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
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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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Intel looks beyond CMOS to MESO
https://venturebeat.com/2022/01/14/intel-looks-beyond-cmos-to-meso/
At the 2021 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), Intel demonstrated for the first time a functional MESO (Magneto-Electric Spin-Orbit) transistor. MESO is what’s called a “beyond-CMOS” device. That is, it represents a fundamental new way of building a transistor (and hence computers) and uses room-temperature quantum materials. MESO could be 10 to 30 times more efficient than existing transistors and could help spur AI efforts across a variety of industries.
Although still in the research phase, MESO would represent the biggest advance in computing since the introduction of the transistor, if it reaches commercialization, and would likely lead to revisions in electrical engineering courses and textbooks. Intel’s prior theoretical research had shown that MESO could offer significant advances over conventional transistors in the energy consumption and chip area. MESO could allow circuits to run at just 100mV, and would be especially promising for application in AI chips.
In 2021, Intel laid out its process roadmap through 2025, which it will also use to build its new Intel Foundry Service business. Most noteworthy from that roadmap is that, in 2024, Intel will make another big (but more evolutionary) change to the transistor with the introduction of RibbonFET and PowerVia.
Although MESO remains a future technology, it’s significant because it’s the first transistor (out of dozens of alternatives that have been researched) that may be capable of replacing – or at least augmenting – conventional semiconductors.
Through the years, especially as the transistor started to enter nanoscale dimensions, it has already seen many enhancements to improve speed, or to reduce power consumption or leakage. One of the biggest of these improvements was to change the transistor from a planar device to a 3D FinFET (where the fin extends out of the initial silicon wafer). In the next several years, this structure will be further improved by the gate-all-around transistor, which goes by various names such as the RibbonFET (Intel) or MCBFET (Samsung).
However, despite these changes, the architecture of a MOSFET has fundamentally remained the same: the current through the channel of the transistor is controlled by applying a voltage to the gate. The gate itself is insulated from the conducting channel, so current only flows from input to output. The input and output contacts are known as the source and drain.
Over time, various alternative structures have been proposed. These seek to accomplish the same on-off switch characteristics as a MOSFET, but based on other physical properties and mechanisms.
From that view, the MOSFET can be classified as a charge-based, electronic device: its working is based on electronic (electrostatic) properties. Also in the charge-based category, another device that has been researched is the tunnel FET, which uses the quantum mechanical property of tunneling. Other device types include orbitronics, magneto-electronics, and spintronics.
Because the switching characteristics of a conventional CMOS device are determined (and limited) by fundamental physics, the only way to possibly circumvent this barrier is to look for devices that operate based on different physical mechanisms. This is where the appeal for beyond-CMOS devices comes from.
Although a large amount of alternatives to the conventional transistor have been proposed, decades of R&D in silicon have made silicon a tough material to beat.
So given the versatility of CMOS and regular semiconductors from low power to high performance, and from analog to RF to high voltage to digital, it is unlikely that current CMOS technology will ever be fully replaced. Rather, a new technology would perhaps be integrated in combination with CMOS so that it could be used only for the circuits in a system where it delivers a real benefit.
How MESO goes beyond CMOS
More recently, a new kind of device (MESO) has emerged, invented by Intel and proposed in a 2018 paper. Intel claimed it has the potential to deliver substantial benefits compared to CMOS. Since it would operate at just 100mV, it could result in 10 to 30 times higher efficiency. Intel further claimed it could improve logic density by 5x. The MESO device is also non-volatile (which means its state is conserved when power is turned off) and has spintronic properties, which means new kinds of circuits could be implemented, suitable for AI.
“MESO is like a transistor – input voltage controls the current at the output (so it is electrical voltage in and current out like MOSFETs, but it switches at [approximately] 10x lower voltage than a MOSFET,” according to Intel. “Thus, wires only have top swing 10X lower voltage – this saves power.”
However, while similar to a transistor, the architecture and physics of the MESO transistor completely differs from conventional semiconductors, as it makes heavy use of quantum effects and materials. Referring to the beyond-CMOS classification above, MESO makes use of no less than three classes of information carriers: electronics, magneto-electronics, and spintronics.
