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Sondrel heads to 3nm as it completes 5nm chip design
Sondrel heads to 3nm as it completes 5nm chip design
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UK chip house Sondrel has completed its most complex chip design to date with 50 billion transistors on a 5nm…
Renesas bid for Sequans hangs in the balance
Renesas bid for Sequans hangs in the balance
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Renesas Electronics has extended the expiration date on its offer for French chip designer Sequans following delays in regulatory approvals.
Perovskite display materials move to pilot production
Perovskite display materials move to pilot production
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Helio Display Materials Ltd. (Oxford, England), a startup developing metal-halide perovskite materials for display applications, has announced it is moving…
Infineon extends Aurix microcontroller deal with GlobalFoundries to 40nm
Infineon extends Aurix microcontroller deal with GlobalFoundries to 40nm
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Infineon Technologies has signed a multi-year agreement with GlobalFoundries for the supply of its 40nm automotive microcontrollers. The deal with…

Elephantech borrows for ‘green’ PCBs after signing with Lite-on
Elephantech borrows for ‘green’ PCBs after signing with Lite-on
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Elephantech Inc. (Tokyo, Japan), a developer of reduced-material processes for the creation of PCBs, has borrowed two billion yen (about US$13.5 million) from Mizuho Bank Ltd. The loan has been…
Lotus, Bosch team on EV charging
Lotus, Bosch team on EV charging
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Lotus has announced two new pan-European charging partnerships to support the rapidly growing number of customers taking delivery of its electric vehicles. The deal allows Eletre users to tap into…
Dutch quantum cluster petitions for support
Dutch quantum cluster petitions for support
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Quantum technology firms in the Netherlands are petitioning their government to ensure ongoing support. Recent shifts in the Dutch political landscape have raised valid concerns about the prioritization of strategic…
OpenAI’s Altman wants to build multiple wafer fabs
OpenAI’s Altman wants to build multiple wafer fabs
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Sam Altman, the CEO of Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer OpenAI, is in talks to raise billions of dollars to build a network of wafer fabs, according to reports. Altman…
€360m for Nokia 6G digital twin in Germany
€360m for Nokia 6G digital twin in Germany
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Nokia is planning to spend €360m on the development of digital twin technologies for 5G and 6G chip design as well as hardware and software development at its sites in…
Oppo, AlpsenTek, Qualcomm partner to improve cameras
Oppo, AlpsenTek, Qualcomm partner to improve cameras
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China’s phone brand Oppo has teamed up with AlpsenTek to use Hybrid Vision Sensing (HVS) technology to improve picture quality on mobile phones. AlpsenTek’s hybrid sensor approach combines the traditional…
Foxconn, HCL team up on Indian chip packaging
Foxconn, HCL team up on Indian chip packaging
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Taiwan’s Foxconn is forming a joint venture with Indian IT conglomerate HCL Technologies to form a chip packaging and testing factory in India, according to reports. Various reports referenced a…
Rejool taps Siemens Xcelerator for hydrogen compressor, digital twin
Rejool taps Siemens Xcelerator for hydrogen compressor, digital twin
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German startup Rejool is using digital twin software from Siemens to develop a hydrogen compressor with a digital twin. Rejool is using the Siemens Xcelerator as a Service portfolio…
AI to drive strong chip market growth in 2024, says TSMC
AI to drive strong chip market growth in 2024, says TSMC
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Foundry chip maker TSMC said that a surge of customer interest in artificial intelligence (AI) in 2023 will result in strong chip demand in 2024 with the AI compound annual…
Edge AI chiplet uses SemiDynamics RISC-V cores
Edge AI chiplet uses SemiDynamics RISC-V cores
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YorChip is developing a chiplet for edge AI applications using RISC-V cores from Semidynamics in Barcelona. The edge AI chiplet will use the SemiDynamics Atrevido quad core RISC-V IP and…
Major $55m deal for solid oxide hydrogen power
Major $55m deal for solid oxide hydrogen power
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Delta Electronics is to build a factory to make solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) and solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) stacks using technology from Ceres Power in the UK in…
AMD discontinues CPLDs, low end FPGAs
AMD discontinues CPLDs, low end FPGAs
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AMD has issued a product discontinuation notice for its complex PLD and low end FPGA devices citing declining demand. The product discontinuation notice AMD issued to distributors covers the XC9500XL,…
Neways buys Sencio for packaging tech
Neways buys Sencio for packaging tech
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Dutch equipment maker Neways has acquired the activities of Sencio for its advanced packaging for smart sensing and actuation applications. Sencio will continue to operate under the brand Neways Advanced…
Commercial voice processing chip moves towards tapeout
Commercial voice processing chip moves towards tapeout
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Voice processing chip can completely offload neural network processing for voice detection without the use of a microcontroller.
GCF certifies 3GPP IoT satellite connectivity
GCF certifies 3GPP IoT satellite connectivity
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The Global Certification Forum (GCF) is adding support for satellite communications and non-terrestrial networks (NTN) to its device certification programme, starting with the Internet of Things (IoT). 3GPP NTN NB-IoT and eMTC…
Siemens, VoltaIQ team for battery manufacturing analytics
Siemens, VoltaIQ team for battery manufacturing analytics
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Siemens has teamed with VoltaIQ to accelerate battery manufacturing. The collaboration between Siemens Digital Industries and Voltaiq aims to bring together the production-proven capabilities of both Siemens’ Insights Hub and…
$300m investment values Quantinuum at $5bn
$300m investment values Quantinuum at $5bn
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A $300m investment in quantum computing giant Quantinuum values the company at $5bn ahead of a public offering. The investment was led by US bank JPMorgan Chase with Mitsui, Amgen…
UK launches Critical Imports and Supply Chain strategy with automotive focus
UK launches Critical Imports and Supply Chain strategy with automotive focus
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The UK has launched a strategy for critical imports with a focus on automotive semiconductor and lithium for EV batteries and a plan for an online monitoring portal. The UK…
Anritsu expands into NTN with Skylo test cases
Anritsu expands into NTN with Skylo test cases
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NTN testing will enable device, module, and chipset manufacturers to use a trusted third party to ensure their products are compatible with Skylo's network.
Swisscom cooperates with NVIDIA on trusted Generative AI
Swisscom cooperates with NVIDIA on trusted Generative AI
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Swisscom to build generative AI full-stack supercomputers, based on NVIDIA accelerated computing and NVIDIA AI software, throughout Switzerland and Italy.
Meyer Burger looks to close German solar module plant
Meyer Burger looks to close German solar module plant
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Meyer Burger is blaming the global trade war for a plan to close its solar module plant in Germany after major losses in its first year. Meyer Burger in Switzerland…
Amkor, GloFo cut ribbon on Portugal packaging partnership
Amkor, GloFo cut ribbon on Portugal packaging partnership
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Chip packaging and test services provider Amkor Technology Inc. and Globalfoundries Inc. have a ribbon-cutting ceremony scheduled January 16 for Amkor’s Porto, Portugal facility. The ceremony will mark the formal…
Synopsys to buy Ansys in $35bn simulation move
Synopsys to buy Ansys in $35bn simulation move
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Synopsys has announced its long awaited deal to acquire mixed signal simulation tool pioneer Ansys. The $35bn deal to buy Ansys has been in development for many weeks, and would…
Percepio replaces CEO after one year
Percepio replaces CEO after one year
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Percepio in Sweden has appointed a new chief executive, just a year after Adrian Leufvén was appointed from neighbouring telecoms software developer Enea. Andreas Lifvendahl now joins as Chief Executive…


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