Auto industry braces for more chip shortages after fire
A fire at a plant owned by Japanese chipmaker Renesas could deepen the ongoing global semiconductor shortage that has especially hampered automobile production.
Mar 22, 2021
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Hardware
Samsung announces high bandwidth memory, processing-in-memory architecture
Samsung Electronics has announced on its Newsroom webpage the development of a new kind of memory chip architecture called high-bandwidth memory, processing-in-memory—HBM-PIM. The architecture adds artificial intelligence ...
Business
'Perfect storm': phones, consoles could get pricier as chip crisis bites
Prices of popular gadgets such as PlayStations and iPhones could rise because of microchip shortages caused by a "perfect storm" of coronavirus-driven demand, supply chain disruptions and trade war stockpiling, experts warn.
Feb 18, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Machine learning at the speed of light: New paper demonstrates use of photonic structures for AI
As we enter the next chapter of the digital age, data traffic continues to grow exponentially. To further enhance artificial intelligence and machine learning, computers will need the ability to process vast amounts of data ...
Jan 6, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
New electronic chip delivers smarter, light-powered AI
Researchers have developed artificial intelligence technology that brings together imaging, processing, machine learning and memory in one electronic chip, powered by light.
Nov 18, 2020
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Tiny micro supercapacitor for wearable devices
A tiny microsupercapacitor (MSC) that is as small as the width of a person's fingerprint and can be integrated directly with an electronic chip has been developed. This has attracted major attention as a novel technology ...
Nov 3, 2020
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Engineering
Transistor-integrated cooling for a more powerful chip
Managing the heat generated in electronics is a huge problem, especially with the constant push to reduce the size and pack as many transistors as possible in the same chip. The whole problem is how to manage such high heat ...
Sep 9, 2020
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Hardware
Samsung begins mass production of 16Gb LPDDR5 memory chips on world's largest semiconductor line
Samsung Electronics has announced on its blog page that the company has begun mass production of its 16Gb LPDDR5 mobile memory chips on a new production line. In its announcement, the company claims that the production process ...
Business
Samsung Electronics defies pandemic with profit rise
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics defied the coronavirus to report higher net profits in the second quarter Thursday, with strong demand for memory chips overcoming the pandemic's impact on smartphone sales.
Jul 30, 2020
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Computer Sciences
EPFL lab develops method for designing lower-power circuits
An Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) lab has come up with a new type of logic diagram and related optimization methods, that can be used to design computer chips with a nearly 20% gain in energy efficiency, ...
Jun 26, 2020
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