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
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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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What’s the Difference Between CXL 1.1 and CXL 2.0?
Aug. 24, 2022
Compute Express Link is a high-speed interconnect offering coherency and memory semantics using high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity between host processor and devices such as accelerators, memory buffers, and smart I/O devices.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/embedded-revolution/article/21249351/cxl-consortium-whats-the-difference-between-cxl-11-and-cxl-20
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Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google launches Cross device SDK to let developers build experiences across Android phones and tablets, coming later to other Android and non-Android devices — At I/O 2022, Google detailed a way for Android apps to build cross-device experiences, similar to Nearby Share, and the SDK’s developer preview is now available.
Google letting Android app devs build Nearby Share-esque cross-device experiences
https://9to5google.com/2022/08/26/android-apps-cross-device/
At I/O 2022, Google detailed a way for Android apps to build cross-device experiences, similar to Nearby Share, and the SDK’s developer preview is now available.
The Cross device SDK “allows developers to build rich multidevice experiences with a simple and intuitive set of APIs.” Namely, Google takes care of device discovery, authentication, and connection protocols (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and UWB), so that app devs can just focus on “delightful user experiences and connecting these experiences across a variety of form factors and platforms.” There are three core functionalities offered by the SDK:
Device discovery: Easily find nearby devices, authorize peer-to-peer communication, and start the target application on receiving devices.
Secure connections: Enable encrypted, low-latency bidirectional data sharing between authorized devices.
Multi-device Sessions: Enable transferring or extending an application’s user experience across multiple devices.
https://9to5google.com/2022/05/12/android-apps-nearby-share/
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In the long-term, Google’s Cross device SDK will work on apps for Android phones, tablets, TV, Auto, Wear OS, ChromeOS, iOS, and Windows, with the company open to other platforms as well. It’s also backward compatible with Android 8.
https://9to5google.com/2022/08/26/android-apps-cross-device/
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When will the global chip shortage end?
https://cdn.baseplatform.io/files/base/ebm/electronicdesign/document/2022/04/When_will_the_global_chip_shortage_end_A4_ES.625ee404718ae.pdf
What do cars, laptops, cellphones, and other electronic gadgets have in common? – they all run on
chips.
Most if not all of the latest electronic gadgets are made of computer chips or semiconductors. These
diminutive and rarely talked about pieces made of silicon are the building blocks of the modern
world. As the world continues to go digital, processes are automated, and operations become more
efficient, we have become increasingly more reliant on electronic components moving forward.
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Global shortage of semiconductor chips causing challenges for farmers wanting to embrace ag tech
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2022-08-29/semiconductor-chip-shortage-for-new-phones-farming-technology/101382138
If you are trying to get your hands on a new car, the latest phone, or gadget, you may have had to wait due to the global shortage of semiconductor chips.
Key points:
Farmers are seeking tech solutions to combat ongoing labour shortages
But the global shortage of semiconductor chips is creating challenges for ag tech manufacturers
The US is spending more than $50 billion to ramp up production of chips
“For the custom-made components, what we need to do now is essentially look forward at what chips are available, pre-purchase those chips, and then design our equipment or refine our designs around that,” he said.
The chip shortage comes at a difficult time, as many farmers need labour-saving technology to combat worker shortages and improve productivity.
“We’ve fallen behind because we’ve not invested in this technology to date,” Mr Mills said.
“That’s why a lot of the automation technology you find in dairies is sourced from European countries because they’ve had to pay staff a lot more over there for some time.”
Lockdowns sparked a consumer electronics boom, as workers and students rushed to buy devices to help them work from home.
While demand soared, supply was hit by a severe drought in Taiwan, which crippled the water-heavy production of chips by the world’s largest manufacturer — TSMC.
While the software-focused start-up had not been hit by the chip shortage, cloud computing had been an issue.
“With the power shortages and costs going up globally, that’s going to have a massive impact on our costs to use cloud providers,” Ms Turner said.
“So we’re watching that very closely.”
James Walsh, director of remote farming technology company Farm Pulse, said his company had avoided the worst effects of shortages by not being reliant on a single technology or manufacturer.
