Top ten articles in April
With the news that Kurt Sievers will be stepping down as CEO of NXP later this year, April finished off with a bang, just as it started. The Trump tariffs in the US haven’t yet hit for semiconductors, despite coming ‘very soon’, and the 40th anniversary of the very first ARM1 device.
High bandwidth flash (HBF) is being proposed by Sandisk to provide the speed and capacity needed for edge AI designs, while researchers in China are using 2D materials for much faster non-volatile memory chips.
As ARM turns 40 (or does it?) so it is shifting its focus. The sale of its Artisan foundational physical IP business is a key step in that process.
The latest low cost microcontroller from Renesas with extended temperature range was finding traction in the industry, alongside the details of the third chip architecture for Microchip’s controllers, the PIC32A.
Low cost Cortex-M23 microcontroller extends temperature range
What is Microchip’s new PIC32A 32bit microcontroller architecture?
But is the uncertainty over the US tariffs and the semiconductor exemption that is key, with Digikey detailing for eeNews Europe how it overcomes the issue with boards and systems form its global distribution centre in Minnesota.
That tariff situation has spilled out into semiconductor equipment. The US government this month has been gathering information on equipment suppliers in a move that very clearly targets Dutch EUV lithography machine supplier ASML. How this will play out in tariffs on multi-million pound equipment, and what it means for the supply chain for both lithography equipment and for companies such as Intel will be seen over the coming months.
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