However, perhaps the most elegant aspect about MESO is that all complexity is restricted to the device itself: Information comes into the device through a conventional charge-based interconnect, and at the end leaves the device again as an electrical current. In the device itself, the charge is first converted to magnetism using the magneto-electric effect, and then converted back to charge using the spin-orbit effect.
Intel’s benchmark results (based on simulation) from 2018 for a 32-bit ALU. MESO achieved higher throughput density (TOPS per cm2) at a much lower power density than both CMOS HP and LV.
Besides the lower operating voltage, Intel indicated that the different transistor architecture also allows for improvements in the interconnect, with resistance and capacitance requirements that are up to 100x “less stringent than conventional interconnects,” which in turn would reduce interconnect power by 10x. This might also contribute to MESO’s efficiency, since interconnects in modern chips could consume over 50% of the total power.
Applications in AI
In an interview with VentureBeat in 2019, Intel identified AI, in particular, as a promising application for the MESO device, rather than CPUs. This is based on a few reasons.
First, given the low operating voltage of the MESO device, it may not match the high frequencies of CMOS circuits. Rather, MESO might be most suitable for applications such as AI and graphics that rely on highly parallel operations that individually run at a lower speed than a CPU.
Secondly, AI can make use of the different switching properties of MESO. Deep learning, in particular, is suited to the majority gates that can be made with MESO. So by designing circuits to take advantage of majority gates, neural networks could be implemented with much less transistors: “Majority gates is the next door neighbor to the neuron. Deep neural networks is about neurons and weights. We’ve found that this MESO technology and things that can do majority gates is very attractive in AI,” Intel said. “With the MESO magnet, multiple inputs can be brought in through a ‘majority gate,’ or thresholding gate. This is analogous to how neural networks use weights to represent the influence of nodes.”
Timeline for MESO
As for the commercialization of MESO, the 2025 timeline might be ambitious given how many challenges are involved with bringing a fundamentally new technology into production. For example, even improvements to standard transistors have often taken over a decade to go into production.
Based on the discussion above, there are two options. Either MESO could represent an alternative manufacturing technology that would be used alongside conventional CMOS circuits, or it could be targeted to succeed CMOS altogether, just like how the FinFET completely replaced the conventional planar transistor at the leading edge. Notably, a key reason for MESO to usurp CMOS is its substantial uptick in power efficiency, according to Intel. Because MESO requires MOSFETs for clocking and power gating of its driving current, it doesn’t need a DC current to operate. Therefore, with a lower power voltage, MESO will have a lower power dissipation when compared to CMOS, Intel claims.
In the former case, Intel could for example make chiplets using MESO transistors that would be attached to regular CMOS chiplets. This would be similar to how Intel also has distinct fabs for silicon photonics (which uses older process technology) or its 3D XPoint memory.
In the latter case, Intel already laid out its multi-year roadmap earlier this year, making it unlikely MESO will be commercialized this decade. According to this roadmap, Intel would introduce the 18A node in 2025, which would be the first to use the next-gen (over $300 million) high-NA EUV lithography tool from ASML. It would be the successor of 20A, where Intel plans to introduce the RibbonFET and PowerVia.
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Microsoft ostaa pelifirma Activision Blizzardin $68,7 miljardilla. Tämä on suurin pelialan kauppa historiassa ja Microsoftin suurin yritysostos. Microsoft noussee 3. suurimmaksi pelifirmaksi Tencentin ja Sonyn jälkeen.
“Tech giant Microsoft will buy the video game publisher Activision Blizzard in a $68.7 billion deal that would reshape the gaming landscape.
The deal, if completed, would bring together Microsoft, which owns the Xbox game platform and Xbox Game Studios (owner of Bethesda Softworks and 343 Industries, among other game publishers) and Activision, maker of the Call of Duty, Warcraft and Tony Hawk franchises, among others.
Microsoft will become the world’s third-largest gaming company by revenue, behind Tencent and Sony, when and if the deal closes. The deal is the largest in Microsoft’s history, with the companies targeting a close in 2023.”
