Here is collection of some predictions for year 2023. This is a collection of links to prediction articles followed by a short quote or quotes of what I see the main points in them.
Ennuste vuodelle 2023: Ongelmat helpottavat
“After a couple of exceptional years, the electronics market, challenged by the pandemic and pent-up demand, has signs of a calmer ride on the horizon. Mouser’s Mark Burr-Lonnon predicts slower, but more predictable growth”
“According to World Semiconductor Trade Statistics, the global semiconductor market will grow by 13.9 percent in 2022 and continue to grow by 4.6 percent in 2023. While these statistics show that global demand for semiconductors is slowing, they still show steady growth in all key regions of the world as the electronics industry begins to settle into a more manageable state of equilibrium.”
AMD, Intel, and Nvidia Reportedly Slash Orders with TSMC
“Large customers revise orders to TSMC due to the economy slowdown.”
“According to the report, virtually all TSMC clients will experience a downturn and have to cut orders, so TSMC’s utilization will decline significantly in Q1 2023. For example, the utilization rate of TSMC’s N7-capable lines (7nm, 6nm-class technologies) will decline to around 50% in early 2023. Furthermore, even TSMC’s N5/N4-capable lines will be underutilized”
Tech That Will Change Your Life in 2023
“Big layoffs at Meta, Amazon, Snap and others? A global crypto fraud set in the Bahamas? Elon Musk buying and running Twitter? Look, not even Nostradamus could have seen all that coming.”
“The Metaverse, Now More Than Just Meta. For the last two years, we’ve said this is the year for virtual and augmented reality. But in 2023 we’re confident: headsets that give you a choice of VR (where you’re in a virtual world) and AR (where the virtual is overlaid in your real world) are coming. And they won’t just be from Meta, current holder of 90% of the VR market, according to research firm IDC.”
“Tech companies and their investors are grappling with the industry’s biggest downturn since at least 2008. The result is layoffs and hiring freezes at companies large and small. The PC and chip industries in particular have been clobbered by the biggest drop in sales in more than two decades. And while many survivors of past tech downturns preach that cuts should be deep, fast and early, it appears that the pain for tech workers will continue into 2023.”
“Account moochers, beware: The Netflix password crackdown is coming in early 2023. Netflix is the first streamer with an enforcement policy.”
“China and the U.S. are so interdependent—for manufacturing of smartphones and other electronics, for EV batteries and solar panels, for raw materials and intellectual property—it seems impossible they could go their separate ways with their own parallel supply chains and production bases. Yet it’s happening.”
“Artificial Intelligence Finds Real Use”
“Smart Home Gets Easier-ish”
“European Union legislation is changing Apple’s smartphones.”
Digipelaaminen ja e-pelimediat entistä suositumpia – kännykkäpelaaminen ei kasva enää
“Digital gaming and the consumption of game-related media content is increasingly popular, according to the Gamer Barometer 2022 study conducted at the University of Tampere. An increasing proportion of Finns play digital games at least occasionally, but the number of active mobile players is no longer growing at the previous pace.
Active mobile gaming has for the first time in the history of Gamer Barometers turned into a slight decrease, but still 59 percent of Finns still occasionally play mobile games.”
Xiaomin uusin sisältää tekniikkaa, jota ei ole vielä edes standardoitu
“Wi-Fi 7 support is of course interesting, when the IEEE standard is apparently not being completed until around 2024. Next year, however, a number of Wi-Fi 7-compatible smartphones will be introduced to the market. Xiaomi’s 13 Pro will probably be the first of them. Its arrival in Finland and prices will be revealed later.”
The tech IPO market collapsed in 2022, and next year doesn’t look much better
3 views: Predicting 2023’s key startup themes
“Anna Heim: The rise of API-first startups will continue in 2023
I am convinced that API-first will be a major trend in 2023, with this approach being both more widespread than it was previously, as well as more successful than less API-heavy options.
That APIs are on the rise isn’t exactly new — but API-first startups are a subgroup in this world, and one that is enjoying tailwinds.”
“The software company Tiobe measures the popularity of programming languages with its famous index, which measures search engine searches. Changes on the list happen slowly, but in December something happened right at the top of the list. C++ became the third most popular language over Java.”
“It’s not a trivial change, as C++ overtook Java for the first time in history. The top of the list is unchanged. Python and C are clearly in a class of their own.”
Sanna Marin: EU:n pitää katkaista teknologinen riippuvuus Kiinasta
“In an interview with Slush CEO Eerika Savolainen, Marin demanded that Europe break its technological dependence on China.
- We cannot depend on China. Economic relations should not be severed, but we cannot be in a position where an authoritarian country operating with a different logic is able to blackmail us, Marin said.
- I am afraid that we will make the same mistake with technology and digitality as with energy. We thought that a close economic relationship would prevent war, but we were wrong.”
Kyberturvan ammattilaisista on huutava pula
“There is an acute shortage of cyber security professionals. There is an estimated global shortage of three million professionals.”
Innovators 2023
These are some of the innovators and leaders in the electronics technology space.
Ennuste vuodelle 2023: Ongelmat helpottavat
“the demand for smarter and more networked products and systems has also spread to business-to-business sectors, where digitization and the emergence of the fourth industrial revolution have begun to take over the sector. For example, in manufacturing, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), characterized by interconnected sensors, communication/data transfer, and advanced data analytics, has transformed the efficiency of production processes in the factory. The IIoT depends on highly advanced integrated circuits that provide intelligence for sensing, measurement and monitoring, power management, control and communication.”
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Balthazar on ensimmäinen läppäri, joka antaa käyttäjälle täyden vapauden
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14590-balthazar-on-ensimmaeinen-laeppaeri-joka-antaa-kaeyttaejaelle-taeyden-vapauden
Balthazar on ensimmäinen läppäri, joka antaa käyttäjälle täyden vapauden
Julkaistu: 14.02.2023
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Balthazar on oikeastaan BPCD eli Baltahaar Personal Computing Device. Kyse on 13,3-tuumaisella näytöllä varustetusta konseptista, joka perustuu RISC-V-prosessoriin ja Linuxiin, joka on Debian-pohjainen GNU-lisensoitava versio
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Android 14 taipuu taivuteltaviin
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14588-android-14-taipuu-taivuteltaviin
Google on aloittanut seuraavan Android-alustan eli 14-version kehittämisen. Ensimmäisen kehittäjäversion voi jo ladata manuaalisesti Pixel-puhelimille, mikäli uusia ominaisuuksia haluaa testata. Valmista pitäisi tulla alkusyksystä, vaikka muiden valmistajien laitteille Android 14:aa joudutaan odottamaan pidempään.
