Electro Ramblings

Another one for our Digital Life category. According to new research, the top twenty countries in 2024 for broadband speed can be put in order. And, Iceland leads the way… The country offers the fastest broadband in the world, with an average speed of 279.55 Mbps. To put that in context, you could download a 5GB movie in just two ...

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The most popular new stories involve BAE and GlobalFoundries, a European pilot line for 7nm FD-SOI, SiFive's 4th gen RISC-V CPU cores, and indications that the automotive semiconductor market is flagging...

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