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China reports robust semiconductor industry growth despite US sanctions
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20220112VL204.html
Although some of its key semiconductor industry players were put on the Entity List by the US government since 2019, China managed to register double-digit growth in the revenues of all of its semiconductor sub-sectors in 2020, pushing up global market…
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As Intel pushes ahead with its IDM 2.0 strategy, a look at the motivations behind its TSMC partnership that is giving its competitor better scale and economics
The Intel Split
https://stratechery.com/2022/the-intel-split/
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Dell Technologies wants to be known as the ‘cloud ecosystem champion’
A number of updates and new capabilities have been added to beef up the tech giant’s multi-cloud portfolio
https://www.zdnet.com/article/dell-technologies-wants-to-be-known-as-the-cloud-ecosystem-champion/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0h&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook
Dell Technologies has announced a slew of updates to its multi-cloud portfolio as the company builds itself up to earning the title of being “the cloud ecosystem champion”.
“Think of us as the cloud ecosystem champion,” Dell Technologies Asia Pacific and Japan global digital cities president Amit Midha told press during a briefing. “Think of us as delivering a better multi-cloud experience that truly works on behalf of the customer [and] that truly unleashes the value of data.”
Midha boasted the company’s existing relationships with cloud vendors such as Amazon Web Services, SAP, Red Hat, Equinix, VMware, and Google have been a “pretty good starting point and pretty comprehensive set of relationships” to help it achieve its so-called cloud ecosystem champion title.
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GaN eval kit features Class-D audio amp, SMPS
https://www.edn.com/gan-eval-kit-features-class-d-audio-amp-smps/
GaN Systems’ bundles a GaN-based audio amplifier and power supply to promote the development of GaN in Class D audio products. The GeN2 reference design enables engineers to realize the benefits of GaN technology to create premium audio systems that not only achieve better sound quality, but also are smaller and lighter.
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Why Microsoft’s $2T+ market cap makes its $68B Activision buy a cheap bet
‘A flywheel of content and technology that gets more users on board’
https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/19/why-microsofts-2t-market-cap-makes-its-78b-activision-buy-a-cheap-bet/?tpcc=tcplusfacebook
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Now You Can Rent a Robot Worker—for Less Than Paying a Human
Automation is reaching more companies, imperiling some jobs and changing the nature of others
https://www.wired.com/story/rent-robot-worker-less-paying-human/?mbid=social_facebook&mbid=social_twitter&utm_brand=wired&utm_brand=wired&utm_medium=social&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=facebook&utm_source=twitter
POLAR MANUFACTURING has been making metal hinges, locks, and brackets in south Chicago for more than 100 years. Some of the company’s metal presses—hulking great machines that loom over a worker—date from the 1950s. Last year, to meet rising demand amid a shortage of workers, Polar hired its first robot employee.
The robot arm performs a simple, repetitive job: lifting a piece of metal into a press, which then bends the metal into a new shape. And like a person, the robot worker gets paid for the hours it works.
Jose Figueroa, who manages Polar’s production line, says the robot, which is leased from a company called Formic, costs the equivalent of $8 per hour, compared with a minimum wage of $15 per hour for a human employee. Deploying the robot allowed a human worker to do different work, increasing output, Figueroa says.
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ASML still has no licence to ship newest machines to China – CEO
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The chief executive of ASML Holding NV (ASML.AS) on Wednesday said the company still has not received permission to ship any of its most cutting edge lithography systems, which are necessary to make advanced computer chips, to China.
Under pressure from the U.S. government, the Dutch government has withheld granting a licence for ASML to export the machines, which are considered “dual use” goods with possible military applications.
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IC Sales Growing by Double-Digits in 2022
IC Insights has updated and released its comprehensive forecast and analysis of the worldwide semiconductor industry in its January Semiconductor Industry Flash Report, which is included as part of the 2022, 25th edition of The McClean Report service. The report …
https://www.icinsights.com/news/bulletins/IC-Sales-Seen-Growing-By-DoubleDigits-For-Third-Year-In-A-Row/
First three-year period of double-digit gains in 25 years, based on IC Insights’ forecast.
