Top ten articles in June on eeNews Europe

Feature articles | July 3, 2024

By Nick Flaherty

Materials & processes MPUs/MCUs Boards & Embedded Cards

June could rightly be described as Raspberry Pi’s month. With a successful public flotation, a new software defined radio system for 5G small cells and the CM5 compute module out for testing with customers, the company is on a roll.

The month also saw the Leti Innovation Days in Grenoble, France, with new details of how STMicroelectronics is restructuring its entire operations to take advantage of artificial intelligence and automation, as well as new ways to package supercomputer chips for a 4000x boost in performance.

The meeting of the PCI Special Interest group saw the advent of end-to-end IP for the seventh generation of PCI Express 7.0, as well as new high performance chiplets using the ARM Neoverse N3 cores.

These contrast with the challenges facing Intel, which sold off half its original fab in Leixlip Ireland as it struggles to compete.

Saudi Arabia is also planning massive $211m investment in chip design, while Infineon completed the first phase of its 200mm silicon carbide fab in Malaysia which will be one of the largest in the world.

Ubuntu running on an RISC-V laptop at the RISC-V Summit in Munich is now demonstrating the maturity of the technology and giving developers a native platform for their RISCV-V software projects.

But it is the Raspberry Pi that stole the show this month;