The support or use of AI (artificial intelligence) in electronics, including ML (machine learning), whether in software (supervised, unsupervised or reinforcement learning tools) or hardware (accelerators, GPUs, etc).
Spending on 300mm fab equipment is expected to reach $107bn in 2025, according to the 300mmm Fab Outlook report by SEMI. The sector is expected to grow 7% this year and 9% in 2026 to reach $116bn, a 4% increase in 2027 followed by a 15% increase and total worldwide expenditure of $138bn in 2028. Over the next three years, ...
An AI company in Japan has filed for bankruptcy protection, it has been delisted from the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the CEO, Kazutaka Yonekura, has resigned. On Monday, 11 year-old Alt, of Tokyo, filed for a debt re-structuring process a year after its IPO. Alt went public on the Tokyo exchange last October with a valuation if $130 million. Alt ...
Heavy rain in the Phoenix and Scottsdale areas of Arizona brought chaos to the roads and Waymo vehicles to a standstill. At the end of September, heavy rainstorms, accompanied by lighting and hail meant several rainfall in a short period of time. The city’s Waymo vehicles, used to driving in the warm, dry climate of the desert region, did not ...
Fujitsu and Nvidia have agreed to work together to create full-stack AI infrastructure that integrates AI agents. The initiative aims to bolster enterprises’ competitive edge through AI, while preserving their autonomy in AI utilisation. The collaboration will focus on co-developing and delivering an AI agent platform tailored for industry-specific AI agents in sectors such as healthcare, manufacturing and robotics, along ...
At Microelectronics UK, Embedd.it unveiled its cross-vendor graphical MCU configurator. The company said that it will “remove hardware dependencies in embedded software” and strengthen supply chain resilience. The configurator uses AI to retrieve and organise data on more than 1,400 MCU families from major manufacturers, including Renesas, STMicroelectronics, NXP Semiconductors and Texas Instruments. The configurator is part of a suite ...
At Microelectronics UK (24-25 September), Kanishka Narayan, Minister of State for semiconductors, emerging technology, AI and online safety announced investment designed to support the UK semiconductor industry. The exhibition and conference for the microlectronics supply chain was held in London’s Excel Centre. In his keynote, the minister highlighted that the government is investing £10m in a new initiative with Innovate ...
A $42bn UK-US ‘tech prosperity deal’ covering AI, quantum computing and civil nuclear energy is being announced today during US President Donald Trump’s state visit. Nvidia says it will deploy 120,000 GPUs in the UK, including up to 60,000 Grace Blackwell Ultra chips with Nscale, in partnering OpenAI in a UK leg of the $500bn Stargate project. “Today marks a ...
Physical artificial intelligence enables intelligent action in the physical world. This step towards making science fiction a reality requires a change in design engineering, says Thomas Andersen. Despite algorithmic wizardry and unprecedented scale, the engineering behind artificial intelligence (AI) has been relatively straightforward: more data, more processing, more I/O. But that is changing. An explosion of investment and innovation in ...
Toshi Hishiki puts a spotlight on how the latest precision timing technology is redefining synchronisation in robotics. The adoption of robotics in factories has reached a record of 162 units per 10,000 employees, according to the World Robotics 2024 report. Today’s hyper-connected robots are demanding. They require much more than the traditional industrial control systems used in factory automation. In ...
Spending on fab between 2024 and 2030 will be more than $1.5 trillion to supply a market worth over $1 trillion by 2030, says PwC. That matches the spend of the last 20 years and is driven largely by government subsidies and efforts to stabilise supply chains. The PwC report primarily attributes the surge in investment to the growth of ...