IC Insights has updated and released its comprehensive forecast and analysis of the worldwide semiconductor industry in its January Semiconductor Industry Flash Report, which is included as part of the 2022, 25th edition of The McClean Report service.
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Wi-Fi Sensing: The Next Big Wireless Movement
Jan. 18, 2022
Wi-Fi can do more than just communication—it has the power to improve our lives through meaningful applications. Origin Wireless CEO Dr. Ray Liu talks with Editor Bill Wong about Wi-Fi Sensing technology and its vast potential.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/industrial-automation/article/21214331/electronic-design-wifi-sensing-the-next-big-wireless-movement?utm_source=EG%20ED%20Analog%20%26%20Power%20Source&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CPS220111029&o_eid=7211D2691390C9R&rdx.ident%5Bpull%5D=omeda%7C7211D2691390C9R&oly_enc_id=7211D2691390C9R
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UWB Spreads Its Wings for Secure Keyless Access
Dec. 2, 2021
UWB is real and seriously important again, especially in high-security keyless entry from your cell phone. Find out why.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/markets/automotive/article/21182754/ceva-uwb-spreads-its-wings-for-secure-keyless-access
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Intel places ASML order to step up TSMC competition
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2022/01/20/2003771688
Intel Corp yesterday said it has placed its first order with ASML Holding NV to purchase the semiconductor industry’s first TWINSCAN EXE: 5200 system, as the US chip giant aims to compete with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) in advancing to 2-nanometer process technology.
The Dutch semiconductor equipment maker’s TWINSCAN EXE:5200 system is an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) high-volume production system with a high numerical aperture (NA) that can produce 220 wafers per hour, more than the 150 wafers that its previous generation TWINSCAN EXE:5000 system can handle.
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Reasserting U.S. leadership in microelectronics
MIT researchers lay out a strategy for how universities can help the U.S. regain its place as a semiconductor superpower.
https://news.mit.edu/2022/us-leadership-microelectronics-semiconductors-0119
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The best 4K laptops for 2022
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/best-4k-laptops/
A few years ago, a 4K laptop was unheard of. But today, top manufacturers like Dell, HP, and Lenovo offer a 4K display option across their flagship devices. These upgrades carry a hefty premium, though, so knowing what the best 4K laptops are is important.
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Wifi-reititin ensimmäistä kertaa neljällä taajuusalueella
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Kuuden gigahertsin alue on tulossa Euroopassakin wifi-verkkojen käyttöön. Netgear on nyt esitellyt tiettävästi markkinoiden ensimmäisen reitittimen, joka toimii kaikilla neljällä mahdollisella taajuusalueella. Tuki kuuden gigahertsin signaaleille parantaa yhteyttä laitteisiin vähentäen häiriöitä ja lyhentäen latenssia.
Orbi Quad-Band WiFi 6E -järjestelmä laajentaa NETGEARin huippumallia Orbi Tri-Band WiFi 6 -järjestelmää (RBK853) lisäämällä neljännen taajuusalueen juuri vapautetulle 6 GHz:n taajuudelle. Uusi taajuusalue tarjoaa Wi-Fille kaivattua lisätaajuusaluetta, jolla saadaan käyttöön usean gigabitin nopeudet uusien älypuhelinten ja kannettavien tietokoneiden kanssa ilman, että 2,4 ja 5 GHz:n taajuudella toimivat muut laitteet häiritsevät yhteyttä.
Markkinoilla ei toki ole vielä kovin paljon WiFi 6E -laitteita. Tällaisia ovat esimerkiksi Samsung Galaxy S21- ja Fold 3 -matkapuhelimet, Dell Latitude 5520- ja Lenovo Thinkpad T14 -kannettavat, Samsung Neo QLED 8K TV ja Intel WiFi 6E -PCIe-kortit.
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Intel to Invest at Least $20 Billion in New Chip Factories in Ohio
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/21/technology/intel-to-invest-at-least-20-billion-in-new-chip-factories-in-ohio.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes
Building up U.S. chip production has been a focus of lawmakers and companies alike amid a global shortage of the crucial components.
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Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E are prominent in Wi-Fi’s design roadmap in 2022, followed by the automated frequency coordination (AFC) framework.