Uudessa Androidissa kiinnostavimpia toimintoja ovat tietenkin uudet ratkaisut ja niiden edellyttävät rajapinnat. Google kertoo parantavansa sovelluskohtaista kielitukea, joten jatkossa Android puhuttelee käyttäjää paremmin muillakin kuin englannin kielellä. Tähän on tuotu uusi rajapinta (Grammatical Inflection API). Kehittäjän kannalta tämä tarkoittaa uuden resurssin luomista, jotta käyttöjärjestelmä osaa oieita kieliarvoja (maskuliini – feminiini – neutri).
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3G katoaa kännykkämarkkinoilta
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14587-3g-katoaa-kaennykkaemarkkinoilta
5G nousi viime vuonna yleisimmäksi mobiilitekniikaksi ohi 4G:n. Ranskalaisen Yole Developpementin tutkimus mobiililaitteiden RF-etuasteiden markkinoista osoittaa myös, että 3G on katoamassa markkinoilta kokonaan.
RF-moduuleja myydään älypuhelimiin reilulla 19 miljardilla dollarilla. Summa on säilynyt käytännössä ennallaan viimeiset kolme vuotta, sillä kännyköiden kokonaisvolyymi ei ole juuri kasvanut. Kehitys on menossa jopa toiseen suuntaan.
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Kana Inagaki / Financial Times:
After a series of disastrous bets and a market downturn, SoftBank’s future rests on a successful Arm IPO and turnaround at the mostly dormant Vision Funds — Chip designer now accounts for a bigger percentage of the technology group’s net asset value than Alibaba
SoftBank’s future rests on Arm
https://www.ft.com/content/3b415060-13f1-4248-9d36-fe6c2bf0c879
Chip designer now accounts for a bigger percentage of the technology group’s net asset value than Alibaba
In what he claimed was his last presentation to investors in November, Masayoshi Son lamented that his entrepreneurial knack would be wasted as SoftBank shifted to a full defensive mode to cut losses. To avoid that, he pledged to devote himself entirely to growing Arm, the UK chip designer owned by the Japanese technology group.
Four months on, it’s not exactly clear to the outside world what the 65-year-old founder is up to. For the first time in decades, and being true to his word, Son did not appear on stage last week as SoftBank revealed fresh investment losses of $5.5bn for the latest quarter.
What was clear, though, to investors, was just how much the future of SoftBank, which Son dubs as “a vision capitalist”, rests on one company: Arm.
Following a historic selldown in Alibaba, an investment on which Son built his name as one of the world’s greatest technology visionaries, Arm now accounts for a bigger percentage of SoftBank’s net asset value than the Chinese ecommerce group. At 16 per cent, Arm is also bigger than the 13 per cent share of the overall NAV for SoftBank’s domestic mobile business.
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Dan O’Shea / Fierce Electronics:
GlobalFoundries reports record Q4 revenue, up 14% YoY to $2.1B, net income up 1,453% YoY to $668M, and FY 2022 revenue up 23% YoY to $8.1B; GFS rises 8%+
GlobalFoundries delivers record revenue despite sector turmoil
https://www.fierceelectronics.com/electronics/globalfoundries-delivers-record-revenue-despite-sector-turmoil
As recent earnings reports showed how many semiconductor designers struggled during the latter half of 2022, one of the world’s biggest foundry firms just weighed in with another solid earnings report.
GlobalFoundries posted revenue growth of 14% year-over-year for the fourth quarter of 2022, as sales increased to a record $2.1 billion for the period, beating the consensus estimate of $2.08 billion for the quarter. For the full year of 2022, GlobalFoundries’ revenue was up 23% to a little over $8.1 billion.
The sales surge also came after a strong report for the third quarter of 2022, both despite an industry-wide inventory correction. GlobalFoundries CEO Thomas Caulfield acknowledged that correction, which has led to some job cuts and other cost-saving moves at the company, but added that GlobalFoundries will continue to work closely with its customers through demand fluctuations.
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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker on the company’s history, battling Microsoft, working with rivals, generative AI, WebKit, iOS, Chrome, Mastodon, and more
Erase browser history: can AI reset the browser battle?
Mozilla chair Mitchell Baker on competing — and cooperating — with Google, Apple, and the rest of Big Tech.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23598344/mozilla-firefox-ceo-mitchell-baker-microsoft-edge-bing-google-apple-ai
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Nicole Farley / Search Engine Land:
Meta updates Facebook’s “Why am I seeing this ad?” tool to include information about how users’ on- and off-platform activity informs its ML models for ads
Meta aims to increase transparency in ad targeting for Facebook and Instagram users
You can now access Ads Preferences from additional pages in the “Why am I seeing this ad?” tool.
https://searchengineland.com/meta-aims-to-increase-transparency-in-ad-targeting-for-facebook-and-instagram-users-393096
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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
GitHub’s enterprise AI code completion tool Copilot for Business hits general availability after the beta launch in December 2022, available for $19 per month
GitHub’s Copilot for Business is now generally available
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/14/githubs-copilot-for-business-is-now-generally-available/
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Tutkija lataa suorat sanat: TikTok on valtava riski ja länsimaat naiiveja Näin Kiina käyttää digitaalista valtaa sotilasmahtinsa kasvatukseen
https://www.kauppalehti.fi/uutiset/tutkija-lataa-suorat-sanat-tiktok-on-valtava-riski-ja-lansimaat-naiiveja-nain-kiina-kayttaa-digitaalista-valtaa-sotilasmahtinsa-kasvatukseen/25bb49b9-c567-4940-8457-fce047828bc8
Kiinan kommunistinen puolue on ottanut maan teknologiasektorin tiiviisti kouraansa. Digivaltaa ulotetaan myös ulkomaille ovelin keinoin. On mielenkiintoista, että Kiina näkee näiden palveluiden potentiaaliset vaarat, kun taas länsi suhtautuu asiaan melko huolettomasti, Helsingin yliopiston tutkija Monique Taylor toteaa.
