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Bosch appoints new CEO for Five AI
Bosch appoints new CEO for Five AI
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Bosch has appointed a new boss for its Five AI subsidiary, acquired in 2022. Dieter Hoetzer has taken over as…
NGK teams for hybrid ceramic module substrates
NGK teams for hybrid ceramic module substrates
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A startup in Taiwan is developing ceramic substrates combined with rechargeable lithium ion batteries for optoelectronic and RF modules. PanelSemi…
Ilika ships prototype solid state silicon battery cell to car maker
Ilika ships prototype solid state silicon battery cell to car maker
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UK battery developer Ilika has shipped its first batch of prototype solid state battery pouch cells for testing by a…
Rogue Valley set to receive CHIPS funding for 300mm MEMS fab
Rogue Valley set to receive CHIPS funding for 300mm MEMS fab
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Pure-play MEMS foundry Rogue Valley Microdevices Inc. (Medford, Oregon) is set to receive up to US$6.7 million in direct government…

Nvidia set to be charged under French competition law
Nvidia set to be charged under French competition law
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Nvidia is set to be charged with alleged anti-competitive practices by the French antitrust regulator, according to a Reuters report that referenced unnamed sources. The preparation of charges follows a…
GF buys GaN power IP from Tagore Tech
GF buys GaN power IP from Tagore Tech
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Foundry GlobalFoundries has acquired an IP portfolio of power GaN technology and staff from Tagore Technology in the US for an undisclosed sum. Tagore Technology, set up in 2011, has…
Rolling Wireless to use Autotalks 5G V2X chips
Rolling Wireless to use Autotalks 5G V2X chips
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Rolling Wireless in Luxembourg is the first to use the Secton3 and Tekton3 V2X chips for modules for vehicles and e-bikes. The Rolling Wireless RX135x is the first 5G V2X…
Globalfoundries buys GaN IP portfolio from Tagore
Globalfoundries buys GaN IP portfolio from Tagore
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Foundry chipmaker GlobalFoundries Inc. has acquired a portfolio of gallium nitride power semiconductor intellectual property form Tagore Technology Inc. (Chicago, Illinois). Tagore Technology was founded in January 2011 to pioneer…
Ampere teams for Renault EV LFP supply chain
Ampere teams for Renault EV LFP supply chain
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Ampere has teamed up with four major battery suppliers to create a supply chain for LFP (Lithium Iron Phosphate) systems for Renault’s electric vehicles. With its partner LG Energy Solution,…
SoftBank offers £400 million for AI startup Graphcore, says report
SoftBank offers £400 million for AI startup Graphcore, says report
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Japan’s SoftBank Group, has offered about £400 million (about US$500 million) for troubled AI startup Graphcore Ltd. (Bristol, England). The deal is being reviewed by the UK government under national…
CXMT to invest US$2.35 billion in AI memory packaging fab
CXMT to invest US$2.35 billion in AI memory packaging fab
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Chinese DRAM maker ChangXin Memory Technologies Inc. (CXMT) is set to spend 17.1 billion yuan (about US$2.35 billion) to build an advanced packaging plant in Shanghai, according to Bloomberg. The…
Partnership to bring trusted AI, LLMs to industrial applications
Partnership to bring trusted AI, LLMs to industrial applications
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Partnership uniquely combines virtual twin experiences and sovereign cloud infrastructure with LLMs to offer industrial grade frontier AI.
Joe Costello sells Metrics, his latest EDA startup
Joe Costello sells Metrics, his latest EDA startup
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Joe Costello, a former CEO of Cadence Design Systems, has sold his latest EDA startup, Metrics Design Automation. Metrics in Canada was founded in 2017 and has developed a digital…
Nokia heads into the data centre with $2.3bn Infinera buy  
Nokia heads into the data centre with $2.3bn Infinera buy  
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Nokia is to acquire US optical networking specialist Infinera in a deal worth $2.3bn to drive its technologies into the data centre. The Infinera deal follows the restructuring of the…
InspireSemi, imec tape out RISC-V AI chip with 1536 cores
InspireSemi, imec tape out RISC-V AI chip with 1536 cores
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US startup Inspire Semiconductor has worked with Belgian research lab imec to tape out a chip design with 1,536 64bit custom RISC-V CPU cores with a low latency interconnect. The…
ST restructures for the AI age
ST restructures for the AI age
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STMicroelectronics is fundamentally restructuring its business for the AI age, introducing predictive qualification and fully automated IP, library, test and packaging. ST aims to introduce new business structures and manufacturing…
Libattion raises €14m for second life battery packs
Libattion raises €14m for second life battery packs
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Swiss startup Libattion has raised €14m to scale up its energy storage systems using battery packs from electric vehicles Libattion has developed algorithms and power control systems to extend the…
Satellite connection for solar-powered forest wildfire sensor network
Satellite connection for solar-powered forest wildfire sensor network
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Dryad Networks has signed a deal to provide direct satellite connection to its forest wildfire sensor network. The deal with French satellite operator Kinéis will integrate satellite communication direct from…
Axelera AI raises $68m for data centre push
Axelera AI raises $68m for data centre push
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Dutch edge AI chip developer Axelera AI has raised $68m in an oversubscribed round as it looks to expand to the data centre The Series B financing round brings the…
$200m for 200mm GaN and SiC in Hamburg
$200m for 200mm GaN and SiC in Hamburg
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Nexperia is to invest €184m ($200m) into its site in Hamburg, Germany to boost R&D and process development for gallium nitride (GaN) and silicon carbide (SiC) power technologies using 200mm…
Adtran and Iridium boost PNT resilience against GNSS threats
Adtran and Iridium boost PNT resilience against GNSS threats
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As cyber threats to GNSS grow, network operators are turning to alternative sources of positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) data.
$40m to scale up solid state battery production for EVs
$40m to scale up solid state battery production for EVs
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Saint-Gobain and KLA are working with Ion Storage Systems to accelerate the production of anodeless solid state batteries for electric vehicles in the US. The $40m, three year project from…
McLaren calls for UK government support for supercar battery hub
McLaren calls for UK government support for supercar battery hub
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The UK can lead the electrification of supercar production if it can attract investment into the domestic supply-chain, says McLaren Automotive CEO, Michael Leiters. The existing UK supply-chain is currently…
Holoscan deal for real time medical AI data interconnect
Holoscan deal for real time medical AI data interconnect
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Real-Time Innovations (RTI) is working with Nvidia on real-time data connectivity for the Holoscan software development kit (SDK) in medical applications. The deal integrates the RTI Connext publish/subscribe real time data…
VW taps Rivian to solve its software woes
VW taps Rivian to solve its software woes
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Volkswagen is set up a joint venture for software defined vehicles (SDV) with electric vehicle startup Rivian in a $5bn deal. VW will invest $3bn into Rivian over the next…
Startup Etched raises US$120m to bet on transformer-only ASIC
Startup Etched raises US$120m to bet on transformer-only ASIC
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Etched.ai Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.), a 2022 startup, has raised US$120 million in Series A round of funding to develop a transformer-only ASIC called Sohu and take on Nvidia. The company…
Samsung’s Texas fab could start on 2nm in 2026, says report
Samsung’s Texas fab could start on 2nm in 2026, says report
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Samsung is taking steps to set the beginning of production at its wafer fab in Taylor, Texas, in 2026 rather than 2024 and could start with a 2nm manufacturing process,…
First RISC-V laptop gets performance boost and Ubuntu
First RISC-V laptop gets performance boost and Ubuntu
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DeepComputing partners with Canonical to enable a huge boost to the DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop family, a major leap forward for the open-source community.


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