Electro Ramblings

For those written this week, the most popular stories involve a Radio Frequency Directed Energy Weapon, where Nvidia revenues are coming from, the possibility of a Raspberry Pi IPO, Applied Materials receiving a fifth subpoena, and Arm delivering tapeout-ready sub-systems… Let’s take them in reverse order… 5. Radio Frequency Directed Energy Weapon targets swarms of drones The UK’s Defence Science ...

We're talking further Chinese investment in its semiconductor industry, a magnetic experimental RF filter at the University of Pennsylvania, and a robotic arm prototype for the ESA's lunar lander...

For those written this week, the most popular stories involve the quantum market, integrating RFID tyre tags into tyres, Imec building a pilot line for processes beyond 2nm, and the UK government setting up a Semiconductor Institute...

We're talking RFID tags in tyres, the company H getting one of the biggest-ever seed rounds to pursue AI, Imec analysing white blood cells, and NASA and ESA co-operating for the ExoMars rover...

Thanks to AIPRM for this one - the top ten AI-ready countries, with the countries leading the race to AI including Switzerland and the USA...

So, farewell then, my app - French Revolution Day By Day. You were created as a part of a series of posts to show how to build a smartphone application. And now you're gone.

The most popular stories involve cuprate ‘high-temperature’ superconductors, the US-China trade war, quantum-based inertial navigation in an aircraft, University of Glasgow research into IC packaging, and suggestions that Raspberry Pi could IPO...

We're talking unmanned AiRanger aircraft, the USA-China Trade War, prospective quantum IMU components, and Redwire's Phantom VLEO (Very Low Earth Orbit ) spacecraft...

The most popular stories involve market forecasts for Q1, HBM’s share of total DRAM, revenue falling at Infineon, revenue increasing at ARM, and reports that Graphcore, the Bristol IPU developer, is in talks with Softbank...

Written this week, there's US Chips Act grants, Women Who Code closing because of a lack of funds,  a picture gallery of all the winners at WLIEA, a writeup of the main event itself, and details of SMIC’s N+2 process used for the Huawei Mate 60 Pro smartphone...