The year 2021 was strange, you can read more of it from A 2021 technology retrospective: Strange days indeed. But how strange will 2022 be? Here are some predictions for year 2022:
2022 preview: Will the global computer chip shortage ever end?
The growing demand for computer chips, used in everything from cars to fridges, has collided with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, leading to a global shortage that is likely to continue through 2022
Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2022-2022-preview-will-the-global-computer-chip-shortage-ever-end/#ixzz7GqrP1H9A
Industry Transforming In Ways Previously Unimaginable
https://semiengineering.com/industry-transforming-in-ways-previously-unimaginable/?cmid=3dedf05d-0284-497a-b015-daf7747872e6
As we look back over 2021, there have certainly been some surprises, but the industry continues to take everything in its stride.
2022 tech themes: A look ahead
https://www.edn.com/2022-tech-themes-a-look-ahead/
The continued COVID-19 question mark: The world quickly and dramatically changed. It hasn’t yet reverted to pre-pandemic characteristics, and it very likely never will. Sad but true, the pandemic isn’t even close to being over yet.
Deep learning’s Cambrian moment: Look at today’s participant-rich deep learning silicon and software market, spanning both training and inference.
The ongoing importance of architecture: As the number of transistors that it’s possible to cost-effectively squeeze onto a sliver of silicon continues to slow, what you build out of those transistors becomes increasingly critical.
Open source processors’ time in the sun: There is a burgeoning RISC-V movement. It’s likely a little-known fact to some of you, that a public domain instruction set for v2 and earlier versions of the Arm ISA exists. And both Sun (with OpenSPARC) and IBM (OpenPOWER) have also joined the open-source silicon movement.
The normalization of remote work (and the “Great Resignation’s” aftershocks): I suspect that, to at least a notable degree, we won’t ever completely return to the “way it was before.” In fact, I’d wager that having a taste of a work-from-home or “hybrid” employment lifestyle is one of the key factors behind the so-called “Great Resignation” that tech and broader media alike inform me is well underway.
The metaverse starts to stir: Perhaps we’ll look back at 2022 as the year when the crossing of the chasm started in earnest.
Autonomy slowly accelerates: 2021 was another year filled with fully autonomous car tests and premature “coming soon” pronouncements; 2022 will likely be the same.
Batteries get ever denser, ever more plentiful, and ever cheaper
Space travel becomes commonplace
Global semiconductor industry forecasts for 2022
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20211229VL205.html
“2021 is the year that everyone remembered that chip mattered,” said Wired Magazine. So far 2022 seems likely to be another fruitful year for the semiconductor industry.
World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) also has predicted that the global semiconductor market is projected to grow by 8.8 percent in 2022, to US$ 601 billion, driven by double-digit growth of the sensors and logic category. All regions and all product categories are expected to continue positive growth. Wafer foundry manufacturers sales likely to remain strong due to tight supply. 5G smartphone silicon content increase to drive demand for foundry service higher. Demand for digital transformation is here to stay, no sign of weakening for foundry service sales.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digital transformation over the past two years. Work from home, virtual conference, and remote learning have driven up the demand for cloud computing, laptops, and servers, and hence the sales growth of related semiconductor products. Demands for CPU, GPU, AI accelerator (including FPGA) foundry services will remain strong in 2022 because trends such as virtual conferences, live streaming, and large capex of data centers are likely to stay. Long-term demands for customized chips in IoT, 5G infrastructure, HPC, and EV applications, like ADAS, autonomous driving, V2X, in-Vehicle Infotainment, will provide robust growth momentum for chip foundry services.
Chip crunch is not ending in 2022, as the lead time of some electronic components is stretching into 2023. Meanwhile, the increasing adoption of RISC-V open standard instruction set architecture is an important trend that can not be ignored. RISC-V market will double its size in 2022, compared to 2021, as it is attracting small and medium-size chip designers and manufacturers, especially those in China. RISC-V designs are now being used by Qualcomm, Samsung, Google, Microchip, Nvidia, and more.
Taiwan’s chip industry emerges as a battlefront in US-China showdown
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2022/01/01/2003770517
The country dominates production of chips used in almost all civilian and military technologies. That leaves the US and Chinese economies reliant on plants that would be in the line of fire in an attack on Taiwan. The vulnerability is stoking alarm in Washington
40 prosenttia pienempiä latureita
https://etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12981&via=n&datum=2021-12-20_14:53:12&mottagare=30929
The size of a standard mobile phone charger can be reduced by up to 40 percent when using GaN components or it can be designed to produce more power in the same size. GaN chargers are becoming the most popular charger technology for billions of devices, so it’s no wonder that European semiconductor giant STMicroelectronics is also excited about them.
