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Trackwise in administration after failed automotive bid
Trackwise in administration after failed automotive bid
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Flexible circuit pioneer Trackwise has entered administration after losing out on a potential deal with a Tier One automotive supplier.
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to sync to the EU power grid
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to sync to the EU power grid
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Three Baltic countries are accelerating the integration of their electricity grids with continental Europe and their disconnection from Russia and…
Nexeon to build first volume production plant for Panasonic silicon batteries  
Nexeon to build first volume production plant for Panasonic silicon batteries  
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Nexeon has secured a site for its first commercial volume silicon anode material plant in Gunsan, South Korea. The plant…
TT Electronics Roxspur digital pressure gauges expand into distribution
TT Electronics Roxspur digital pressure gauges expand into distribution
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Digital pressure gauges available in battery-powered or loop-powered versions and optimised for a variety of industrial applications.

Infineon to build the world’s largest 200-mm SiC power fab in Malaysia
Infineon to build the world’s largest 200-mm SiC power fab in Malaysia
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Mainly backed by customer commitments the SiC power fab will lead to total revenue potential of about seven billion euros by the end of the decade.
UK appoints semiconductor advisory panel
UK appoints semiconductor advisory panel
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The UK government has announced the advisory panel that it proposed as part of the semiconductor strategy. The semiconductor advisory panel will be made up of ten experts from across…
Semiconductor incubator move in UK chip strategy
Semiconductor incubator move in UK chip strategy
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The UK government is funding a pilot incubator programme to be run by Silicon Catalyst as part of its semiconductor strategy. “The first action out of the strategy is an…
Hyundai, Samsung invest in AI pioneer Tenstorrent
Hyundai, Samsung invest in AI pioneer Tenstorrent
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AI processor pioneer Tenstorrent Inc. (Toronto, Canada) has closed a $100 million round of financing led by Hyundai Motor Group and Samsung Catalyst Fund. Fidelity Ventures, Eclipse Ventures, Epiq Capital,…
£40m UK fund for 5G Innovation Regions
£40m UK fund for 5G Innovation Regions
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The UK government has launched a £40m fund to create Innovation Regions using 5G technology. Local and regional authorities can apply for a share of the fund, designed to accelerate…
Nokia enables first UK 5G Standalone network
Nokia enables first UK 5G Standalone network
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Virgin Media O2 Business is the UK’s first telco to offer a portable commercial 5G Standalone (SA) Private Network (PN) using equipment from Nokia. Once plugged in, the 5G Standalone…
Kubos raises £700k for red microLED technology
Kubos raises £700k for red microLED technology
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Kubos Semiconductors in Cambridge has won a £700,000 grant to develop its cubic GaN red microLED technology as its first patent is granted. The grant is for a 24-month project…
Renesas embraces Microsoft Visual Studio code for entire MCU/MPU lineup
Renesas embraces Microsoft Visual Studio code for entire MCU/MPU lineup
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Renesas Electronics Corporation has announced that customers can now use Microsoft® Visual Studio Code (VS Code) to program the complete line of Renesas microcontrollers (MCUs) and microprocessors (MPUs). Renesas has…
Renesas adopts Visual Studio IDE across entire range
Renesas adopts Visual Studio IDE across entire range
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Renesas Electronics has adopted Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VS Code) across its entire range of microcontrollers (MCUs) and microprocessors (MPUs). Renesas has added tool extensions for all of its embedded…
Coherent looks to smart glasses as it ships over 200bn VCSEL lasers
Coherent looks to smart glasses as it ships over 200bn VCSEL lasers
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Coherent has reached a key milestone by shipping over 200 billion vertical-cavity surface-emitting semiconductor laser (VCSEL) emitters for sensing. This positions the company for a boom in sensing in cars,…
CE mark to stay in UK as alternative delayed indefinitely
CE mark to stay in UK as alternative delayed indefinitely
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The Department for Business and Trade in the UK has announced an indefinite extension for the CE mark for UK businesses. The CE mark indicates conformance with EU regulations of…
Bosch opens €350m semiconductor test plant in Malaysia
Bosch opens €350m semiconductor test plant in Malaysia
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The €65m investment in the Bosch plant of 18,000 square meters includes clean rooms, office space, and laboratories for quality assurance and manufacturing. This will be followed a €285m expansion…
First fully automated commercial edge data center
First fully automated commercial edge data center
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Elisa and Wind River deploy first fully automated edge data center for commercial service, reducing staff hours by up to 90 percent.
Onsemi sees flat results for Q2
Onsemi sees flat results for Q2
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Onsemi has seen revenue of $2.1bn, flat year-on-year but exceeding expectations. Automotive and Industrial end-markets drove growth for onsemi, contributing 80% of revenue as the automotive business topped $1bn for the…
Lumotive signs Samsung supplier for 3D LiDAR sensing
Lumotive signs Samsung supplier for 3D LiDAR sensing
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Lumotive has signed a deal with camera module specialist Namuga to use metasurface chips for solid-state lidar modules in the industrial, consumer and automotive markets. Namuga specializes in the development and production of…
The US needs to generate, retain more chip workers
The US needs to generate, retain more chip workers
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The US will have a shortfall of 67,000 workers for the semiconductor industry by 2030 according to a report from Oxford Economics released by the Semiconductor Industry Association. There will…
TT Electronics expands in Mexico and Malaysia
TT Electronics expands in Mexico and Malaysia
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TT Electronics is expanding its factories in the Americas with a plant in Mexicali, Mexico, and investing in its Asia Pacific operations to increase capabilities at its existing plant in…
ev.energy raises $33m for EV grid integration
ev.energy raises $33m for EV grid integration
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UK startup ev.energy has raised $33m to expand its electric vehicle (EV) Virtual Power Plant (VPP) software into North America and Europe. The software platform supports virtual power plant and Vehicle-to-Grid…
Huawei plans to use SMIC’s ‘nearly-7nm’ process
Huawei plans to use SMIC’s ‘nearly-7nm’ process
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China’s telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies is planning to restart designing mobile phone chips, circumventing export controls, according to Nikkei. Huawei was a leading smartphone vendor – rivalling Apple and Samsung…
Mitsubishi buys into GaO power startup
Mitsubishi buys into GaO power startup
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Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has taken an equity position in Novel Crystal Technology Inc. (Sayama City, Japan) a company that sells gallium-oxide wafers for power semiconductors. Neither the value of the…
BT looks to use phone boxes as EV charging points
BT looks to use phone boxes as EV charging points
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The ill-fated ‘national EV charger’ design has re-emerged as BT looks to use its phone boxes to provide on-street charging for electric vehicles. The start-up and Digital incubation team at…
Marubeni looks to Skeleton for Asian battery gigafactory
Marubeni looks to Skeleton for Asian battery gigafactory
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Marubeni is increasing its investment in Skeleton Technologies to expand manufacturing of the SuperBattery fast charging technology. Skeleton has validated its technology and competitive advantage in real-life applications and focuses…
TSMC opens global R&D centre for 1nm push
TSMC opens global R&D centre for 1nm push
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TSMC has opened its global Research and Development Center in Hsinchu, Taiwan, that will drive the next generations of semiconductor technology. The centre will house 7000 researchers working on 1nm…
Infineon teams for biodegradeable PCBs for power demo boards
Infineon teams for biodegradeable PCBs for power demo boards
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Infineon Technologies is using a recyclable PCB technology for its power demonstration boards in an move to cut electronic waste. Infineon is using Soluboard biodegradable PCBs from Jiva Materials in…


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