A fabled system designer was transformed into this character who went through numerous struggles on behalf of a microprocessor: Moral: Don’t get carried away by fancy kit  

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Novocomms, the UK antenna design specialist, is expanding its operations in Birmingham following a successful “multi-million pound” funding round. Specifically, the company is set to hire additional engineers and salespeople, move to new offices and create 100 jobs by September 2025. Up to 30 of these roles are expected to be created in the next …

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Safran Electronics & Defense and Terran Orbital have signed a Memorandum of Agreement to study the production of a new electric propulsion system – based on Safran’s PPSX00 plasma thruster – for LEO satellites. The aim, they say, is to make spacecraft more resilient and maneuverable at faster delivery rates and lower costs, for both …

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For ANC (Active Noise Cancellation) systems with an analogue interface, Infineon  is  expanding its automotive microphone portfolio with the XENSIV MEMS microphone IM68A130A with a flat frequency response to frequencies below 10Hz. It builds on Infineon’s first automotive-qualified digital MEMS microphone, the IM67D130A, and combines the company’s automotive expertise with its technical know-how in high-end …

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The foundry market size grew by 27.9% in 2022, hitting a new record high, says IDC’s Semiconductor Manufacturing Services: 2022 Worldwide Foundry Market: Vendor Ranking and Insight  but is expected to fall by 6.5% this year. 2022 growth was driven by customers’ long-term agreements (LTAs), higher foundry prices, process shrinkage, and plant expansion. “The top …

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The Teledyne e2v team designed and manufactured the 36 sensors for the visible wavelength camera on the Euclid spacecraft, due to be launched on Saturday, which aims to determine the properties of dark energy and dark matter. Euclid is designed to explore the evolution of the dark universe. Over six years, it will make a …

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Semiconductor capex increased 35% in 2021 and 15% in 2022,  but Semiconductor Intelligence expects a 14% capex decline in 2023. The biggest cuts will be made by the memory companies, with a 19% drop. Capex will drop 50% at SK Hynix and 42% at Micron Technology. Samsung, which only increased capex by 5% in 2022, …

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Having trawled though Arduino’s just-released Uno R4 literature, here are the Uno R4 WiFi and R4 Minima in a nutshell: Features common to Arduino R4 – ‘WiFi’ (€25, below) and ‘Minima’ (€18, right) IO connections are in physically similar positions to Uno R3, and IO remains 5V. USB connector changed to Type-C. 6 – 24Vin …

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You can now try Amazon Timestream with a 1-month free trial. First time users now have the opportunity to experiment with and adopt Timestream at zero cost for a duration of one month, while adhering to specific usage quotas. This free trial enables you to evaluate the feature set of Timestream and without any financial commitment.

AWS announces two new pricing options for AWS Private 5G for longer-term network deployments. Now, in addition to the 60-day pricing option, you can deploy your private mobile network with a 1-year or 3-year pricing option, at a lower per-hourly rate.