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US-China chip war: ASML says China employee stole data
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64658843
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The anonymous job site Blind offers a window into the extreme anxiety gripping the tech industry.
‘Crazy stuff is happening at my work’: Silicon Valley engineers are really freaking out right now
https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-job-site-blind-anxiety-burnout-recession-stock-crash-2022-5?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=personal-finance-sf&r=US&IR=T
If you want to get a core sample of what Silicon Valley engineers are feeling these days, as the tech industry implodes around them, spend some time on Blind. The site — part job board, part social network — allows its users to remain anonymous, except for two salient facts: where they work (and for how long) and how much money they make. The employer info is a requirement for entry and is verified by Blind on the back end. The money thing, though, is enforced at the peer level. Fail to disclose it, and the first comment you receive is likely to be “TC or GTFO” — i.e., list your total compensation or, well, you know.
The system is an elegant solution to the digital-age problem of decoupling identity from credibility. On Blind, no one knows who you are, but they know who you work for.
Blind is a fairly bare-bones site — a few images interspersed among a bunch of industry gossip and interest groups (e.g., Fitness & Nutrition, Blockchain & Crypto) where 5 million techies gather to chat.
Like modern-day Stoics, the Optimizers take all-work-and-no-play to new levels.
On the other side of the battle are the Balancers, those striving for a chill sort of work-life balance — “WLB” in the local lingo.
The Balancers are ready to work, but not for crummy managers. They have romantic partners. They might ask whether the company they just got an offer from is, if not a mitzvah assembly line, at least not actively making the world worse.
In the real world, there are no clear winners between these two camps. We’re all just going to work and living our lives and trying to figure out how to make the best of both. But Silicon Valley has always overindexed for Optimizers. The drive to have no qualms, to side hustle, to code for 14 hours and get angel funding — that’s all as integral to tech’s heroic origin stories as getting crosswise with a science experiment in a Marvel comic. Of course, the mental-health field has long understood that those traits all make Jack a dull (depressed, burned out) boy. But no matter! Grind through it. Optimize your workouts and your meds, and you too could be an erratic shitposter with $200 billion, a rocket ship, and a sexual misconduct claim.
Today, though? What I saw on Blind is that amid all the financial and pandemic instability, the Aesopian grasshoppers are just as bummed as the ants. Optimizers wish they could balance; Balancers feel guilty about not optimizing. Both are failing. If this is Silicon Valley today, nobody’s happy, and everybody’s burnt.
‘You need to be OK not amounting to anything’
When Optimizers can no longer maintain the impossible level of abnegation they strive for, they come to Blind to ask why. What’s wrong with them? If “sleep is a superpower,” how come none of them can get any? What’s the best way to get jacked while still consuming three desserts and a caramel Frappuccino every day? “Despite the fact that I keep making more and more money, and advancing my career, I feel like I’m running out of energy,” one (company small enough to be redacted to protect the user’s anonymity, TC: $280K) confessed. “I didn’t used to be this way. I’m only 28.” Doesn’t want to go to work, doesn’t want to work out, just wants to eat and play video games.
One commenter said that, despite the original poster’s demurs, these were all signs of mild depression and worth dealing with. Avoid social media, meditate, get a hobby with other people. Another suggested prayer. Several also urged finding balance. “Don’t work too hard for the sake of money and promotion,” one wrote. Another chalked this attitude up to maturity. “When I was making under $100k TC in the bay, there was a real need to advance my career to survive and live comfortably,” the commenter wrote. “Now that I’m at $300k TC, an extra $50k or $100k isn’t going to drastically improve my quality of life. In addition to this, working harder doesn’t seem to improve my career.”
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Swedish network biz Ericsson chops 1,400 jobs at home
More to come in other country ops? Company talks of admins ‘sweating assets’ and slowdown in 5G network builds
https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/21/swedish_network_biz_ericsson_chops/
Swedish networking kit maker Ericsson is laying off 1,400 employees in its home nation amid wider efforts to reduce expenses, and ahead of a deeper round of redundancies in other countries expected in the coming days.
The job losses are part of previously announced efforts to speed up “cost improvements” with an SEK 9 billion ($870 million) reduction earmarked for the end of 2023, of which 70 percent is to come from cost of goods sold and the remainder from sales, general and admin expenses.
“The negotiations with the Swedish unions are now closed and have reached agreement regarding ways of working for headcount reductions in Sweden,” a spokesperson at Ericsson told The Register.
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AMD, Cisco, Dell, Intel, VMware CEOs On Toughest 2023 Challenges
https://www.crn.com/news/data-center/amd-cisco-dell-intel-vmware-ceos-on-toughest-2023-challenges
Here’s what CEOs Chuck Robbins, Lisa Su, Pat Gelsinger, Raghu Raghuram and Michael Dell say about their toughest customer challenges in 2023 and their strategy to help.
Some of the biggest tech industry CEOs in the world expect an uncertain economy in 2023 and are banking on new financial models and innovation, such as artificial intelligence (AI), to meet the biggest challenges their customers will face this year.
“Technology has never been more central to the world, and we are at the center of the technology ecosystem. It is exhilarating,” said Michael Dell, Dell Technologies founder and CEO, in CRN’s 2023 CEO Outlook special report.
CRN asked the CEOs from AMD, Cisco, Dell, Intel and VMware what they saw as the toughest challenges facing customers in 2023 and how they plan to help, as well as where their largest investment areas will be this year.
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AMD won’t have users ‘paying for features they never use’ when it comes to AI in GPUs
By Katie Wickens published 2 days ago
AMD is looking into upping its AI acceleration to improve its graphics cards, but much less liberally than the competition.
https://www.pcgamer.com/amd-ai-gpu-acceleration/
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https://www.edn.com/what-a-fabs-tie-up-with-packaging-and-test-firm-means/
Europe is the venue for a new collaboration for semiconductor supply chain advancement at a time of political, industrial, technological, and financial disruptions. Semiconductor packaging and test services provider Amkor Technology is joining hands with GlobalFoundries (GF) to enhance chip manufacturing scale in Europe.
