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CEO interview: Walter Goodwin, Fractile
CEO interview: Walter Goodwin, Fractile
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UK chip designer Fractile is on the way to producing AI chips for datacentres. The company is developing an in-memory…
Executives from Infineon, NXP join Dolphin’s board
Executives from Infineon, NXP join Dolphin’s board
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Semiconductor IP licensor Dolphin Semiconductor SAS (Meylan, France) has appointed former senior Infineon executive Robert LeFort as chair and Shelly…
Infineon beats quarterly forecast, raises 2025 outlook
Infineon beats quarterly forecast, raises 2025 outlook
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Chip company Infineon Technologies AG (Munich, Germany) has beaten its own revenue forecast for its first quarter fiscal year 2025…
NXP Semiconductors hit by automotive downturn
NXP Semiconductors hit by automotive downturn
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NXP Semiconductors has added to the falling results in the wider semiconductor business with full year results down 5% to…

Teledyne completes acquisition of UK optical business in $710m deal
Teledyne completes acquisition of UK optical business in $710m deal
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Teledyne Technologies has completed the $710m acquisition of select aerospace and defense electronics businesses from Excelitas Technologies in the US. The cash deal includes the optical systems business known under…
Teradyne buys Infineon power semiconductor test team
Teradyne buys Infineon power semiconductor test team
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Teradyne is to acquire automated test equipment technology and associated development team from Infineon Technologies. The deal will see Teradyne continue to support Infineon through a service agreement with manufacturing…
President Trump re-iterates intention to impose tariffs on chips
President Trump re-iterates intention to impose tariffs on chips
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President Trump has repeated that he intends to impose tariffs on semiconductor products, saying they would apply to “chips and things associated with chips.” He spoke to press during a…
ST looks to cut up to 6% of staff, says report
ST looks to cut up to 6% of staff, says report
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Struggling European chipmaker STMicroelectronics NV is looking to cut between 2,000 and 3,000 staff to address a slump in the industrial and automotive chip markets it serves, according to Bloomberg.
Teradyne and Infineon team up on ATE power test
Teradyne and Infineon team up on ATE power test
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Teradyne to acquire part of the Infineon ATE team while Infineon enters into a service agreement for its test needs.
Foundry unit haunts tepid Intel fourth quarter results
Foundry unit haunts tepid Intel fourth quarter results
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Former chipmarket leader Intel exceeded some analysts’ expectations with the publication of its 4Q24 financial results. There are indications that the company may be approaching the bottom after a spectacular…
ST forecasts a big first quarter revenue drop
ST forecasts a big first quarter revenue drop
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European chip company STMicroelectronics revealed sales revenue exactly on guidance at $3.32 billion for 4Q24 but said sales will drop by about 27 percent sequentially to about US$2.5 billion in…
Ensilica in UK Space Agency award for satellite broadband ICs
Ensilica in UK Space Agency award for satellite broadband ICs
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The award enables Ensilica to develop a family of ICs to support future highly-integrated mass market satellite broadband user terminals.
SerDes IP for low power telecoms chip
SerDes IP for low power telecoms chip
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Extoll in Germany is to supply its serialiser/deserialiser (SerDes) IP to BeammWave as part of a next generation telecoms chip. BeammWave in Sweden is a specialist in mmWave 5G/6G digital…
£17m for three UK neural implant projects
£17m for three UK neural implant projects
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UK startup MintNeuro has received three funding awards from the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) for its low power semiconductor technology for minimally-invasive neural implant designs. The £17m funding…
Europe approves €48m for Envision AESC French battery gigafactory
Europe approves €48m for Envision AESC French battery gigafactory
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The European Commission has approved a €48 million grant for a second battery gigafactory in France to supply car maker Renault. The measure supports the battery gigafactory by Envision AESC…
US finds backdoor in medical equipment
US finds backdoor in medical equipment
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the US has found cybersecurity vulnerabilities including a backdoor, in a medical patient monitor. The backdoors in the CMS8000 patient monitor and its…
ST plans temporary fab closures after 2024 fall
ST plans temporary fab closures after 2024 fall
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STMicroelectronics is planning temporary closures of multiple fabs as inventory and weak markets hit its 2024 results. “2024 turned out to be one of the worst years in many decades…
Ford deploys AI camera in trucks
Ford deploys AI camera in trucks
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An AI-powered camera monitor system (CMS) from Gauzy in Israel is being deployed by Ford Trucks in the US. The Smart-Vision CMS from Gauzy uses the CV2FS AI SoC,…
Keysight opens Spanish 6G lab
Keysight opens Spanish 6G lab
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Keysight Technologies has opened its 6G research and innovation Lab in Spain with the University of Malaga (UMA). The Malaga 6G Research and Innovation lab is an integral part of…
Zephyr RTOS gets closer to safety certification, adds six members
Zephyr RTOS gets closer to safety certification, adds six members
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The Zephyr Project has added Doulos, Hubble Network, IAR, inovex and Microchip Technology as well as car maker Honda as Silver members for its open source real time operating system as it gets closer to safety…
ST forecasts a big first quarter revenue drop
ST forecasts a big first quarter revenue drop
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European chip company STMicroelectronics revealed sales revenue exactly on guidance at $3.32 billion for 4Q24 but said sales will drop by about 27 percent sequentially to about US$2.5 billion in…
Honda brings SDV software defined vehicle business into the mainstream
Honda brings SDV software defined vehicle business into the mainstream
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Honda, which is aiming to merge with Nissan, is bringing its software defined vehicle (SDV) developments into its mainstream business. The organizational and operational changes to its business will…
ASML sees record revenues despite wafer fab push outs
ASML sees record revenues despite wafer fab push outs
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ASML Holding NV (Veldhoven, The Netherlands) has confirmed its position the largest vendor of chip manufacturing equipment with record revenue in 4Q24. The lithography equipment maker announced a net profit…
UK army looks for long distance drone suppliers
UK army looks for long distance drone suppliers
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The British Army is seeking an uncrewed Deep Reconnaissance Strike (DSR) drone platform with AI that can operate at ranges greater than 80km. The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) has launched a…
Wolfspeed struggles
Wolfspeed struggles
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Wolfspeed has seen a fall in revenues over the last quarter as it struggles to bring up its power fab in downstate New York. Consolidated revenue for the second quarter…
UK fast tracks e-scooter battery standard to tackle fires
UK fast tracks e-scooter battery standard to tackle fires
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The UK government is fast-tracking development of a new standard for e-bike and e-scooter batteries following a report by the Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) at the University of Warwick. The…
Cre8Ventures adds videantis to PAVE360 digital twins
Cre8Ventures adds videantis to PAVE360 digital twins
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Siemens Cre8Ventures has signed a strategic partnership with videantis in Germany for AI digital twin technology in automotive. videantis has developed IP and tools for a highly scalable unified processor for…
Sivers awarded contract for Intelsat SATCOM digitizer program
Sivers awarded contract for Intelsat SATCOM digitizer program
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Program will support the development of a next-generation high-performance digitizer for Intelsat’s SATCOM terminals based on the NXP Layerscape platform.


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