Semiconductor sales were up 4% last week and increased 20% from this time last year. Zooming in on NAND IC, the 13-week MA jumped 48% YoY last week. TechInsights forecasts NAND IC sales will increase 73% to $68 billion in 2024.

There were some major changes to our IC forecast this month. IC sales are now expected to surge nearly 24% in 2024 compared to 16% in the last update. The major driver for this significant change was Memory, where sales were upgraded to a whopping 71% from 41% in the previous update.

Like in The Wizard of Oz, we were told to follow a yellow brick road -- ours paved with gold. It's a road where the wicked witch of fizzled-out technology -- like x-ray and 157nm -- lurk to stop us. And there were plenty of unknowns. We would have been stopped dead in our tracks had we not broken through Robert Doering's Red Brick Walls on the roadmap.

The DA14592 is Renesas’s smallest multicore BLE SoC, featuring a power-thrifty radio transceiver that drops power by more than 23% for send and receive compared with Renesas’s other BLE chips.

NeuReality, an Israeli startup, is building an offload engine for AI-application pre- and postprocessing that removes the need for a CPU in a server and works directly with an accelerator.

Edge-AI vendor BrainChip has updated its Akida event-based IP offering. Its new Akida 2 architecture, available only as IP, supports temporal networks and Transformer encoders at low power.

TCL's NXTPAPER Tablets: TCL impresses with NXTPAPER technology, offering eye-friendly displays. Priced at $549, the NXTPAPER 14 Pro, powered by MediaTek's Dimensity 8020, expands to more markets in 2024.

MWC 2024 showcased intense discussions on cutting-edge technologies. AI took the lead, dominating conversations along with 6G, RedCap, and Industry 5.0. Key takeaways.

Amid the development of the next generation of silicon chips and integrated circuits lies a silent challenge: the pervasive use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). These chemicals, renowned for their resistance to heat, water, and oil, have found their way into various industrial processes, including semiconductor manufacturing. But at what cost?