Top ten articles on eeNews in August
The top ten articles on eeNews Europe in August covered the emerging quantum strategy, critical fab closures and the requirements for embedded developers meeting the Cyber Resilience Act.
While the industry goes crazy for photonics, a German company showed the world’s first AI photonic processor in operation. EeNews has tracked Q.ANT for several years, with the latest demonstration highlighting Europe’s leading position in the technology.
This is also important with the changing structure of the industry, As 150mm fabs close to move to 200mm wafers, so there are key processes, including photonics, that need to be considered, says X-fab.
The end of August also saw the long awaited launch of Nvidia’s Thor chip. Re-designed form the group up two years ago, Thor is the key to driverless cars with the T5000 and humanoid robots with the T4000.
The industry is all about miniaturisation and the development of a spectrometer small enough to integrate into a smartphone certainly caught the eye of many readers. The organic sensor developed t North Carolina State University is just a few square millimetres and relies on the computational power of the phone for the signal analysis.
Quantum technology has also been a key area this month. The European Commission’s proposal for a Quantum Act has been key, and the response from major quantum technology developers through EuroQuiC is largely supportive. At the same time scientists from Alice & Bob and Inria in France have found the most hardware-efficient method to date for producing magic states on superconducting quantum computers, marking a critical step toward realising practical quantum computing. This will be vital in taking on the combined might of IBM and AMD in hybrid quantum computing.
Our leaders’ talk with the CEO of TrustinSoft on formal methods for embedded designers was also popular, as is the move to 5V for the Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller in industrial designs. This comes as the neuromorphic image sensor from Prophesee in France is added to the Raspberry Pi 5 in a starter kit.
Formal methods are the future of embedded software verification
The trade tensions between the US and the EU have settled down with a 15% tariff that includes semiconductors, avoiding a nasty 300% hit.
But it is the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) that comes into force later this year that is the focus for August. The requirements will be required by all connected equipment shipped in Europe, and we look at the implications of the new required aspects such as a software bill of materials.
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