Electro Ramblings

There's Nasa's new moon rovers, Renesas buying Sequans, TSMC's German fab, Wales versus Taiwan, and the Tinker Board 3N aimed at IIoT from Asus...

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…

There's a warning about complacency for TSMC, a Gartner Hype-Cycle for 2023, the foundation of the Semiconductor Education Alliance, a thought piece on robotic patent wars, and Huawei planning to fab 5G chips on a 7nm process at SMIC this year...

There's Ericsson using Intel’s 18A process to make 5G SoCs, TSMC delaying production in Arizona, Raspberry Pi-powered retro handheld gaming, and researchers addressing some of the challenges of automotive lidar...

For example, what caught David Manners' eye this week was Germany taking €20bn from its climate fund to subsidise chips...

There's a dot matrix vehicle headlamp, a report on U.S. semiconductor revenues, the IoT-friendly Arduino Nano ESP32 based on the Espressif ESP32-S3 microcontroller, and Intel’s 18A process technology.

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…

There's GaN Systems signing a MOU with QPT, Intel launching the Catalyze partnership programme, Nasa's humanoid robot, the 2030 date for banning the sale of new ICE vehicles, and the LiFi standard, IEEE 802.11bb.... 

For example, what caught David Manners' eye this week was Elon Musk starting a company whose mission is 'to understand the true nature of the universe'.

There's a a brushless dc motor power tool power circuit, BMW putting the case for hydrogen-powered cars, Imec research into High-NA EUV lithography, China restricting exports of gallium and germanium, and a home-brewed, Raspberry Pi-based mini computer...