What caught your eye this week? (AI ICs, US Chips Act, IGZO transistors)

The Electronics Weekly team share some fingerposts – their picks of the week, in terms of announcements, developments, product releases, quotes or anything else in the wide world of electronics that caught their eye…

Caroline Hayes, editor
For me, this company takes a recompile not redesign approach to accelerators for AI.

David Manners, components editor
What caught my eye this week was Samsung getting $6.4bn of US Chips Act money following grants to Intel and TSMC and rumoured to precede a $6bn grant to Micron.

Steve Bush, technology editor
Thin-film transistors arguably go back to the copper sulphide device described in Lilienfeld’s 1925 patent, but compared with their up-start mono-crystalline cousin they have never really ‘made it’. Researchers at Tokyo Tech are trying to do something about that, and have improved the performance of IGZO transistors, possibly en-route to stacking them into memories.

Alun Williams, web editor
The Land of the Rising Sun is also the home of opportunity for UK quantum computing technology companies, it seems.