DARPA seeks to boost domestic manufacturing of structured ASICs

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is launching an industry collaboration with Intel to expand access to domestic manufacturing capabilities for custom chips for defense systems. DARPA's Structured Array Hardware for Automatically Realized Applications (SAHARA) program is partnership with Intel and academic researchers from University of Florida, University of Maryland, and Texas A&M to develop U.S.-based manufacturing...

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Singapore to deploy 5G standalone RAN sharing network with Nokia

Antina Pte. Ltd., a joint venture formed by mobile network operators M1 and StarHub in Singapore, have deployed the first 5G standalone RAN Sharing network in South East Asia.Nokia will provide equipment from its  AirScale portfolio and CloudRAN solution to build the Radio Access Network (RAN) for the 5G SA infrastructure, utilizing the 3.5GHz spectrum band. Nokia will supply 5G base stations and its small cells solution for indoor coverage,...

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Xilinx shrinks its UltraScale+ FPGAs with TSMC's InFO packaging

Xilinx expanded its UltraScale+ portfolio for markets with new applications that require ultra-compact and intelligent edge solutions. The company's Artix and Zynq UltraScale+ devices are now available in TSMC’s state-of-the-art InFO (Integrated Fan-Out) packaging technology, which is up to 70% smaller than traditional chip-scale packaging. “Demand for compact, intelligent edge applications is driving the requirement for processing and...

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Nokia vows 50% power savings for 5G mMIMO base stations by 2023

Nokia announced that its AirScale 5G mMIMO Base Station will achieve an average power consumption reduction of 50 percent by 2023.The energy savings will be enabled by its next-generation System on Chip (SoCs) chipsets and 5G advanced sleep mode features which will help to optimize the base station energy usage. Nokia said it is committed to having one of the industry’s most energy-efficient product portfolios. It recently announced new Science...

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Azure commits to Availability Zones architecture

Microsoft has committed to using Availability Zones architecture in all of its data enter regions worldwide in order to improve resiliency.An Azure datacenter region is made up of multiple data center facilities with redundant power, cooling, and networking.Azure Availability Zones (AZs), comprising of a minimum of three zones, allow customers to spread their infrastructure and applications across discrete and dispersed datacenters for added resiliency...

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Fire at Renesas' Naka semiconductor fab halts production of 300mm wafers

Renesas Electronics Corporation was struck by a fire in the N3 Building (300mm line) of its Naka Factory (located in Hitachinaka, Ibaraki Prefecture) on March 19, 2021 at 2:47am.The fire was extinguished on the same day and there no casualties to the employees and no damages to the building. However, Renesas said there was some damage to some of the utility equipment, including its pure water supply, the air conditioning system, as well as to some...

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