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Vishay invests €300m in fab expansion
Vishay invests €300m in fab expansion
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US semiconductor manufacturer Vishay wants to expand its production in Itzehoe (Germany) for about €300 million.
Eutelsat confirms OneWeb GEO/LEO satellite merger talks
Eutelsat confirms OneWeb GEO/LEO satellite merger talks
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Combination to create a global leader in satellite connectivity with complementary GEO/LEO activities to address a booming market.
HawkEye 360 opens manufacturing facility for RF-sensing satellites
HawkEye 360 opens manufacturing facility for RF-sensing satellites
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Facility will expedite innovation of state-of-the-art RF satellites and geospatial intelligence with full control of the development chain from space…
Hella expands lighting production capacities in China
Hella expands lighting production capacities in China
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Together with joint venture partner BHAP, Hella has opened a new lighting plant.

Anker, Infineon team for 100W+ GaN chargers
Anker, Infineon team for 100W+ GaN chargers
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Anker has used a hybrid flyback controller and 600V CoolGaN power stage from Infineon Technologies for its latest high power chargers It is using the XPDPS2201 hybrid flyback (HFB)…
TSMC, UMC to visit India to consider manufacturing
TSMC, UMC to visit India to consider manufacturing
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A delegation from Taiwan, including representatives from foundries TSMC and UMC, will visit India to investigate setting up wafer fabs, according to local reports. The date of the visit has…
Navitas acquires Belgian digital isolation firm VDD Tech
Navitas acquires Belgian digital isolation firm VDD Tech
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Navitas Semiconductor has acquired VDD Tech, the Belgium-based developer of digital-isolators for next-generation power conversion, for an undisclosed sum. Advanced digital-isolation techniques are essential to deliver size, weight, and system-cost…
Intel signs MediaTek as foundry customer
Intel signs MediaTek as foundry customer
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Intel has signed Taiwan’s MediaTek to use its foundry services to make wireless and media chips. MediaTek has relied on TSMC for much of its output up until now. Intel…
Fluence supplies real-time balancing control systems to UK grid
Fluence supplies real-time balancing control systems to UK grid
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Storage battery giant Fluence is supplying real time control systems to the UK’s National Grid. The National Grid has been testing new types of frequency services to manage an island grid…
Northvolt signs deal for sustainable lignin carbon battery anodes
Northvolt signs deal for sustainable lignin carbon battery anodes
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Northvolt has signed a deal with Stora Enso to create sustainable batteries using lignin from Nordic forests. The aim is to develop the world’s first industrialized battery using an anode…
Italvolt teams for battery supply chain research in Milan
Italvolt teams for battery supply chain research in Milan
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Italvolt has teamed up with Politecnico di Milano, to create a closed-loop, circular economy for battery development in Italy. Under the partnership, Politecnico’s newly established CIRC-eV lab will identify primary…
Intel signs up MediaTek to use foundry services
Intel signs up MediaTek to use foundry services
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Chip giant Intel Corp has signed up Taiwan’s MediaTek, a maker of smartphone and WiFi chips, to use Intel foundry services. Intel, once the semiconductor technology leader, has fallen behind…
Oxford University pauses its tech spin outs
Oxford University pauses its tech spin outs
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Political uncertainty in the UK has delayed the latest technology spinouts from Oxford University. “Oxford University Innovation has not created any new companies during Q2, while we navigate the practicalities…
Opinion: Misplaced outrage over near-7nm SMIC chip
Opinion: Misplaced outrage over near-7nm SMIC chip
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Teardown specialist TechInsights Inc. (Ottawa, Canada) has reported the existence of a chip that appears to have been made by Chinese foundry SMIC in a 7nm process, to much furore.
Brill Power raises $10.5m for battery management systems
Brill Power raises $10.5m for battery management systems
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Oxford University spin-out Brill Power has raised $10.5m for its new class of battery management system. Brill’s optimised Active Loading method increases battery life by up to 60% and allows…
Mindtree and Rubrik launch unified cyber-recovery platform
Mindtree and Rubrik launch unified cyber-recovery platform
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Partnership with Rubrik will further strengthen digital transformation products with enhanced data security and data protection.
MCU targets single-chip passive NFC lock applications
MCU targets single-chip passive NFC lock applications
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With integrated H-Bridge, NFC frontend, and energy harvesting modules, the MCU enables a smart actuator to be implemented in a single-chip.
SkyWater foundry plans $1.8 billion Indiana wafer fab
SkyWater foundry plans $1.8 billion Indiana wafer fab
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Specialty foundry SkyWater Technology Inc. (Bloomington, Minnesota) is plannng to build a US$1.8 billion wafer fab in partnership with State of Indiana and Purdue University. The deal comes in the…
Volkswagen unexpectedly ousts CEO Herbert Diess
Volkswagen unexpectedly ousts CEO Herbert Diess
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Last Friday, Volkswagen's supervisory board surprisingly announced the replacement of CEO Herbert Diess. His successor is the current Porsche CEO Oliver Blume. Now speculation is running riot as to the…
Eutelsat to buy OneWeb – updated
Eutelsat to buy OneWeb – updated
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French satellite operator Eutelsat Communications has confirmed plans to acquire UK competitor OneWeb. Eutelsat, which has a constellation of 36 geostationary satellites, is already an investor in OneWeb with a…
Blockchain project to increase the use of recycled plastic in electronics
Blockchain project to increase the use of recycled plastic in electronics
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A European project is looking at ways to boost the use of recycled plastic in electronics using blockchain for traceability. Just 2% of today’s recycled plastic materials are used in…
IQE has vision for billion-pound foundry in Newport
IQE has vision for billion-pound foundry in Newport
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IQE plc (Cardiff, Wales), a leading supplier of engineered wafers, wants UK government support to help it create the “TSMC of compound semiconductors” in South Wales. Americo Lemos, the CEO…
Foxconn partner launches graphene battery pack for e-bikes
Foxconn partner launches graphene battery pack for e-bikes
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US battery startup Appear has launched a high-performance, fast charging graphene-based battery packs for electric bikes and scooters. The company is scaling production at Partner Foxconn to 10 million batteries…
UK blocks Chinese vision sensing technology deal
UK blocks Chinese vision sensing technology deal
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The UK government has blocked a deal to supply vision sensing technology to China. The deal with the University of Manchester for the SCAMP-5 and SCAMP-7 vision sensing technology has…
IQM raises €128m in Europe’s largest quantum computing round
IQM raises €128m in Europe’s largest quantum computing round
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IQM Quantum Computers in Finland has raised €128m ($128m) to scale up its quantum computer technology in the biggest round of funding in Europe so far. The Series A2 funding…
Analog-in-memory AI processor startup uses memristors
Analog-in-memory AI processor startup uses memristors
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TetraMem in Calfornia is developing analog-in-memory compute processor architecture using memristor technology. The company was founded in 2018 by four engineers with common experience at Hewlett Packard working on memristor…
ABB pulls out of Russia
ABB pulls out of Russia
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Swiss engineering giant ABB is to pull out of Russia after 149 days of war in Ukraine. The company stopped taking orders in Russia when the war broke out, but…
Israel to build open architecture quantum computer
Israel to build open architecture quantum computer
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Quantum Machines (QM) leading establishment of the Israel Quantum Computing Centre using technology from the UK and the Netherlands. The three year, $29 million project is part of the $390…


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