It takes a ship a quarter of a mile long to get stuck, thankfully now refloated,  in the Suez Canal to get the world to focus on its oil choke points. According to a Lloyd’s List Intelligence analysis 4.6 million barrels passed through the Suez canal daily in 2018. That is still substantially less than the Stait of Malacca which ...

Quantum Motion, a quantum computing startup led by academics from UCL and Oxford University, have demonstrated state of the art quantum capabilities using industrial-grade silicon chips, helping to set a blueprint for how quantum chips can be manufactured at scale using existing manufacturing processes. The discovery changes the dynamics in the development of quantum computing, showing that it is possible to ...

Researchers at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley have demonstrated a ‘2D’ sensor that works at room temperature thereby using much less power than conventional sensors. The sensor is selective to NO2 with only minimal response to other gases such as NH3, CH2O, and CO2. The highly sensitive, selective, stable, and reversible chemical sensor is based on a monolayer of the ...

Cree l Wolfspeed has introduced four new multi-stage GaN on SiC MMIC devices, extending its range of RF solutions for a diverse array of pulsed and continuous wave X-band phased array applications, including marine, weather surveillance and emerging unmanned aerial system radars. Using Wolfspeed GaN on SiC technology, these new devices deliver high power-added efficiency (PAE) in small, industry standard packages. ...

Alps Alpine  is shipping the UMNZ1 Series 5G NR module for enabling 5G in automobiles. Used in combination with V2X systems giving vehicles the capability to communicate and interact with everything around them, such as road infrastructure, other vehicles and pedestrians, 5G is expected to contribute to greater sophistication of IVI (In Vehicle Infotainment); for example, real-time integration of traffic ...

The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on the growth in Bluetooth annual device shipments has been outlined by the Bluetooth SIG. Effectively, with total shipments remaining at the 4 billion mark, it sees growth in Bluetooth shipments shifted out by one year, A report it has produced predicts that some markets, including wearables and locating systems, expect to experience substantial ...

Thanks to Gartner for this one – the top ten semiconductor suppliers in 2020: Table 1. Top 10 Semiconductor Vendors by Revenue, Worldwide, 2020 (Millions of U.S. Dollars) 2020 Rank 2019 Rank Vendor 2020 Revenue 2020 Market Share (%) 2019 Revenue 2019-2020 Growth (%) 1 1 Intel 70,244 15.6 67,754 3.7 2 2 Samsung Electronics 56,197 12.5 52,191 7.7 3 ...

Arm has introduced the Armv9 architecture – the first new Arm architecture in a decade. Armv9 aims to accelerate the move from general-purpose to more specialised compute across applications such as AI, IoT and 5G. To address security,  Armv9 introduces the Arm Confidential Compute Architecture (CCA) which shields portions of code and data from access or modification while in-use, even ...

UK national standards body BSI has published a standard covering automated vehicle trial data collection and management for incident investigation. It is the fourth publication from the CAV Standards Programme backed by CCAV, the government’s Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, and delivered with the Department for Transport, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Innovate UK and Zenzic. The document is PAS 1882:2021 ...

Aiming at automotive use with AEC-Q101-qualification, Vishay has combined a maximum on-resistance of 17.3mΩ with 52nC gate charge in an 80V p-channel mosfet. Both the above figures are with 10V drive to the gate. The device is the SQJA81EP, which comes in a 5.13 x 6.15mm surface-mount PowerPAK SO-8L (PowerPAK) package with gullwing leads – gullwings allow for increased automatic optical inspection capabilities and provide ...