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NGK backs roll-to-roll perovskite solar cell startup
NGK backs roll-to-roll perovskite solar cell startup
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Japanese ultrathin battery maker NGK Insulators has invested in a startup developing perovskite solar cells. EneCoat Technologies Co., Ltd is…
Infineon doubles packaging capacity in Indonesia
Infineon doubles packaging capacity in Indonesia
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Infineon Technologies is expanding its backend operations in Indonesia, buying a neighbouring site from PT Unisem. PT Infineon Technologies Batam…
Bosch buys UK driverless car software startup Five
Bosch buys UK driverless car software startup Five
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Bosch is to buy Five, Europe’s leading startup for driverless cars for an undisclosed sum Five employs 140 associates at…
Globalgig partners with Thales on global, resilient massive IoT
Globalgig partners with Thales on global, resilient massive IoT
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Smart IoT connectivity to guarantee service continuity for devices at rest or in movement and leverage the flexibility of widely…

Arianespace to put the Amazon Kuiper constellation into orbit
Arianespace to put the Amazon Kuiper constellation into orbit
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Avio will be involved on the production of the P120C+ solid rocket boosters for 18 launches to put the constellation up.
Intel, ADI in US chip alliance
Intel, ADI in US chip alliance
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Three leading US chip manufacturers have joined Mitre Engenuity’s semiconductor alliance with the aim of bolstering the resilience of the US semiconductor industry. Intel and Analog Devices, which both have…
Perovskite display materials startup Helio raises Series A
Perovskite display materials startup Helio raises Series A
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Helio Display Materials Ltd. (Oxford, England), a startup developing metal-halide perovskite materials for display applications, has raised $4.75 million in a Series A round of investment. The company has also…
Littelfuse buys C&K Switches in $540m deal
Littelfuse buys C&K Switches in $540m deal
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Littelfuse in the US is to buy C&K Switches in a deal worth $540m. Littelfuse has a range of technologies, from silicon fuses and connectors to silicon carbide power MOSFETs…
Sun sells C&K Switches to Littelfuse for $540 million
Sun sells C&K Switches to Littelfuse for $540 million
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Sun Capital Partners Inc. (Chicago, Illinois) has agreed to sell C&K Switches to Littelfuse Inc. for a total enterprise value of $540 million. Since its formation in 1928, C&K (Waltham,…
Escatec looks to boost growth with new CEO
Escatec looks to boost growth with new CEO
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The CEO of Swiss electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider Escatec, Patrick Macdonald, is leaving suddenly for personal reasons. The company has appointed industry veteran Ernest Sebak as CEO from today…
Intel, Micron, Analog Devices form US chip alliance
Intel, Micron, Analog Devices form US chip alliance
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Intel, Micro and Analog Devices – three leading US chip manufacturers – have joined Mitre Engenuity’s semiconductor alliance with the aim of bolstering the resilience of the US semiconductor industry.
Thales teams for safety critical AI in space
Thales teams for safety critical AI in space
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Thales Alenia Space has signed a deal with Italian startup Aiko for AI software in space applications. Aiko, based in Torino, Italy, has a focus on safety critical system design,…
ASML ships EUV scanner to Irish fab
ASML ships EUV scanner to Irish fab
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Intel has taken delivery of its first EUV lithography system for its fab in Leixlip, Ireland, The system, made by ASML in the Netherlands, is a key part of the…
Finnish quantum startup to supply Israel universities
Finnish quantum startup to supply Israel universities
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IQM Finland Oy (Espoo, Finland) is providing both Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, with quantum computers. Research groups at the two universities will conduct…
Star Trek NFT collection to launch
Star Trek NFT collection to launch
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Media and entertainment company Paramount and non-fungible token (NFT) branding experience developer RECUR have announced that Star Trek will be the first NFT digital collection to drop from their multi-year…
Machine learning benchmarks for embedded systems
Machine learning benchmarks for embedded systems
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MLCommons has published the latest benchmarks for machine learning and signal analysis embedded systems on low cost microcontrollers. The MLPerf Tiny benchmark suite is intended for the lowest power devices…
Telecom operators to provide free coverage for Ukrainian refugees
Telecom operators to provide free coverage for Ukrainian refugees
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27 telecoms operators across Europe have signed an agreement to provide affordable or free roaming and international calls between the EU and Ukraine during the war. Several EU-wide groups including…
Nissan shows solid state battery line
Nissan shows solid state battery line
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Nissan has unveiled a prototype production facility for laminated all solid state battery cells that could bring the cost of electric vehicles below today’s fossil fuel vehicles. The prototype line…
Australian research hub for diamond-based quantum computers
Australian research hub for diamond-based quantum computers
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Quantum Brilliance, a German-Australian developer of quantum computing hardware and software, has announced a joint research and development hub with La Trobe University and RMIT University in Australia. The hub…
MVG and Anritsu offer support for Wi-Fi 6E OTA measurements
MVG and Anritsu offer support for Wi-Fi 6E OTA measurements
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The Microwave Vision Group (MVG) and Anritsu Corporation have announced a new solution supporting IEEE 802.11ax 6 GHz band (Wi-Fi 6E) OTA measurements by combining an MVG multi-probe system and…
Murata partners with Ignion to simplify IoT design
Murata partners with Ignion to simplify IoT design
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Online antenna cloud computing and artificial intelligence design service enables IoT developers to simplify and accelerate design.
£15m for UK undersea tech firms
£15m for UK undersea tech firms
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Rovco and Vaarst in Bristol, UK, have raised £15.2m (€18m, $20m) to expand the rollout of its undersea technology. Vaarst develops subsea 3D computer vision technologies with AI, supporting…
Synopsys, Juniper team to disrupt silicon photonics market
Synopsys, Juniper team to disrupt silicon photonics market
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Electronic design automation company Synopsys and networking products specialist Juniper Networks have announced that they are collaborating to invest in a new company to pursue the fast-growing silicon photonics market.
Chip packaging lead times rise to 50 weeks
Chip packaging lead times rise to 50 weeks
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UK chip design house Sondrel is warning of issues in chip packaging with lead times increasing from around 8 weeks to as much as 50 weeks or more. Packaging houses…
Intel suspends all operations in Russia
Intel suspends all operations in Russia
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Intel has suspended all business operations in Russia, a move that impacts on 1200 staff. This follows a decision last month to suspend all shipments to customers in Russia and…
Juniper spins out silicon photonics into Synopsys joint venture
Juniper spins out silicon photonics into Synopsys joint venture
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Synopsys and Juniper Networks are setting up a joint venture to develop the industry’s first “Laser-on-a-Chip” open silicon photonics platform The joint venture, as yet unnamed but with Synopsys as…
European space boost from Amazon satellites
European space boost from Amazon satellites
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The launch of Amazon’s Project Kuiper constellation of 3,236 satellites will see a significant boost to the European space industry with two of the largest ever contracts. Arianespace will be…
Medical x-ray firm opens MEMS fab in South Korea
Medical x-ray firm opens MEMS fab in South Korea
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Nano-X Imaging Ltd. (Neve Ilan, Israel) has opened a special wafer fab line in Yongin, South Korea to make MEMS for its xray source. The company, founded in 2011 and…


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