer Capacity 2022 report. One year earlier the share was 56% and back in 2018 it was 53%. A decade ago, the share held by the top five was about …

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SolidRun has introduced a module with 16 2GHz Arm Cortex-72 cores, that measures just 58 x 48mm. Built around NXP’s Layerscape LX21262A processor, the module partners it with up to 32Gbyte of DDR4, 8Gbyte of eMMC and a 8Mbit SPI memory. External SD and PCIe-SSD are supported. Four 25Gbit Ethernet and and eight Gen 3.0 PCIe interfaces are included …

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Lemo is accommodating cables from 10mm2 (AWG 8) to 50mm2 (AWG 1) and currents up to 430A in high-power additions to its M-series of connectors. There are uni-pole and multi-pole parts (right) for for single three-phase requirements. “These configurations were developed for high power distribution of electronic devices and electric drive vehicles,” according to the company. …

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Sun Capital Partners is selling C&K Switches to Chicago-based Littelfuse in a deal valued at $540m. “C&K and Littelfuse share a common vision, with both companies having almost 100 years’ experience in design and manufacture,” said C&K CEO Lars Brickenkamp (photo). “With many common customers, applications and focus markets, our two companies share market and cultural …

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