Huawei trabaja contrarreloj para atajar el daño que está ocasionándole el boicot de EE UU a su negocio. La compañía planea construir una planta de chips en Shanghái sin utilizar tecnología estadounidense, según informan Bloomberg y Financial Times. Un movimiento que le permitiría asegurarse el suministro de este componente para su negocio de infraestructura de telecomunicaciones a pesar de las sanciones de EE UU.
If there’s one thing about Moore’s Law that’s obvious to anyone, it’s that transistors have been made smaller and smaller as the years went on. Scientists and engineers have taken that trend to an almost absurd limit during the past decade, creating devices that are made of one-atom-thick layers of material.
While graphene has faced challenges in the field of digital logic because of its lack of an inherent band gap, it has been that very weakness that has attracted many researchers to exploring its use in optoelectronics. This lack of a band gap makes graphene an extreme broadband absorber, enabling photodetection for visible, infrared, and terahertz frequencies.
Is the potential of diamond as a semiconductor now being realized? That’s certainly the case if we believe the praise being heaped upon the precious stone by companies such as AKHAN Semiconductor. AKHAN has pronounced that we are now in the “Diamond Age” of semiconductors.
For only the second time in its history, the semiconductor market is expected to decline, as demand for PCs and mobile devices falls in 2016.
Gartner reported that global semiconductor sales are expected to fall slightly, by 0.6 percent, to an estimated $333 billion this year. This follows a decline of 2.3 percent in 2015, the firm said.
Foxconn Technology Group anunció el jueves que ha decidido retrasar el acuerdo definitivo de inversión en Sharp Corp debido a unos nuevos detalles dados a conocer por el fabricante japonés de electrónica el miércoles.
Sharp has agreed to a takeover by Taiwan’s Foxconn, sources familiar with the matter said, the largest acquisition of a Japanese tech firm by a foreign company and one that will bolster Foxconn’s position as Apple’s biggest supplier.
The Taiwanese firm, known formally as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., is set to invest more than 650 billion yen ($5.8 billion) in the loss-making liquid crystal display maker, one source said.
Sharp’s board voted unanimously to accept an offer by the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer over a rescue by a state-backed investment fund, signaling an opening up of Japan’s insular technology sector to foreign investment.
The world of superconductivity is in uproar. Last year, Mikhail Eremets and a couple of pals from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, made the extraordinary claim that they had seen hydrogen sulphide superconducting at -70 °C. That’s some 20 degrees hotter than any other material—a huge increase over the current record.
The computing devices that pervade our lives and generally keep the world running can be taught new tricks with software upgrades. But those can only change so much about a device, because the designs of the chips inside are locked in silicon from the moment they’re made.
