‘Zeptogram’ caught the eye at ISSCC 2022 conference last week, as researchers from French lab CEA-Leti produced a mass sensor with 170zg resolution for weighing molecules. Not only did they make one such sensitive weighing scale, but 1,024 of them in an array which can be scanned at high speed. The weighing part had been revealed in scientific papers before, ...

You can understand why no country wants to be ruled by Moscow. When the Iron Curtain was lifted following perestroika in Russia and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the state of those countries which had been consigned to the Russian sphere of influence after WWII was revealed. They were impoverished, technologically backward and, for me, the harrowing aspect was ...

Four out of the top seven executives of  Arm have now left the company following a clear-out by new CEO Rene Haas. Former CEO Simon Segars was replaced immediately after Softbank announced the failure of the Nvidia  bid. Now CTO Dipesh Patel,  Carolyn Herzog, the head of the legal team and chief strategy officer Jason Zajac  are leaving. CFO Inder ...

Intel has chosen Magdeburg in eastern Germany as its European fab site, reports Reuters. It is Intel’s third announcement of a potential multi-fab site in a year.  Last March it announced  it would build two  fabs un Arizona, and in January it announced a multi-fab site in Ohio. Intel has indicated in the past that a new fab site in ...

Executives from NTT-DOCOMO will give live presentations on O-RAN at MWC in Barcelona this week: Seizo Onoe, Chief Standardization Strategy Officer of NTT CORP. and Fellow of NTT DOCOMO, will make a presentation during OpenRAN: A Vision of 5G & the Future of 6G at MWC Stage A in Hall 5 on Monday, February 28 from 13:15–14:15 CET. Topics will include interoperability ...

The Telecom Infra Project (TIP) OpenRAN Project Group has just published its Release 2 Roadmap Document after conducting a thorough industry review with input from both the supply and the demand sides –  including some of the world’s largest operators. Last June, TIP (Telecom Infra Project) published the ‘Open RAN Technical Priorities Document’ – a comprehensive list of technical requirements that the signatories of the ...

Intelsat has officially completed its almost two-year-long financial restructuring process, having filed a voluntary Chapter 11 petition in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in 2020. The final milestone was receipt of regulatory approvals, completion of certain corporate actions, and satisfaction of other customary conditions, it has announced. The reorganisation has seen the company reduce its ...

The thing about new tech is to get involved when the concept’s early on in the hype cycle, Ed confides to his diary, that’s when the sucker-money piles in. So Greaser and I are going for this Metaverse bollox. It’s promisingly vague so we’re defining it as a customisable wonderland. If footie is your thing then you can don your ...

The fastest bendable 8bit thin-film microcontroller was describe at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference this week. Designed by Belgian research lab Imec and nearby university KU Leuven, it was made by UK-based PragmatIC Semiconductor. Called Flex6502, is has 16,000 0.8µm gate-length IGZO (indium gallium zinc oxide) transistors over a 4.5 x 5.5mm active area (see photo, which includes some test circuits ...

35 years ago foundries were very much a newfangled idea. “I remember a party at Bill O’Meara’s house circa 1986,” recalls John East, CEO of Actel for 20 years, “Steve Pletcher was there – VP Sales for TSMC. Steve asked me: ‘How would you like to buy some wafers?’ “‘I’ve never heard of you,’ I replied, ‘that’s a crazy idea. ...