But they still had to “manage expectations”.
“Anyone who’s in technology and trying to source raw materials has had problems,” he said.
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Taivuteltavat ottavat reilun prosentin älypuhelinmarkkinoista
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Uusimmat taivuteltavat eli ns. foldable älypuhelimet ovat teknisesti upeita luomuksia, mutta usein erittäin kalliita. Sen takia niiden menekki on jäänyt edelleen varsin marginaaliseksi. Tänä vuonna niiden osuus älypuhelinmarkkinoista kasvaa kuitenkin 1,1 prosenttiin, arvioi TrendForce.
Taivuteltavissa keskeisin komponentti on OLED-paneeli sekä sen keskellä oleva saranamekanismi. Vuoden 2024 jälkeen TrendForce odottaa niiden markkinaosuuden kasvavan yli 2,5 prosenttiin. Aiemmin Strategy Analytics on arvioinut taivuteltavien myyvän 75 miljoonaa kappaletta vuonna 2025, joten se on ennusteissaan selvästi optimistisempi.
TrendForce on analysoinut Samsungin, Xiaomin ja Motorolan uusimpia puhelinmalleja. Odotetusti tutkimuslaitos kastoo, että näytön avautuminen ja saramekanismi ovat suunnittelun näkökulmasta vaativimmat osat. Valmistajien ratkaisut myös eroavat näiden suhteen.
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US-China tech war: Beijing forges ahead with all-in chip effort, brushing aside asset bubbles and graft probes
China lacks the software, equipment and capabilities for advanced chips, a weakness laid bare by the tech war between Washington and Beijing
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3190360/us-china-tech-war-beijing-forges-ahead-all-chip-effort-brushing-aside
In the face of political calls for self-sufficiency, it is hard to avoid waste, fraud and bubbles amid a continuous flow of state funds, experts say
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The truth about SMIC’s 7-nm chip fabrication ordeal
https://www.edn.com/the-truth-about-smics-7-nm-chip-fabrication-ordeal/
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) reaching the 7-nm chip fabrication process has been a jaw dropper. Still, while it’s making headlines in the technology and trade media, it’s critical to examine the true value of SMIC’s so-called great leap forward. Can SMIC mass produce chips at its newly developed 7-nm node? The blog attempts to answer this important but tricky question
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3 reasons cloud computing doesn’t save money
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3670851/3-reasons-cloud-computing-doesnt-save-money.html
Where are the savings enterprises expected ? A finops program that monitors cloud spending, creates accountability, and optimizes cloud resources will usually solve the problem.
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China’s Semiconductor Breakthrough
SMIC’s 7nm process advancement – despite heavy U.S. sanctions – will have major implications for East Asia.
https://thediplomat.com/2022/08/chinas-semiconductor-breakthrough/
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SSDs Are Worse for the Planet Than HDDs: Report
By Francisco Pires
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ssds-create-more-carbon-emissions-than-hdds-report
HDDs get another green ally in their fight against their younger, faster siblings.
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Can Magnets Damage My PC or Laptop?
If your computer has a traditional magnetic hard drive (as opposed to a newer solid-state drive), there is always the potential for a very strong magnetic to damage the hard drive.
That potential is extremely small, however, and unless you happened to stick a large neodymium magnet right on the hard drive yourself or you left your laptop in an industrial degausser, you have nothing to worry about.
So if you found this article while panic-searching whether or not your kid putting fridge magnets or magnetic toys all over your laptop or PC case, don’t worry. The risk is nonexistent, and the strength of those small magnets isn’t even close to the strength of the magnets inside the hard drive already.
Can Magnets Damage My Phone?
The answer to whether or not magnets can damage your phone is actually more nuanced than you would think.
At first glance, the answer would seem to be no, because no phones have magnetic media in them, hard drives or otherwise. And realistically, that answer is true in almost every instance.
Magnet car mounts, cases with magnets in them, and so on pose very little risk. In fact, some phones even have relatively large magnets built right into them, like the MagSafe magnetic ring in the back of modern iPhones.