The strategic partnership aims to create an at-scale back-end facility encompassing GF’s fab in Dresden, Europe largest chip manufacturing facility
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https://www.edn.com/apples-homepod-mini-the-sounds-not-tinny/
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https://www.howtogeek.com/868284/psa-you-should-be-using-a-smart-plug-to-restart-your-router/
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Loisteputket kiellettiin – mitä vanhoille valaisimille ja kylpyhuoneen kaapeille pitää nyt tehdä? https://www.is.fi/taloussanomat/art-2000009416587.html
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Infineon given the green light for 5B Dresden chip fab https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/17/infineon_dresden_fab/
On Thursday, the chipmaker – best known for producing semiconductors used in automotive, industrial, and power applications – said it has secured permission from German regulators to begin work on the project before the European Commission has completed an investigation into legal subsidies for the plant
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https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2023/02/25/mwc23-nokian-5g-puhelinten-valmistus-palaa-eurooppaan/
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14641-hmd-tuo-nokia-puhelinten-valmistusta-eurooppaan
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14640-nokia-esitteli-uuden-radion-ja-logon
5G-tukiasemista pitää tulla pienempiä ja kevyempiä, mutta silti niiden täytyy olla yhä suorituskykyisempiä. Nokia vastaa haasteeseen Barcelonan Mobile World Congresissa esitellyllä Habrok-radiolla. Airscale-perheen uusin laite tukee sekä 32 että 64 antennin MIMO-yhteyksiä.
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Intel tallentaa jo viisi bittiä NAND-soluun
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14635-intel-tallentaa-jo-viisi-bittiae-nand-soluun
San Franciscossa eilen päättyneessä puolijohdetekniikan ISSCC-konferenssissa esiteltiin kymmenittäin uusia mielenkiintoisia sirutekniikoita eri sektoreilta. Yksi mielenkiintoisimmista oli Intelin esittämä NAND-piiri, joka rikkoi aiemmat tiheysennätykset. ISSCC:ssä esitelty piiri on valmistettu 192 metallointikerroksella. Sen kapasiteetti on 1,67 terabittiä, mikä on seurausta viiden bitin tallentamisesta yhteen soluun. Neliömillille dataa sopii näin 23,3 gigabittiä.
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Farnellilta nyt tekoälyä verkon reunalle
https://etn.fi/index.php/new-products/14636-farnellilta-nyt-tekoaelyae-verkon-reunalle
Jetson on Nvidian suosittu tekoälyalusta, josta löytyy erilaisia kortteja verkon reunalle suorituskykytarpeen mukaan. Nyt Jetson-kortit ovat tulleet Farnellille, jonka valikoimaan kuuluvat Jetson Nano, Jetson AGX ja Jetson Xavier NX.
Jokainen moduuli on varustettu Nvidian JetPack-SDK:lla eli ohjelmistonkehitystyökaluilla kiihdytystä varten. JetPack SDK tarjoaa Linux-ympäristön, CUDA-X-kirjastot, API:t ja työkalut tekoälyn reunan kehittämiseen ja tukee myös korkeamman tason kehitysalustoja, kuten DeepStream ja NVIDIA Isaac.
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Ericsson potkii 8500 työntekijää
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14642-ericsson-potkii-8500-tyoentekijaeae
Ericsson aikoo vähentää merkittävästi henkilöstönsä määrää. Uutistoimisto Direktin mukaan lähtöpassit ovat tulossa 8500 työntekijälle, joista 1400 työskentelee Ruotsissa.
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OnePlus esitteli futuristisen konseptin – tuleeko markkinoille tässä mallissa?
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14643-oneplus-esitteli-futuristisen-konseptin-tuleeko-markkinoille-taessae-mallissa
OnePlus esitteli Barcelonan kännykkämessuilla futuristisen konseptipuhelimen, jossa on ensimmäistä kertaa tuotu aktiivinen nestejäähdytys älypuhelimeen. Kyse on vasta konseptista, mutta koska kyse on futuristisesta laitteesta, esitetään siitä myös futuristinen arvaus.
Ja arvaus menee näin: syksyllä OnePlus tuo markkinoille tuttuun tapaan T-mallin, mutta nyt siinä käytetään Active CryoFlux -jäähdytysteknologiaa. Laboratoriokokeissa Active CryoFluxin on osoitettu alentavan puhelimen lämpötilaa pelaamisen aikana jopa 2,1 °C, mikä parantaa pelin kuvanopeutta 3-4 asteella ja 1,6 °C latauksen aikana. Tämän ansiosta nopeasti muutenkin latautuva puhelin latautuu 30-45 sekuntia nopeammin.
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Satelliittiyhteys tulee älypuhelimiin – testausratkaisu valmis
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14644-satelliittiyhteys-tulee-aelypuhelimiin-testausratkaisu-valmis
Alun perin idea taisi olla Applen, että mobiiliverkkojen ulkopuolella esimerkiksi kolaritilanteessa älypuhelimen piti pystyä hälyttämään apua satelliittien välityksellä. Ideasta näyttää tulevan valtavirtaa, ja esimerkiksi Motorola esittelee Barcelonan kännykkämessuilla defy 2 -mallia, joka pystyy kaksisuuntaiseen viestintään satelliittien välityksellä.
Jokainen uusi toiminnallisuus edellyttää oman testausratkaisunsa. Mittaustalo Rohde 6 Schwarz esittelee Barcelonassa yhdessä moto defy 2:n valmistajan Bullittin kanssa tiettävästi ensimmäistä testauslaitteistoa, joka tukee uutta 3GPP Release 17 -standardissa määriteltyä satelliitti-mobiiliviestintää.
Rohde & Schwarzin testilaitteisto varmistaa, että SOS-viestit ja kaksisuuntaiset viestit toimivat luotettavasti eri skenaarioissa ei-maanpäällisten verkkojen (NTN, non-terrestrial networks) kautta 3GPP:n mukaisesti. MWC-messuilla Rohde & Schwarzin osastolla esitellään testikokoonpanoa, jossa on testtavana laitteena Bullittin 5G-älypuhelin, joka on varustettu MediaTekin piirisarjalla.
