David Manners

United Kingdom

Components Editor at Electronics Weekly

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Rare earths export restrictions hit car production

1 day ago | electronicsweekly.com | David Manners

China’s rare earths export ban is to beginningto affect car production, reports the Nikkei. Suzuki has suspended production of its Swift modelsFord has suspendedproduction of its Explorer sports SUV at its Chicago factory. The European Association of Automotive Suppliers (CLEPA) says some auto component makers have been forced to close plants. India’s Bajaj Auto said the magnet shortage could start impacting productionin July.
Robots to enable urban mining of CRMs

1 day ago | electronicsweekly.com | David Manners

With a current recycling rate of less than 1% for rare earth elements and a Waste from Electric and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) collection rate of just 40.6%, well below the 65% target, urban mining presents a promising alternative and complementary source of critical raw materials.
Intel’s Tech Predictions In 2009

1 day ago | electronicsweekly.com | David Manners

Prediction One – new classes of portable devices with ten times more battery lifeSub-threshold integrated circuit technology requires only 300mV to operate. Intel showed 4-way SIMD (single instruction multiple data) vector processing accelerator in 45nm in CMOS operated below its gate threshold voltage at the ISSCC technology conference.
A Fine Life | Electronics Weekly

2 days ago | electronicsweekly.com | David Manners

The lead story in next day’s Telegraph opened: “Once again has woman demonstrated her superiority in the face of an incredulous and somewhat unsympathetic world.” Her feat was memorialised in a poem: ‘Curve and angle let her con and Parallelopipedon and Parallelogram Few can equal, none can beat her At eliminating theta By the river Cam.’ She taught at Cambridge for ten years receiving this accolade from one of her students: “My deepest debt to her is a sense of the unity of all truth, from...
Alphawave Semi tapes out UCIe IP subsystem on TSMC’s N2 process

2 days ago | electronicsweekly.com | David Manners

The design is integrated with TSMC’s Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate (CoWoS) packaging technology. This chip builds on the recent release of the Alphawave Semi AI Platform, proving readiness to support the future of disaggregated SoCs and scale-up infrastructure for hyperscale AI and HPC workloads. With this tape-out, Alphawave Semi becomes one of the industry’s first to enable UCIe connectivity on 2nm nanosheet technology, marking a major step forward for the open chiplet ecosystem.
US re-negotiating Chips Act awards

2 days ago | electronicsweekly.com | David Manners

“Are we renegotiating? Yes we are – for the benefit of the Anerican taxpayer,” US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told the Senate Appropriations Committee adding that some of the awards Donald “seemed overly generous, and we’ve been able to renegotiate them.”“All the deals are getting better, and the only deals that are not getting done are deals that should have never been done in the first place,” said Lutnick.
ST won’t be split up says Italian Industry Minister

2 days ago | electronicsweekly.com | David Manners

“Our intention is to strengthen STMicro on an international level and certainly not to tear it apart,” said Urso, according to Bloomberg. Urso denied a story in La Stampa saying that the management of ST would be split between the French and Italian governments which own 27.5% of the company. The Italian government is reported to be using the current slump in chip markets as a reason to replace ST’s French CEO Jean-Marc Chéry, reports the French newspaper Les Echos.
ST-Qualcomm WiFi6 and BLE 5-4 module in mass production e

2 days ago | electronicsweekly.com | David Manners

The module is the first product of ST’s collaboration with Qualcomm to simplify implementing wireless connectivity in systems containing STM32 MCUsThe ST67W module is ready to integrate with any STM32 MCU and contains a Qualcomm multiprotocol network coprocessor and 2.4GHz radio.
Flash takes a bath

2 days ago | electronicsweekly.com | David Manners

TrendForce expects Q2 revenues to rise 10% from Q1’s combined total of $12.02 billion. Q-o-q revenue falls were 25% for Samsung, 35.5% for Hynix, 11% for Micron and 27.9% for Kioxia. SanDisk (post-split from WDC) recorded slight declines in shipment bits and ASP to post Q1 revenue of US$1.7 billion. The company is planning to ramp up shipments of QLC products to optimise profitability.
The Zero-Mileage Used Car

2 days ago | electronicsweekly.com | David Manners

The ‘zero-mileage used car’ is not only a contradiction in terms but a new way to shift EV inventory in China. To create a zero-mileage used car a dealer registers a new EV to get the manufacturer’s rebate then re-registers it as a second hand ‘zero mileage used car’ and drops the price. In April China’s collective inventory of unsold EVs was the highest since December 2023. Aggressive price-cutting – up to 34% at BYD – hasn’t solved the issue.