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Flow battery startup raises funds with China focus
Flow battery startup raises funds with China focus
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Energy storage startup Primus Power (Hayward, CA) has raised $32 million to commercialize its flow battery technology and move into the…
Flexible AMOLED display revenues to surpass rigid panels in 2017
Flexible AMOLED display revenues to surpass rigid panels in 2017
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As demand for the flexible AMOLED display continues to sharply increase, its revenues are expected to reach $3.2 billion in…
Micron ramps sales, profits on memory prices
Micron ramps sales, profits on memory prices
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Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho) increased its sales by 58 percent on its second fiscal quarter ended March 2, 2017,…
Kaiam buys UK wafer fab to make photonic ICs
Kaiam buys UK wafer fab to make photonic ICs
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Kaiam Corp. (Newark, Calif.), a manufacturer of lightwave circuits, optical subassemblies, modules, and transceivers, has said it intends to acquire…

Everlight opens automotive factory in Taiwan
Everlight opens automotive factory in Taiwan
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LED manufacturer Everlight Electronics Co., Ltd. announced the opening of a manufacturing plant dedicated to the production of automotive components.
In 2017, flexible AMOLEDs revenues to exceed that of rigid ones, says IHS Markit
In 2017, flexible AMOLEDs revenues to exceed that of rigid ones, says IHS Markit
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As demand for the flexible AMOLED display continues to sharply increase, its revenues are expected to reach $3.2 billion in the third quarter of 2017, exceeding that of rigid AMOLED…
Carbon nanotube battery and supercapacitor research lab launches
Carbon nanotube battery and supercapacitor research lab launches
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A new battery research and development company is being launched today to commercialise carbon nanotube technology.
Startup raises $32m for flow batteries in China
Startup raises $32m for flow batteries in China
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Californian startup Primus Power has raised $32 million to commercialise its flow battery technology and move into the Chinese market.
High-voltage GaN-based power is focus of Transphorm initiative
High-voltage GaN-based power is focus of Transphorm initiative
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A provider of JEDEC-qualified 650V gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductors, Transphorm (Goleta, CA) formally introduced its Silicon Valley Center of Excellence, an initiative to support its customers in the development of…
Transphorm opens GaN Centre of Excellence
Transphorm opens GaN Centre of Excellence
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Transphorm has opened a Silicon Valley Centre of Excellence to support its customers in the development of high voltage gallium nitride (GaN) power applications.
Silicon Valley Center of Excellence opens for GaN
Silicon Valley Center of Excellence opens for GaN
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A provider of JEDEC-qualified 650V gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductors, Transphorm formally introduced its Silicon Valley Center of Excellence, an initiative to support its customers in the development of high-voltage-GaN-based power…
Murata buys power conversion startup Arctic Sand
Murata buys power conversion startup Arctic Sand
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Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. is set to buy Arctic Sand Technologies Inc. (Burlington, Mass.) a developer of power conversion circuits based on switched-capacitor techniques for an undisclosed sum.
AMS buys Princeton VCSEL provider
AMS buys Princeton VCSEL provider
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Analog IC and sensors vendor AMS AG (Premstaetten, Austria) has agreed to buy Princeton Optronics Inc. (Mercerville, New Jersery), a supplier of vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) for up to…
Qualcomm, ASE to build packaging plant in Brazil
Qualcomm, ASE to build packaging plant in Brazil
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A consortium comprising Qualcomm, ASE Group and several Brazilian government agencies have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that they will invest $200 million in a semiconductor assembly and packing…
Neural networking startup raises funds for ‘local AI’ chip
Neural networking startup raises funds for ‘local AI’ chip
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Startup machine-learning chip developer Mythic (Austin, TX) – founded in 2012 as Isocline Engineer Corp. – has raised $9.3 million in a Series A round of funding.
SkyWater foundry granted trusted fab status
SkyWater foundry granted trusted fab status
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SkyWater Technology Foundry Inc. (Bloomington, Minnesota), the chip foundry formed out of the sale of a Cypress Semiconductor 200mm wafer fab, has been accredited as Category 1A Trusted Foundry by…
Machine learning chip startup raises $9 million
Machine learning chip startup raises $9 million
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Startup machine-learning chip developer Mythic (Austin, Texas) – founded in 2012 as Isocline Engineer Corp. – has raised $9.3 million in a Series A round of funding.
Using IR to detect people is focus of IoT research project
Using IR to detect people is focus of IoT research project
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In a joint industry/academia engagement, element14.com and Panasonic Automotive & Industrial Systems Europe together with a number of engineering schools from the UK and Germany have launched a research project…
Okmetic invests €40 million in MEMS wafer production
Okmetic invests €40 million in MEMS wafer production
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Specialist wafer supplier Okmetic Oy (Vantaa, Finland) – which was acquired by China's National Silicon Industry Group (NSIG) in 2016 – has said it will spend €40 million upgrading its…
Renesas joins LoRa Alliance™
Renesas joins LoRa Alliance™
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Renesas Electronics has announced that it has joined the LoRa Alliance™, an open non-profit association that supports the standardization and drives the widespread adoption of LoRaWAN™. This membership will help…
Infrared people detection is focus of IoT research project
Infrared people detection is focus of IoT research project
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In a joint industry/academia engagement, element14.com and Panasonic Automotive & Industrial Systems Europe together with a number of engineering schools from the UK and Germany have launched a research project…
Infrared people detection is focus of IoT research project
Infrared people detection is focus of IoT research project
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In a joint industry/academia engagement, element14.com and Panasonic Automotive & Industrial Systems Europe together with a number of engineering schools from the UK and Germany have launched a research project…
Autotalks switches to higher gear in V2X chip market
Autotalks switches to higher gear in V2X chip market
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Fabless chipmaker Autotalks has raised $30 million in D round funding. With the money, the V2V (Vehicle-to-Vehicle) communications pioneer can expand its global activities.
V2X chipset vendor raises $30 million
V2X chipset vendor raises $30 million
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Automotive communications chipset vendor Autotalks Ltd. (Kfar Netter, Israel) has raised $30 million in a Round D of funding.
IoT research project centres around Grid-EYE IR array sensor
IoT research project centres around Grid-EYE IR array sensor
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In a joint industry/academia engagement, element14.com and Panasonic Automotive & Industrial Systems Europe together with a number of engineering schools from the UK and Germany have launched a research project…
TSMC considers US for 3nm wafer fab site
TSMC considers US for 3nm wafer fab site
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Foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. is considering building a next-generation wafer fab with a nominal manufacturing node of 3nm in the US, according to reports.
Apple hires group of UK GPU engineers
Apple hires group of UK GPU engineers
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Apple's efforts to design its own graphics processing cores appear to have been ramped up with a pulse of hiring of people that had immediately previously worked for Imagination Technologies…
UHD Alliance delivers premium certification to Samsung’s 2017 QLED TV Line-up
UHD Alliance delivers premium certification to Samsung’s 2017 QLED TV Line-up
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Samsung Electronics announced its 2017 QLED TV line-up has been certified by the UHD Alliance (UHDA) as ULTRA HD PREMIUM. The certification encompasses the 2017 QLED TV portfolio, including the…


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