Jolla Tablet

November 19, 2014August 19, 2015 P-O

Jolla is making a tablet with Sailfish OS. They are using crowd-funding at Indiegogo. The 1000 first sold out within an hour! I got one of them.

IJTAG or IEEE 1687 has been approved as a new IEEE standard on 3 November 2014. It is a lot like JTAG but with a common protocol for communicating with the different blocks within a design.

A free online tool that delivers instant, executable quotes for MPWs is presented by eSilicon.

ASIC

New dimensions, new defects and new solutions

October 23, 2014March 6, 2015 P-O

With new smaller dimensions we will see new types of faults. In the FinFet, defects within the cells must be examined. It may not be enough to do this only […]

A working Hoverboard – 2015 is here

October 21, 2014April 7, 2015 P-O

GlobalFoundries takes over IBM's chip business and gets paid $1.5 billion. IBM press release.

Big semiconductor news (if it is true). GlobalFoundries "buys" IBM's semiconductor division and gets $1.5 Billion.

ESA is doing this with titanium aluminide. Now testing in 20G, later in microgravity.

Silicon

Manufacturing in space

October 15, 2014March 6, 2015 P-O

ACME Advanced Materials Inc. is a company (probably the first) who is manufacturing commercial products in space. They buy low quality wafers and send them into space (suborbital) where they […]