To contain nuclear fusion reactions which occur at temperatures of the order of 350 million deg.F,  intense magnetic fields  are required. So, 64 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 26th 1950. The story continued: Experience up to now  has shown that to produce and sustain such fields requires enormous amounts of power and an extremely ...

Last week, Germany sent an advance team of 20 soldiers to Lithuania, laying the groundwork for the recently discussed establishment of a permanent brigade in the country. The brigade will support the already existing so-called NATO Enhanced Forward Presence in Lithuania, which rotates its personnel regularly and was made up of soldiers from Germany, Belgium, Czechia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway ...

Samsung has been awarded $6.4 billion in direct funding under the Chips and Science Act. The company is investing $40 billion in Texas to make 4nm and 2nm chips. “This announcement will unleash over $40 billion in investment from Samsung, and cement central Texas’s role as a state-of-the-art semiconductor ecosystem, creating at least 21,500 jobs and leveraging up to $40 ...

Huawei is building a $1.66 billion R&D complex in Shanghai as big as 224 football pitches to develop chip manufacturing equipment, reports the Nikkei. An important area will be litho machines. The Western ban on sales of advanced manufacturing equipment to China is behind the investment. The centre will employ 35,000 workers. Wireless and smartphone  R&D will also be carried ...

Q5D Technology, a company specialising in  tools  for automating wiring harness manufacture, has closed a $3 million investment round led by Lockheed Martin. Q5D has developed robotic tools combined with sophisticated computer-aided design and manufacturing software, enabling the autonomous addition of wiring and printed electronics directly onto product surfaces. This automation offers not only improved quality and reliability but also ...

Q4 Electronic System Design (ESD) industry revenue increased 14% to $4,423 million from the $3,879.9 million of Q3, according to SEMI’s  Electronic Design Market Data (EDMD)report. “Electronic design automation (EDA) continued to report strong revenue growth in Q4 2023,” said Wally Rhines, Executive Sponsor of the SEMI Electronic Design Market Data report. “The Computer-Aided Engineering, Printed Circuit Board and Multi-Chip ...

The running of my Department will be coming under scrutiny when the horny handed sons of toil (a.k.a. the Islington metropolitan elite) take over and I intend to make it a model of technocratic excellence which will demand my re-appointment as Secretary of State, Ed confides to his diary I call in the Permanent Secretary. “Is the Department doing anything ...

Shanghai-based foundry SMIC has identified 463 fabless chip firms in China and says the demand for more is enormous. “We have identified 463 fabless semiconductor companies in mainland China, 120 of them are really promising,” Richard Chang, Founder, CEO and president of SMIC, told the IEE/FSA International Semiconductor Executive Forum in London in September 2004. “We’ve built five fabs there ...

Melexis is sampling its Induxis switch, the MLX92442, which is a contactless, magnet-free, and strayfield immune, amonolithic device which directly detects conductive targets. It enables small module designs with reduced component count for improved safety and electrification: high voltage interlocks, charging flaps, seatbelts, hood/trunk, gear tooth sensing, or brake-by-wire applications.   For traditional safety automotive latches and switches, ranging from ...

2023  sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment fell  1.3% to $106.3 billion from 2022’s   record $107.6 billion, says SEMI. China was the biggest market, growing 29% y-o-y to $36.6 billion, followed by Korea which fell 7% to $19.9 billion and Taiwan which fell 27% to $19.6 billion. The US market rose 15%, the EU fell 3%, Japan fell 5% and ...