20 years ago the chip industry was facing an unprecedented setback – for the first time in its history a shrink was not delivering improvements in density, power, speed and cost. Density, speed and cost  benefits were still do-able but power was not. “The industry is facing a challenge which is unprecedented in its history,” said Dr Tsugio Makimoto, corporate ...

The EU-funded photonixFAB has opened for running R&D wafers and small-scale manufacturing,.. A user portal, at https://www.photonixfab.eu/technologies-services, enables initial technology evaluations and consultations to be conducted. It will provide users with a consolidated access point, so that they can explore the possibilities available. “Using the portal, customers will be able to find the correct partners and start carrying out the ...

Melexis has brought out the ADK81116 application development kit which is designed to simplify the development of dynamic RGB-LED automotive applications. The kit comes with pre-loaded configurable firmware, eliminating the need for firmware development, and replacing it with straightforward calibration and configuration through a GUI. LED lighting, especially when implemented in a highly dynamic manner, is increasingly recognized as a ...

The use of robots should trump that of astronauts when it comes to government funded space travel, suggests Lord Rees (OM, FRS, HonFREng, FMedSci, FRAS, HonFInstP), the cosmologist and astrophysicist. The UK’s Astronomer Royal – his official title – has said government funding should no longer be used to send people into space. Talking in the context of space exploration ...

Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with Vox Power the manufacturer of AC/DC power supplies and DC/DC converters. As part of this agreement, Mouser Electronics will distribute Vox Power’s configurable, rugged fanless conduction-cooled power supplies. These products have been specifically designed for the industrial and technology markets, providing high-density solutions that fit into compact spaces for demanding applications that ...

Nvidia has stunned the world with  80% capex growth this year – but there’s a better investment you could have made in January 2024: cocoa. The price of cocoa beans, the most important raw material for making chocolate, has surged more than 120 percent this year, with cocoa futures temporarily trading at more than $10,000 per metric ton this week. ...

There was once a scientist who was offered the Presidency of Israel. This was his reply. “I am deeply moved by the offer from our State of Israel and at once saddened and ashamed that I cannot accept it. All my life I have dealt with objective matters, hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal ...

There’s a photonics IC for AI in datacentres, Synopsys buys Intrinsic, Renesas RISC-V MCUs, a Mannerisms tale of Einstein, and automotive mosfets to reduce heat… 5. TeraSignal adds photonics IC for scaling AI bandwidth in datacentres TeraSignal, the photonics specialist, has announced an intelligent re-driver device for scaling AI bandwidth in data centers. The TS8401/02 intelligent 400G (4x100G) PAM4 modulator ...

We're talking Nvidia NIMs (Nvidia Inference Microservices) for healthcare, AI, South Korean AI startups, researchers working on Diamond CMOS, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory...

The Linux kernel driver for THine’s ISP THP7312 is available in the Linux mainline kernel at: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/media/i2c/thp7312.c The driver development finalisation and upstreaming were done under partnership with Ideas on Board, one of the Linux consulting service companies for camera and display systems. Until now, there has been no production-ready driver for standalone ISPs in the mainline Linux kernel. It ...