There are, however, fringe cases where magnets can cause minor issues with phones, albeit not permanent damage. Phones use tiny magnets inside for various purposes, such as in the image stabilization arrays for the lenses. A magnetic case or mount with a magnet too close to the sensors can temporarily disable them.
You might buy a third-party lens kit for your phone that uses a magnetic mount to stick add-on-lenses over the stock lens, and then find that after you install it, the autofocus or image stabilization features act all wonky.
Similar problems arise when magnets are too close to the internal compass sensors.
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Nvidia’s CTO on the Future of High-Performance Computing The company’s Earth-2 supercomputer is taking on climate change
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5 Things You Can Do to Boost Your Old PC’s Performance
BY
AROL WRIGHT
PUBLISHED AUG 21, 2022
If your PC’s age is starting to show, there are a few things you can do to reverse that situation
https://www.makeuseof.com/things-you-can-do-boost-old-pc-performance/#Echobox=1661087781
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Sam Kim / Bloomberg:
Semiconductor shipments from South Korean chipmakers fell 22.7% YoY in July 2022, the first drop in almost three years per the national statistics office
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-31/korean-chipmakers-record-first-drop-in-shipments-in-three-years
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Anton Shilov / Tom’s Hardware:
Jon Peddie Research: discrete and integrated GPU sales fell 14.9% QoQ in Q2 2022; Nvidia’s sales fell 25.7% QoQ, AMD’s fell 7.6% QoQ, and Intel’s fell 9.8% QoQ — Shipments of discrete desktop graphics cards down to two-year low. — Sales of graphics processing units — discrete and integrated …
JPR: Unit Sales of Nvidia GPUs Down 26 Percent as PC Sales Collapse
By Anton Shilov
Shipments of discrete desktop graphics cards down to two-year low.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/jpr-unit-sales-of-nvidia-gpus-down-26-percent-as-pc-sales-collapse
Sales of graphics processing units — discrete and integrated — dropped 14.9% quarter-over-quarter in Q2 2022 as demand for PCs among consumers softened and distributors of parts and PC makers reduced their purchases. As a result, shipments of standalone GPUs dropped more significantly than shipments of integrated GPUs, which is why Nvidia suffered a 25.7% sequential decline in unit sales.
Unit shipments of PC CPUs decreased by 7% quarter-over-quarter and 33.7% year-over-year, according to Jon Peddie Research (opens in new tab). As a result, shipments of GPUs declined by 14.9% QoQ. Among three GPU vendors, AMD’s GPU sales declined the least by 7.6% sequentially, Intel’s shipments decreased by 9.8%, whereas Nvidia’s unit sales dropped by a whopping 25.7%, data by JPR shows.
The sales of discrete graphics cards for desktops (including the best graphics cards for gaming) declined by 22.6% sequentially in the second quarter to around 10.37 million units, the lowest number of standalone desktop GPUs sold per quarter since Q2 2020. It perhaps was expected as everyone who wanted to get an AMD Radeon RX 6000-series or an Nvidia GeForce RTX 30-series graphics board had already done this.
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Is It Time to Treat U.S.-Made Chips as Critical Infrastructure?
Aug. 30, 2022
Intel struck a $30 billion partnership with Brookfield Asset Management to help fund its factory build-out.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/embedded-revolution/article/21249733/electronic-design-is-it-time-to-treat-usmade-chips-as-critical-infrastructure
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Max A. Cherney / Protocol:
Nvidia and AMD say the US has imposed restrictions on exporting chips for AI-related applications to Russia and China, including Nvidia’s A100 and AMD’s MI200 — The U.S. has begun to impose fresh restrictions on exports of advanced chips necessary for AI-related applications to Russia and China …
Nvidia, AMD warned of new US export restrictions on AI chips
https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/nvidia-amd-ai-chips
The U.S. government has issued new export licensing requirements to Nvidia and AMD for export to China and Russia of the advanced GPUs used for AI.
The U.S. has begun to impose fresh restrictions on exports of advanced chips necessary for AI-related applications to Russia and China, blocking the sale of the semiconductors that power systems sold by the likes of AMD and Nvidia without a license.