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Four important Wi-Fi design trends worth watching in 2022
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According to Wi-Fi Alliance, the number of Wi-Fi devices in use will reach nearly 18 billion in 2022. The network of companies that manages the Wi-Fi design ecosystem also forecasts 4.4 billion devices to be shipped this year.
For the year 2022, Wi-Fi Alliance has listed four major trends outlined below.
Wi-Fi an IoT building block
Wi-Fi, now widely acknowledged as a foundation technology for the Internet of Things (IoT) applications, is reinforcing its position with Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E, which employ orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) to improve performance in dense environments. Then, there is target wake time (TWT) technology, which reduces battery consumption and makes Wi-Fi a suitable choice for sensor-based devices.
Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E in homes and enterprises
Wi-Fi 6 reached 50% market adoption more quickly than previous Wi-Fi generations, according to Wi-Fi Alliance. Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E are now being introduced for PCs, notebooks and mesh systems while home networking, automotive and augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) applications are next in line.
Automated frequency coordination (AFC)
The AFC systems maximize spectrum access in the 6 GHz frequency band, and they have already been adopted in Canada and the United States. Wi-Fi Alliance has released specifications and test plans for AFC system implementation, and more than a dozen AFC service providers have expressed interest.
Wi-Fi network optimization
The growing use of video conferencing, voice-over-IP services, X Reality (XR) applications, and high definition (HD) streaming in home and enterprise environments has placed new strains on Wi-Fi networks. That inevitably calls for a new level of network optimization.
Here, Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Optimized Connectivity improves mobility when roaming within and across Wi-Fi networks and between Wi-Fi and cellular networks.
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It seems that PC hardware prices are set to rise again this year.
#TSMC #chipshortge
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TSMC is increasing foundry prices this year. How will that play out for clients, end-users?
https://techwireasia.com/2022/01/tsmc-is-increasing-foundry-prices-this-year-how-will-that-play-out-for-clients-end-users/
Reports indicated TSMC has already raised its quotes between 10% to 20% for both its 7nm and 5nm processes, and that will impact GPUs, CPUs, and ASICs.
The hike would impact its biggest clients like AMD, Intel, and Nvidia and it will also lead to an increase to their product prices in the near future.
Since the pandemic, the increased demand amid a shortage within the semiconductor industry has led to a spike in the prices of chips and processors. Unfortunately, this year wouldn’t be any different as reports have indicated that the global chip titan Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co or better known as TSMC, is raising its prices.
The report by Digitimes stated that TSMC has already raised its quotes between 10% to 20% for both its 7nm and 5nm processes, and is bound to impact GPUs, CPUs, and ASICs. Since big players like AMD, Nvidia, and even Intel relies on the Taiwanese company for its current and advanced node technology, they have no choice but to pay the piper.
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Biden Urges Congress to Pass Chips Bill as Global Shortage Persists
https://uk.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/biden-urges-congress-to-pass-chips-bill-asglobal-shortage-persists-2567854
President Joe Biden praised Intel Corp (NASDAQ:INTC). for plans to build a new semiconductor plant in Ohio and urged Congress to pass stalled legislation that would provide $52 billion for chip research and manufacturing in the U.S. amid a global shortage.
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3 Digital Transformation Imperatives For 2022
https://www.forbes.com/sites/delltechnologies/2022/01/11/3-digital-transformation-imperatives-for-2022/
To be ready for what’s next, IT must bring the work to the talent, ensure the security of the business, and foster strong collaboration
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/delltechnologies/2022/01/11/3-digital-transformation-imperatives-for-2022/
To be ready for what’s next, IT must bring the work to the talent, ensure the security of the business, and foster strong collaboration
Ensure the security of your business through process rigor and eliminating technical debt
Findings from our Global Data Protection Index show us how much businesses depend on the strength of their IT organizations—64% are concerned about coping with malware and ransomware and 67% struggle to protect cloud-native apps
Foster strong collaboration between business and IT leaders
Ultimately, it’s how business and IT leaders collaborate to modernize, automate, and transform processes that will achieve these objectives and lay the foundations for the future of any company. For us, it’s meant investing in our shared processes, prioritizing our backlog, solutioning the user stories, and developing joint test cases. But this work requires a commitment to improving speed and quality from all areas of the business. Let’s face it, transformation is not without its aches and pains. Yet when everyone is equally invested in transformation, the benefits are manifold: the business can move faster, run better, and is more secure.