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5G- ja 6G-verkkojen perusteista avoimet nettikurssit
https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2023/02/23/5g-ja-6g-verkkojen-perusteista-avoimet-nettikurssit/
Helsingin yliopisto tarjoaa Core 5G and Beyond -oppikurssin verkossa kaikille, jotka ova kiinnostuneita uuden sukupolven mobiiliverkkojen toiminnasta ja kuinka ne tulevat muuttamaan elämäämme tulevaisuudessa. Kaikille avoimen kurssin tavoitteena on esitellä verkkojen keskeiset elementit ja sovellukset.
Helsingin yliopiston Core 5G and Beyond tarjoaa verkon kautta keskeiset mobiiliverkkojen toiminnan perusteet, ja keskittyy erityisesti 5G:hen ja tulevaisuuden 6G-verkkoihin. Kurssin esitiedoiksi suositellaan langattomien järjestelmien ja tietoverkkojen perusteiden tuntemista, mutta ilman niitäkin järjestäjien mukaan selviää.
”Kurssi painottaa mobiiliverkkojen arkkitehtuurin ja sovellusten kehittymistä lähtien varhaisista mobiiliverkoista aina nykyiseen 5G:hen ja sitä seuraavaan 6G:hen’’, sanoo Helsingin yliopistossa professori Sasu Tarkoma. Kurssi auttaa muun muassa mobiiliverkkojen taustalla olevien suunnitteluperiaatteiden ja rakennuspalikoiden ymmärtämistä, sekä näkemystä, kuinka tulevan sukupolven mobiiliteknologiat voivat muuttaa jokapäiväistä elämäämme.
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Maailman nopein laserkamera kuvaa 12,5 miljardia kuvaa sekunnissa
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14633-maailman-nopein-laserkamera-kuvaa-12-5-miljardia-kuvaa-sekunnissa
Valaisemalla näytepinta lyhyillä laservalopulsseilla voidaan luoda filmisekvenssejä erilaisista kemiallisista ja fysikaalisista reaktioista. Göteborgin yliopiston tutkimusryhmä on yhdessä muista korkeakouluista tulevien tutkijoiden kanssa kehittänyt maailman nopeimman laserkameran, joka on ainakin tuhat kertaa nopeampi kuin nykyajan moderneimmat laitteet.
Löydöllä on suuri merkitys, kun halutaan tutkia hiilivetyjen salamannopeaa palamista. Laite auttaa selvittämään esimerkiksi, mitä tapahtuu materiaalille, joka palaa eri olosuhteissa? Uusi laserkamera kuvaa materiaalia kaksiulotteisessa kerroksessa, nimeltään LS-CUP (Single-shot laser sheet compressed ultrafast photography). Tutkijat ovat käyttäneet tätä LS-CUP-rakennetta erilaisten hiilivetyjen palamisen tutkimiseen.
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Washington Post:
After a string of high-profile setbacks, the White House and FTC are finding breaking up Big Tech is hard, as Google lawyers up ahead of its court battle — Google is hiring teams of former DOJ lawyers to fight antitrust lawsuits as the battle over tech firms’ power shifts to the courts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/26/antitrust-google-doj-tech/
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
GSMA unveils Open Gateway, an initiative with 21 carriers offering open-source APIs using AWS and Azure to provide carrier billing, location, and other services — APIs are the building blocks of how the world of technology works: used to integrate applications with each other …
Mobile carriers team up with AWS, Microsoft to launch Open Gateway, a set of Twilio-like APIs to tap network services
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/26/mobile-carriers-team-up-with-aws-microsoft-to-launch-open-gateway-a-set-of-twilio-like-apis-to-tap-network-services/
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Rana Foroohar / Financial Times:
To achieve its chip moonshot, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says the US must reform its education system and triple graduates in chip-related fields by 2032
https://www.ft.com/content/00472c7d-e78d-4262-b609-78927fd3e1b8
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Kelvin Chan / Associated Press:
Of the 2,000 exhibitors and sponsors at MWC Barcelona, 150 are Chinese companies and Huawei has the biggest presence, expanding its footprint by 50% over 2022
Huawei dominates MWC mobile tech fair despite US sanctions
https://apnews.com/article/technology-united-states-government-huawei-technologies-co-ltd-production-facilities-barcelona-28a5aaacebd6a347fda779dace6fb7dc
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — A contingent of Chinese companies led by technology giant Huawei is turning the world’s biggest wireless trade fair into an opportunity to show their muscle in the face of Huawei’s blacklisting by Western nations concerned about cybersecurity and escalating tensions with the U.S. over TikTok, spy balloons and computer chips.
After three years of pandemic disruption, they are among tens of thousands in Barcelona for MWC, also known as Mobile World Congress, an annual tech industry expo starting Monday where mobile phone makers show off new devices and telecom industry executives peruse the latest networking gear and software.
Out of 2,000 exhibitors and sponsors, 150 are Chinese companies and Huawei Technologies Ltd. has the biggest presence. The smartphone and network equipment maker expanded its footprint by 50% from last year and is taking up almost an entire vast exhibition hall at Barcelona’s Fira convention center, organizers said.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/26/mobile-carriers-team-up-with-aws-microsoft-to-launch-open-gateway-a-set-of-twilio-like-apis-to-tap-network-services/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.dynatrace.com/intheway/
Cloud complexity has an annoying way of getting in the way
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https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2023/02/25/mwc23-nokian-5g-puhelinten-valmistus-palaa-eurooppaan/
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Satelliittiyhteys onnistuu usein pelkällä ohjelmistopäivityksellä
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14647-satelliittiyhteys-onnistuu-usein-pelkaellae-ohjelmistopaeivityksellae
Barcelonan Mobile World Congressissa on nähty ensimmäistä kertaa laajemmin laitteita, jotka pystyvät hätätilanteessa ottamaan yhteyttä viranomaisiin satelliittiyhteyden välityksellä. 3GPP-terminologiassa kyse on NTN-linkistä. Useissa tapauksissa se edellyttää vain laiteohjelmiston päivittämistä.
Tällaista ”helppoa” NTN-ratkaisua IoT-laitteisiin esittelee MWC:ssä Murata, joka on toteuttanut ratkaisunsa yhdessä piilaaksolaisen NTN-operaattori Skylon kanssa. Skyo löytyy myös Bullittin messuilla julkaistun satelliittipuhelimen taustalta.
