If such regulations were developed, California would be the first state in the nation to do so.

TSMC intends to be in volume production on 7nm in Q1 2018, reports Digitimes, quoting Simon Wang, TSMC’s senior director of business development. On 10nm, TSMC has received tape-outs on three designs and anticipates 10nm revenues in Q 2017. For 5nm, TSMC expects risk production in H1 2019. It hopes to insert EUV processing into …

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Synopsys has joined the GloFo’s FDXcelerator Partner Program, an ecosystem designed to facilitate 22nm FD-SOI (FDX) SoC designs.

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Infineon is introducing its 800V CoolMOS P7 series of 800V MosFETs based on superjunction technology.

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Hampshire-based single board computer manufacturer BVM has expanded its design and manufacturing facilities with a substantial investment in both people and equipment. The firm has added design resources such as the latest Solidworks 3D modeling software for system design and Altium PCB layout and design software capable of handling the latest high speed PCIe signals …

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Avnet Embedded has signed a global distribution agreement with VMware, a supplier of virtualisation and cloud infrastructure software. Virtualisation is a software design technique which reduced cost of hardware by running virtual machines on standard multi-core processors. The concept essentially separates software applications from the underlying hardware platform and enables multiple operating systems and applications …

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Our IoT Design 2016 event in London is not to be missed! It takes place on Thursday 15 September, and the venue is CodeNode in central London.

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With skills training and STEM education always a big issue, my eye was drawn to a report entitled “Kids in Engineering report”, which has just been published.

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Trident Energy has developed multi-kW linear electromagnetic generators for wave power. Electronics Weekly spoke to Trident CEO Steve Packard to find out how these monsters of the sea work, and what they can do. In principle, they are simple: the movement of a long cylindrical multi-pole magnet through a wound armature generates power every time …

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After World War II the Americans occupying Japan decided to break up the zaibatsu – the industrial conglomerates which controlled Japan’s economy. The four biggest – Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo and Yasuda – controlled a quarter of the country’s economy. In 1946, Konosuke Matsushita, who’d built his own company unlike most of these venerable organisations, was …

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