electronica fills all 18 halls in Munich this week
Around 3,500 exhibitors, SEMICON Europa alongside, and energy efficiency as the organising theme.
Memory prices are still rising, just more slowly
TrendForce expects conventional DRAM contract prices to rise about 20% in the fourth quarter.
Specifying memory you will still be able to buy
Design decisions that keep a memory choice from becoming a single point of failure.
Chip sales reached $517.7 billion in the third quarter
Up 24.1% on the previous quarter, the third consecutive quarter of more than 20% growth.
STMicroelectronics: demand well above supply
Revenue up 17.9%, microcontrollers up 24%, and distribution inventory below target.
Intel’s data-centre business grew 78%
Revenue up 21% to $16.5 billion, with the foundry still losing $1.9 billion in the quarter.
Designing for a battery the user can replace
From February 2027 portable batteries in the EU must be removable and replaceable. That is a mechanical brief.
When the tools are sold out, your schedule is the variable
If capacity is fixed years ahead, the only things you still control are commitment and flexibility.
Silicon carbide and gallium nitride punish a sloppy layout
The device is the easy part. What breaks a wide-bandgap design is the gate loop and the return path.