Samsung to invest $116bn in logic

Samsung plans to invest $116 billion in logic chips between now and 2030 creating 15,000 new jobs. $63 billion will go to domestic R&D and $52 billion will be spent on production facilities. A focus will be on foundry where it is second to TSMC with a market share of 19% compared to TSMC’s 48%. ...

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Chip component gets heat out of tight spots without leaking electrons

TT Electronics has introduced a surface-mount component designed exclusively to get heat out of tight spots. Looking much like a chip resistor or capacitor, TJC series ‘thermal jumper chips’ are made of solid aluminium nitride for good thermal conductivity with low electrical leakage and low capacitance. “Aluminium nitride has nearly five times the thermal conductivity ...

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Hitachi adds to robot portfolio

Hitachi is to buy  JR Automation Technologies of Michigan which builds production lines and logistics systems using industrial robots. In March, Hitachi bought KEC Corporation (KEC), a Japanese robotic system integrator. The acquisition of JR Automation will allow Hitachi to f expand its Lumada Solution business. Lumada is Hitachi’s advanced digital solutions, services, and technologies ...

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ST finds Q1 market soft

ST had Q1  revenues of $2.08 billion, down 6.7% y-o-y; gross proffit of $818 million down 7.9% y-o-y; gross margin of 39.4% down 50 basis points y-o-y; operating margin of 10.2% and net income of $178 million Operating income decreased 21.6% to $211 million, compared to $269 million in the year-ago quarter. The operating margin ...

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Digital security experts hunt for vulnerabilities on new trains

Rolling stock maker Bombardier Transportation has appointed Ricardo and Roke Manor Research to study the digital security risk profile of Aventra, its latest train type, soon to go into service with Crossrail, Transport for London and on various UK over-land services. Ricardo brings knowledge of rail operations, rolling stock design, systems engineering and passenger interaction, while ...

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Interview: SamacSys CEO on component modelling, EDA and engineering frustrations

We talk to Alex MacDougall, founder and CEO of SamacSys, about EDA tools and component libraries.

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Analog Bits has PCIe design kits

Analog Bits has front-end design kits for a complete PCIe clocking subsystem, which integrates the oscillator, PCIe class 100MHz reference clock generator with built-in Spread Spectrum Clock Generation (SSCG) and HCSL clock output buffer all into one macro. The Analog Bits clock PHY lowers Bill of Materials cost and saves power pins by sharing with ...

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