Electro Ramblings

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…

In an Intel dominated week, there's a report of Tesla's market dominance, Intel starting EUV production, the US Chips Act rolling-out to smaller supply chain projects, Altera being spun-off ahead of an IPO, and a Mannerisms take on what took Intel so long on the EUV front...

For example, what caught David Manners' eye this week was Intel starting production using EUV, with Fab34 in Leixlip near Dublin being its first volume fab to use the Intel 4 EUV-based process...

There's the first high-energy laser weapon system to be tested and integrated in the UK, Open-source hardware, the No.1 semiconductor company for revenue this year, China building a huge particle accelerator for advanced IC lithography, and Arm share price developments...

For example, our technology editor highlights an example of thinking outside the box: Cornell University demonstrating a mini robot whose locomotion is (gas) powered by 'soft explosions'.

There's Arduino’s system integrators partnership programme, using AI in practice, TDK PSUs, and Taiwanese distributor WT Microelectronics buying Future Electronics...

For example, what caught David Manners' eye this week was ST’s CEO getting another three year contract after nearly doubling the company’s revenues in five years...

There's Pig Cycle economics, life on Mars, the semi industry increasing revenue, ARM's IPO pricing strategy, and Samsung cutting 50% of its NAND production...

For example, what caught David Manners' eye this week was an improvement in Future Horizons’ forecast for the chip market this year.