Fish Fry is flying high this week! We start things off with a little News You May Have Missed where we investigate the technology behind Glasgow, Scotland-based Kite Power Solutions. We take a closer look at out how they plan to make kite energy a commercial reality by 2025, and why their high-flying wind energy plans just got […]
In this week’s Fish Fry, we are celebrating the winners of this year’s Not Impossible Awards with Kevin Sellers from Avnet. Kevin and I chat about how Avnet, Hackster i.o and Not Impossible Labs are facilitating a new era of groundbreaking technology that is not only good business – but also good for people. We […]
The intrepid EE Journal team is back (and taking no prisoners) at this year’s Design Automation Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. First up, we chat with the DAC Monday keynote speaker Galen Hunt (Microsoft – Distinguished Engineer and Managing Director, Microsoft Azure Sphere). Galen and I chat about the seven properties of secure devices and […]
Hello security, my old friendI’ve come to design with you againBecause a hacker came creepingleft its malware while I was sleepingand the code that was planted in my brainstill remainswithin the sound of IoT In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, I sit down with Vinay Gokhale (VP Business Development of ThirdWayv) to discuss the […]
This week’s episode of Fish Fry is absolutely brimming with geeky goodness! First, I check out some new Dungeons and Dragons names created by optical research scientist and neural network trainer extraordinaire Janelle Shane. Next, I chat with Matt Burns (Samtec) about the trends in interconnects and how interconnects are going to lead the charge […]
“The road to success is paved with the hot asphalt of failure.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough In this week’s episode of Fish Fry, we take an in-depth look at the complex reliability issues present in today’s automotive designs. Hany Elhak (Cadence Design Systems) and I chat about the role that mixed-signal chips play in the […]
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“Data Science and Visual Computing” is a reference guide on how to deal with big data.
Coming to you from AltiumLive 2019, this week’s podcast is all about hacking, PCB design, and how sharing information can inspire innovation big and small. AltiumLive 2019 keynote speaker Joe Grand (Grand Idea Studio/L0pht Heavy Industries) and I discuss how hacking and engineering can collide in today’s EE ecosystem. We also discuss the origins of […]
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Einride, the autonomous, all-electric transport provider announced its $25 million Series A round. The investment was co-led by the EQT Ventures fund (“EQT Ventures“), the European multistage VC fund with commitments of over €566 million and NordicNinja VC, a deep tech focused €101 million Nordic & Baltic fund backed by Panasonic, Honda, Omron and the […]
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FeetMe, a medical device company that produces smart medical wearables and digital health services to improve mobility, announced it has raised € 9.4 million in Series A funding. The investment round was led by LBO France, with additional investment from existing investors Kurma Diagnostics, the fund Paris Saclay seed fund, Idinvest Partners, Seventure and SOSV. […]
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In a rare move for a US tech company, Fitbit is pulling nearly all of its device manufacturing out of China amid a trade war between the world’s two largest economies. The company announced that “effectively all trackers and smartwatches” starting in January “will not be of Chinese origin” as a result of US tariffs. […]
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Expands test and measurement leadership in high-growth Advanced Packaging and MEMS applications (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — FormFactor, (FORM) announced the acquisition of FRT, based in Germany. FRT is the one of the fastest growing metrology suppliers in the semiconductor industry, with revenues expanding at more than 75% compounded annual growth rate since its inception in 2016 […]
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22FDX security solution aims to protect against physical tampering and attacks for cellular Internet of Things (IoT) devices GLOBALFOUNDRIES® (GF®), the world’s specialty foundry, announced that it is working with Arm® to offer secure system-on-chip (SoC) solutions on GF’s 22FDX® platform, based on FD-SOI, for cellular IoT applications. With the growing threat of reverse engineering […]
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Have you ever stayed awake at night pondering palindromic digital clock posers?
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Scientists from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) and the University of Würzburg (Germany) have investigated a simple biomimetic light-harvesting system using advanced spectroscopy combined with a microfluidic platform. The double-walled nanotubes work very efficiently at low light intensities, while they are able to get rid of excess energy at high intensities. These properties are […]
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The report, NFC chips market 2019-2023, has been added to Technavio’s catalog. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the market, including its global and regional market share as well as market segmentation based on product (smartphones, smart wearables, POS terminals, and others) and geography (APAC, Americas, and EMEA) for the forecast period 2019-2023. The post […]
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The microprocessor market’s string of nine straight record-high annual sales between 2010 and 2018 is expected to end this year with worldwide MPU revenue dropping 4% to about $77.3 billion because of weakness in smartphone shipments, excess inventories in data center computers, and the global fallout from the U.S.-China trade war, according to IC Insights’ […]
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Researchers from Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have built a super-sensitive bolometer, a type of thermal radiation detector. The new radiation detector, made of a gold-palladium mixture makes it easier to measure the strength of electromagnetic radiation in real time. Bolometers are used widely in thermal cameras in the construction industry […]
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Engineered materials and optoelectronic component maker II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA, which provides silicon carbide (SiC) substrates for power electronics, has introduced what it says are the first prototype 200mm-diameter semi-insulating silicon carbide substrates for RF power amplifiers in 5G wireless base-station antennas and other high-performance RF applications…
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Packaging project; 5nm; 3D chips; neural-net-on-a-chip. The post Week In Review: Manufacturing, Test appeared first on Semiconductor Engineering.