Nvidia disclosed Wednesday that it had received a notification from the U.S. government that new licensing requirements are being implemented that affect sales of its advanced line of server GPUs to Russia or China. AMD confirmed that it received a similar notification from the U.S. for its line of GPUs that are suited for performing AI-related computing.
Nvidia’s disclosure indicates that the fresh export controls are not aimed at the specific chips themselves but at the performance thresholds that are closely associated with Nvidia A100 processors — the current generation of chips deployed in the field. The controls affect AMD’s competing product, the MI200.
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EU publishes draft regulations on smartphone spare parts and battery life, including mandating manufacturers make 15+ parts available for at least five years
Brussels proposes tough regulations on smartphone spare part availability
https://www.ft.com/content/5642b410-4311-427b-af21-c970a400ef90
European Commission says 15 components should be made available for five years after a device’s introduction
Smartphone manufacturers supplying the EU will face stringent requirements to provide spare parts and ensure longer battery life, according to draft proposals published by Brussels on Wednesday.
The European Commission said that at least 15 different component parts should be made available for at least five years from the date of a smartphone’s introduction to the market and that batteries should survive at least 500 full charges without deteriorating to below 83 per cent of their capacity.
Phones would also have to display an energy efficiency label, similar to those used for washing machines and dishwashers, which will show battery endurance and other characteristics such as resistance to drops.
The scheme is Brussels’ latest directive targeting electronics manufacturers after introducing in June a requirement to use a standardised charger by 2024, despite years of industry opposition, in particular from Apple.
Extending the life cycle of all the smartphones sold in the EU by five years would save emissions equivalent to around 10mn tonnes of Co2 — roughly the same as taking 5mn cars off the road, according to a study by the European Environmental Bureau, a non-governmental organisation.
“Devices are often replaced prematurely by users and are, at the end of their useful life, not sufficiently reused or recycled, leading to a waste of resources,” the document said.
A senior EU official warned that products that did not meet sustainability requirements “will go off the market”.
Smartphone makers argue that requiring more parts to be available simply increases the consumption of plastic.
Digital Europe, which represents the tech industry, said: “A potential overproduction, subsequent warehousing and destruction of spare parts will naturally result in wasted resources, reduced material efficiency and negative economic value ultimately resulting in higher costs for the consumer.”
Some manufacturers, such as iPhone maker Apple, have already stepped up their repair programmes after years of pressure from campaigners. Components including the battery, display, SIM tray, cameras and speakers can be repaired in the latest iPhones.
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Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Ring debuts Intercom, an audio-only DIY retrofit device for remote intercom access designed for European apartment buildings, available for £119 on September 28
Ring’s latest gadget makes your apartment intercom smart
https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/1/23330456/ring-intercom-smart-doorbell-apartment-price-specs?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4
Want a smart doorbell but live in an apartment? Ring’s new smart intercom is aimed at you
Smart door locks and video doorbells are great conveniences for those who live in single-family homes, but what about the millions of people who live in flats, apartments, and condos? They might also like to answer their front door from their phone — whether they’re home or not — and perhaps buzz their visitor in without getting off the couch or rushing home from the office. Ring, maker of the original video doorbell, thinks it has a solution.
Ring Intercom is a DIY, retrofit device that attaches to the intercom inside your home and connects via Wi-Fi to the Ring app on your smartphone. It’s specifically designed for European apartment buildings where multiple flats (or apartments) have one entry point and only an audio intercom system installed. With Ring Intercom installed, when someone rings your flat, you can talk to your visitor and buzz them in through the app. There’s no video component — it’s all audio — and there’s no recording feature. Ring Intercom simply replicates the existing function of your intercom on your phone, letting you talk to your front door from anywhere.
