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Fire-hit chipmaker Renesas plans full capacity by May

Apr 19, 2021 (AFP)

By the end of this week, the company hopes to bring production at the blaze-hit factory near Tokyo to 30 percent of previous capacity, before fully restoring it...

Renesas resumes production at fire-hit chip plant: reports

Apr 17, 2021 (AFP)

The fire on March 19 at its plant near Tokyo came with car makers already battling semiconductor supply problems, in part because of increased demand for chips ...

AFRL approves Cooperative Research And Development agreement for silicon photonics

Apr 06, 2021 (SPX)

Silicon is perhaps most familiar for its role in semiconductor diodes - important components in the circuitry of nearly everything electronic that depends on mi...

Qubits comprised of holes could be the trick to build faster, larger quantum computers

Apr 02, 2021 (SPX)

Quantum computers are predicted to be much more powerful and functional than today's 'classical' computers. One way to make a quantum bit is to use the 'spin' o...

Quantifying utility of quantum computers

Apr 02, 2021 (SPX)

A key missing element in the race toward fault-tolerant quantum systems, however, is meaningful metrics to quantify how useful or transformative large quantum c...

Study shows promise of quantum computing using factory-made silicon chips

Apr 01, 2021 (SPX)

For the study, researchers were able to isolate and measure the quantum state of a single electron (the qubit) in a silicon transistor manufactured using a 'CMO...

Taiwan's TSMC plans $100 billion investment to meet demand

Apr 01, 2021 (AFP)

The announcement came after US chip titan Intel unveiled plans last week to spend $20 billion building two new plants in Arizona as part of a plan to boost prod...

Fire-hit chipmaker Renesas says recovery could take four months

Mar 30, 2021 (AFP)

The fire on March 19 came with car makers already battling semiconductor supply problems, in part because of increased demand for chips from manufacturers of la...

Controlling bubble formation on electrodes

Mar 29, 2021 (SPX)

Now, a study at MIT has for the first time analyzed and quantified how bubbles form on these porous electrodes. The researchers have found that there are three ...

Renesas fire threatens to deepen global chip supply woes

Mar 24, 2021 (AFP)

The blaze at one of Renesas's plants last week comes at the worst possible time for the auto sector, which is already battling supply problems in part because o...

Florida company licenses NASA tech that keeps electronics cool

Mar 23, 2021 (SPX)

"Thermal control is a significant limiting factor in electronic power consumption today, and this technology seeks to overcome some of those limitations," said ...

Expanding domestic manufacturing of secure, custom chips for defense needs

Mar 19, 2021 (SPX)

Working in partnership with Intel and academic researchers from University of Florida, University of Maryland, and Texas A and M, SAHARA will leverage leading-e...

EU wants to double microchip share by 2030

Mar 09, 2021 (AFP)

Under a new roadmap, the European Commission also wants the EU to develop its first quantum computer before the end of the decade in order to be ready for a new...

How the world ran out of semiconductors

Mar 06, 2021 (The Conversation)

The president also pledged US$37 billion ( Pounds 26 billion) to cover the short-term costs of rebuilding and securing America's supply of semiconductors, which...

New microcomb could help discover exoplanets and detect diseases

Mar 05, 2021 (SPX)

A microcomb is a photonic device capable of generating a myriad of optical frequencies - colours - on a tiny cavity known as microresonator. These colours are u...

A quantum internet is closer to reality, thanks to this switch

Mar 03, 2021 (SPX)

Purdue University engineers have addressed an issue barring the development of quantum networks that are big enough to reliably support more than a handful of u...

Intel hit with $2.2 bn verdict in US patent trial

Mar 02, 2021 (AFP)

Intel said it would appeal the decision. "Intel strongly disagrees with today's jury verdict," spokesman William Moss said in reply to an AFP inquiry. "We inten...

Drought hits Taiwan drive to plug global chip shortage

Feb 25, 2021 (AFP)

Taiwanese high-tech chip foundries are some of the world's biggest and most advanced, and European car manufacturers have been reaching out to Taipei for help. ...

Data transfer system connects silicon chips with a hair's-width cable

Feb 24, 2021 (SPX)

The research was presented at this month's IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference. The lead author is Jack Holloway '03, MNG '04, who completed his ...

Winter weather closes Texas chip plants, worsening shortages

Feb 19, 2021 (AFP)

NXP Semiconductors, a major provider of automotive and mobile phone chips, said its plant in Austin, Texas was closed amid the state's electric power difficulti...