Skylon NTN-verkko on tuotu Muratan tyypin 1SC -moduuliin, joka on erittäin vähävirtainen IoT-piirisarja mobiiliverkkoihin. Moduuli on maailman pienin LTE Cat M/NB-IoT -moduuli, jolla on globaali sertifiointi ja NTN-toiminto. Se tukee GNSS-yhteyksiä ja eSINM-autentiointia.
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AMD Touts New RFSoCs, Test Lab, and Adaptive Computing Products
Feb. 24, 2023
At MWC 2023, AMD announces RFSoC digital front ends, the formation with Viavi of a test lab for ecosystem partners, and a cloud-server collaboration with Nokia.
https://www.mwrf.com/technologies/semiconductors/article/21260652/microwaves-rf-amd-touts-new-rfsocs-test-lab-and-adaptive-computing-products?utm_source=RF+MWRF+Today&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS230224083&o_eid=7211D2691390C9R&rdx.identpull=omeda|7211D2691390C9R&oly_enc_id=7211D2691390C9R
AMD brings a spate of news to its presence at Mobile World Congress 2023—more support for its 5G partner ecosystem from core to radio-access-network (RAN) applications, new test capabilities, and new 5G products.
Telco Solutions Testing Lab
With the formation of its Telco Solutions testing lab, AMD provides critical resources for operators and telco solution providers to test, validate, and scale computing resources to deliver on the ever-increasing demands from RAN and edge-to-core. The testing lab supports validation of end-to-end solutions, including both hardware and software to leverage the performance and power efficiencies of the latest AMD processors, adaptive SoCs, SmartNICs, FPGAs, and DPUs.
AMD chose the Viavi end-to-end testing suite to analyze, develop, and validate the impact of real-life conditions across an entire telco network. The Telco Solutions testing lab will enable traffic simulation and generation across core, CU/DU, edge, and RAN using both current and future AMD technologies. It will allow for full functional and performance testing that meets current and future generation ecosystem requirements. Based in Santa Clara, Calif., the Telco Solutions testing lab will bring in its first 5G ecosystem partners beginning Q2 of 2023.
Tomi Engdahl says:
OnePlus hakee aivan uutta taittuvanäyttöisellä
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14652-oneplus-hakee-aivan-uutta-taittuvanaeyttoeisellae
Kiinalainen OnePlus ilmoitti tänään lanseeraavansa taittuvanäyttöisen älypuhelimen tämän vuoden toisella puoliskolla. Asiasta ilmoitettiin tänään Mobile World Congress -messuilla. Laite on uusi strateginen avaus yritykselle, joka on aiemmin yrittänyt ennen kaikkea haastaa markkinoiden premium-malleja ns. “lippulaivantappajilla”.
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Nokia vie Wi-Fi-reitittimensä kuuteen gigahertsiin
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14651-nokia-vie-wi-fi-reitittimensae-kuuteen-gigahertsiin
Nokia on laajentanut Wi-Fi-reitittimiensä sarjaa tänään Barcelonan Mobile World Congress -messuilla. Uusi reititin on Beacon 10, joka on samalla Nokian ensimmäinen uutta 6E-tekniikkaa tukeva reititin. Kuuden gigahertsin taajuustuen myötä laite voi tarjota jopa 1o gigabitin datanopeudet kodin tai toimiston verkossa.
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3D-tunnistusanturi kutistettiin 23 neliömilliin
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14649-3d-tunnistusanturi-kutistettiin-23-nelioemilliin
Signaalin lentoaikaa mittaavia antureita käytetään moneen sovellukseen. Sen avulla voi tunnistaa henkilöiden läsnäolon, avata älylukkoja ja avata älypuhelimen kasvontunnistuksella. Infineonin uusi ToF-anturi on suorituskykyinen ja ennen kaikkea selvästi aiempaa pienempi.
IRS2976C-anturi on kehitetty yhteistyössä pmdtechnologiesin kanssa. REAL3-tuoteperheen uusimassa anturissa pikselien kvanttitehokkuus on vähintään 30 prosenttia, mihin on aiemmin ylletty vain taustavalaistuilla BSI-antureilla.
Huomattavaa on, että tämä suorituskyky saavutetaan samalla, kun etupuolen valaistusanturien (FSI) ylivoimainen kustannusetu säilyy. Tämän seurauksena IRS2976C-sensori on ensimmäinen ToF-anturi maailmassa, joka on läpäissyt Googlen Class 3 (Strong) -sertifikaatin kasvojentunnistusta varten, samalla kun se toimii saumattomasti mobiililaitteen näytön alla.
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The rationale behind Rovio’s delisting of Angry Birds highlights how the mobile game space has changed over the last decade, shifting from a focus on pay-to-own to free-to-play.
Rovio says paid Angry Birds had “negative impact” on free-to-play versions
A sad end of an era for one of the original paid, viral mobile hits.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/02/rovio-delists-pay-to-own-angry-birds-because-it-hurt-free-to-play-earnings/?utm_source=facebook&utm_brand=ars&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned
Back in the days before practically every mobile game was a free-to-play, ad- and microtransaction-laden sinkhole, Rovio found years of viral success selling paid downloads of Angry Birds to tens of millions of smartphone users. Today, though, the company is delisting the last “pay upfront” version of the game from mobile app stores because of what it says is a “negative impact” on the more lucrative free-to-play titles in the franchise.
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Musk has said that buying Twitter was his first step toward creating an app that reimagines the digital payments industry. It’s a dream he’s had since 2000.
Fast-moving Musk makes very slow progress turning Twitter into “everything app”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/fast-moving-musk-makes-very-slow-progress-turning-twitter-into-everything-app/?utm_source=facebook&utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=ars&utm_medium=social
Musk has said it would take three to five years to launch X, the everything app.
“Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app,” Twitter CEO Elon Musk said last October, just weeks before assuming control of the platform.
In tweets, Musk mused that he “could be wrong,” but he expected that his purchase of Twitter would provide the infrastructure to launch his own super app within the next three to five years. Whether Twitter would become an arm of X or vice versa, Musk planned to leverage Twitter’s millions of daily active US users to launch an irresistibly convenient platform where Americans could go to text, call, pay, shop, bank, and post online.