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Piikarbidilla vasteaika sataan nanosekuntiin
https://etn.fi/index.php/tekniset-artikkelit/13456-piikarbidilla-vasteaika-sataan-nanosekuntiin
Markkinat ovat aukeamassa hybridiantureille, jotka yltävät jopa 100 nanosekunnin vasteaikoihin ja yli megahertsin rajataajuuksiin. LEM mahdollistaa tämän piikarbidi- eli SiC-pohjaisilla muuntimillaan.
Hyötysuhteeltaan parantuneet tehonmuuntimet ovat keskeisessä asemassa teollisuuden tavoitellessa parempaa kestävyyttä ja tuottavuutta. Tulevaisuudessa ankariin ympäristöihin laajalla lämpötila-alueella soveltuvan tehonmuuntimen pitää olla suorituskykyinen, mutta kevyt, hiljainen ja suurilla taajuuksilla toimiva. Alhainen tehonkulutus on välttämätön ominaisuus.
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Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:
The European Parliament’s consumer protection committee votes 43 to 2 for a USB-C consumer electronics charging standard, ahead of a full parliament vote in May — European Union lawmakers have taken a step closer to agreeing rules to standardize how a range of mobile gadgetry is charged.
MEPs vote to expand scope of common charger rules
Natasha Lomas
https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/20/eu-common-charger-rules/
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70 Years of Semiconductors
April 15, 2022
A brief glimpse at semiconductor history, from SCRs and TRIACs to NVIDIA’s 80-billion-transistor Hopper GPU.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/blogs/altembedded/article/21239193/electronic-design-70-years-of-semiconductors?utm_source=EG+ED+Analog+%26+Power+Source&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS220407027&o_eid=7211D2691390C9R&rdx.ident%5Bpull%5D=omeda%7C7211D2691390C9R&oly_enc_id=7211D2691390C9R
What you’ll learn
What semiconductors were like 70 years ago.
How semiconductor technology has changed over the years.
Electronic Design has been around a bit longer than I have worked in the industry—but not by much. Having lived through it, you might think I had a good handle on how the technology progressed. However, so much has happened over the years that’s been amazing even to me.
Silicon and germanium transistors have been around since the 1950s when vacuum tubes were king (Fig. 1). There were metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) in 1959, starting with p-type MOS (PMOS) and n-type MOS (NMOS) logic and eventually complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS).
Silicon has been the mainstay since the early ’60s, bumping germanium out of the way over time. There also are some very broad areas, including digital, analog and power, when it comes to semiconductors. Optoelectronics should be in the mix, too, but that’s yet another area of discussion.
To give an idea of the growth of semiconductors over the years, just take a look at the number of transistors being packed into a single die:
1960: small-scale integration (SSI): 100,000 transistors
1989: ultra-large-scale integration (ULSI): over million transistors
2022: No acronym: NVIDIA Hopper H100 GPU, 80 billion transistors, 4-nm process
I haven’t been able to track down what year it might be, but more transistors are packed into one NVIDIA Hopper than were produced in the entire world at one point
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It’s Time to Get GaN in Your Power Adapters
July 22, 2021
Thinking inside the box can take customer satisfaction to the next level.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/power-management/whitepaper/21170407/its-time-to-get-gan-in-your-power-adapters
What you’ll learn:
The ever-shrinking power supply.
How GaN helps further the miniaturization of PSUs.
Why manufacturers need to get into the GaN game now.
We all know that each new generation of our gadgets and home electronics gets smaller and faster, with better features. It’s something that just happens and probably few consumers ever give a thought to how. Some may be aware of the famous Moore’s Law. It’s about the chips, right? But what about the power supply that brings life to all of these products? Can that really be the subject of exciting innovation?
In fact, there’s an exciting evolution happening in power conversion right now and it’s sure to leave some companies behind.
We all have more electronic gear, plugged into the wall, in our homes now than in previous generations. If these electronic devices don’t have an internal power supply, then there’s an external power adapter. It’s often simply easier for product designers to choose an external adapter off-the-shelf to be shipped in the box, rather than integrate a power supply or design power circuitry to go inside the enclosure.
If every one of those adapters could be smaller, say about one-third the size of the previous generation, that change could improve living space in people’s homes, as well as in offices and other spaces using large amounts of electrical equipment. Think about that row of treadmills in the gym, and how much the owner would like to tidy up and make better use of the area around them.
