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Elektra Awards 2022 open for entries - Electronics Weekly
WEBApr 28, 2022 · The Elektra Awards 2022 have officially opened for entries with a mission to once again highlight and celebrate the brightest and best technical and business achievements in the UK and European electronics market. This year’s entry deadline is Thursday 14 July, giving time to gather the information and ideas to …
Rotary knob switch with a display in the middle - Electronics Weekly
WEBOct 18, 2022 · Anders has introduced a family of rotary switches that have a circular colour TFT-LCD in the middle, as well as a push button function. Available with 1.3, 2.1 or 2.47inch circular displays, the knobs are ~48, 76 or 92mm in diameter respectively. The company sees them being used in heating systems, industrial controls, IoT devices, boilers ...
OpEd: Astute Electronics - 30 years of growth
WEBMay 23, 2019 · This year, Astute Electronics, headquartered in Stevenage, celebrates 30 years in business as an independent electronics distributor with a global reach. It’s an exciting and bold success story. Astute’s success is driven by a single principle: adding value in the supply chain. “When I set up the business in 1989, it was about component ...
Intrinsic scales RRAM to 50nm - Electronics Weekly
WEBFeb 3, 2022 · Intrinsic claims that, at 50nm, the technology demonstrates ‘excellent switching behaviour’. “We are delighted to have hit this critical milestone, confirming our theoretical analysis that the devices can be made with nanoscale dimensions,” says CEO Mark Dickinson, “ this means, at last, there will be a simple and low-cost way to integrate non-volatile memory in any chip.”
19 new fabs being started this year - Electronics Weekly
WEBJun 29, 2021 · 300mm fabs will account for 15 of the 19 being started this year, and seven out of the ten to be started next year. The remaining seven fabs planned in 2021-22 will be 100mm, 150mm and 200mm facilities. The 29 fabs could produce as many as 2.6 million wafers per month (in 200mm equivalents). “Equipment spending for these 29 fabs is …
Significant digital processors at ISSCC 2021 - Electronics Weekly
WEBFeb 16, 2021 · The last invited chip at ISSCC 2021 was Kunlun, the first in-house AI chip from Baidu of Beijing. This is another chip aimed at boosting data centre performance. Made on a 14nm Samsung process, it has a peak performance of 230Top/s (INT8) at 900MHz and up to 281Top/s (INT8) boosted to 1.1GHz. Memory bandwidth is 512Gbyte/s, peak power is 160W ...
Recruitment: What does it take to be a chip engineer? - Electronics …
WEBSep 16, 2020 · First and foremost is the educational aspect. Candidates must be sufficiently specialised in the field they wish to pursue as a career, or have the right foundation and an eagerness to learn. For chip design, it can be a graduate who holds the electrical or electronics engineering qualifications, and has ‘soft skills’ for teamwork and ...
Systems on modules: Join a slimmed-down, soldered-down future
WEBNov 11, 2020 · The solder-down module can have its own ground plane on the back surface which helps with heat transfer. More importantly it can offer a contiguous ground with the baseboard in order to make PCB layout for high speed differential signals, such as MIPI-DSI, PCIe and USB 3.0. less demanding. At the same time, it …
Arm sues Qualcomm - Electronics Weekly
WEBSep 1, 2022 · Arm sues Qualcomm. Yesterday, Arm said it is suing Qualcomm for breach of contract. Arm’s lawsuit alleges that Arm-based designs by Apple spin-off Nuvia, which was bought for $1.4 billion by Qualcomm in March, cannot be legally transferred to Qualcomm without permission from Arm. Arm says Nuvia’s Arm licences were terminated in March.