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Wirepas, Laird team for massive rollout of BLE modules
Wirepas, Laird team for massive rollout of BLE modules
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Wirepas in Finland is working with Laird Connectivity on combined hardware and software in Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) modules for…
TSMC teams with Nvidia, Broadcom on silicon photonics
TSMC teams with Nvidia, Broadcom on silicon photonics
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TSMC has formed a silicon photonics R&D team of 200 engineers to work with Nvidia Corp. and Broadcom to target…
IQE sees sales slump, tips slow market recovery
IQE sees sales slump, tips slow market recovery
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Sales in the first half of 2023 at compound semiconductor wafer supplier IQE plc (Cardiff, Wales) were down by 39.7…
Qualcomm to supply Apple with 5G modems to 2026
Qualcomm to supply Apple with 5G modems to 2026
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Qualcomm modems to drive the next phase of 5G evolution enabled by 3GPP Release 17 and Release 18 features.

US brings Vietnam into the semiconductor CHIPS Act
US brings Vietnam into the semiconductor CHIPS Act
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The US government bringing Vietnam into its CHIPS Act with major investments by Synopsys and Marvell for chip design centres and Amkor for assembly. The recent CHIPS and Science Act…
Qualcomm secures Apple’s 5G business through 2026
Qualcomm secures Apple’s 5G business through 2026
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Qualcomm Technologies Inc. has said it has agreed to supply Apple with Snapdragon 5G RF modems for smartphones to be launched in 2024, 2025 and 2026. Qualcomm said that part…
Korea’s SKC moves in on US chiplet infrastructure
Korea’s SKC moves in on US chiplet infrastructure
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SKC Co., a South Korean materials company, is acquiring a 12 percent stake in Chipletz Inc. (Austin, Texas), a fabless substrate startup, according to the Yonhap news agency. SKC is…
Nexperia plans to cut 100 jobs at Newport wafer fab
Nexperia plans to cut 100 jobs at Newport wafer fab
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Nexperia proposes to cut 100 jobs at its controversial wafer fab in Newport after there has been little activity over its compelled sale of the plant. The staff association at…
BMW moves its automated driving system into the Amazon cloud
BMW moves its automated driving system into the Amazon cloud
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BMW has signed a deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the cloud provider for its automated driving platform across its range. The BMW Group will develop its next-generation advanced…
Startup in Series A funding to drive AI and IoT MRAM
Startup in Series A funding to drive AI and IoT MRAM
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Memory delivers 20 to 290x lower leakage and 10 to 30x lower standby power cutting consumption in AI systems.
Navitas looks to expand European, US capacity for GaN and SiC
Navitas looks to expand European, US capacity for GaN and SiC
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Navitas is looking to expand its capacity for gallium nitride (GaN) and silicon carbide (SiC) power devices in Europe and the US to reduce reliance on Taiwan. The company is…
Funding boost for niobium battery startup Echion
Funding boost for niobium battery startup Echion
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UK battery startup Echion Technologies has secured significant investment from Volta Energy Technologies The investment from US-based investor Volta Energy Technologies to further accelerate the scale-up and commercialisation of our…
Smart data grid for water meters
Smart data grid for water meters
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A water provider in the UK is to connect up over one million smart water meters using a data management system from Siemens. This is the largest solution of its…
Verkor signs Nidec for stationary storage systems
Verkor signs Nidec for stationary storage systems
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European battery startup Verkor has signed a strategic partnership with Nidec for stationary battery energy storage systems (BESS). The non-binding partnership will see Verkor produce 10 GWh in battery cells…
Stack AV billion dollar driverless truck launch
Stack AV billion dollar driverless truck launch
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A group of industry entrepreneurs has launched an autonomous trucking business in the US with $1bn backing from Softbank of Japan. Stack AV is developing delf-driving technology to improve efficiency…
Stellantis opens its first battery technology centre
Stellantis opens its first battery technology centre
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Stellantis has opened its first Battery Technology Centre in Turin, Italy, one of the largest in Europe. The €40m centre in at the Mirafiori complex will design, develop and test…
Saab opens radar plant as UK Centre of Excellence
Saab opens radar plant as UK Centre of Excellence
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Saab has opened a radar production facility in the UK as a Centre of Excellence for the technology development. The radar work based the Saab UK Sensor Systems business in…
Mediatek tapes out 3nm chip for volume production in 2024
Mediatek tapes out 3nm chip for volume production in 2024
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Mediatek has taped out its first chip using TSMC’s 3nm technology for a Dimensity system-on-chip (SoC) with volume production expected next year. The 3nm tape out deal is an especially…
Regional Semiconductor Alliance aims for EU CHIPS Act boost
Regional Semiconductor Alliance aims for EU CHIPS Act boost
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27 regions across Europe have come together in the European Semiconductor Regions Alliance to boost the local semiconductor supply chain. The regions, from 12 member states and Wales, launched the…
TTEthernet for next generation Honeywell avionics
TTEthernet for next generation Honeywell avionics
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Honeywell is using the certifiable TTEthernet network technology from TTTech Aerospace for its next generation modular avionics flight deck, Anthem. Aviation applications today are more connected and more data-driven than…
IC Alps opens automotive ASIC design centre in Toulouse
IC Alps opens automotive ASIC design centre in Toulouse
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French design house IC Alps has opened a new design centre in Toulouse with a mature team of 30+ engineers with skills in analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits particularly for…
Philips settles US ventilator recall litigation
Philips settles US ventilator recall litigation
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Royal Philips has settled litigation over the cost of its recall of ventilators in the US. The agreement resolves all economic loss claims in the US Multidistrict Litigation (MDL) related…
ReQuTech secures Asia order for Ku multi-orbit satellite terminal 
ReQuTech secures Asia order for Ku multi-orbit satellite terminal 
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Satellite terminal offers Multi-Orbit performance across LEO and GEO constellations for on-the-move and on-the-pause operations.
Synopsys adds generative AI data analytics across its EDA and fab tools
Synopsys adds generative AI data analytics across its EDA and fab tools
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Synopsys is extending its AI-driven chip design tools with data analytics for every stage of the development process. The AI-driven data analytics in Synopsys.ai aggregates and analyses data across design,…
UK rejoins Horizon EU research programme
UK rejoins Horizon EU research programme
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The UK is to rejoin the Horizon Europe and Copernicus research programmes under a tweaked deal with the European Commission. The new Horizon Europe agreement covers scientific and space collaboration…
Rockwell Automation to acquire Clearpath Robotics, targets AMRs
Rockwell Automation to acquire Clearpath Robotics, targets AMRs
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Acquisition to accelerate end-to-end autonomous production logistics, and add AMRs to the Rockwell portfolio.
Swisscom, Enea team for automated IoT service
Swisscom, Enea team for automated IoT service
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Swisscom is launching an automated IoT service for scalable, low cost secure connections for devices. The IoT service is based on technology from Swedish telecoms software pioneer Enea to…
FPGA boosts detection area for automotive camera
FPGA boosts detection area for automotive camera
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Hitachi Astemo is using AMD’s XA Zynq UltraScale+ FPGA multicore system on chip for a stereo camera platform provides a 3X wider detection area than prior generation cameras The latest…


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