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Siis mitä? SSD-levy ethernet-liitännällä?
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/13461-siis-mitae-ssd-levy-ethernet-liitaennaellae
Tämä on mennyt meiltäkin ohi, mutta Kioxia on esitellyt markkinoille ensimmäisen SSD-levyn, jossa perinteisen liitännän sijaan on ethernet-liitäntä. Ideana on, että flash-tallennuskapasiteettia voidaan suoraan liittää palvelimeen ja verkkoon. Data liikkuu laitteista NVMe oF -protokollalla (NVMe-over-Fabrics).
Kioxia kutsuu ratkaisua nimellä EBOF (Ethernet Bunch of Flash). Hauska nimi edellyttää, että periaatteessa normaalille SSD-levylle lisätään ohjain, joka osaa syöttää dataa protokollan yli. EM6-levyllä ohjain tulee Marvellilta.
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Cecilia Kang / New York Times:
As the EU prepares its third landmark tech law in the last few years, the US has enacted just two narrow federal tech laws in the past 25 years — Federal privacy bills, security legislation and antitrust laws to address the power of the tech giants have all failed to advance in Congress …
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/technology/tech-regulation-europe-us.html
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Ian King / Bloomberg:
Sources: SoftBank expects to retain a controlling stake in Arm and sell a smaller portion of shares than originally expected in Arm’s planned IPO —
SoftBank Plans to Retain Controlling Stake in Arm After IPO
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-21/softbank-plans-to-retain-controlling-stake-in-arm-after-ipo
Term loan has given SoftBank more leeway on timing of offer
The IPO may be pushed back until first quarter of next year
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Suman Bhattacharyya / Wall Street Journal:
CompTIA: US employers posted 1.1M tech jobs in Q1, up 43% YoY; Mondo: average salaries rose 25% for cloud architects and 11% for engineers from 2020 to 2022
Tech Wage Inflation Puts Pressure on Companies
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-wage-inflation-puts-pressure-on-companies-11650533400?mod=djemalertNEWS
Many technology workers are commanding compensation increases of 20% or more, corporate tech chiefs say
Wage inflation in the technology sector is accelerating, pressuring companies to boost compensation for key roles by 20% or more as they compete for a limited pool of workers skilled in areas such as cloud computing and data science.
There is no single source of data on all tech jobs, but it is clear from a range of market analysts and executives that demand for labor in the tech sector is on the rise. During the first quarter, U.S. employers posted 1.1 million tech jobs, an increase of 43% from a year earlier, according to information technology trade group CompTIA.
Demand for workers to fill those jobs has been surging since the pandemic began, prompting companies to turn to remote work and other digital initiatives. Inflation at a 40-year-high and the war in Ukraine disrupting tech and outsourcing hubs in Europe also are pushing compensation for tech workers higher.
The tech roles in greatest demand include cloud computing architects, data scientists and modelers, and machine learning experts. Staffing firm Mondo, an Addison Group company, said at the high end of the compensation range, cloud architects saw average salary increases of 25% between 2020 and this year, while average salaries for software engineers rose 11% over the same period.
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Samsung nousi taas ykköseksi puolijohteissa
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/13469-samsung-nousi-taas-ykkoeseksi-puolijohteissa
Puolijohdemarkkinoiden koko kasvoi viime vuonna lähes 595 miljardiin dollariin. Suurimmaksi valmistajaksi nousi kolmen vuoden tauon jälkeen Samsung, jonka markkinaosuus kasvoi 12,3 prosenttiin. Perinteinen ykkönen eli Intel jäi 0,1 prosenttiyksikön päähän.
Samsung myi Gartnerin mukaan puolijohteita viime vuonna 73,2 miljardilla dollarilla. Intel joutui tyytymään 725 miljardin dollarin liikevaihtoon, mikä oli 0,3 prosenttia edellisvuotta vähemmän. Tämä muodosti ratkaisevan eron Samsungiin, joka onnistui kasvattamaan liikevaihtoaan 28 prosenttia.
Kymmenen suurimman valmistajan joukossa AMD ja Mediatek kasvattivat viime vuonna liikevaihtoaan eniten (+68,6 % ja +60,2 %). Merkittävin muutos puolijohdevalmistajien sijoituksissa vuonna 2021 oli Huawein puolijohdedivisioonan eli HiSiliconin putoaminen 25 parhaan joukosta. HiSiliconin liikevaihto laski viime vuonna 81 prosenttia ja oli enää 1,5 miljardia dollaria. Tämä johtuu käytännössä yksinomaan Yhdysvaltain yhtiötä ja sen emoyhtiötä Huaweita vastaan asettamista pakotteista.
