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DARPA’s Recent Deal With Arm Reflects a History of Microelectronics Innovation

DARPA’s Recent Deal With Arm Reflects a History of Microelectronics Innovation

From a three-year partnership with Arm to sponsoring ongoing Electronics Resurgence Initiatives, here’s how the U.S. DARPA is forging onward in microelectronics.


News Aug 27, 2020 by Tyler Charboneau
Microchip Releases the Largest Capacity EEPROM Chip Available to the Market

Microchip Releases the Largest Capacity EEPROM Chip Available to the Market

This week, Microchip announced the release of a 4Mbit EEPROM chip—more than double the capacity of the previous largest on the market.


News Aug 26, 2020 by Jake Hertz
TSMC Reveals Ambitious Plans for Its 4nm and 3nm Processes

TSMC Reveals Ambitious Plans for Its 4nm and 3nm Processes

At the company’s very first online symposium, TSMC showcased a range of new technologies, including its N4 process, which is scheduled to come online in late 2021.


News Aug 26, 2020 by Luke James
Metasurface Optical Chips Now Used to Shrink Quantum Sensors

Metasurface Optical Chips Now Used to Shrink Quantum Sensors

Researchers at the University of Birmingham have developed a way of shrinking the devices used in quantum sensing systems.


News Aug 26, 2020 by Luke James
How Suppliers and Designers Can Prepare for a Supply Chain Comeback

How Suppliers and Designers Can Prepare for a Supply Chain Comeback

The pandemic dealt a sizable blow to the semiconductor industry. Here's how the rebound might look.


News Aug 26, 2020 by Kayla Matthews
Graphine-Based Supercaps Show Promise for Wind and Solar Energy Storage

Graphine-Based Supercaps Show Promise for Wind and Solar Energy Storage

The research team behind this new approach thinks that it’ll help meet the growing demand for increased storage capacity.


News Aug 25, 2020 by Luke James
RISC-V Celebrates 10 Years of Open-Source ISA

RISC-V Celebrates 10 Years of Open-Source ISA

On the heels of RISC-V’s 10th birthday, let's explore the history of RISC-V from its inception to today.


News Aug 25, 2020 by Jake Hertz
Singapore Scientists Achieve Highest Perovskite Power Conversion Efficiency

Singapore Scientists Achieve Highest Perovskite Power Conversion Efficiency

By using an existing method, the team from Singapore’s Nangyang Technological University (NTU) has brought perovskites one step closer to market adoption.


News Aug 24, 2020 by Luke James
Is Stereovision the Key to Fully-Autonomous Vehicles?

Is Stereovision the Key to Fully-Autonomous Vehicles?

Advanced driving-assistance systems have been evolving technology for the past few years. The next evolution of processing technology—stereovision—is pushing ADAS into the future.


News Aug 24, 2020 by Adrian Gibbons
How to Enable USB-C Power Exchanges With and Without Power Delivery

How to Enable USB-C Power Exchanges With and Without Power Delivery

In this article, we'll discuss the main features required to have a USB-C power exchange with and without PD.


News Aug 22, 2020 by Dr. Steve Arar
Edge AI Chips for Voice-Activated Devices Save Power, Protect Privacy

Edge AI Chips for Voice-Activated Devices Save Power, Protect Privacy

Machine learning startup Syntiant announced in early August that it had secured $35 million to push its processors forward.


News Aug 21, 2020 by Luke James
New Berkeley Study Rewrites the Narrative on Capacitors

New Berkeley Study Rewrites the Narrative on Capacitors

Researchers from Berkeley have come up with a method to create ultra-high energy density capacitors, combining the virtues of both batteries and capacitors.


News Aug 21, 2020 by Jake Hertz
Microchip Jumps on New CoaXPress Standard with Chips for Machine Vision

Microchip Jumps on New CoaXPress Standard with Chips for Machine Vision

CoaXPress 2.0—the communication standard for machine vision—is here. Microchip wasted no time to develop a family of devices to meet the new standard.


News Aug 20, 2020 by Jake Hertz
Ultrasound Receiver Architecture Undergoes a Seismic Shift

Ultrasound Receiver Architecture Undergoes a Seismic Shift

Ultrasound, with nearly a century of technological history, has seen its third major technological breakthrough coming out of North Carolina State.


News Aug 20, 2020 by Adrian Gibbons
Researchers at TU Dresden and HZDR Develop World’s First Neurotransistor

Researchers at TU Dresden and HZDR Develop World’s First Neurotransistor

Using semiconductor materials, a joint research team claims to have successfully imitated the functioning of neurons—combining data storage and processing on a single component.


News Aug 20, 2020 by Luke James
New Quantum Image Sensing Tech Trumps Traditional Image Sensors

New Quantum Image Sensing Tech Trumps Traditional Image Sensors

CMOS imaging loses 75% of incident light. Quantum imaging retains up to 95% of its light. And that's only the start.


News Aug 19, 2020 by Jake Hertz
Intel’s 10nm “SuperFin” Makes 18% Leap in Performance—Without Transitioning Nodes

Intel’s 10nm “SuperFin” Makes 18% Leap in Performance—Without Transitioning Nodes

The SuperFin is an enhanced FinFET combined with a super MIM capacitor and an interconnect metal stack. What doors will this 10nm transistor open?


News Aug 19, 2020 by Rushi Patel
To Reach a Solar Boom, We Must Say Goodbye to Silicon, Claim Cornell Engineers

To Reach a Solar Boom, We Must Say Goodbye to Silicon, Claim Cornell Engineers

When it comes to the future of solar energy cells, some engineers think that we should be waving goodbye to silicon and replacing it with calcium titanium oxide, also known as perovskite.


News Aug 18, 2020 by Luke James
IBM Unveils Its First 7nm Processor, Complete With “Memory Inception”

IBM Unveils Its First 7nm Processor, Complete With “Memory Inception”

This week, IBM announced its new POWER10 processor, the 7nm successor to POWER9.


News Aug 18, 2020 by Jake Hertz
Digi-Key Broadens Access to Products with New Marketplace Initiative

Digi-Key Broadens Access to Products with New Marketplace Initiative

Digi-Key says its Marketplace platform gives engineers access to millions of products from a variety of suppliers—all on one website.


News Aug 18, 2020 by Luke James