COVID-19 has had an impact on the entire healthcare market. During the peak of the first wave, companies from the industrial and automotive sectors worked on repurposing their sensors and production lines to provide pressure sensors for respirators and temperature sensors for thermometers.
Third-Quarter 2020 Global Semiconductor Equipment Billings Surge 30% Year-Over-Year, SEMI Reports
Global semiconductor equipment billings surged 30% year-over-year and rose 16% to US$19.4 billion from the prior quarter, SEMI announced today in its Worldwide Semiconductor Equipment Market Statistics (WWSEMS) Report.
Hitting The Quantum ‘Sweet Spot’: Researchers Find Best Position for Atom Qubits in Silicon
Researchers from the Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T) working with Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC) have located the ‘sweet spot’ for positioning qubits in silicon to scale up atom-based quantum processors.
STMicroelectronics Reveals Compact 60V DC/DC Converters Featured for Extra Flexibility
The STMicroelectronics L7983 is a compact, 3V-60V, 300mA synchronous DC/DC buck converter with flexible, dynamic-mode selection to satisfy noise-sensitive applications and maximize efficiency at light load.
Cartesiam Transforms Edge AI Development for Industrial IoT
Cartesiam announced the availability of NanoEdge AI Studio V2, the first integrated development environment (IDE) that simplifies creation of machine learning, inference, and now classification libraries for direct implementation on Arm Cortex-M microcontrollers (MCUs).
Dialog Semiconductor Selected by AST & Science as the Preferred Supplier for Advanced Communication Custom ICs
Dialog Semiconductor plc, a provider of battery and power management, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth low energy (BLE) and Industrial edge computing solutions today announced that AST & Science, LLC, a satellite company that is disruptively transforming satellite broadband access, has selected Dialog to develop four custom mixed-signal & RF ASICs for their SpaceMobile network.
ZEISS, TRUMPF and Fraunhofer Research Team Awarded the Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2020 for the Development of EUV Lithography
The German Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced the winners of the Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2020 (German Future Prize 2020) in a ceremony in Berlin today.
Microlight3D Unveils Smart Print-UV, a New Maskless Lithography System Equipped With UV Light
Microlight3D, a specialty manufacturer of high-resolution micro-scale 2D & 3D printing systems for industrial and scientific applications, today unveils Smart Print-UV (SP-UV), a new maskless lithography system equipped with a UV light source.
Game Changer in Thermoelectric Materials Could Unlock Body-Heat Powered Personal Devices
A new University of Wollongong study overcomes a major challenge of thermoelectric materials, which can convert heat into electricity and vice versa, improving conversion efficiency by more than 60%.
STMicroelectronics and Advantest Collaborate on Advanced Automated Test Cell for IC Testing
Semiconductor test equipment supplier Advantest Corporation and STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, announced that they have jointly developed an advanced, fully-automated final-test cell system that improves overall equipment efficiency and quality in semiconductor test and packaging operations.
