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BMW contracts Valeo for ADAS, sensors, software
BMW contracts Valeo for ADAS, sensors, software
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Valeo and the BMW Group have entered into a major collaboration for which Valeo will provide the ADAS domain controller,…
Software République unveils first milestones for smart and sustainable mobility
Software République unveils first milestones for smart and sustainable mobility
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Software République, an open innovation ecosystem for smart mobility, has unveiled its first milestones at the Viva Technology conference -…
Siemens, Nvidia team for industrial metaverse
Siemens, Nvidia team for industrial metaverse
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Two electronics giants, Siemens and Nvidia, are linking their digital twin tools to enable an industrial metaverse. The two will…
SiFive opens Cambridge RISC-V design centre
SiFive opens Cambridge RISC-V design centre
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RISC-V chip designer SiFive has opened its new UK Research & Development (R&D) Centre headquartered in Cambridge. SiFive plans to…

Shenzhen recruits former Elpida CEO to kickstart DRAM startup
Shenzhen recruits former Elpida CEO to kickstart DRAM startup
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Memory chip startup SwaySure Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China), founded in March 2022, has recruited 74-year-old Yukio Sakamoto, former CEO of Japanese DRAM maker Elpida Memory, as its chief strategy…
European tech drives boost to US EV charging infrastructure
European tech drives boost to US EV charging infrastructure
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European power technology is at the heart of $700m investment into the rollout of chargers for electric vehicles across the US. The programme aims to boost local manufacturing capacity to…
Intel boosts cloud EDA for its foundry business
Intel boosts cloud EDA for its foundry business
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Intel Foundry Services (IFS) has launched the next phase of its Accelerator ecosystem program with an alliance for cloud-based design tools. The IFS Cloud Alliance will enable secure design environments in the…
Liquid cooling solution cuts data center energy use up to 30%
Liquid cooling solution cuts data center energy use up to 30%
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Immersion cooling solutions provider Iceotope has announced a chassis-level cooling system developed in collaboration with Intel and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE).
Siemens acquires US AI analytics firm for $1.5bn
Siemens acquires US AI analytics firm for $1.5bn
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The consolidation of industrial AI analytics tool providers continues with Siemens snapping up Brightly Software in the US for $1.575bn. Siemens Smart Infrastructure (SI) is to acquire Brightly for its…
GlobalWafers to build 300mm silicon wafer megafactory in Texas
GlobalWafers to build 300mm silicon wafer megafactory in Texas
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Taiwanese wafer supplier GlobalWafers is to build a major new plant in the US to tackle the shortage of 300mm silicon wafers. The 3.2m sq ft plant in Sherman, Texas,…
imec spinout Swave raises €7m for 3D display
imec spinout Swave raises €7m for 3D display
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Swave Photonics in Leuven has emerged from stealth mode raised €7m ($7m) to commercialise a 3D real time holographic display engine. The company is a spin out of Belgian research…
Athonet launches 5G Consortium to drive private mobile networks
Athonet launches 5G Consortium to drive private mobile networks
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The 5G Consortium helps match the business need with radios, devices and appliances that are interoperable with the Athonet mobile core.
RINA Wireless deploys 5G upgradable mobile core architecture
RINA Wireless deploys 5G upgradable mobile core architecture
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Mavenir cloud-native, containerized converged packet core to expand 5G mobile and FWA services with 4G support.
Wireless power over 40m for battery -free Bluetooth sensor
Wireless power over 40m for battery -free Bluetooth sensor
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Powercast in the US is working with InPlay to provide wireless power over a distance of 40m to a battery free Bluetooth Low Energy sensor chip. The InPlay NanoBeacon system-on-chip…
Taiwan energy price hike set to hit chip makers
Taiwan energy price hike set to hit chip makers
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Taiwan is increasing electricity prices by an average of 8.4 percent for industrial customers such as chipmakers, a hike that is likely to be passed on to electronics customers. The…
Nanya breaks ground on double-decker wafer fab
Nanya breaks ground on double-decker wafer fab
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Taiwan’s leading DRAM maker Nanya Technology Corp. has broken ground on its next wafer fab in New Taipei City. Nanya plans to spend about NT$300 billion (about US$10 billion) to…
Daimler Truck tests fuel cell truck with liquid hydrogen
Daimler Truck tests fuel cell truck with liquid hydrogen
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Daimler Truck wants to use hydrogen fuel cells to bring electrically powered trucks into series production that can travel up to 1000 kilometers on one tank of fuel. Now the…
China okays SK Hynix’s acquisition of Key Foundry – report
China okays SK Hynix’s acquisition of Key Foundry – report
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Chinese regulators have approved SK Hynix’s acquisition of Key Foundry, according to a Korea IT News report. Memory chip maker SK Hynix Inc. has said it has agreed to acquire…
FEV, ProLogium jointly develop solid-state battery systems
FEV, ProLogium jointly develop solid-state battery systems
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Development service provider FEV and technology company ProLogium, a leading manufacturer of solid-state batteries, have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on the development of solid-state battery systems. The…
Foundries.io looks to $1bn IPO
Foundries.io looks to $1bn IPO
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Foundries.io is aiming for a public share offering (IPO) worth $1bn in the next three years, says chairman Ian Drew. “My aim is to create a European technology company with…
Quantum computing shows ‘high potential’ for risk aggregation
Quantum computing shows ‘high potential’ for risk aggregation
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Quantum computing company IonQ and GE Research, the central innovation hub for General Electric, say they have seen promising early results while exploring the benefits of quantum computing for modeling…
Borda Technology, Silabs team on Bluetooth location services
Borda Technology, Silabs team on Bluetooth location services
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Silicon Labs has launched a Bluetooth Location Service using low-power Bluetooth devices to simplify Angle of Arrival (AoA) and Angle of Departure (AoD) calculations The system, shown for the first…
Chinese DPU chip firm gains funds, unicorn status
Chinese DPU chip firm gains funds, unicorn status
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Data processing unit (DPU) chip company Jaguar Microsystems (Shanghai, China), founded in 2020 by former Broadcom executive Sunny Siu, has raised a round of financing worth hundreds of millions of…
YMTC preps second Wuhan wafer fab for NAND flash
YMTC preps second Wuhan wafer fab for NAND flash
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China’s national champion NAND flash producer Yangtze Memory Technology Co. Ltd. is planning to bring its second wafer fab online in Wuhan by the end of 2022, according to a…
Opteran raises $12m for neuromorphic AI
Opteran raises $12m for neuromorphic AI
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UK AI chip startup Opteran has raised $12m to further develop its optical flow AI technology into decision making. The funding round was led by Join Capital, with additional funding…
IQE signs strategic supply agreement for laser wafers
IQE signs strategic supply agreement for laser wafers
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IQE in Wales has signed a multi-year agreement with photonics giant Lumentum for the supply of epiwafers supporting 3D sensing, LiDAR for automotive and optical networking applications. Lumentum has been…
Tech giants unite to drive metaverse interoperability
Tech giants unite to drive metaverse interoperability
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Over 30 leading technology companies and standards organizations - including Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Adobe and Unity - have united in an effort to drive industry-wide cooperation on interoperability standards needed…
Solid Sands and SYSGO deepen partnership on safety-critical projects
Solid Sands and SYSGO deepen partnership on safety-critical projects
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Collaboration ensures Solid Sands can provide the best safety-critical qualification and test experience during test and validation period of a development cycle.


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