A popular upgrade for the lowest cost ‘3018’ desktop CNC machines and their close relatives is a ‘500W spindle’ or ‘300W spindle’ for about £80. These consist of a brushed dc motor and a mains power supply. What not many people realise is that some (not all) of the power supplies that are supplied with …

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The only certainty about the semiconductor market is its uncertainty, Winbond chairman and CEO Arthur Chiao Yu-cheng tells the Nikkei. “Over the past two years, you learned a great lesson in constant uncertainties and disruptions,” says Chiao, “in early 2020, everyone is forecasting gloomy demand and no one dared to place orders. But it turned …

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Silicon Catalyst has added five companies its In-Kind Partner programme – 360Work, CentralApp, Cliosoft, HDL Design House and InteliSpark. Silicon Catalyst has a created a network of In-Kind Partners (IKP) that lowers the capital expenses associated with the design and fabrication of silicon-based ICs, sensors, and MEMS devices. With this announcement, the number of Silicon Catalyst …

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Digi-Key Electronics is hosting a webinar, in collaboration with Analog Devices, entitled “AI Anywhere – ADI’s AI Accelerator IC Enables New Edge AI Use Cases.” As well as covering the challenges involved with implementing Edge AI, the webinar introduces the AI microcontroller MAX78000 and considers new use cases for AI. Presented by Kristopher Ardis, executive …

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The penetration rate of ARM architecture in data centre servers is expected to reach 22% by 2025, says TrendForce. Arm’s three major adnstages are, says TrendForce: First, they can support diverse and rapidly changing workloads and are more scalability and cost-effective. Second, they provide higher customisation for different niche markets with a more flexible ecosystem. …

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MCU ASPs rose 10% in 2021 – the biggest increase in 25 years – and the MCU market grew 23% to a record $19.6 billion, says  IC Insights’ 1Q Update to its 2022 McClean Report. IC Insights is forecasting worldwide MCU  sales to increase 10% in 2022 to reach an all-time high of  $21.5 billion …

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Kioxia has started sampling Automotive UFS Ver. 3.1 embedded flash memory devices. Samples  of the 256GB, 128GB and 64GB devices will start today, with the 512GB device to follow in April. The new devices support a wide temperature range (-40°C to +105°C), meet AEC[4]-Q100 Grade2 requirements and offer enhanced reliability capabilities that increasingly complex automotive applications …

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Chip demand is slowing, TSMC chairman Mark Liu told the Nikkei earlier today, citing slowdowns in “smartphones, PCs, and TVs, especially in China, the biggest consumer market.” Rising costs are also a problem, said Liu. “Everyone in the industry is worried about rising costs across the overall supply chain,” he said instancing component and materials …

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Arm is transferring most of its stake in Arm China to owner Softbank to facilitate its IPO planned for next March. Arm will end up with less than 20% of Arm China with Softbank holding 28%. A majority stake is held by Chinese investors. After the transfer, Arm China will be treated as a licensee …

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Now you can easily set up monitoring, alarms and dashboards for many of your resources and workloads automatically in CloudWatch. The new one-click option on the CloudWatch Getting Started page provides customers a convenient means to launch CloudWatch Application Insights. Once launched, Application Insights will discover the underlying resources in your account or Resource Group and set up the recommended metrics, logs and alarms to monitor their health.