2017-04-04 - Rick Merritt

FinFETs compete with FD-SOI

Intel has its own internal products already being designed for 22FL as well as hopes to attract foundry customers.

2017-04-03 - Harald Maier, TQ Group

System development must focus on security

In the future, everything will be networked to everything else, creating vulnerabilities for spying and tampering. System designers must view…

2017-03-31 - Vivek Nanda

IDC: AI will be game changer in China’s smart homes

IDC has listed 5 key trends in China's smart home segment this year and called for open systems to boost…

2017-03-30 - EE Times Asia

IoT platform simplifies embedded design prototyping

System developers can leverage the Renesas IoT Sandbox to develop end-to-end prototypes for IoT applications.

2017-03-29 - EE Times Asia

Toyota, NTT to work on data centres for connected cars

The partnership will focus heavily on building a global infrastructure that will support the data streams generated by the connected…

2017-03-28 - EE Times Asia

Secure module for SoCs adds crypto acceleration

The DesignWare tRoot H5 HSM provides SoCs with a unique identity that cannot be tampered with, according to Synopsys.

2017-03-23 - Vivek Nanda

IoT platform ropes Chinese voice-recognition service

STMicroelectronics has worked with a China-based voice-recognition cloud services to design a voice-enabled IoT development platform for the Chinese language.

2017-03-22 - Paula Doe

IIoT standard seeks to link wafer fabs with EMS

Some vendors are calling for the Electronics Manufacturing Service sector to adopt some version of automation standards already in use…

2017-03-21 - Rick Merritt

TSMC advances push into 3nm, machine learning

The six-track 12nm FinFET process is an upgrade for midrange mobile and video processors and high-end IoT devices using 16FFC,…

2017-03-21 - Rick Merritt

TSMC’s first-gen 7nm starts its ramp

The foundry is developing unique flavours of its processes tailored to needs of automotive, smartphone, high-performance computing and IoT markets.

2017-03-21 - Rick Merritt

EUV rolls into TSMC’s 7+nm node in 2018

TSMC has used an unnamed “novel resist” chemical to replace five immersion masks with one EUV mask at pitches ranging…

2017-03-21 - Rick Merritt

TSMC unveils plans for 7+, 12, 22nm nodes

TSMC has clearly focused on easing migrations for designers, sometimes at the expense of advances measured in single digits.