Thanks for IC Insights for this one – the top 32 IC product categories for growth this year and one which is in decline:

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According to a ranking by Bloomberg, three American families top the ranking of the world’s wealthiest. The top 2 – The Waltons and the Mars family – deal in consumer goods, while the Kochs in rank 3 are more of an industrialist clan. The Walton family’s assets come to $238 billion, while the Mars family …

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I bought a small old and rather battered milling machine. It is a Sieg X1, painted yellow and sold as a Clarke CMD10 in this case. These are basic machines built to a price and tend to be rather roughly finished in the places that don’t show (and some that do). Much as it was …

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TI claims to have introduced the industry’s ‘smallest and most accurate 1.5-W isolated DC/DC bias-supply module’. The UCC14240-Q1 uses a proprietary integrated transformer technology to enable designers to cut their power solution size in half for use in high-voltage environments such as electric vehicles (EVs), hybrid EVs, motor-drive systems and grid-tied inverters. For more information, …

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The UK government has awarded contracts worth £3.8 million for Phase 2 of Windfarm Mitigation for UK Air Defence, a competition to develop technologies that reduce the impact of offshore windfarms on Air Defence surveillance. Seven projects, from six companies, have been awarded selected and the initiative will be funded through the Department for Business, …

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Cambridge Quantum (CQ) says that the latest version of TKET (pronounced “ticket”), its hardware-agnostic quantum SDK is now fully open-source. This will permit more transparency of the code, easier reporting of issues and more robust integrations. The quantum software community will be able to make their own contributions and develop their own extensions to the codebase under the permissive Apache 2.0 …

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More than twenty European space companies have formed a consortium in response to a call for tenders from the European Commission. The call was entitled “New Space solutions for long-term availability of reliable, secure, cost-effective space based connectivity” and it is looking for “disruptive ideas to contribute to the definition of the system architecture of …

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Pre-silicon security verification during the chip design stage can avoid time-consuming analysis and correction of security vulnerabilities for a manufactured device. It can also avoid potential re-spins and production delays, says FortifyIQ. The company has developed two software suites  which simulate some of the ‘popular’ methods of cyberattack. SideChannel Studio simulates side-channel attacks whereby cyber criminals measure …

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After a surge in semiconductor M&A announcements in the second half of 2020, the strong M&A momentum carried into the beginning of 2021, with purchase agreements for chip companies, business units, product lines, and related assets reaching a total value of $15.8 billion in 1Q21, setting a record-high level for the first quarter of a …

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iWave has launched a single board computer based on NXP i.MX 8M Mini applications processor in a PICO-ITX form factor. Called iW-RainboW-G34S, it supports Linux 5.4.70, Ubuntu 20.04, Buildroot 2021.02 and Android 11. It is designed for multimedia processing with low power in embedded consumer and industrial applications. Arm Cortex-A53 cores up to 1.6GHz are …

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