Today Sharp has launched in Japan the Aquos XLED EP1 series of 4K TVs with N-Black panels with HDR10, HLG, and Dolby Vision certification. They employ the brand’s active mini LED drive technology which divides the mini LED backlight into more than 1000 areas to finely control bright and dark areas. Thanks to this technology, these 4K XLED TVs deliver three times higher peak brightness than that…
Soaring silicon carbide (SiC) demand from electric vehicles (EV) is leading to a tight supply of 6-inch SiC wafers, of which the cost will unlikely go down.
As the semiconductor industry once again frets over the future of Moore’s Law, the notion of chiplets has gained traction, especially as the technology has come to be prominently featured by Intel as a key driver to its future growth, underpinning the “system foundry” promoted by Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger. At the intel Innovation Forum in late September, leading foundries like TSMC and Samsung even rallied behind Intel, publicly voicing their support for the Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) consortium initiated by Intel to provide an open standard for the interconnects between chiplets. Industry heavyweights including AMD, Arm, Google, TSMC and ASE have all joined the consortium.