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Silicon battery tops 1000Wh/l
Silicon battery tops 1000Wh/l
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A lithium ion battery cell with a silicon anode developed by Sionic Energy is set to top an energy density…
First projects in £4.7m Scottish photonics, quantum accelerator
First projects in £4.7m Scottish photonics, quantum accelerator
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The first projects have been announced for a Photonics and Quantum Accelerator (PQA) in Scotland. The PQA brings together researchers…
US bets over $6bn to bring back DRAM
US bets over $6bn to bring back DRAM
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The US government is to provide up to $6.15bn to Micron Technology to bring volume DRAM memory production back to…
ROHM and TSMC collaborate on GaN for automotive
ROHM and TSMC collaborate on GaN for automotive
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GaN technology offers environmental benefits in automotive applications, such as on-board chargers and inverters for EVs.

Rohm taps TSMC for volume GaN production
Rohm taps TSMC for volume GaN production
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Japanese power chip developer Rohm has signed a strategic partnership on development and volume production of gallium nitride (GaN) devices for electric vehicle applications. The partnership will integrate ROHM’s device…
TSMC’s November sales up by 34 percent year-on-year
TSMC’s November sales up by 34 percent year-on-year
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November sales at TSMC, the world’s leading foundry, were NT$276.06 billion (about US$8.48 billion, a sequential drop of 12. 2 percent but up year-on-year by 34.0 percent. Sequential drops in…
Infineon adds SAE 21434 security to Traveo MCUs
Infineon adds SAE 21434 security to Traveo MCUs
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Infineon Technologies is retrofitting SAE 21434 cybersecurity to its Traveo T2G body and cluster microcontrollers. The increasing connectivity of road vehicles leads to a growing need for cybersecurity. OEMs need…
China to probe Nvidia for breaches of anti-monopoly law
China to probe Nvidia for breaches of anti-monopoly law
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China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) has initiated an investigation into AI-GPU market leader Nvidia Corp. A notice published by SAMR cites two reasons for the investigation. One reason…
Swiss satellite firms opens US control centre
Swiss satellite firms opens US control centre
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Satellite maker Swissto12 is opening a command and control centre in the US for its 3D printed small geostationary satellites. Swissto12 makes a geostationary communications small satellite called Hummingbird, developed…
Graphene in CMOS process for 2D interconnect
Graphene in CMOS process for 2D interconnect
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A US startup has achieved wafer-scale synthesis of high-quality graphene within a 300mm CMOS wafer process. California-based Destination 2D says this is the first two-dimensional (2D) material in mainstream semiconductor…
AST SpaceMobile and Vodafone to offer space-based cellular broadband
AST SpaceMobile and Vodafone to offer space-based cellular broadband
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The agreement establishes the framework for Vodafone to offer space-based cellular broadband connectivity in its home and partner markets.
Joint venture to build European radar satellites in UAE
Joint venture to build European radar satellites in UAE
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Finnish satellite maker ICeye has signed a joint venture to make its radar satellites in the United Arab Emirates and transfer the technology. The strategic joint venture with Space42 addresses…
Semidynamics RISC-V AI IP selected for LLM applications
Semidynamics RISC-V AI IP selected for LLM applications
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The RISC-V GenAI compute IP combines the power and efficiency to enable disruptive Processing In Memory DRAM chips for mobile.
Sondrel ships complete turnkey AI accelerator chip
Sondrel ships complete turnkey AI accelerator chip
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UK design house Sondrel is shipping its first chip produced under a full turnkey contract of concept to silicon. The AI accelerator chip was developed for a US customer on…
X-fab grabs $50m cash for Lubbock SiC fab
X-fab grabs $50m cash for Lubbock SiC fab
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The roll out of grants for semiconductor plants in the last stages of the US CHIPS Act continues with $50m for the silicon carbide (SiC) power device fab in Lubbock…
Stellantis signs Zeta Energy for lithium sulfur EV batteries
Stellantis signs Zeta Energy for lithium sulfur EV batteries
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European car maker Stellantis has signed a deal to develop fast charging lithium sulfur batteries that could be lighter and cost less than half the price per kWh of current…
Intel re-affirms “product-and-foundry” strategy with director appointments
Intel re-affirms “product-and-foundry” strategy with director appointments
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Troubled US chip giant Intel Corp. has announced that Eric Meurice, former CEO of ASML Holding NV, and Steve Sanghi, chair and interim CEO of Microchip Technology Inc., have been…
$27m to roll out diamond cooling for Indian datacentre power
$27m to roll out diamond cooling for Indian datacentre power
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Akash Systems in the US has received a $27m contract to roll out its diamond cooling technology in datacentres in India. The contract will see Akash will deliver its ‘Diamond…
$75m CHIPS Act cash for glass substrates
$75m CHIPS Act cash for glass substrates
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The last days of the Biden administration in the US has seen an award of $75m to Absolics confirmed for manufacturing of glass substrates for AI chiplet packaging. Absolics,…
Samsung, SK Hynix partner on processing-in-memory
Samsung, SK Hynix partner on processing-in-memory
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Memory chip manufacturers Samsung and SK Hynix are collaborating to standardize processing-in-memory (PIM) in the form of an LP-DDR6 memory, according to Business Korea. The collaboration includes preliminary work to…
Intel approaches Lip-Bu Tan, Marvell’s Murphy about CEO post
Intel approaches Lip-Bu Tan, Marvell’s Murphy about CEO post
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Intel has approached both former board member Lip-Bu Tan and Matt Murphy, CEO of Marvell, about taking the CEO post following the departure of Pat Gelsinger earlier this week, according…
SKY Perfect JSAT innovation lab uses pioneering NTN testbed
SKY Perfect JSAT innovation lab uses pioneering NTN testbed
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Wireless network NTN testbed form VIAVI Solutions and Rohde & Schwarz chosen for technical testing to 3GPP 5G standards.
Silicon Labs ships four million SoCs with Wirepas to India
Silicon Labs ships four million SoCs with Wirepas to India
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The SoCs with proprietary Wirepas RF mesh technology for smart electricity meters are part of India’s Advanced Metering Initiative, delivering 99.9 percent reliability.
Soitec, GF team on 300mm RF-SOI
Soitec, GF team on 300mm RF-SOI
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GlobalFoundries (GF) is to use 300mm silicon on insulator wafers from Soitec in France for its 9SW RF process technology. The deal provides supply of advanced RF-SOI engineered substrates required…
Cadence aids AST in advancing space-based cellular broadband
Cadence aids AST in advancing space-based cellular broadband
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Cadence innovative ASIC design accelerates AST SpaceMobile’s mission to connect everyday smartphones worldwide with broadband satellite.
COSEL picks ROHM EcoSiC™ technology for 3.5 kW AC-DC PSUs
COSEL picks ROHM EcoSiC™ technology for 3.5 kW AC-DC PSUs
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AC-DC PSUs for 3-phase applications achieves up to 94% efficiency by using SiC MOSFETs and SiC Schottky barrier diodes from ROHM.
Škoda tops 1m battery systems, expands Czech plant
Škoda tops 1m battery systems, expands Czech plant
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Škoda Auto is expanding its battery plant in Mladá Boleslav in the Czech Republic with a third line as it produces its millionth battery system. The carmaker has been manufacturing…
Q5D raises £2m for automated wiring robot
Q5D raises £2m for automated wiring robot
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Q5D Technologies has raised £2m for the development of its automated wireless harness tools. The funding for the UK startup comes from the British Business Bank’s South West Investment Fund and…


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