Officially announced at Embedded World this year, one of NXP’s MCX MCUs will have a Cortex-M33 core and come in a 16pin package – or so the company predicts. Update: See the comments below for 8pin Cortex-M mcus that I missed. But it turns out there is already a 16pin 32bit Arm-based chip, the HC32L110, about which I can find ...

Alfred P Sloan, who was president, CEO and chairman of General Motors in the 30s, 40s and 50s made some extraordinarily wise observations. Here are a few: There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new ...

Linx Technologies has introduced a family of 2.4 GHz adhesive flexible printed circuit antennas for ISM applications including Bluetooth and ZigBee and Wi-Fi. They provide a ground-plane-independent dipole, according to the company, and are intended to be stuck inside plastic enclosures and other structures transparent to the frequency band “enabling environmental sealing and protection from antenna damage”, it said. Connection ...

The BeagleBone organisation has created a 64bit Linux single board computer with AI capability and other hardware accelerators. Eight Top/s of neural-network processing are accessible through Python libraries. Called AI-64 it is built around Texas Instruments’ TDA4VM, which has 2GHz dual Arm Cortex-A72 cores, a C7x DSP core, and deep learning, vision and multimedia accelerators, according to Farnell, which is ...

The US Chips Act finally made it through Congress yesterday with the House of Representatives voting 243 to 187 in favour. The bill now goes to the White House where President Joe Biden is expected to sign it next week putting it into law. The bill provides $52 billion in funding for the US chip indutry plus a 25% subsidy ...

Imec’s project to reduce the semiconductor industry’s greenhouse emissions has attracted significant partners including Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, ASM, ASML, KURITA, SCREEN, and Tokyo Electron. Today, IC manufacturing is estimated to account for about 0.1 percent of global emissions. However, forecasts indicate that this percentage could increase to around 1.5 by 2030 if the semiconductor sector remains passive while other sectors stick ...

2022 semiconductor revenue will grow 7.4% to $639 billion, down from 2021 growth of 26.3%, says Gartner. In 2023, it is expected to fall 2.5%. “We are already seeing weakness in semiconductor end markets, especially those exposed to consumer spending,” says Gartner’s Richard Gordon, “rising inflation, taxes and interest rates, together with higher energy and fuel costs, are putting pressure on consumer ...

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has selected two companies – Lockheed Martin and Maxar Space – to advance its Earth observations from geostationary orbit. The contracts were officially awarded by NASA on behalf of the NOAA to meet the objectives of the GeoXO programme. The total value of each of the ten-month fixed-price contracts is approximately $5 ...

Q2 silicon wafer area shipments were up 1% q-o-q at 3,704 million square inches, topping the previous record high set in Q1, says SEMI’s Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG). Second-quarter silicon wafer shipments saw 5% growth from the 3,534 million square inches reported during the same quarter last year. “Silicon shipments and demand remain robust driven by a strong semiconductor market,” says ...

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Mihai Daniel Ivanescu, a Graduate Software Engineer at Imagination Technologies. Achievement Daniel studied Computer Hardware and Software Engineering ...