To some experts, what Musk suggested sounds too ambitious—or even impossible. United States regulators have begun more carefully scrutinizing both antitrust concerns at tech companies and rapid tech developments in the financial industry. More oversight in these sectors has made it increasingly difficult for Big Tech companies to attempt to launch their own super apps as they chase the success of China’s widely used WeChat. But as Musk told an audience at the Baron Investment Conference last year, he has been dreaming about creating an app that reimagines the digital payments industry since 2000—more than a decade before WeChat launched—and he said that buying Twitter was his first step toward rapidly realizing that dream.
Some experts think it’s possible that if Musk moves quickly enough, regulators may not be prepared to keep up. And if he succeeds in racing ahead of regulators, Musk predicts that Twitter will go from a struggling platform that only recently averted bankruptcy to an explosively popular, “extremely valuable” product. So while his Twitter purchase appeared impulsive to many, Musk says he has long been calculating his next moves.
“There’s a product plan I wrote… in July of 2000, where I thought it would be possible to make the most valuable financial institution in the world,”
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Nokia and Globalconnect Achieve 1.2 Tbp/s Over Single Wavelength
https://www.datacenter-forum.com/globalconnect/nokia-and-globalconnect-achieve-12-tbp-s-over-single-wavelength
Nokia today announced it has broken two optical transport records in real-world field trials on GlobalConnect’s live optical network in Europe. The demonstration used Nokia’s sixth generation super-coherent Photonic Service Engine, PSE-6s, to achieve 1.2 Tb/s over metro distances (118km) and 800 Gb/s over long haul distances (2,019 km), both using a single wavelength.
The 1.2 Tb/s speed was using Nokia’s PSE-6s optics deployed over a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) network using 150 GHz of spectrum on GlobalConnect’s Metro Data Center Interconnect links. Data center interconnection was also demonstrated at 800 Gb/s on a single wavelength over 2,000km, paving the way to single-wavelength 800GE transport across long-haul distances with no regeneration. Reducing the number of coherent interfaces needed enables up to 50% network total cost of ownership savings and up to a 60% reduction in network power consumption.
GlobalConnect operates the largest interconnected fiber network in Northern-Europe, with more than 150,000 km of trenched fiber. Referred to as the ‘gateway to the Nordics’, the backbone connects to local networks and data centers in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Nedherland and Germany.
“This trial highlights GlobalConnect’s commitment to offering scalable and flexible high-bandwidth services across our Nordic backbone network. We are pleased to validate Nokia’s latest generation of PSE-6 super coherent optics as an important enabler of these continuous network upgrades, seamlessly operating over our live network with existing coherent channels.”
Nokia will showcase the PSE-6s at the upcoming MWC in Barcelona and the OFC conference in San Diego. The sixth generation PSE can be deployed across Nokia’s 1830 family of optical transport platforms, without the need for new chassis or platforms. PSE-6s can also operate over existing WDM channel plans designed around n x 50GHz channels.
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Älysormus avaa pian ovet ja maksaa laskusi
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/14661-aelysormus-avaa-pian-ovet-ja-maksaa-laskusi
Älykkäät puettavat laitteet ja IoT-laitteet ovat tulossa yhä suositummiksi erilaisissa sovelluksissa. Kun vaikkapa älysormukseen lisätään NFC-ominaisuudet, niitä voidaan käyttää maksamiseen kaupoissa tai pääsyyn joukkoliikenteeseen ja ovien avaamiseen toimistorakennuksiin.
Infineon esittelee paraikaa Barcelonan Mobile World Congress -messuilla SECORA Connect X -ratkaisua, joka on avaimet käteen -tyyppinen NFC-ratkaisu puettaviin laitteisiin. Erittäin vähän virtaa kuluttava tehostettu NFC-ratkaisu tarjoaa helpon tien EMVCo-pohjaisiin maksuihin. Samalla ratkaisu mahdollistaa myös langattoman NFC-latauksen älysormuksille, rannekkeille, älykelloille ja muille puettaville laitteille.
Infineonin Connected Secure Systems -divisioonan maksuratkaisuista vastaava johtaja Tolgahan Yildizin mukaan langaton NFC-lataus tulee yhä tärkeämmäksi ratkaisuksi pienempien laitteiden virranlähteenä. – SECORA Connect X -ratkaisumme tukee tätä trendiä muuttamalla erittäin pienet passiiviset puettavat laitteet älykkäiksi verkkoon liitetyiksi laitteiksi, jotka mahdollistavat digitaalisen maksutapahtuman.
SECORA Connect X tehostettu NFC-ratkaisu tarjoaa kehittyneitä suojattuja etähallintaominaisuuksia ja mahdollistaa kuluttajatodennuksen vastaavalla älylaitteella.
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MicroLED Poised to Disrupt the Displays Market
Feb. 15, 2023
Advanced microLED technologies may open the door to new ways to use displays.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/markets/automation/article/21259647/kla-corp-microled-poised-to-disrupt-the-displays-market?utm_source=EG+ED+Auto+Electronics&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS230223150&o_eid=7211D2691390C9R&rdx.identpull=omeda|7211D2691390C9R&oly_enc_id=7211D2691390C9R
What you’ll learn:
Why microLEDs are superior to OLEDs and LCDs.
How microLEDs can improve electronics displays.
What makes microLED displays difficult to manufacture.
New market opportunities for microLED displays.
What is microLED? What is the market opportunity for microLED display technology?
MicroLED is a display technology that’s far superior—in many aspects—to any other that exists today, including organic LEDs (OLEDs) and liquid-crystal displays (LCDs). MicroLED is brighter, uses less power, lasts longer, has better contrast, and withstands moisture, vibration, heat, and more. In all, this presents great market opportunities.
It’s also extremely versatile and can be used in many form factors. Imagine a curved dashboard in your new car. With microLED, the display can be curved like the dashboard. On the other hand, LCDs are difficult to create on an arbitrary form factor like a curved surface, and while OLEDs can be implemented on curved surfaces quite readily, they don’t have the longevity required for a car.