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Google Is No Longer The World’s Most Popular Website
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https://www.iflscience.com/technology/google-is-no-longer-the-worlds-most-popular-website/
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Gartner® Report Predicts 2022: The Distributed Enterprise Drives Computing to the Edge
“The rapid increase in data production at the edge will shift the balance to reducing bandwidth costs by bringing more compute power closer to the point of data production.”
https://www.arduino.cc/pro/why-pro#hype-cycle
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THE MUST READ ARTICLES ON MOBILITY IN 2021
https://www.intertraffic.com/news/must-read-articles-mobility-technology-2021/
The year 2021 has been a challenging and fruitful year with loads of developments in the mobility industry. Intertraffic interviewed several mobility experts in traffic management, parking, road safety, smart mobility and infrastructure and has selected the must read articles of 2021 for you.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Agile talent: How to revamp your people model to enable value through agility
https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/agile-talent-how-to-revamp-your-people-model-to-enable-value-through-agility
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China is still ‘three or four generations’ away from developing latest semiconductor tech, IDC says
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/20/idc-on-chinas-semiconductor-tech-ambitions.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
AMD, Intel and Nvidia CPU and GPU Pricing Expected to Increase in 2022
By Aaron Klotz published 4 days ago
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/2022-cpu-gpu-price-increase-tsmc
PC demand is believed to decrease, but prices should continue to increase.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Toyota expects annual production target shortfall as chip shortage drags on
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/toyota-expects-annual-production-target-shortfall-chip-shortage-drags-2022-01-18/
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Best RAM for Gaming: DDR4, DDR5 Kits for 2022
By Zhiye Liu published 9 days ago
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-ram,4057.html
Here are the best RAM kits we’ve tested: PC memory that’s ideal for gaming, video editing, and graphics-heavy applications
Tomi Engdahl says:
Brushed motors: Still a contender after all these years
https://www.edn.com/brushed-motors-still-a-contender-after-all-these-years/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Verkkopalveluiden trendit vuonna 2022 – muista nämä, niin sivustosi säilyy edelläkävijänä
https://into-digital.fi/verkkopalveluiden-trendit-vuonna-2022-muista-nama-niin-sivustosi-sailyy-edellakavijana/
Verkkopalveluiden ulkoasussa ja toiminnallisuuksissa on nähtävissä tällä hetkellä useita suuntauksia, joiden suosio suurella todennäköisyydellä jatkuu vielä ensi vuoteen.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Metaverse, The End Of Nuclear Power And Tested Valuations: Forbes Europe Predictions For 2022: https://trib.al/CNrKOy8
Tomi Engdahl says:
Nintendo Switch Emulator
yuzu is an experimental open-source emulator for the Nintendo Switch from the creators of Citra.
It is written in C++ with portability in mind, with builds actively maintained for Windows and Linux.
https://yuzu-emu.org/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Edge computing in 2022: Double-digit growth
Manufacturing and retail are driving sales of edge technology as advanced computing sees greater use.
https://www.networkworld.com/article/3648032/edge-computing-in-2022-double-digit-growth.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://espeo.eu/blog/it-trends-for-2022/
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The chip shortage is back for Year 2
The industry is not out of the chip shortage woods yet. It won’t find relief for months, experts say.
https://www.autonews.com/manufacturing/chip-shortage-back-year-2
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Simple Silicon Coating Solves Long-Standing Optical Challenge for Powerful, Ultrafast Laser Pulses
https://scitechdaily.com/simple-silicon-coating-solves-long-standing-optical-challenge-for-powerful-ultrafast-laser-pulses/
New approach expands the application of powerful, ultrafast laser pulses.
Quick bursts of laser light, lasting less than a trillionth of a second, are used in a range of applications today. These ultrashort laser pulses have allowed scientists to observe chemical reactions in real-time, image delicate biological samples, build precise nanostructures, and send long-distance, high-bitrate optical communications.