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Source: iPhone 14 Pro display cutout to show camera plus microphone privacy indicators; redesigned Camera app also coming
https://9to5mac.com/2022/08/31/iphone-14-display-cutout-features/
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We Can’t Switch To Electric Cars Until We Get More Copper
https://hackaday.com/2022/08/31/we-cant-switch-to-electric-cars-until-we-get-more-copper/
Reducing emissions from human activity requires a great deal of effort in many different sectors. When it comes to land transport, the idea is generally to eliminate vehicles powered by combustion engines and replace them with electric vehicles instead. At a glance, the job is simple enough. We know how to build EVs, and the technology is getting to the point where they’re capable of replacing traditional vehicles in many applications.
Of course, the reality is not so simple. To understand the problem of converting transportation to electric drive en masse, you have to take a look at the big numbers. Focus in on the metrics of copper, and you’ll find the story is a concerning one.
Raw Materials Are Key
Switching over to EVs isn’t just as simple as drawing up the blueprints for new models and churning them out. Unfortunately, the world’s industrial infrastructure has been built up and honed over the last century or so to build enough cars, trucks, and buses to suit the world’s demands, give or take some wobbles with supply chains in the last few years. There are sprawling factories located all over the world, dedicated solely to the tasks of churning out engines, fuel systems, and chassis for these vehicles, numbering in the millions each year.
Analytics firm S&P Global pegs worldwide copper demand to double by 2035. The increase will continue towards 2050, with projections suggesting a world demand of 53 million metric tons .
A coming copper shortage could derail the energy transition, report finds
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/14/copper-is-key-to-electric-vehicles-wind-and-solar-power-were-short-supply.html
Demand for copper is booming, but supply can’t keep up, jeopardizing net-zero emissions targets, according to a new report from S&P Global.
Copper is key to electric vehicles, wind and solar power, as well as the infrastructure that transports and stores renewable energy.
S&P Global’s new report forecasts copper demand nearly doubling by 2035.
“The energy transition is going to be dependent much more on copper than our current energy system,” said Daniel Yergin, vice chairman at S&P Global.
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Piezo Haptic Drivers Deliver Improved Gaming and Feedback
Aug. 22, 2022
Marc-Andre Morin from Boréas Technologies highlights haptic support that can improve applications such as gaming in mobile devices.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/power-management/video/21247884/electronic-design-haptic-drivers-deliver-improved-gaming-and-feedback?utm_source=EG+ED+Connected+Solutions&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS220830166&o_eid=7211D2691390C9R&rdx.identpull=omeda|7211D2691390C9R&oly_enc_id=7211D2691390C9R
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TIME TILL OPEN SOURCE ALTERNATIVE
https://staltz.com/time-till-open-source-alternative.html
Open source is coming for your business. It is just a matter of time before there exists a compelling open source alternative to your software. It won’t happen overnight, it will start out as a poor alternative, but slowly growing to become the robust and cheap (in fact, free!) solution that everyone uses.
In this blog post, I’ll prove this to you with data. I present a measurement I call “Time Till Open Source Alternative” (TTOSA) which represents how long a proprietary software lasted without a direct open source alternative.
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https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/31/arm_sues_qualcomm/
Arm is suing Qualcomm, one of its key customers, in a row over the latter’s Nuvia custom CPU cores.. The Softbank-owned British chip designer filed suit against Qualcomm in a US federal district court in Delaware.. Arm has accused Qualcomm of being in breach of its licenses, and wants the American giant to fulfill its obligations under those agreements, such as destroying its Nuvia CPU designs, plus cough up compensation.
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Alle 100 euron puhelin nousi myyntilistan kärkeen – näitä puhelimia suomalaiset ostavat
Operaattorit ovat paljastaneet elokuun myydyimmät puhelimet.
https://www.iltalehti.fi/digiuutiset/a/59c6f722-22ac-458b-a4c2-dacec9e22825
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Yuvraj Malik / Reuters:
Micron will invest ~$15B in a new memory manufacturing fab in Idaho, spending a total of $40B in the US by 2030, helped by grants and credits from the CHIPS Act — Micron Technology Inc (MU.O) will invest about $15 billion over the next 10 years in a new memory-chip manufacturing facility in Boise …
https://www.reuters.com/technology/micron-invest-15-billion-new-manufacturing-unit-idaho-2022-09-01/
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Is It Time to Treat U.S.-Made Chips as Critical Infrastructure?
