Ruotsalaisen Linköpingin yliopiston tutkijat ovat kehittäneet orgaanisen transistorin, joka matkii aivojen toimintaa.

The need to optimize efficiency and address complex power requirements of high-end processors, FPGAs, and ASICs are making active power management a critical design requirement in data center servers, telecoms systems, and networking equipment applications. At the same time, engineers designing power schemes are expected to minimize board space while reducing the development time between the initial concept and the final product.
To address the challenges of active power management, engineers must now consider solutions built around the PMBus specification, which offers a platform for monitoring and controlling power management devices. To address space-constraint issues, solutions with a minimal number of components must be implemented. The MPQ8645P, the latest point-of-load (PoL) regulator with PMBus integration from Monolithic Power Systems (MPS), provides a way for engineers to meet both sets of system design challenges.

iPhone X elevates niche optical technology to hot growth market. Now the question is what else it is good for?

Vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) technology, a proven but mostly niche technology until recently, is suddenly a very hot commodity thanks to the introduction of facial recognition in phones and other mobile devices.

VCELS primarily have been used as a low-cost way of tracking movement and transfering data in computer mice, laser printers and in fiber optics. But Apple’s decision to use VCSEL technology for facial identification in its iPhone X has pushed this technology in a different direction. That decision—and the flood of smartphone and consumer electronics makers who followed suit—forced the whole VCSEL market to scale up with new fabrication, testing and validation processes.

“In the VCSEL market, nothing happened for years,”

Arteris IP’s CEO looks at how automotive and AI are altering chip design.

Researchers digging into ways around the von Neumann bottleneck.

The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) announced the global semiconductor industry posted sales of $468.8 billion in 2018, the industry’s highest-ever annual total and an increase of 13.7% compared to the 2017 total. Global sales for the month of December 2018 reached $38.2 billion, a slight increase of 0.6% over the December 2017 total, but down 7.0% compared to the total from …

Global Semiconductor Sales Increase 13.7 Percent to $468.8 Billion in 2018
https://www.semiconductors.org/global-semiconductor-sales-increase-13-7-percent-to-468-8-billion-in-2018/

Positioning systems are finding their way into a wide range of applications, including AR/VR. Two new developments put a spotlight on this trend.

Applied Materials’ VP looks at what’s next for semiconductor manufacturing and the impact of variation, new materials and different architectures.