Researchers successfully demonstrated a method to switch a novel material between two different nonvolatile states at very high speeds and with great accuracy. The physical constituents of the device in question are significantly robust against external influences such as magnetic fields. These facts together mean a high-speed and high-capacity memory device could be created. Such a device would also be extremely energy efficient.
Semiconductors
Photonic Microwave Generation Using On-Chip Optical Frequency Combs
In recent years there has been significant progress on chip-scale frequency combs generated from nonlinear microresonators driven by continuous-wave lasers. These frequency combs rely on the formation of dissipative Kerr solitons, which are ultrashort coherent light pulses circulating inside optical microresonators. Because of this, these frequency combs are commonly called “soliton microcombs”.
US Manufacturing Partnership Supports COVID-19 Fight
As hospital capacities are being expanded to face the increasing number of COVID-19 patients, the demand for medical air compressors, vacuum systems, and medical gas pipeline is increasing as well. As a medical gas equipment manufacturer, Powerex is part of a critical infrastructure industry designated by the Department of Homeland Security; since Busch Vacuum Solutions is a key supply partner for Powerex, they are deemed critical infrastructure as well.
Choppy Waters for Shipping $50B of Semiconductor Materials in 2020
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy is creating choppy waters for shipping and supplying critical materials, as highlighted in recent Critical Materials Council (CMC) monthly meetings.
Nordic Semiconductor Joins ZBOSS Open Initiative
DSR Corporation announces that Nordic Semiconductor, a global leader in short range wireless and low power cellular IoT technologies, has joined the ZBOSS Open Initiative (ZOI), a community of companies with a shared understanding of the necessity to have a common Zigbee® PRO software platform to overcome, together, the challenges around interoperability, security, testing, and optimization of Zigbee®-enabled products and solutions.
Revenue Management Challenges Cost High Tech Companies Billions, According to New Model N Research
Model N, Inc. (NYSE: MODN), the leader in cloud revenue management solutions, today announced details of a new executive report, the “2020 State of Revenue,” created to examine revenue management trends in the high tech industry.
Global Semiconductor Capex Forecast to Drop 3% Again This Year
Using its “baseline” assumptions shown in the soon-to-be-released April Update to the 2020 edition of The McClean Report—A Complete Analysis and Forecast of the Integrated Circuit Industry (MR20), IC Insights is not lowering its current -3% 2020 semiconductor industry capital spending forecast (Figure 1) due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
New Discovery Settles Long-Standing Debate about Photovoltaic Materials
Scientists have theorized that organometallic halide perovskites– a class of light harvesting “wonder” materials for applications in solar cells and quantum electronics– are so promising due to an unseen yet highly controversial mechanism called the Rashba effect.
GLOBALFOUNDRIES Qualifies Synopsys’ IC Validator for Signoff Verification on 22FDX Platform
With IC Validator physical verification, customers striving to take advantage of the low-power and performance benefits of GF’s 22-nanometer FD-SOI technology can now quickly verify that their designs meet signoff requirements for manufacturability compliance and maximum yield.
Si2 Launches Survey on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in EDA
Silicon Integration Initiative has launched an industry-wide survey to identify planned usage and structural gaps for prioritizing and implementing artificial intelligence and machine learning in semiconductor electronic design automation.