But any application of ultrashort laser pulses in the visible spectrum must overcome a fundamental difficulty — red light travels faster than blue light through transparent materials like glass. So, when an ultrashort laser pulse passes through a glass lens, the tightly packed wavelengths of light separate, destroying the usefulness of the beam.
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AMD’s Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 16-Core, 8-Core CPUs Break Cover
By Zhiye Liu published 17 days ago
Zen 4 shows up on the radar
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-7000-zen-4-16-core-8-core-cpus
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GPU Prices Drop Along With Crypto
By Aaron Klotz published about 21 hours ago
There’s still a long way to fall
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gpu-prices-plummet-along-with-crypto?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_content=tomsguide&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social
Bitcoin and Ethereum have hit record lows this week, approaching $30,000 and $2,200 respectively, which is nearly 50% off both crypto coins’ highest values, according to CNBC. The slow but steady drop in crypto prices over the past month has in turn started a chain reaction in GPU pricing, as crypto mining becomes less and less feasible. Compared to last month, we’re now seeing up to 11% lower card prices on eBay — and that’s before the latest crypto losses.
On average, nearly every graphics card dropped in price by 5% or more, with a few GPUs even breaking into the double digits — the RTX 3090, RTX 3080 (10GB) and RX 6600 all dropped by 10% or more. However, GPU volume (at least on eBay) also dropped substantially for nearly all GPU models, with only the RTX 3090 and RTX 3070 Ti selling more cards in the past week than in late December.
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Sec. Raimondo warns US is far from resolving chip shortage
https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/25/sec-raimondo-warns-us-is-far-from-resolving-chip-shortage/?tpcc=tcplusfacebook
The United States Department of Commerce Tuesday released results from a survey of 150 companies, aimed at getting a better picture of just how widespread of a supply crunch is currently plaguing the semiconductor market. The automotive and medical industries have been disproportionately impacted by the shortage.
In a press briefing accompanying the findings, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo described the issue in stark terms, noting, “We aren’t even close to being out of the woods as it relates to the supply problems with semiconductors.” She added that the crunch is likely to last into the second half of the year — if not longer.
The study notes that demand increased 17% from 2019 to 2021 — a number that’s only going to grow. It goes on to describe thin margins that could have catastrophic results in the face of an unexpected event.
The median inventory of chips has fallen from 40 days in 2019 to less than five days. These inventories are even smaller in key industries. That means if a COVID outbreak, a natural disaster or political instability disrupts a foreign semiconductor facility for even just a few weeks, it has the potential to shut down a manufacturing facility in the U.S., putting American workers and their families at risk.
Most fabrication facilities, it notes, are currently running at north of 90% capacity, making it impossible to further increase production without opening more factories. Intel, notably, announced a large investment in two Ohio plants — though the first one isn’t set to come online until 2025. Presumably much of the action being taken now is targeted at avoiding future shortages.
“Despite the progress made since early 2021, the semiconductor shortage persists,” the DoC report adds. “That’s due in part to the complexity of the semiconductor supply chain. Producers don’t always have a clear sense of demand, and chip consumers don’t always know where the chips they need originate. These barriers make it harder to develop solutions.”
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Here’s how bad the chip shortage is, according to the White House
New foundries won’t fix all of this
https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/25/22900987/chip-shortage-report-biden-commerce-secretary-raimondo
Today, the White House is saying out loud what you’ve likely already heard: the chip shortage won’t end anytime soon. “We aren’t even close to being out of the woods,” said US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo in a briefing with reporters today, according to Bloomberg, The Washington Post, and others.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.engadget.com/nvidia-privately-admits-arm-deal-might-not-go-through-123542854.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
Skynet Wiping Out Humanity “Would Look A Lot Like What’s Going On Right Now” Says James Cameron
https://www.iflscience.com/technology/skynet-wiping-out-humanity-would-look-a-lot-like-whats-going-on-right-now-says-james-cameron/
In the 1984 movie Terminator, an artificially intelligent (AI) defense network called Skynet becomes self-aware and promptly starts a global nuclear war in order to wipe out humanity.
