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1 day ago | electronicsweekly.com | Alun Williams

The ceremony involved representatives from the African Union Commission, various African governments, national space agencies, AfSA Council members, and international space organisations. The inauguration of AfSA came just before the start of the NewSpace Africa conferenceMoUAt the ceremony there were the signing of cooperation agreements with the European Space Agency, the UAE Space Agency, and Roscosmos. Each memorandum of understanding outlines specific areas of cooperation, said the AfSA.

2 days ago | electronicsweekly.com | Alun Williams

It aims to improve the performance, efficiency, and scalability of the memory required to power the next generation of AI, HPC (high-performance computing), and graphics workloads. For example, the next generation AI training and inference systems. HBM4With transfer speeds up to 8 Gb/s across a 2048-bit interface, HBM4 boosts total bandwidth up to 2TB/s, highlights JEDEC. The standard also doubles the number of independent channels per stack.

6 days ago | electronicsweekly.com | David Manners

de Vries said that to integrate these non-CMOS technologies in a system-in-package (SiP) “requires an EDA environment we don’t have today”. “We are far from that,” he said. However, both Cadence and Synopsys are confident they will be able to develop design tools to cope. Mike Fister, Cadence chief executive, has tasked the firm’s chief technology officer Ted Vurcurevich and head of new business Aki Fujimura with investigating what is needed to build capable tools.

6 days ago | electronicsweekly.com | David Manners

Arm bought Artisan in 2004 for around $900 million to help make Arm’s processor IP more accessible to IC designers and foundries. The deal with Cadence includes a licensing agreement, so Arm is presumably retaining ownership of some parts of the Artisan IP portfolio.

6 days ago | electronicsweekly.com | David Manners

The 90-day grace period has temporarily eased concerns about demand loss due to new tariff barriers, however lingering uncertainty over the direction of US trade policy has made  memory buyers more defensive — increasing  DRAM and NAND  inventory levels as a buffer against supply risk. This proactive stockpiling has expanded the anticipated contract price increases for both DRAM and NAND Flash in Q2. However, this rise is likely to be short-lived.