IBM and its research alliance partners GlobalFoundries and Samsung use nanosheets with quadruple-all-around-gates to achieve five nanometer node and one-third to one-half the power of finFETs.

The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) is building the world's first graph-analytics processor in its Hierarchical Identify Verify Exploit (HIVE) program that is 1000-times faster than t

With the a new temperature measurement unit call the SI set to replace the Kelvin, a NIST apparatus provides a QVNS reference measurement of the Boltzmann constant to gauge SI temperature.

The path to production doesn't have to be a long, time-consuming journey. Lead time ordering, out-of-stock components and order size are all avoidable issues when you employ this one best practice. Le

The path to production doesn't have to be a long, time-consuming journey. Lead time ordering, out-of-stock components and order size are all avoidable issues when you employ this one best practice. Le

The path to production doesn't have to be a long, time-consuming journey. Lead time ordering, out-of-stock components and order size are all avoidable issues when you employ this one best practice. Le

As everyone turns to their favorite summer activities, the interest wearable electronic innovations is on the rise. We're looking at some of the most popular wearable wins on Kickstarter.

Everybody likes robots, and soon they'll be doing all sorts of things with them, if these wildly successful Kickstarter projects are any indication.

Intel Corp. is showing a new mobile SoC chip developed by China's Spreadtrum. Manufactured by Intel, using its 14nm process, this may pave the way for Intel to manufacture its own new modem later this

While CMOS imagers and infrared are well established as sensors in smartphones, today's $64 million question is whether they will make room for radar and ultrasound inside IoT devices. And if yes, wha

Softbank is about to sell 25 percent of ARM into a new, Saudi-backed $100 billion investment fund. The Japanese decision appears to be driven by Mubadala -- which owns 100 percent of Globalfoundries -

Google released a paper describing its Tensor Processing Unit and tests showing that it beat an Intel Xeon and Nvidia GPU on machine-learning jobs.

Engineers are paving roads to 100G copper links, including a standard that could open a door for new system-in-package devices.

Nine companies and three universities are exploring how machine learning could tackle difficult problems in electronics design.

Gardner, a 50-year electronics industry executive, died this week at age 74 after a short bout with illness.

Globalfoundries and the municipality of Chengdu are betting on China to rewrite the history of FD-SOI. They plan to pump $100 million to build FD-SOI ecosystem. The question is, if you build it, will

How many antennas does it take to screw autonomy into a car? In the emerging era of highly automated vehicles, as many as 18 antennas

Intel will build experiences using virtual reality, 360-degree video, 5G cellular, and drones for the Olympics starting with the 2018 winter games.

Here's a list of common projects engineers and makers often think of to do: is one of your projects on this list?

Higher average selling prices for components such as DRAM and flash memory chips began driving system costs up, adding to the headwind facing declining PC sales.

A collection of images taken from the halls, stages and exhibit floor of the annual Semicon West semiconductor equipment and materials tradeshow.

With the memory chip market booming and electronic devices shipments forecast to be tepid, the value of the semiconductor content in those devices is expected to hit an all-time high, according to IC

Mesh Networking is finally coming to Bluetooth as a formally ratified, interoperability- tested global standard, allowing Bluetooth proponents to target a whole new machine-to-machine, industrial Inte

Interfacing with existing building management systems is one of many challenges facing the EV charging infrastructures.

Russian and Finish researchers collaborate to obsolete the need for expensive, single-mode fiber optics.

Backlog of extreme ultraviolet tools eclipses $3 billion sales to memory chip vendors bolster top line growth.

Despite the company's assurances to the contrary, Qualcomm's increasingly public licensing dispute with Apple is dogging Qualcomm and costing it dearly.

Kumu Networks discussed its chip aimed at full duplex networking for Wi-Fi and LTE amid standards efforts from CableLabs and the 3GPP.

The embedded market for neural network accelerators is heating up, with more systems - ranging from smart speakers and drones to light bulbs - poised to run neural networks locally instead of going ba

European chip maker says expansion will enable it to produce secure ID chips for the U.S. government.

An independent inventor is licensing a trio of patents to secure the Internet of Things using technology he pioneered at IBM for mag stripe cards.

Analysts said the Internet of Things will crack a billion units a year in 2019, slower than expected, as Andes rolled out four new IoT processor cores.

Bringing popular Ethernet technology to cars seems like a natural progression. But here's why in the auto world, a regular GbE switch won't work, and even 1000BASE-T1 might not cut it for autonomous c

South Korean giant eyes No. 2 spot in foundry market and market share of 25 percent, according to Reuters report.

LAKE WALES,Fla. — Google’s artificial-intelligence guru, Demis Hassabis, has unveiled the company’s grand plan ...

The value of semiconductor industry deals fell markedly in the first half of this year as the absence of

Whether or not it succeeds, China's MIC 2025 plan to catapult into advanced manufacturing will have consequences for European companies and the EU's Industry 4.0 initiative.

Teardown points to Samsung as builder of iPhone 5 CPU

Speculation around the design of the A6 processor at the core of the iPhone 5 has reached a fever pitch in the last few days. All that I have seen so far focuses on particular variants of the CPU and ...

Apple is considered by many to be the leader of the smartphone market. Within five years, the comapny has generated over $150 billion in revenue from the iPhone family of handsets and accessories (acc ...

BOSTON – The father of an open source computer vision library put out a call to ARM developers at DESIGN East here. Gary Bradski, a lead developer for OpenCV, said the library sorely needs optimizatio ...

LONDON – There has been speculation as to whether the Apple A6 processor contains a dual-core Cortex-A15 licensed from ARM or a custom dual-core developed by Apple under an ARM architectural license ( ...

LONDON – A presentation at the upcoming ARM TechCon exhibition and conference taking place October 30 to November 1 in Santa Clara, California, is set to discuss so-called "big-little" proce ...

Analyst says iPhone 5 processor uses custom CPU core

BEIJING – It’s hard to argue against the widely held notion that the weaknesses of China’s fabless companies lies in their inability to go beyond the Chinese market. Put more bluntly, Chinese companie ...

WASHINGTON – Space Exploration Technologies Inc. is tentatively scheduled to again deliver cargo to the International Space Station in October, NASA confirmed on Thursday (Sept. 20).[Get a 10% discoun ...

Globalfoundries to offer 14-nm process with FinFETs in 2014

LONDON – Semiconductor and passives company Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan) has developed a hydrogen fuel cell that can be used to recharge mobile phones and other portable electronic equipment.Fuel cell ...

NEW YORK – Google, IBM and Microsoft topped a list of “the most attractive employers in 2012,” according to a global survey of engineering students conducted by Universum, a Stockholm-based company.No ...