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New Era In Devices

David Manners — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:01:33 +0000

UNTIL now the piezomagnetic transducer has offered a much higher efficiency than the piezoelectric in most applications. So, 65 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition if October ...

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TSMC’s Slam Dunk

David Manners — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 12:15:15 +0000

It always looked inevitable that the semiconductor industry would end up having one leading edge logic fab. The problem is if you don’t make money from one generation you haven’t ...

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Ed To Boost UK Semis

David Manners — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:39 +0000

The over-build of mature node capacity and consequent foundry utilisation rates of 70-75% present an opportunity to secure future fab capacity at advantageous rates, Ed confides to his diary, and ...

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Designer viruses may be used to produce logic

David Manners — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 15:15:58 +0000

Designer viruses may one day produce nano-scale logic speculated researchers at a Kavli Futures Symposium in 2011. “In my dreams, I can imagine some environmentally safe virus which, by design, ...

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Social Media’s Threat To Teenagers

David Manners — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 00:04:23 +0000

48% of Americans aged 13 to 17 say that social media has a mostly negative effect on people of their age, up from just 32% two years earlier, according to ...

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Fable: The Berkshire Revolutionary

David Manners — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 13:21:41 +0000

326 years ago a Berkshire farmer’s son invented this: It started a revolution in agriculture Moral: The urge to automate beats strong in the human breast

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Driverless Cars Not Yet Ready For Mass Adoption

David Manners — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 00:01:04 +0000

A major roadblock to wider use of driverless cars is safety which led to the suspension of the driverless testing permits for General Motors’ AV subsidiary Cruise in San Francisco ...

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Where Can You Order A Robotxai?

David Manners — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 13:21:57 +0000

This week, Tesla launched its first robotaxi service with 24 cars and safety drivers in Austin. On Tuesday,Waymo, which already operated in Austin, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix without ...

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Top Ten EV Vendors In Q1

David Manners — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:09:34 +0000

Thanks to TrendForce for this one – the top ten EV vendors in Q1 2025.

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Chinese EVs Nearly Matching ICE On Price

David Manners — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 13:22:41 +0000

Last year, 45% of ICE car models in China and 39% of EV modecost under $25,000, according to the International Energy Agency . For cars costing $50k and more, 21% ...

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