HiSiliconin romahduksen myötä Kiinalaisvalmistajien osuus puolijohdemarkkinoista laski vuoden 2020 6,7 prosentista 6,5 prosenttiin viime vuonna.
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Onko Android vaikeuksissa?
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/13471-onko-android-vaikeuksissa
Android on selvästi suosituin mobiilikäyttöjärjestelmä. Sen osuus markkinoilla on kuitenkin kutistunut tasaisesti jo viiden vuoden ajan, kertoo StockAppsin tuore raportti. Markkinaosuudesta on sulanut 8 prosenttia.
Tammikuussa Androidin osuus älypuhelimissa oli 69,74 prosenttia. Heinäkuussa 2018 lukema oli korkeimmillaan 77,32 prosenttia. Samaan aikaan Applen iOS:n markkinaosuus on kasvanut 19,4 prosentista 25,49 prosenttiin.
Mikä sitten on tämän Androidin käyttöjärjestelmän hallinnan jopa heikkenemisen takana? StockApps.comin asiantuntija Edith Reads on seurannut alan trendejä. Hän selittää, että Android on menettänyt asemiaan lisääntyneen kilpailun vuoksi.
Markkinadatan perusteella iOS kasvoi 6 prosenttia heinäkuun 2018 ja tammikuun 2022 välisenä aikana. Apple on kasvattanut käyttöjärjestelmien markkinaosuuttaan 25,49 prosenttiin tuolloisesta 19,4 prosentista. Loput reilut puolitoista Googlen menettäneestä markkinaosuudesta on mennyt pienille käyttöjärjestelmäkehittäjille.
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https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/13472-uusi-tietokone-on-nyt-kalliimpi
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Intel Creates New Graphics Research Organization
Recent hire Anton Kaplanyan will head the new Graphics Research Organization
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-commits-to-long-term-graphics-advancement-research
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Smart building deployments to exceed 115m globally in 2026
https://www.iotinsider.com/smart-home/smart-building-deployments-to-exceed-115m-globally-in-2026/
A new study from Juniper Research has found that the number of buildings globally deploying smart building technologies will reach 115 million in 2026, from 45 million in 2022. This growth of over 150% reflects increasing demand for energy efficiency from businesses and residents alike, as energy costs spike. Juniper Research defines a smart building as a building that uses connectivity to enable economical use of resources, while creating a safe and comfortable environment for the occupants.
The new research, Smart Buildings: Key Opportunities, Competitor Leaderboard & Market Forecasts 2022-2026, found that by enabling buildings to monitor and automate common functions, significant efficiency gains can be made, while improving the environment for workers and residents. The report recommends that vendors focus on building analytics platforms for the most value to be driven from deployments.
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Analysts Predict End is Near for Global Chip Shortage
By Ian Evenden published 3 days ago
Stand down from red alert
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/analyst-predicts-end-of-chip-shortage
In potential ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ news, a report from Counterpoint Research suggests the global semiconductor shortage could ease in the second half of 2022 as demand-supply gaps decrease.
The report, which concentrates on China as one of the largest producers of semiconductors, shows that gaps between supply and demand have been shrinking since late last year. Thankfully, 5G-related chipsets, application processors, and RF equipment inventory levels have increased, and the same is true of PC components: “Coupled with wafer production expansion and continuous supplier diversification, we have witnessed significant improvement in the component supply situation, at least in the first quarter,” said research analyst William Li, who focuses on semiconductors and components.
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Intel releases SDK for Cortex-M7 PSE found in Elkhart Lake processors
https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/04/23/intel-pse-sdk-elkhart-lake-arm-cortex-m7/
Elkhart Lake processors integrate the Intel Programmable Services Engine (Intel PSE) offload engine for IoT workloads powered by an Arm Cortex-M7 microcontroller that handles real-time IO control using GPIO, I2C, and/or UART interfaces, and supports functions such as remote, out-of-band device management, network proxy, embedded controller, and sensor hub.
Until now the firmware was only provided as a closed-source binary, and Coreboot developers published an open letter to open the source code for the PSE firmware last December, and it’s been successful with Intel releasing the Intel PSE SDK based on Zephyr OS.
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Supply Chain Issues and Autos: When Will the Chip Shortage End?
https://www.jpmorgan.com/insights/research/supply-chain-chip-shortage
How long will the semiconductor crisis last? Here’s how the chip shortage will play out according to J.P. Morgan Research.
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Supply Chain Issues and Autos: When Will the Chip Shortage End?
