What caught your eye this week? (Embedded World, TSMC, AI)

We’re talking Embedded World, TSMC and Chips Act money, AI, MCUs and design competitions…

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…

Caroline Hayes, editor
For me it’s: Mouser signs Edge Impulse; accelerates intelligence at the edge. At this year’s Embedded World, everyone was talking about intelligence at the edge. Mouser’s latest collaboration is indicative of this movement.

David Manners, components editor
What caught my eye this week was TSMC finally getting Chips Act money of $11.6bn and upping its USA fab investments to $65bn.

Steve Bush, technology editor
A lot of new microcontrollers have been announced at Embedded World in Nuremberg this week, and Renesas stood out for picking the rarely seen Cortex-M23 core to built its RA0 series of general purpose MCUs around. Consumption is a creditable 84.3μA/MHz and the devices work up to 32MHz on their internal oscillator, which is ±1.0% stable over the full operating range of -40 to +105°C and 1.6 to 5.5V. It looks like they decided not to take the TrustZone option for the Armv8-M core, but a true random number generator is included for security, as are a host of monitoring functions to improve execution reliability.