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Renesas to resume full production next month

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reports that Renesas said that it had now made a “cautious restart to output” at its factory in Naka, Japan, that had been damaged by a fire in March. Renesas …

Tags:Japan| Production| Renesas| Semiconductors

IEEE Spectrum Explains Nanosheet Transistors

by Bob Raikes

What They Say IEEE Spectrum had an interesting article on the next generation of IC transistors at the next ‘state of the art’ in chip fabrication, which it lists as a 3nm process. The …

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MacBook & iPad Supply Hits a Crunch

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Nikkei reports that some Apple MacBook and iPad production has been postponed because of chip supply issues. Some orders have been moved back from the first half of the year to …

Tags:Apple| Financial Data| Samsung| Semiconductors

Samsung Doesn’t Want to Explain its Drivers

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We reported on a release by Samsung that talked about new miniLED driving chips, the S6LP441 and S6LDMB1. (Samsung Promotes new MiniLED Controller Architecture). The chips are not listed on the …

Tags:Display Drivers| Semiconductors

Links for w/c 26th April 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. Cerebras’ New Monster AI Chip Adds 1.4 …

Tags:Europe| OTT Video| Semiconductors| Streaming Video| warranty

DSCC Interviews Compound Photonics & GF

by Bob Raikes

What They Say We published the release from Compound Photonics about its deal with GlobalFoundries (GF) (Interview: Compound Photonics Partners with GLOBALFOUNDRIES to Manufacture Microdisplay Chip) and we subsequently spotted that DSCC had gone …

Tags:Microdisplays| MicroLED| Semiconductors

Samsung Promotes new MiniLED Controller Architecture

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Samsung published an article on its newsroom that set out information about its S6LP441 and S6LDMB1 miniLED driver chips. Engineer Seongjong Yoo explained that, “…we borrowed from the matrix driver plan …

Tags:LCD Backlights| LED Drivers| MiniLED| Samsung| Semiconductors

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MediaTek unveils new AI-based 4K smart TV chip

by Bob Raikes

What They Say MediaTek has a new 4K smartTV chip, the MT9638 which includes an integrated AI processing unit for applications such as scaling with real time content and scene recognition, picture quality optimisation …

Tags:Mediatek| Semiconductors| Smart TV

Taiwan’s chip industry under threat as drought turns critical

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Reuters reported that severe droughts in Taiwan are causing more problems for the semiconductor supply chain. Water levels are at just 20% of capacity after a typhoon-free summer with little rain. …

Tags:Production| Semiconductors| Taiwan

SmartKem, Inc. Raises $24.6 Million and Completes Reverse Acquisition

by Artem Alekseenko

SmartKem, Inc., a pioneer in the development of materials and processes used to make organic semiconductor materials for the manufacture of flexible electronics, announced the closing of a $24.6 million private placement financing. Prior …

Tags:Flexible Devices| Semiconductors

LEDs Fabricated on Silicon Chips

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Researchers at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) have developed a silicon chip with fully integrated LEDs that are said to be bright enough to enable state-of-the-art sensor and communication technologies. …

Tags:LED| R&D (Research & Development)| Semiconductors