How long will the semiconductor crisis last? Here’s how the chip shortage will play out according to J.P. Morgan Research.
https://www.jpmorgan.com/insights/research/supply-chain-chip-shortage
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Google donates the Istio service mesh to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/25/google-donates-the-istio-service-mesh-to-the-cloud-native-computing-foundation/?tpcc=tcplusfacebook
This has been a long time coming: Google today announced that it is submitting its Istio service mesh project for consideration as an incubating project within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
Google’s Kubernetes has long been the flagship project for the CNCF and the company recently also brought Knative, a project that aims to make it easier to build and deploy serverless applications on top of Kubernetes, to the CNCF as well. It’s maybe no surprise then that Istio, too, will likely become a CNCF project. There are still some steps to take before that happens, but chances are Google wouldn’t make today’s announcement if those weren’t, for the most part, formalities.
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https://www.edn.com/disrupt-or-be-disrupted-intel-and-the-great-semiconductor-fab-game/
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TSMC says 2nm chips will enter production in 2025
Meanwhile, 3nm will enter production this year
https://www.techspot.com/news/94235-tsmc-2nm-chips-enter-production-2025.html
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https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/20/elon-musk-mass-produce-robotaxi-by-2024/
https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/20/musk-says-robot-aimed-for-2023-will-be-worth-more-than-teslas-car-business/
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https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/20/top-nft-collections-are-bringing-in-millions-of-dollars-weekly-but-which-will-survive/
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8-bittinen ei suostu kuolemaan
https://etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13492&via=n&datum=2022-04-28_15:02:32&mottagare=30929
Moni analyytikko on povannut 8-bittisten ohjainpiirien käytön loppumista, mutta 50 vuotta markkinoilla ollut tekniikka ei suostu kuolemaan. Microchip alleviivaa tätä esittelemässä peräti viisi uutta PIC- ja AVR-perhettä, joissa on yhteensä 65 uutta ohjainta.
Siruja esitellyt Microchipin tuotemarkkinoinnin päällikkö Öyvind Ström muistutti, että kaikki muut valmistajat ovat luopuneet 8-bittisten kehittämisestä. Microchipillä on hallussaan kolmannes 8-bittisten noin viiden miljardin dollarin markkinoista ja ohjaimien tuotantoon kolmessa tehtaassaan yhtiö panostaa miljardi dollaria seuraavan vuoden aikana.
- Itse asiassa 8-bittisten markkina kasvaa tasaisesti. Siruja valmistetaan 130 nanometrin prosessissa, joka on osoittautunut ihanteelliseksi suorituskyvyn ja kustannusten yhdistelmäksi, Ström kehuu.
Microchipin valikoimassa on 8-bittisissä yli 1500 tuotenumeroa ja osaa siruista on valmistettu yli 20 vuoden ajan. Nyt valikoimaan lisätään neljä uutta PIC-perhettä ja yksi AVR-perhe. – 8-bittisten kysyntä kasvattaa älykkyyden jakaminen. Ohjaimille tulee lisää analogiatoimintoja ja CIP-lohkojen eli ytimestä riippumattomien oheislaitteiden käyttökelpoisuus kasvattaa suosiota, Ström sanoo.
CIP-oheislaitteet ovat yksi 8-bittisten suosiota kasvattaa tekniikka. Sen hyödyntämisessä on Strömin mukaan oma haasteensa. – HW-suunnittelija ymmärtää tekniikan edut paremmin, C-koodia vääntävälle ohjelmistosuunnittelijalle tämä on isompi haaste, Ström sanoo. Molemmat kuitenkin näkevät, miten etuja tekniikasta on omien asiakkaiden kannalta.
https://page.microchip.com/8Bit-Mega-Launch.html
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AI edge computing
https://www.mouser.com/empowering-innovation/more-topics/ai?utm_source=endeavor&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=ed-personifai-eit-ai-#article2-ai
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Applen M1 Pro mullisti henkilökohtaisen tietokoneen
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/13502-applen-m1-pro-mullisti-henkiloekohtaisen-tietokoneen
Apple on parin viime vuoden aikana käynyt läpi iso muutosta, kun se korvaa Intelin x86-prosessorit omaan suunnitteluun perustuvilla M1- ja M1 Pro -suorittimilla. Nyt ranskalainen analyysitalo SystemPlus Consulting on analysoinut ensimmäistä kertaa yhtä M1 Pro -varianttia. Analyysi osoittaa, miten prosessori suorastaan mullistaa henkilökohtaisen tietokoneen.