Aug. 30, 2022
Intel struck a $30 billion partnership with Brookfield Asset Management to help fund its factory build-out.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/embedded-revolution/article/21249733/electronic-design-is-it-time-to-treat-usmade-chips-as-critical-infrastructure?utm_source=EG+ED+Analog+%26+Power+Source&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS220902054&o_eid=7211D2691390C9R&rdx.identpull=omeda|7211D2691390C9R&oly_enc_id=7211D2691390C9R
Intel introduced a first-of-its-kind co-investment program for its semiconductor fabs. The new funding model aims to help ease its gargantuan capital spending burden by sharing it with outside investors.
To that end, the Santa Clara, California-based company said it hammered out a $30 billion partnership with Brookfield Asset Management, one of the largest global asset managers, to help fund its fab expansion plans. Under the terms of the deal, Intel is responsible for 51% of the cost of building two new fabs in Chandler, Arizona, and it will maintain a controlling stake in the new facilities.
The deal stipulates that Brookfield will provide the remaining funding for the new chip-making facilities, said Intel chief financial officer David Zinsner. The companies will reportedly split revenue produced by the fabs
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John Reed / Financial Times:
A look at India’s $10B incentive scheme for chip makers, as some experts warn about its lack of hardware expertise and erratic transport and public utilities — The factories outside Chennai, in India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu, are home to an array of global corporate names …
https://www.ft.com/content/cbd50844-853e-4435-8028-f581d536a89a
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/13964-hdd-levyt-laehtevaet-ensiksi-kuluttajilta
Trendfocus-niminen tutkimuslaitos kertoo, että perinteisten magneettisten kiintolevyjen eli HDD-levyjen myynti laski 15,4 prosenttia vuoden toisella neljänneksellä. Ja tämä lasku tuli edellisneljännekseen verrattuna. HDD-levyjen kuolemaa on povattu jo pitkään, mutta nyt se näyttää olevan tulossa.
Kehitys lähtee liikkeelle kuluttajien PC-koneista. Flash-pohjaiset SSD-levyt ovat ylivoimaisia nopeutensa, hiljaisuuden ja tehonkulutuksen suhteen, mutta tähän asti HDD-levylle tallennetun bitin hinta on ollut niin paljon pienempi, että alemman kustannustason koneissa ei ole käytetty SDD-levyjä.
Tämä on muuttumassa. NAND-piirien valmistajat kehittävät jatkuvasti uusia sukupolvia, joissa tallennuskapasiteetin hinta laskee. Analyytikot uskovat, että uudet 176 metallointikerroksen NAND-piirit tuovat lopulta SSD-levyt myös halvempiin läppäreihin.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/13961-usb-c-lopettaa-kaikki-muut-liitaennaet
Tomi Engdahl says:
Applen kännykkäuutuuksiin satelliittiyhteys
https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2022/09/08/applen-uutuuksiin-satelliittiyhteys/
Apple toi eilen uuden hieman viritetyt iPhone 14 -kännykkämallit, joissa on käytössä ensi kertaa myös satelliittiteitse toimiva hätäyhteys. Tosin uusi toiminto ei tule tarjolle kaikkialla vaan hätäyhteys toimii vain Yhdysvaltain ja Kanadan alueilla.
Applen kännykkäuutuuksilla voi tehdä hälytyksen amerikkalaisen Emergency SOS:n satelliittien kautta, joka mahdollistaa hätäpalvelut myös perinteisen matkapuhelinverkon tai Wifi-verkkojen ulkopuolella.Koska viestin perillepääsy voi kestää minuutteja, joten puhelin kyselee käyttäjältä muutaman tärkeimmän asian alkuun ja näyttää lisäksi tarkasti, mihin puhelin on suunnattava yhteyden saamiseksi satelliittiin. Lähetetty viesti välitetään sitten vastaanottokeskuksiin, jotka voivat pyytää apua käyttäjän puolesta. Uusi Emergency SOS tulee satelliitin kautta tarjolle marraskuussa Yhdysvalloissa ja Kanadassa. Palvelu on kahden vuoden ajan palvelu on ilmainen.
