Tag: chip

ICs or Integrated Chips are the fundamental building blocks of all modern-day electronic devices. They're made of lots of tiny parts like resistors, capacitors, and transistors printed into a small piece of material known as silicon. These chips are in almost everything electronic we...

It was indeed another win for RISC-V as Intel announced a big move to support the pre-silicon development of RISC-V devices with the launch of the Intel Pathfinder for RISC-V, a unified development environment for hobbyists and industries. Though a major leap for the RISC-V movement,...

HARTING 3D-MID Component Carriers enable alternative component positioning and mounting utilizing fully automated assembly and soldering. These 3D molded interconnect devices can replace circuit boards utilizing a 3-dimensional circuit on molded plastic. This 3D shape can allow for more...

SkyWater Technology has announced that it will be extending its partnership with Alphabet’s Google, releasing an open source Process Design Kit., for its commercial 90nm, fully depleted silicon on insulator (FDSOI), CMOS process technology. This announcement came shortly after the US...

Eben Upton, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of one of the very famous and successful embedded electronic hardware manufacturers, Raspberry Pi, has published news on January 17, 2022, aiming to beat the semiconductor chip shortage by introducing a dedicated Raspberry Pi store to...

Setting up an electronics lab is the dream of many electronics engineers and hobbyists, but getting it done is usually a very big task to achieve. From knowing the amount of space you'd need, to know the right kind of tools to buy, and then to the right kind of devices with the right...

In 2019, we saw one of the largest single computer chips manufactured by a California-based AI startup, Cerebras, that unveiled the Wafer-Scale Engine for deep learning applications. The 1.2 trillion transistors-packed Wafer-Scale Engine came with 18GB of on-chip SRAM and an...

Program includes a pre-designed carrier chip and automated open source design flow from Efabless SkyWater’s open source SKY130 process is the first node to be used to fabricate chips for the program Initiative removes access barriers by significantly reducing cost and the...