The film utilizes humanity’s biggest fears at the time: nuclear annihilation and a robot Arnold Schwarzenegger that’s been sent back in time. Our fears and ideas about artificial intelligence have changed somewhat in the last (oh god) 37 years, however – and the director of Terminator has given an update on how he thinks Skynet could feasibly take over the world, with no need to have access to a nuclear arsenal at all.
“If Skynet wanted to take over and wipe us out, it would actually look a lot like what’s going on right now,” Cameron said in the interview.
“It’s not going to have to wipe out the entire biosphere and environment with nuclear weapons to do it, it’s going to be so much easier and less energy required to just turn our minds against ourselves.”
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Team demonstrates molecular electronics sensors on a semiconductor chip
https://phys.org/news/2022-01-team-molecular-electronics-sensors-semiconductor.html
Tomi Engdahl says:
Intel Stacked Forksheet Transistor Patent Could Keep Moore’s Law Going In The Angstrom Era
https://hothardware.com/news/intel-stacked-forksheet-patent-keep-moores-law-going
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Nvidia Corp. is quietly preparing to abandon its purchase of Arm Ltd. from SoftBank Group Corp. after making little to no progress in winning approval for the $40-billion chip deal, according to people familiar with the matter.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-01-25/nvidia-quietly-prepares-to-abandon-40-billion-arm-bid
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Covid-enforced production stops of raw materials, the soaring demand for work-from-home and home-learning devices, and the continued growth of the space market, have resulted in supply-chain issues such as component shortages, 70-week lead-times, higher prices and postponed launches.
Read the full article: http://arw.li/6182KyB2w
#EDN #SupplyChain #ChipShortage
The impact of electronic component shortages on the global space industry
https://www.edn.com/the-impact-of-electronic-component-shortages-on-the-global-space-industry/?utm_source=edn_facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Articles
In 2021, the global satellite-manufacturing industry was valued at $25 billion, predicted to increase significantly over the next decade from 380 to 1,700 new satellites annually. Satellites and spacecraft need lots of electronic components and semiconductors in particular, have enabled many new applications for space technology.
Covid-enforced production stops of raw materials, the soaring demand for commercial work-from-home devices such as laptops, tablets and routers, and the continued growth of the space market, has resulted in supply-chain issues such as component shortages, extended lead-times, increased prices and in several cases, postponed launches.
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Mediatek demosi ensimmäisenä maailmassa WiFi7-yhteyttä
https://etn.fi/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13065&via=n&datum=2022-01-21_15:13:26&mottagare=30929
Langattomien lähiyhteyksien eli wifi-tekniikan seuraava sukupolvi on IEEE:ssä standardoitu tunnuksella 802.11be. Se lupaa isoa nopeusparannusta nyt vasta markkinoille tuleviin kuudennen polven laitteisiin. Mediatek on nyt ensimmäisenä yrityksenä demonnut WiFi7-linkkiä.
Mediatekin varatoimitusjohtaja Alan Hsu hehkutti uutta demoa sanoen, että ensimmäistä kertaa wifi voi olla todellinen ethernetin langaton korvaaja. – WiFi7-tekniikka tulee olemaan koti-, toimisto- ja teollisuusverkkojen selkäranka ja tarjoaa saumattoman liitettävyyden kaikkeen monen pelaajan AR/VR-sovelluksista pilvipelaamiseen ja 4K-puheluihin 8K-suoratoistoon ja muihin tarkoituksiin, Hsu kommentoi.
WiFi7 tarjoaa täysin uusia ominaisuuksia kaikilla käytettävissä olevilla taajuuksilla, mukaan lukien 2,4, 5 ja eri puolilla pian käyttöön tulevalla 6 gigahertsin alueella. Standardi lupaa edellispoveen verrattuna 2,4 kertaa nopeammat datalinkit jopa samalla antennimäärällä. Tämä perustuu MLO-tekniikan lisäksi leveämpiin kanaviin (max 320 MHz) ja 4K-QAM-modulaatioon.
Ensimmäisten WiFi7-laitteiden odotetaan tulevan markkinoille vuonna 2023.