This week’s show starts off with the FBI’s concerns about the Ring doorbell, then news about Apple and Google making their COVID-19 exposure notification framework easier for states to use. We discuss consolidation in the smart apartment market, vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Azure Sphere and then dive into a heap of newly launched devices. First up […]
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Onto Innovation (ONTO), which was created last year by a merger of Rudolph and Nanometrics – two equally-sized process control and software powerhouses — is primarily focused on optical metrology, macro defect inspection and process control software. The post Onto Innovation Focused on Process Control appeared first on Semiconductor Digest.
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Marvell is filling the void where HiSilicon used to be, both in the market and at TSMC. The post Marvell Joins TSMC’s Big League Customers with 5G ICs appeared first on EETimes.
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Building out its previous commitment, the White House is announcing a $1 billion investment into two of tech’s most promising frontiers, AI and quantum computing. Last year, the Trump administration rolled out an executive order on AI declaring its intention to bolster U.S. dominance in the field, but the order didn’t address much in the […]
ARM is back in our news lineup this week, as Kevin and I discuss who might be interested in buying the chip design company and why it decided not to spin out its IoT assets. We also talk about a new lock that opens with a touch, biometrics on other locks, and Fitbit’s new wearables. […]
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Cisco, Qualcomm, and Inseego tried to explain how trade policy is affecting 5G technology. It didn’t go so well. The post Qualcomm, Cisco, 5G and the Trade War appeared first on EETimes.
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There’s no shortage of demand for more compute power, but the underlying assumptions have to change. The post Moore’s Law Enters The 4th Dimension appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.
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COVID-19 has drastically changed the landscape for businesses across all industries, forcing immediate changes – but ones that will have long-term consequences. In the latest report by Lux Research, “The Impact of COVID-19 on Tech Innovation,” Lux outlines five key trends that will define how the world beyond the pandemic will be different. The post […]
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Arm today announced a three-year partnership agreement with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), establishing an access framework to all commercially available Arm technology. With DARPA’s Electronics Resurgence Initiative gaining momentum, the new agreement will enable the research community that supports DARPA’s programs to quickly and easily take advantage of Arm’s leading IP, […]
In this SWE Diverse episode, Heather Doty, SWE FY20 President, speaks with Rasha Hasaneen, vice president of innovation and product management excellence at Trane Technologies. Rasha will be a keynote speaker at WE Local India, Bengaluru in April 2021. Together they discuss Rasha’s career with Trane Technologies and obstacles she has faced in a male-dominated […]
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Intel demonstrated that architectural innovation can be just as important as process shrinks. Intel’s Xe, for example, looks able to give competing chips from AMD and Nvidia a run for their money. The post Intel Looks to Regain Innovation Lead appeared first on EETimes.
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Semico’s CEO provides an outlook for the semiconductor biz. The post What’s Next For Semis? appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.
This week on the IoT podcast we begin by talking about what the widespread adoption of ultrawideband chips in phones could mean for the IoT. From there, it’s on to Google’s always-listening software update, humans coming back into the QA loop, and earthquake detection on Android phones (there’s another earthquake project too!). Kevin also asks […]
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To manufacture highly integrated circuits here in the United States is no longer just a nice-if-we-can idea. It is building momentum. The post CHIPS Act Targets Post-Globalized Industry appeared first on EETimes.
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Die-integration technologies are revolutionizing packaging, assembly, and test. The post Advanced Packaging, Heterogeneous Integration And Test appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.
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SVXR, Inc., a pioneer in inspection and metrology technology, announced today that Scott Jewler has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer effective August 8th, 2020. Jewler previously held the position of Chief Operating Officer and is a co-founder of SVXR. The post SVXR Appoints Semiconductor Packaging Industry Veteran Scott Jewler as President and CEO […]
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Determining how third-party chiplets will work in complex systems is still a problem. The post Chiplet Reliability Challenges Ahead appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.
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Capex: current forecast assumes a much steeper 2020 capex drop-off Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak expectations were for combined DRAM and NAND capex of US$38.8 billion in 2020, down 15% year-over-year, including both WFE and infrastructure spend. This decrease was a result of the memory market downturn that plagued 2019—and much of 2018 for NAND—as […]
In this SWE Diverse episode, Heather Doty, SWE FY20 president-elect, speaks with Brandie Dessauer, an integrated supply chain manager at Dow. Together they discuss working from home as a leader at Dow and parent during a pandemic.
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More customization and a different message for the chip industry. The post Challenges For A Post-Moore’s Law World appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.
