Researchers uncover one of the mechanism that makes tin-based perovskite solar cells worse

What are the most popular topics covered? There's a change at the top at Renesas, fund-raising for an AI startup, China struggling to source chips and the new, powerful Raspberry Pi 4 Model B...

We have a great history as an inventive nation and a few years back the Radio Times came up with this list of the 50 greatest British inventions: Reflecting telescope: Isaac Newton, 1668 Seed drill: Jethro Tull, 1701 Marine chronometer: John Harrison, 1761 Spinning frame: Richard Arkwright, 1768 Toothbrush: William Addis, c. 1770 Soda water: Joseph Priestley, 1772 Hydraulic press: ...

We've written about the new, powerful Raspberry Pi elsewhere on the site, but mention has to be made of the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B on Gadget Master. Any hobbyist or maker would want to get their hands on this one!

Arm’s top CPU architect Mike Filippo has left the company after ten years to join Apple. At Arm he was responsible the development of  the Cortex-A76, A72, and A57, and Arm’s Hercules-AE automotive  CPU. Before joining Arm, Filippo worked for AMD and Intel. The move is teported to be related to Apple’s plans to replace Intel processors with Apple-designed processors ...

The semiconductor market is headed for a double-digit decline this year,  after a Q1 fall of 15.6% from Q4, forecasts Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence. Most recent semiconductor market forecasts reflect this trend. 2019 forecasts range from -7.2% from IDC to -15.0%, our latest Semiconductor Intelligence forecasts. Other forecasts are in the range of -11% to -13%. Available forecasts for 2020 ...

Semi capex wil fall 15% this year and 5% next year, says IC Insights. Figure 1 (below) shows the annual capital spending changes from 1983 to 2020. Over the past 34 years, there have been six periods when semiconductor industry capital spending declined by double-digits rates for one or two years (1985-1986, 1992, 1997-1998, 2001-2002, 2008-2009, and 2012-2013). In every ...

Sir Jony Ive is setting up LoveFrom – a new company which will have Apple as its first and main client. “Jony is a singular figure in the design world and his role in Apple’s revival cannot be overstated, from 1998’s groundbreaking iMac to the iPhone and the unprecedented ambition of Apple Park, where recently he has been putting so ...

A new low-Rss(on) LV MOSFET with reduced chip size for smartphone battery PCMs

Of course it started from an artificially low base, thanks to the bankers, and the trough of the  recession they caused was reached in June 2009 says the US National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Since then the expansion has gone on, and on and on . . . . . “If the United States makes it past July 1 ...