Introduction In 2025, within just six months, leading MCU manufacturers such as ST, NXP, and Renesas simultaneously released automotive MCU products equipped with new types of embedded storage (such as PCM and MRAM), breaking the long-standing technical pattern dominated by embedded Flash. While it is still too early to talk about a “standard configuration,” it … Read more
Japanese semiconductor giant Renesas Electronics has launched an MCU product for edge AI, enhancing AI performance by up to 30 times, and is manufactured by TSMC using a 22nm process. Renesas announced the availability of the edge AI MCU product RA8P1, which has entered mass production, achieving inference processing performance over 30 times that of … Read more
According to news from the semiconductor industry, on June 10, Canaan Technology stated during an institutional survey that multiple chip customization projects have entered the design phase in the first quarter of 2025 and are expected to tape out within this year. The company provides design services for an MRAM control chip project, which is … Read more
NXP Semiconductors has publicly unveiled its 16nm FinFET MCU product line featuring built-in Magnetoresistive Random-Access Memory (MRAM) for the automotive industry. The S32K5 MCU product line is expected to expand the NXP CoreRide platform through pre-integrated zonal and electrification system solutions for scalable Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) architectures. Automotive manufacturers are introducing zonal architectures through various … Read more
Today, I want to talk to you about a major event in the automotive industry! Just yesterday, NXP launched a “revolutionary” chip, the S32K5, which completely changed my perception of automotive OTA upgrades! The write speed is 15 times faster than flash memory! OTA upgrades can be completed in just a few seconds, faster than … Read more
This article is authorized to be reproduced from the public account “Semiconductor Industry Observation”, ID: icbank, Author: L. Chenguang “ Memory is one of the important markets in semiconductors, accounting for nearly 1/3 of the semiconductor market share. Among them, in terms of sub-products of memory chips, DRAM and NAND Flash occupy over 95% of … Read more
| Source: Strategic Research Office Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Since 2016, the prices of memory have continued to rise, and to this day, supply still cannot meet demand. Memory has become one of the most关注的半导体器件之一. This article will comprehensively explore the challenges faced by both old and new … Read more