Vaikka x86-arkkitehtuurin odotetaan edelleen kattavan suurimman osan PC-prosessoinnista, Applen siirtyminen omaan prosessoriin merkitsee suurta muutosta myös markkinoilla. Yole Developpementin analyysin mukaan 14 prosenttia PC-koneista toimii muilla kuin x86-prosessoreilla vuoteen 2027 mennessä. Vuonna 2020 x86:n osuus oli 96 prosenttia.
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Samsung lupaa: kolmen nanometrin siruja jo lähiaikoina
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/13499-samsung-lupaa-kolmen-nanometrin-siruja-jo-laehiaikoina
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/13514-putin-heikentaeae-teknologia-alan-naekymiae
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Nokia soitti 3CC-datapuhelun Samsungin lippulaivalla
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/13508-nokia-soitti-3cc-datapuhelun-samsungin-lippulaivalla
Carrier Aggregation eli CC on tekniikka, jossa mobiililinkin kapasiteettia kasvatetaan yhdistämällä samaan linkkiin useita eri kantoaaltoja eri taajuuksilta. Nyt Nokia kertoo soittaneensa australialaisen Optuksen verkossa maailman ensimmäisen toisen polven 3CC-datapuhelun Samsungin uudella Galaxy S22 Ultra -puhelimella.
Nokian mukaan tämä on ensimmäinen kerta, kun ns. standalone-tyyppisessä 5G-verkossa soitettiin kolmen kantoaallon yhdistävä datapuhelu kaupallisella älypuhelimella. Standalone-verkko tarkoittaa sitä, että kaikki linkin vaatima liikenne signalointeineen kulkee 5G-verkon yli.
Kokeilussa käytettiin kahta TDD-kantoaaltoa ja yhtä FDD-kantoaaltoa 2100 (FDD), 2300 ja 3500 megahertsin taajuuksilla. Nokia käytti viimeisintä kaupallista AirScale-sarjan kantataajuus- ja radiolaitteitaan, jotka toimivat yhtiön omalla Reefshark-piirisarjan avulla.
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Apple kasvanut eniten
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/13507-apple-kasvanut-eniten
Puhelinten tarvikkeita myyvä Burga raportoi, että Apple on onnistunut älypuhelinmarkkinoilla kilpailijoitaan paremmin. Komponenttipulan ja pandemian aiheuttamien ongelmien jälkeen Apple onnistui kasvattamaan markkinaosuutensa 18 prosenttiin eli viidenneksen vuodentakaista suuremmaksi.
Viime vuoden ensimmäisellä neljänneksellä Applella oli hallussaan 15 prosenttia älypuhelinmarkkinoista. Samsung kasvatti myyntiään toiseksi eniten ja sen markkinaosuus on nyt 24 prosenttia.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/13504-honor-uutuudet-oikeastaan-vain-5g-puuttuu
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https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2022/05/03/venaja-sotaretki-rassaa-suomalaista-teknologiateollisuutta/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Samsung lupaa: kolmen nanometrin siruja jo lähiaikoina
https://etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13499&via=n&datum=2022-04-29_15:13:57&mottagare=31202
Samsung ilmoitti eilen osavuosikatsauksensa yhteydessä, että se aikoo aloittaa volyymituotannon 3 nanometrin prosessissa vielä toisen vuosineljänneksen aikana eli viimeistään kesäkuussa. Tämä on ensimmäinen kerta, kun mikropiirejä valmistetaan volyymeissä tällä viivanleveydellä. Samsung kutsuu prosessiaan nimellä 3GAE (3 nm-luokan gate all-around early). Se on ensimmäinen GAAFET-transistorirakenteella kaupalliseen tuotantoon viety prosessi.
Tämän hetken edistyneimmissä piireissä transistorit rakennetaan FinFET-rakenteella. Fin viittaa hainevämäiseen muotoon, jolla lähde ja nielu nousevat ylös piin pinnasta. Rakenne on ollut hallitseva 14 ja 10 nanometrin prosesseista lähtien.
10 nanometrissä rakenne alkoi jo tuottaa ongelmia jännitevuotojen takia. Rakennetta paranneltiin niin, että transistori rakennettiin nanolangoilla. Näiden avulla voitiin paremmin hallita virrankulkua hilassa. Rakennetta kutsutaan nimellä GAAFET (gate-all-around field-effect transistors).
Aiemmin on ajateltu, että myös GAAFET joutuisi ongelmiin alle viidessä nanometrissä. Siksi sekä TSMC että Samsung ovat kehittäneet MBCFET-rakenteen (Multi-Bridge Channel FET), jossa nanolangat korvataan nanokalvoilla.
