China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) has initiated an investigation into AI-GPU market leader Nvidia Corp.A notice published by SAMR cites two reasons for the investigation.One reason is Nvidia’s “suspected violation of the anti-monopoly law” although the notice published by the...
Published on: December 09, 2024
Satellite maker Swissto12 is opening a command and control centre in the US for its 3D printed small geostationary satellites.Swissto12 makes a geostationary communications small satellite called Hummingbird, developed in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) The centre in Athens, Georgia,...
Published on: December 09, 2024
A US startup has achieved wafer-scale synthesis of high-quality graphene within a 300mm CMOS wafer process.California-based Destination 2D says this is the first two-dimensional (2D) material in mainstream semiconductor products.Under linewidths of 15 nm, the resistivity of copper interconnect increases rapidly, causing...
Published on: December 09, 2024
A former employee at ASML Holding NV (Veldhoven, The Netherlands) has been accused in a Rotterdam court of stealing and selling intellectual property to Russian buyers.The accused was only identified as a 43-year-old Russian called “German A.” in the initial hearing held...
Published on: December 09, 2024
AST SpaceMobile and Vodafone Group have entered into a definitive long-term commercial agreement through 2034 to deliver space-based cellular broadbandThe agreement establishes the framework for Vodafone to offer space-based cellular broadband connectivity in its home markets, as well as to other operators...
Published on: December 09, 2024
A leading IP company for high performance, AI-enabled, RISC-V processors, Semidynamics has announced that it has been selected by UPMEM as its core provider for its next generation of LPDDR5X Processing In Memory (PIM) device.The standard RISC-V architecture with the integrated Tensor...
Published on: December 09, 2024
A team of interdisciplinary scientists from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering under the College of Design and Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed flexible fibres with self-healing, light-emitting and magnetic properties.The fibre finds potential applications as...
Published on: December 09, 2024
TSMC and SMIC took foundry market share from Samsung in a strong 3Q24 but with Intel Foundry Services not ranking in the top ten, according to Trendforce.The market researcher estimates that the total revenue of the world’s top ten wafer foundries increased...
Published on: December 09, 2024
Researchers at QuTech have managed to, for the first time, perform coherent logic operations between spin qubits 250 micrometers apart on the same chip. Such ‘enormous’ distances create new opportunities for operations between qubits, as they normally only sustain over 100 nm....
Published on: December 09, 2024
EPFL researchers have built a drone that can walk, hop, and jump into flight with the aid of birdlike legs, greatly expanding the range of potential environments accessible to unmanned aerial vehicles“As the crow flies” is a common idiom referring to the...
Published on: December 09, 2024