Saman tekniikan avulla käyttäjät voivat myös jakaa sijaintinsa Find My -palvelun kanssa, kun matkapuhelin- tai Wifi-yhteyttä ei ole. tarjolla. Uusissa iPhone 14 Pro ja 14 Pro Max -malleissa on satelliittitoimintojen lisäksi uutuutena himmeänä koko ajan päällä oleva näyttö, 48 megapikselin kamera, kaksiytimiset 256 Gs:n kiihtyvyysanturit esimerkiksi auton törmäysten havaitsemiseen sekä uudenlainen tapa vastaanottaa ilmoituksia ja toimintoja.
Suorittimena uusissa iPhone-malleissa on Applen A16 Bionic,
https://www.apple.com/apple-events/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Intelligent Parts Sourcing Leads to Exponential Savings
Sept. 7, 2022
Inadequate parts data and lack of access to sourcing parts can create structural problems for product development organizations. Intelligent sourcing offers a solution to unify data systems and enable faster design execution.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/industrial-automation/article/21250193/dassault-systmes-intelligent-parts-sourcing-leads-to-exponential-savings?utm_source=EG+ED+Analog+%26+Power+Source&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS220907092&o_eid=7211D2691390C9R&rdx.identpull=omeda|7211D2691390C9R&oly_enc_id=7211D2691390C9R
Tomi Engdahl says:
Asus packs 12-core Intel i7 into a Raspberry Pi-sized board
Or if you’re looking for something lower power, it can be had with a pentacore Celeron
Asus packs 12-core Intel i7 into a Raspberry Pi-sized board
Or if you’re looking for something lower power, it can be had with a pentacore Celeron
https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/08/asus_i7_sbc/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
Tomi Engdahl says:
Apple julkisti iPhone 14:t – juottaa suomalaisille katkeraa kalkkia https://www.is.fi/digitoday/mobiili/art-2000009055919.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/08/huawei-apple-sattellite-sos/?tpcc=tcplusfacebook
Tomi Engdahl says:
Melkoinen yllätys: TSMC on nyt suurin siruvalmistaja
https://etn.fi/index.php/13-news/13977-melkoinen-yllaetys-tsmc-on-nyt-suurin-siruvalmistaja
IC Insight on alentanut kuluvan vuoden puolijohdemarkkinoiden kasvuennusteensa 7 prosenttiin. Tämä johtuu pääasiassa muistimarkkinoiden romahtamisesta vuoden toisella puoliskolla. Kehityksellä on toinen yllättävä seuraus: taiwanilainen mikropiirien sopimusvalmistaja TSMC nousee ensimmäistä kertaa maailman suurimmaksi puolijohdeyritykseksi liikevaihdolla mitattuna.
Muistimarkkinoiden ollessa tällä hetkellä rajussa laskussa IC Insights odottaa TSMC:n ohittavan Samsungin ja ottavan ykköspaikan puolijohdeyritysten myyntiluokituksessa vuoden 2022 kolmannella neljänneksellä. TSMC:n myynti kasvaa 11 prosenttia 20,2 miljardiin dollariin.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.shiphub.co/worlds-top-semiconductors-producers/
Tomi Engdahl says:
AMD smartNICs to meld ASICs, FPGAs, Arm cores
Why choose one when you can use them all?
https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/27/amd_smartnics/
Tomi Engdahl says:
China’s top chipmaker SMIC just achieved an Intel-like breakthrough
The company achieved the leap from 14-nm to 7-nm without the most advanced equipment due to U.S. curbs.
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/chinas-top-chipmaker-smic-7-nm-breakthrough
Tomi Engdahl says:
Microsoft launches Arm-based Azure VMs powered by Ampere chips
https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/29/microsoft-launches-arm-based-azure-vms-powered-by-ampere-chips/
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/us-gpu-export-restrictions-hit-amd-chinas-tech-giants
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/01/slack-gains-new-automation-features-including-conditional-logic-for-workflows/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Floppy disks in Japan: Minister declares war on old-fashioned technology
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62749310