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| Nextspace teams with Nvidia to develop digital twin tech |
8/16/2022 |
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The company’s partnership with Nextspace, a self-described metaverse “plumbing” firm providing cloud-based platform-as-a-service solutions to support federation of realistic, industrial digital twins in Nvidia’s Omniverse environment, and greater interoperability between digital twins.
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| Lip-Bu Tan joins Intel as Board member |
8/16/2022 |
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Lip-Bu Tan, executive chairman of Cadence Design Systems Inc., chairman of Walden International, and founding managing partner of Celesta Capital and Walden Catalyst Ventures, was elected to Intel Corp.’s board of directors, effective September 1, 2022. Tan will join the M&A Committee of Intel’s board of directors.
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| Neuromorphic has $1 million in pre–orders for its GrAI VIP chip. |
8/16/2022 |
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As with previous generations of the company’s Neuron Flow core, the company’s approach for its GrAI VIP chip uses concepts from event–based sensing and sparsity to process image data efficiently. This means using a stateful neuron design (one that remembers the past) to process only information that has changed between one frame of a video and the next,
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| SMART Modular Technologies offers uptime maximized memories |
8/15/2022 |
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SMART Zefr Memory has been tested under real-world conditions to identify and filter out marginal components that may undermine memory reliability. It uses proprietary screening process developed by SMART that when performed on memory modules ensures the industry’s highest levels of uptime and reliability.
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| Recovering Life for Retired Batteries |
8/15/2022 |
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At first glance, using these batteries in a so–called “second life” mode for ESS makes a lot of sense for many reasons. These batteries are widely available, don’t require major construction and siting efforts to user, are transportable and can be containerized, are quiet, have no moving parts, and are modular and scalable in capacity.
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| Ex-Arm Boss Quits SMIC’s Board |
8/12/2022 |
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Brown, a celebrated engineer who was part of Arm’s founding, is leaving SMIC after nine years on its board. He disclosed the move on his LinkedIn page. SMIC also confirmed the departure in an exchange filing.
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| China criticized the passing of U.S. Chip Act |
8/12/2022 |
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A Foreign Ministry spokesperson, said the US legislation would "disrupt international trade and distort global semiconductor supply chains," adding, "China firmly opposes that."
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| Share EV components market in India is likely to rev up |
8/12/2022 |
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Revenue of the electric vehicle (EV) components market in India is likely to rev up at a compound annual growth rate of around 76% to Rs72,500 crore in fiscal 2027 from Rs4,300 crore last fiscal. That will take the share of EVs in the overall automotive components market to around 9-11%—up from a negligible 1% currently
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| NEXCOM offers Arm System Ready Certified Product Selection |
8/12/2022 |
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DTA 1376 is a desktop uCPE appliance with NXP Semiconductor’s Layerscape LS1046A SoC processor containing quad 64-bit Arm Cortex-A72 cores inside, and has recently obtained the Arm SystemReady ES (Embedded Server) certification. DTA 1376 is a ready-to-deploy solution and its highlights include cost-effectiveness, power efficiency, flexibility, and software-friendliness. Other notable value-added features are Wi-Fi and 5G connectivity, which are essential in the IoT world.
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| India Government Offers Free Use of Indigenous 5G Test Bed |
8/11/2022 |
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Indian Government has decided to offer the use of indigenous 5G test bed free of cost to the government-recognized start-ups and MSMEs for the next six months, up to January 2023. It is available at a very nominal rate to all other stakeholders.
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| DRAM prices decline |
8/11/2022 |
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3Q consumer DRAM price drop from the original estimate of 8~13% to a quarterly decline of 13-18%.
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| China is expanding EV charging points |
8/10/2022 |
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China’s electric vehicle (EV) charging points increased by 56% year-on-year (YoY) in 2021, according to Counterpoint Technology Market Research’s latest China Electric Vehicle and Charging Points Tracker.
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| Keysight collaborated with Nokia to demonstrate the first public 800GE test |
8/9/2022 |
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With the move to the 800GE pluggable optics on front panel ports, interconnect and link reliability requires a new round of validation cycles to support carrier-class environments. These high-speed interfaces create a unique challenge as new 800GE capable silicon devices, optical transceivers and high bandwidth Ethernet speeds must be accurately tested.
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| Qualcomm extends foundry contract with GlobalFoundries |
8/9/2022 |
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The announcement, following the passage of the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act last week, secures wafer supply and commitments to support U.S.-based manufacturing through capacity expansion at GF’s most advanced semiconductor manufacturing facility in Malta, New York.
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| Microchip offers Portfolio of MPU-based System on Modules |
8/8/2022 |
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The SOM, based on the SAM9X60D1G System in Package (SiP), is a small 28-by-28 mm hand-solderable module that includes the MPU and DDR in a single package, along with power supplies, clocks and memory storage. The SAM9X60D1G-SOM is Microchip’s first SOM equipped with 4GB SLC NAND Flash to maximize memory storage of data in application devices, while the on-board DDR reduces the supply and price risks associated with memory chips.
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