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GloFo launches ASIC design subsidiary
GloFo launches ASIC design subsidiary
Business news |
Globalfoundries Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has announced the the launch of Avera Semiconductor LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary intended to deliver…
SiTime launches timing MEMS for 5G infrastructure
SiTime launches timing MEMS for 5G infrastructure
New Products |
SiTime Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.), a subsidiary of Japanese fabless chip company MegaChips Inc., has announced the Emerald Platform, a…
Esperanto raises funds for AI superchip
Esperanto raises funds for AI superchip
Business news |
Startup AI processor developer Esperanto Technologies Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) has raised $58 million in a series B round of…
Samsung agrees compensation over chip worker illnesses
Samsung agrees compensation over chip worker illnesses
Business news |
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has agreed to pay compensation of up to 150 million won (about US$132,000) per illness over…

CEO interview: Vesper’s Crowley on piezoelectric MEMS and arrays
CEO interview: Vesper’s Crowley on piezoelectric MEMS and arrays
Interviews |
Piezoelectric MEMS have been one of the big successes of recent years as exemplified by the rise of Vesper Technologies Inc. (Boston, Mass.) with its microphones – Chirp Microsystems with…
Winbond adopts secure flash protocol from Nanolock
Winbond adopts secure flash protocol from Nanolock
Technology News |
NanoLock Security Ltd. (Nitzanei Oz, Israel), a startup founded in 2016, has developed a security system that serves IoT devices by providing "cloud-to-flash" protection.
Flex Logix tips move into NN processing
Flex Logix tips move into NN processing
Technology News |
Embedded FPGA licensor Flex Logix Technologies Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) is entering the adjacent market of neural processing with a scalable inferencing engine that delivers up to and beyond 100TOPs…
SerDes technology supports up to 12 Gbps
SerDes technology supports up to 12 Gbps
New Products |
Developed by Inova for high-resolution video applications in motor vehicles (infotainment and ADAS), the company's latest-generation APIX3 (Automotive Pixel Link) is a multi-channel SerDes (serialiser/deserialiser) technology that can host multiple…
CommScope pays $7.4bn for Pace owner
CommScope pays $7.4bn for Pace owner
Business news |
The owner of UK set top box pioneer Pace has been bought by US cabling giant Commscope.
Second-source agreement for high-speed board-to-board connector family
Second-source agreement for high-speed board-to-board connector family
Business news |
Connector manufacturers ERNI and Amphenol ICC have entered into a second-source agreement covering the MicroSpeed connector family, to establish MicroSpeed as the reliable board-to-board solution satisfying challenging high-speed, industrial and…
Piezoelectric tech for £6m ultrasonic surgery project
Piezoelectric tech for £6m ultrasonic surgery project
Technology News |
A research project in Scotland is looking at new ways to use ultrasonic tools for robot-assisted surgery with £6m (€7m) in funding.
Piezoelectric tech for £6m ultrasonic surgery project
Piezoelectric tech for £6m ultrasonic surgery project
Technology News |
A research project in Scotland is looking at new ways to use ultrasonic tools for robot-assisted surgery with £6m (€7m) in funding.
1700V SiC module provides reliability in extreme environments
1700V SiC module provides reliability in extreme environments
New Products |
Rohm has launched a 1700V/250A SiC module for outdoor power generation systems such as inverters for solar power and industrial high-power supplies. …
Energy harvesting Bluetooth LE switch reference design
Energy harvesting Bluetooth LE switch reference design
ON Semiconductor has introduced a Bluetooth Low Energy Switch reference design, based upon the company’s RSL10 System-in-Package (SIP), that operates entirely from harvested energy.
IoT Studio delivers simplicity to IoT developers
IoT Studio delivers simplicity to IoT developers
Digi-Key Electronics has launched a new design tool that looks to provide a simple way for developers to create IoT solutions.
Adesto ships serial NOR Flash devices with support for new JEDEC standard
Adesto ships serial NOR Flash devices with support for new JEDEC standard
Adesto Technologies has shipped the first serial NOR flash devices to support the new xSPI standard (JESD251 and JESD251-1), Serial Flash Reset Signaling Protocol (JESD252) and the latest version of…
Ceramic capacitors in modular flex-assembly technology
Ceramic capacitors in modular flex-assembly technology
New Products |
TDK has extended its range of ceramic capacitors for high power designs in modular flex-assembly technology.
High power GaN switching targets servers and automotive
High power GaN switching targets servers and automotive
New Products |
French gallium nitride (GaN) startup ExasGan has launched power transistors and intelligent, fast-switching devices aimed at automotive and server applications…
QVGA, VGA Time-of-flight sensors monitor car interiors
QVGA, VGA Time-of-flight sensors monitor car interiors
New Products |
Chipmaker Melexis has announced an upgrade to Time-of-Flight (ToF) technology for the automotive industry. The company’s ToF product range now includes a next-generation QVGA ToF sensor chipset and a forthcoming…
VW contracts Korea’s SKI to supply battery cells
VW contracts Korea’s SKI to supply battery cells
Business news |
With the Korean battery cell manufacturer SK Innovation (SKI), Volkswagen has nominated another strategic supplier for e-vehicles based on the company’s Modular Electrification System (MEB). SKI will cover the demand…
Infineon buys Siltectra to boost silicon carbide production
Infineon buys Siltectra to boost silicon carbide production
Business news |
Infineon Technologies has bought Dresden startup Siltectra for €124m to double its yield of silicon carbide (SiC) wafers.
Intel brings forward 5G modem launch
Intel brings forward 5G modem launch
Technology News |
Intel Corp. has said it is accelerating the development of its XMM860 5G modem by six months and now expects to be able to supply it in the second half…
IBM, Seagate partner on blockchain anti-counterfeiting project
IBM, Seagate partner on blockchain anti-counterfeiting project
Technology News |
Data storage technology company Seagate Technology (Cupertino, CA) and IBM (Armonk, NY) have announced that they are working together on a project to reduce global hard drive counterfeiting using blockchain…
IoT beer filtration solution helps brewers boost performance
IoT beer filtration solution helps brewers boost performance
Business news |
Water treatment company Pentair (Minneapolis, MN) has introduced an internet of things (IoT) service solution for beer membrane filtration (BMF) systems designed to help breweries achieve "great-tasting, high-quality beer while…
£5m boost for relay and test interface production in UK and Czech Republic
£5m boost for relay and test interface production in UK and Czech Republic
Business news |
The Pickering Group is spending £5m to expand its UK and Czech Republic sites manufacturing of reed relays and test interface devices.
Image-grade LiDAR system for autonomous vehicles now available
Image-grade LiDAR system for autonomous vehicles now available
Business news |
Innovusion Inc. (Los Altos, CA), a startup founded in November 2016, has raised $30 million in Series A funding and announced that its Cheetah lidar is now generally available after…
Foundries, fabless suffer in 2018 ranking
Foundries, fabless suffer in 2018 ranking
Market news |
Jerry Sanders' famous, if politically incorrect, quote: "real men have fabs," could be coming back to haunt an industry that is coming to the end of Moore's Law and where…
Performance-enhanced MCUs target IoT, medical, and automotive
Performance-enhanced MCUs target IoT, medical, and automotive
New Products |
Indie Semiconductor Inc. (Aliso Viejo, CA) has launched the 'Nigel' range of microcontrollers made using Globalfoundries 55nm 55LPx platform with SuperFlash embedded non-volatile memory from Solid State Technology.


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