Nyt siis näyttää, että Samsung siirtyy MMBCFET-rakenteeseen (näkyy oheisessa kuvassa) vasta 2 nanometrissä.
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Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
LottieFiles, which develops plugins for app developers to create, edit, and test JSON-based Lottie animations, raises a $37M Series B led by Square Peg Capital
https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/03/lottiefiles-gets-37m-to-make-the-animation-format-even-more-ubiquitous/
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Matt Milano / Android Authority:
Samsung unveils Universal Flash Storage 4.0, claiming double the speed of UFS 3.1, making it ideal for 5G phones, and sets mass production for Q3 2022 — 5G smartphones are about to get much faster. — TL;DR — Samsung’s UFS 4.0 flash storage will offer twice the performance of 3.1.
https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-ufs-4-3160516/
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Someone tweeted at Microsoft to release the 27-year-old source code to 3D Movie Maker, so they did
By Tyler Colp published about 5 hours ago
Thanks to Foone and Microsoft, 3D Movie Maker is now open source.
https://www.pcgamer.com/someone-tweeted-at-microsoft-to-release-the-27-year-old-source-code-to-3d-movie-maker-so-they-did/
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Boston Dynamics Gives Spot a Big Upgrade with Color Cameras, Jetson NX Edge AI Payload, and More
Boston Dynamics throws the dog a bone with mesh and 5G networking capabilities, too, plus an upgraded tablet controller.
https://www.hackster.io/news/boston-dynamics-gives-spot-a-big-upgrade-with-color-cameras-jetson-nx-edge-ai-payload-and-more-e2a11da34b2b
NEED A SNACK FROM ACROSS TOWN? SEND SPOT!
https://hackaday.com/2022/05/02/need-a-snack-from-across-town-send-spot/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.kingston.com/en/blog/pc-performance/pcie-gen-4-explained
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.edn.com/intels-foundry-foray-and-its-influence-on-the-eda-ip-industries/
Tomi Engdahl says:
New tandem solar cell delivers a certified efficiency of 29.2%
This achievement was made possible by combining a perovskite solar cell with a textured silicon solar cell.
https://www.techexplorist.com/new-tandem-solar-cell-delivers-certified-efficiency-29-2/47001/#
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Arm Launches “Highest Performance” Cortex-M85 for Edge AI, Puts Virtual Raspberry Pis in the Cloud
Designed as part of the company’s “Total Solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT)” roadmap, the Cortex-M85 packs a punch.
https://www.hackster.io/news/arm-launches-highest-performance-cortex-m85-for-edge-ai-puts-virtual-raspberry-pis-in-the-cloud-ac9834be6d46
Arm has announced the launch of the Cortex-M85, claimed to be it’s “highest performance Cortex-M processor to date,” boasting a 30 percent boost in scalar compute over the Cortex-M7 and featuring the company’s Helium technology for machine-learning workloads – and, if that isn’t enough, has also expanded its virtual hardware platform to include the Raspberry Pi.
At the same time, and as component shortages continue to bite the industry, Arm has announced the expansion of its Virtual Hardware platform — designed to give software developers a starting point before they’re able to get their hands on physical silicon. The newly-announced virtual devices available in the program include the Corstone-310, seven new Cortex-M processors, and third-party development boards from NXP, ST Micro, and Raspberry Pi.
At Raspberry Pi we put the power of computing into the hands of people all over the world,” says Raspberry Pi chief executive Eben Upton. “Offering an easily accessible, virtual version of Raspberry Pi through Arm Virtual Hardware will permit even more developers to test out our technology, solve problems and express themselves through creative projects.”
More information on the new virtual hardware is available on the Arm blog,
https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/internet-of-things-blog/posts/new-arm-virtual-hardware
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https://www.hackster.io/news/insteon-s-smart-home-cloud-closes-down-but-the-open-source-home-assistant-leaps-to-the-rescue-e4dbd26c78ce
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://opcfoundation.org/news/opc-foundation-news/opc-foundation-announces-opc-ua-open-source-availability/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://github-wiki-see.page/m/open62541/open62541/wiki/List-of-Open-Source-OPC-UA-Implementations
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China orders government, state firms to dump foreign PCs: sources
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/government-economy/china-orders-government-state-firms-to-dump-foreign-pcs-sources
CHINA has ordered central government agencies and state-backed corporations to replace foreign-branded personal computers with domestic alternatives within 2 years, marking one of Beijing’s most aggressive efforts so far to eradicate key overseas technology from within its most sensitive organs.