MicroLED displays are versatile in another way: You can assemble more than just LED pixels and include sensors or chips. A sensor might read your fingerprint or detect your body temperature. Or it may identify whether you’re in a dark room or outside, and then adjust the brightness of the screen automatically. Because a microLED is so small, covering only a tiny fraction of a pixel area, it leaves significant display real estate for other purposes.
What are some examples of the way microLED displays can be used in electronics for the benefit of consumers?
It may be quite some time before microLEDs shine in conventional applications such as TVs or phones. However, they may excel in ways not anticipated by consumers.
For example, when you go to a fast-food restaurant, the drive-through menu may be difficult to read because of bright sunlight. MicroLEDs can illuminate brighter than the sunshine, making it possible to easily read the menu.
Near-eye displays are another area where microLEDs can excel. For augmented-reality (AR) glasses, microLED is one of the most viable options if you want to wear them all day. The brightness, versatile form factor, and low power consumption make this technology a top candidate.
What are the barriers to using microLEDs in electronics?
At the moment, microLED displays are too expensive for broad market acceptance. At the same time, other competing technologies—OLED and LCD—are steadily improving, and they’re relatively inexpensive.
Why are microLED displays so difficult to manufacture? What are the challenges?
The manufacturing process for microLEDs is extremely complex and exacting
Adding to the complexity, you can’t fix anything along the way. You must create the entire structure before you’re able to determine if it’s viable.
Edge effects become an obstacle; the edge of an LED is lossy because they contain radiative mechanisms that dissipate energy but don’t contribute to the light you want. That’s fine if your LED is one millimeter across, but when it’s a few microns across, those edges become a dominant problem. As a result, the quality of the etch and deposition strongly influence the LEDs’ efficiency.
Once microLEDs are fabricated, they need to be added to the display. There are two types of microLED displays: high-pixel-density “near-eye” displays, and low-pixel-density “direct view” displays. Near-eye displays, also called monolithic or micro-displays, use an array of microLEDs. A square centimeter of wafer becomes a square centimeter of display. In this case, complex hybrid bonding to a CMOS backplane is required.
The other type of display, the conventional direct view variety, requires mass transfer, which means the transfer of millions of small microLEDs onto a backplane or driver IC. Mass transfer is challenging. In the electronics industry, we’re used to moving small electronic parts, but typically in the tens of thousands, and the parts are much bigger. In the microLED process, it’s millions of parts, possibly hundreds of millions, and they’re mere tens of microns across. Consequently, the mass transfer and bonding processes are complex and expensive to manage.
The human eye is sensitive to bad pixels, requiring near-perfect displays. Repair is a big issue, and this is one instance where yield becomes important (Fig. 2). If you can achieve five nines—99.999% yield—you may have a relatively manageable “repair bill.” If the yield is four nines or lower, however, it’s probably close to unacceptable.
What will it take to overcome these challenges?
Process control is a main pathway to manufacturability. Conventional LED manufacturers, say for >100 µm across, were accustomed to “good enough” and manual control methods. MicroLEDs require a new approach, much like what’s used in the silicon IC fab space.
How will progress with microLED displays change the electronics industry?
MicroLED displays are new and disruptive, and that’s what’s exciting to me. It will inspire new types of displays and ways to interact with displays that we’re not even thinking about right now.
MicroLED manufacturing companies and display manufacturers are trying lots of new things, and something will work. Suddenly, there will be a breakthrough and the cost of microLED displays may be cut in half.
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Life in 3D: Making the Shift from 2D to 3D Displays
Feb. 2, 2023
What will it take for the industry to hasten the massive shift from the 2D to the 3D realm?
https://www.electronicdesign.com/industrial-automation/article/21259359/marketer-international-life-in-3d-making-the-shift-from-2d-to-3d-displays
What you’ll learn:
The myriad benefits of 3D displays.
Challenges the industry faces in the move from 2D to 3D display technology.
We’ve all witnessed the hype around 3D display technology over the decades. Some in the industry have tried and failed, mostly due to content not being available, but the hardware wasn’t that great either.
While significant progress has been made with the display itself, we’re not quite where we need to be to bring about a massive shift from the 2D to the 3D realm. For example, both the hardware and the software need to be dramatically improved (think, for example, energy consumption, massive computing needs). The entire industry must adopt this transition—from hardware to software to sensor/chipmakers, and everything in between. It’s begun to happen and picking up speed.
But we need more.
For one thing, we need higher-resolution displays—300- to 500-ppi displays, from small to large sizes, to get the best results. We do currently have high-resolution displays, but they tend to be for phones with a notch for the camera or they must be specially made, which renders them unsuitable for the mass market.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Don’t Look Now: Disappearing Displays
May 10, 2022
Displays of all types have become ubiquitous in our everyday lives, but often they can be obtrusive. Thus, the advent of the “disappearing display” and the many possibilities it presents.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/embedded-revolution/article/21241387/marketer-international-dont-look-now-disappearing-displays17
Tomi Engdahl says:
ChartGPT and AR set to significantly impact edtech in 2023 and beyond. We asked the experts about five trends that could mark this year.
https://sifted.eu/articles/edtech-trends-in-2023-brnd/
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Linux Foundation Europe launches the OpenWallet Foundation to power interoperable digital wallets
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/23/linux-foundation-europe-launches-the-openwallet-foundation-to-power-interoperable-digital-wallets/
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First wave of PCIe 5.0 SSDs arrives with high prices and ridiculous heatsinks
You really, really don’t need these. But other, better versions will come later.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/first-wave-of-pcie-5-0-ssds-arrives-with-high-prices-and-ridiculous-heatsinks/
In the high-end PC market, it’s vitally important that the numbers always continue to go up. That means faster performance, newer specs, and (on occasion) new model numbers for existing components. One of the latest numbers to go up is the PCI Express version number supported by many motherboards; all PCs built around AMD’s Ryzen 7000-series chips and some PCs using Intel’s 12th- or 13th-generation CPUs support graphics cards and SSDs that use the PCI Express 5.0 interface, which is up to two times faster than version 4.0.
But actual PCIe 5.0 SSDs are just beginning to arrive on store shelves (via Tom’s Hardware), and like so many early adopter products, they seem purpose-built for people with more money than sense.