Electro Ramblings

There's recent semiconductor sales, smartphone shipment levels, the Spring Budget, US aims to be manufacturing 20% of the world’s most advanced logic chips, and AMD releasing its Spartan UltraScale+ FPGA family...

For example, what caught David Manners' eye this week was the USA saying it is aiming to set up a complete domestic semiconductor supply chain.

There's Pico Technology's 3GHz bandwidth display-less oscilloscope, BAE buying Ball Aerospace, Globalfoundries receiving $1.5bn of Chips and Science Act money, and SoftBank to put $100bn into "Izanagi" to make AI chips designed by Arm...

The Electronics Weekly team share some fingerposts - their picks of the week, in terms of announcements, developments, quotes or anything else in the wide world of electronics that caught their eye...

There's researchers building a chip for studying cardiovascular diseases, the US launching its $5bn National Semiconductor Technology Centre, and the potential for growth of High-Bandwidth Memory...

What caught David Manners' eye this week was the story that OpenAI’s CEO is trying to raise $7 trillion to build AI chip fabs...

What are the topics covered this week? There's Nvidia revenues rising, Russia accessing advance ICs, space-based 5G connectivity, SIA forecasting 13% growth this year, and Weller soldering kits...

For example, what caught our editor's eye was QuEra testing its zoned architecture in a trans-Atlantic collaboration to advance quantum computing...

There's agricultural machines tuning to SpaceX satellite communications services, export policies for China, an imminent ST reorg, US visa restrictions, and the CEO of ASML declares the EU's chip goal 'totally unrealistic'...

For example, our Technology Editor highlights "a DIN rail process timing relay that is so flexible that it might have been quicker to list what it can't do than what it can do"...