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From wood and charcoal for providing heat, to dietary animal fats and grain for food, for the past two million years fuel in all its forms has sustained human life.

Speaking at TSMC’s Technology Symposium Dr. C.C. Wei, the company’s CEO, talked about how the digital transformation all around us was opening up a new world of opportunities for the semiconductor industry and spoke of, “unleashing our customers’ innovations.”

As the 3nm process node nears production readiness, the cost of developing chips for it has moved up another notch.

Sweet Harmony Huawei Technologies’ announcement and launch of its Harmony operating system for smartphones is a significant step by the company, that’s looking to recover from the sanctions imposed on it by the US. HarmonyOS will be rolled out to selected smartphone models, giving users the opportunity to switch from Googles Android platform. For Huawei HarmonyOS means it will no longer be reliant on Android, a relationship that had been ‘hobbled’ by ...

EV charging network gets £300m boost The news that Ofgem is to fund the installation of 3,550 new ultra-rapid charging points on motorways and in towns has been welcomed as an essential part of the UK’s efforts to shift to cleaner energy. The money - £300m - will be used to support new charging points, including 1,800 ultra-rapid charging sites at motorway service stations doubling the current number available. The move comes in response to UK plans to ban the...

Robber barons of the C21 Amazon generated record sales income of £38bn in Europe last year, while income in the UK soared by 51 per cent to reach almost £20bn – mind-blowing figures! At the same time Apple reported trading figures for the first three months of 2021 with another set of astonishing numbers. So much so, that it was able to announce a buy-back of shares worth $90bn – that’s equivalent to the value of BP, and that’s spare cash! Despi...

In a move intended to support local supply chains the South Korean government has announced a series of tax breaks, worth nearly $900m, to support chip manufacturers struggling with global shortages.

While profits may be booming at Infineon, and revenues have soared, the company has warned that the on-going chip shortages bedevilling the automotive industry could cut car production by 2.5 million in the first half of 2021.

Pay by palm technology raises security worries News that Amazon in trialling palm-scanning technology at one of its Whole Food stores in Seattle is raising privacy concerns, due to the fact that the technology Amazon is using links a customer’s palm signature with their credit details. The contactless payment method, known as Amazon One, involves customers enrolling their palms in Amazon’s system to make payments with a palm ‘signature’ which is linke...

Summary Khursheed Aurangzeb is Associate Professor in Department of Computer Engineering at College of Computer and Information Sciences at King Saud University (KSU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electronics Design from Mid Sweden University Sweden in June 2013, MS degree in Electrical Engineering (System on Chip Design) from Linkoping University, Sweden in 2009. He received his B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Abbott...