Staff were asked after the week-long May break to turn in foreign PCs for home-made alternatives that run on operating software developed domestically, people familiar with the plan said. The exercise, which was mandated by central government authorities, is likely to eventually replace at least 50 million PCs on a central-government level alone, they said, asking to remain anonymous discussing a sensitive matter.
The decision advances China’s decade-long campaign to replace imported technology with local alternatives, a sweeping effort that covers everything from semiconductors to networking gear and phones. It’s likely to directly affect sales by HP and Dell
The replacement effort reflects Beijing’s growing concerns around information security as well as a confidence in homegrown hardware: the world’s biggest laptop and server makers today include Lenovo, Huawei Technologies and Inspur, while local developers such as Kingsoft and Standard Software have made rapid strides in office software against the likes of Microsoft and Adobe.
The campaign will be extended to provincial governments later and also abide by the 2-year timeframe, the people said.
Tomi Engdahl says:
by Usama Jawad — China has ordered government offices to replace foreign-branded PCs and associated operating systems with alternatives that can be locally maintained. This includes dumping Windows in favor of Linux.
https://www.neowin.net/news/chinese-government-to-dump-windows-in-favor-of-linux/
Tomi Engdahl says:
When will the global chip shortage end?
What do cars, laptops, cellphones, and other electronic gadgets have in common? – they all run on
chips
https://cdn.baseplatform.io/files/base/ebm/electronicdesign/document/2022/04/When_will_the_global_chip_shortage_end_A4_ES.625ee404718ae.pdf
There is no clear timetable as to when the shortage will end. Industry experts predict things will
hopefully normalize by mid-next year, while others say we will only see significant improvements by
2023
Tomi Engdahl says:
How to spot counterfeit electronic components
https://cdn.baseplatform.io/files/base/ebm/electronicdesign/document/2022/04/How_to_spot_counterfeit_electronic_components___A2_ES.625ee12795815.pdf
Counterfeits electronic components are Electronic components that are misleading as to the origin or
quality relating to the parts. It is possible to counterfeit a certain electronic component and potentially
infringe one’s trademark license rights.
Counterfeit parts often have inferior specifications and quality. They may be a hazard in a critical
system such as an aircraft navigation and life support equipment or space vehicle. The sale in
consumer markets of electronic components making it easier for counterfeiters to integrate inferior
and counterfeit goods into the market.
The Global Chip Shortage has affected our lives more than you think, and it’s not solely due to low
supply. One of the main reasons is very high demand. The demand for electronic products that use
microchips like computers, smartphones, tablets, and even vehicles has skyrocketed in recent
months.
The increased demand from distributors, the manufacturing sector, suppliers, and other legitimate
businesses increased activity for the proliferation of counterfeit components.
Because of the steadily growing demand for such products, criminals have more opportunities to sell
these fake chips with less risk of detection
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According to developer EPC, the transistor’s tiny size enables power solutions that occupy 10X less area than comparable silicon solutions.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/markets/automotive/article/21239178/electronic-design-350v-gan-transistor-10x-smaller-than-comparable-silicon-and-lower-cost?utm_source=EG+ED+Auto+Electronics&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS220415028&o_eid=7211D2691390C9R&rdx.ident%5Bpull%5D=omeda%7C7211D2691390C9R&oly_enc_id=7211D2691390C9R
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NiceHash confirmed they’ve developed a workaround that allows you to mine the Ethereum coin on GPUs without any of the limitations imposed by Nvidia.
Nvidia’s crypto mining limiter has just been fully cracked
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/nvidias-crypto-mining-limiter-has-just-been-fully-cracked/
The Lite Hash Rate (LHR) algorithm that limits the crypto mining performance of certain Nvidia RTX 30 graphics cards has been completely cracked.
NiceHash confirmed they’ve developed a workaround that allows you to mine the Ethereum coin on GPUs without any of the limitations imposed by Nvidia.
As reported by Tom’s Hardware, NiceHash is the company behind the QuickMiner software and Excavator miner. Other individuals and groups have naturally tried to evade the LHR cap on Nvidia GPUs with their own software. For example, Tom’s Hardware points out one named NBMiner, which was able to unlock up to 70% performance.
Nvidia’s LHR Limiter Has Fallen, But Gamers Shouldn’t Worry
By Zhiye Liu published 2 days ago
All’s well that ends well.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nicehash-quickminer-bypasses-nvidia-lhr-limiter
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https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2022/05/06/intel-ostaa-suomalaisen-siru-innovationsin/