Electro Ramblings

For example, our technology editor highlights that UCLA researchers have created a real solution-without-a-problem (yet) by inventing a 2D structure with an electrically tuneable thermal resistance.

There's the SkyWater open-source 130 nm process, establishing IP empires, automotive 5G-satellite connectivity, the telecom industry in a 5G twist, and the results of the RealVNC Raspberry Pi compo are revealed...

Our technology editor, for example, highlights Japanese researchers making great use of a bio fuel cell by turning one into a pollution detector for lakes and rivers...

There's PSMC building a foundry fab in Japan, a look back at the Qualcomm Nokia dispute, Intel processes, Intrinsic’s embedded ReRAM technology, and Western Digital and Kioxia breaking off their merger talks...

There's Arm-based PC CPUs from AMD and Nvidia, the Arm Total Design initiative, Infineon opening a quantum computing and AI lab, a Mannerisms blog post on second-hand EVs, and Murata's At 160µm tall, Murata's thinnest automotive-rated 1µF capacitor... 

This week, for our technology editor, it's Toshiba announcing a 530μΩ (typ) 40V 200A mosfet with its die in a ~7x7mm package, or ~7x8.5mm if you include the gull-wing leads, for automotive applications.

There's the high-speed interconnect CXL (Compute Express Link), Canon's alternative to EUV litho for making 5nm IC circuitry, an Imec report on progress towards quantum computing, Kioxia-WD merger talks resuming, and Nordic announcing a successor to its nRF52 2.4GHz wireless MCU...

For example, what caught David Manners' eye this week was Canon coming up with an alternative to EUV lithography for writing 5nm circuitry.

There's O-RAN reference designs, four channel 12bit oscilloscopes, a rugged waterproof camera, Graphcore losses and the U.S. stance on RISC-V and China...

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