The recent (2020–2022) global chip shortage – a supply crunch where demand for chips (especially in automotive, consumer electronics) outstripped supply, leading to production delays. Causes included pandemic disruptions, surges in demand, and limited fab capacity. This highlighted the fragility of chip supply chains and spurred investments in new fabs. Automakers were notably affected, waiting for key microcontroller and power chips.
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Here is how a prolonged war in the Middle East could turn into a disaster for the semiconductor business. The post Middle East Turmoil: Materials Shortage, Fuel Price Hike Disrupting Chip Industry appeared first on EE Times.
The memory shortage could last another four to five years, says the chairman of SK Group, Chey Tae-won. The supply of base wafers is lagging demand by more than 20%, ... The post Memory shortage to last 4-5 years says SK boss appeared first on Electronics Weekly.
The America’s Talent Strategy: Building the Workforce for the Golden Age report, published last year by the U.S. Departments of Commerce, Education, and Labor, identified a significant engineering and skills gap. The 27-page report concluded that the shortage of talent in essential areas—including advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and...
The rapid ascent of artificial intelligence and semiconductor manufacturing has created a paradox: Industries are booming yet they face a critical shortage of skilled workers. Demand for data center technicians, fabrication facility workers, and similar positions is growing. There aren’t enough candidates with the right skill sets to fill the...
PC units will fall 11.3% this year and tablet units will fall 7.6%, says the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker. These reductions are driven by memory shortages, rising ... The post 2026 PC units down 11.3%, tablet units down 7.9%, but revenues up appeared first on Electronics Weekly....
A new technical paper, “Quantifying the Global Impact of Constraint Programming Based Local Scheduling in Semiconductor Manufacturing,” was published by Infineon and the University of Klagenfurt. Abstract “The efficiency of semiconductor frontend manufacturing highly depends on the optimization of resource allocation. In academic works, scheduling methods, i.e., based on Constraint...
Oxfordshire, UK, March 2026: Direct Insight, the UK-based technical systems integrator focused on system-on-module solutions, can now deliver and support development for the new QSMP-20 solder-down QFN-style SoM (system-on-module), providing a drop-in, pin-compatible upgrade for the QSMP-15 that now features an industrial-grade STM32MP2 MPU. The QSMP-20 also takes advantage of lower cost DDR3 RAM with shorter...
U.S. doctoral programs in electrical engineering form the foundation of technological advancement, training the brightest minds in the world to research, develop, and design next-generation electronics, software, electrical infrastructure, and other high-tech products and systems. Elite institutions have long served as launchpads for the engineers behind tomorrow’s technology. Now that...
The undying thirst for smarter (historically, that means larger) AI models and greater adoption of the ones we already have has led to an explosion in data-center construction projects, unparalleled both in number and scale. Chief among them is Meta’s planned 5-gigawatt data center in Louisiana, called Hyperion, announced in...
WHEN KYIV-BORN ENGINEER Yaroslav Azhnyuk thinks about the future, his mind conjures up dystopian images. He talks about “swarms of autonomous drones carrying other autonomous drones to protect them against autonomous drones, which are trying to intercept them, controlled by AI agents overseen by a human general somewhere.” He also...
Hardware shortages are stimulating the AI chip counterfeit market. Experts believe a hardware root of trust could alleviate authenticity and security challenges. The post Hardware Root of Trust Essential for AI Chip Integrity appeared first on EE Times.
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