Electro Ramblings

There's Arm-based PC CPUs from AMD and Nvidia, the Arm Total Design initiative, Infineon opening a quantum computing and AI lab, a Mannerisms blog post on second-hand EVs, and Murata's At 160µm tall, Murata's thinnest automotive-rated 1µF capacitor... 

This week, for our technology editor, it's Toshiba announcing a 530μΩ (typ) 40V 200A mosfet with its die in a ~7x7mm package, or ~7x8.5mm if you include the gull-wing leads, for automotive applications.

There's the high-speed interconnect CXL (Compute Express Link), Canon's alternative to EUV litho for making 5nm IC circuitry, an Imec report on progress towards quantum computing, Kioxia-WD merger talks resuming, and Nordic announcing a successor to its nRF52 2.4GHz wireless MCU...

For example, what caught David Manners' eye this week was Canon coming up with an alternative to EUV lithography for writing 5nm circuitry.

There's O-RAN reference designs, four channel 12bit oscilloscopes, a rugged waterproof camera, Graphcore losses and the U.S. stance on RISC-V and China...

The Electronics Weekly team share some fingerposts - their picks of the week, in terms of announcements, developments, product releases, quotes or anything else in the wide world of electronics that caught their eye…

In an Intel dominated week, there's a report of Tesla's market dominance, Intel starting EUV production, the US Chips Act rolling-out to smaller supply chain projects, Altera being spun-off ahead of an IPO, and a Mannerisms take on what took Intel so long on the EUV front...

For example, what caught David Manners' eye this week was Intel starting production using EUV, with Fab34 in Leixlip near Dublin being its first volume fab to use the Intel 4 EUV-based process...

There's the first high-energy laser weapon system to be tested and integrated in the UK, Open-source hardware, the No.1 semiconductor company for revenue this year, China building a huge particle accelerator for advanced IC lithography, and Arm share price developments...

For example, our technology editor highlights an example of thinking outside the box: Cornell University demonstrating a mini robot whose locomotion is (gas) powered by 'soft explosions'.