Infineon in pilot production on 300mm GaN wafers
Infineon has developed 300mm power GaN wafers which deliver 2.3x more ICs per wafer than 200mm.
This article was posted on Sep 20, 2024Oracle offering 2.4zettaFLOPS
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is offering customers access to what it claims to be the largest AI supercomputer in the cloud — with up to 131,072 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs — delivering 2.4 zettaFLOPS of peak performance.
This article was posted on Sep 20, 2024Vote for the University Research Readers’ Choice award – Elektras 2024
We are asking readers of Electronics Weekly to choose the winner of the University Research Project of the Year in this year’s Elektra Awards. The award is kindly sponsored by Panasonic Industry Europe.
This article was posted on Sep 20, 2024Potting compounds seal the deal for surfers
Riding high on the crest of the e-mobility wave, Wevo-Chemie has worked with Germany’s electric surfboard manufacturer, Lampuga, to create polyurethane potting compounds which seal the boards’ lithium-ion batteries.
This article was posted on Sep 20, 2024DigiKey’s Back2School Prize Giveaway offers $1,000 to Grand Winner
DigiKey’s Back2School Prize Giveaway gives students a chance to win store credit towards building their own electronic projects.
This article was posted on Sep 20, 2024Battery metals prices fall
The prices for metals used in batteries such as nickel, cobalt, and lithium continue to fall, reports TrendForce
This article was posted on Sep 20, 2024Are electronics graduates meeting the needs of employers? asks UKESF
Are electronics graduates meeting the needs of employers? This is the question the UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) has sought to answer with its recent research.
This article was posted on Sep 20, 2024AstroForge raises Series A for asteroid mining
AstroForge, the asteroid mining startup, has raised $40 million in Series A funding to “unlock a cost-effective and sustainable mining solution”.
This article was posted on Sep 9, 2024Advanced Packaging expands its footprint
Sales of advanced packaging equipment are expected to grow by more than 10% in 2024, and may exceed 20% in 2025, says TrendForce.
This article was posted on Sep 9, 2024Finwave Semi and Globalfoundries hook up for GaN-on-Si
GaN specialist Finwave Semiconductor and GlobalFoundries are to qualify Finwave’s GaN-on-Si enhancement-mode (E-mode) MISHEMT technology on GloFo’s 80RFGaN process with the aim of running mass production wafers in H1 2926.
This article was posted on Sep 9, 2024Intel CPU chiefs form AheadComputing
Four CPU experts from Intel’s Advanced Architecture Development Group (ADDG) have formed a RISC-V startup called AheadComputing.
This article was posted on Sep 9, 2024Wayve and Uber hook up for driverless driving
Wayve, the UK driverless car technology developer, today announced a strategic partnership with Uber.
This article was posted on Sep 9, 2024The results are in – STEM subjects more popular at A level
The UK’s A level results were announced last week and showed an increase in STEM subject choices.
This article was posted on Sep 9, 2024Hungary buys battery grid storage
Hungarian state-owned energy company MVM Balance has ordered a 4.35MWh 750kW sodium-sulphur battery from NGK for a grid storage demonstration project.
This article was posted on Sep 9, 2024UK site to boost DARC deep space radar capability
The U.S. Space Force has awarded its Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) Site 2 contract. This is for a location in the UK as part of its role as an AUKUS partner.
This article was posted on Sep 9, 2024All-constellation RTK GNSS modules
Distributor Rutronik has added three surface-mount RTK-enhanced GNSS modules from Unicore to its portfolio.
This article was posted on Sep 9, 2024Anders Storm joins Dirac as CEO
Anders Storm is the new CEO at Swedish digital audio company Dirac.
This article was posted on Sep 9, 2024Navigating without GPS
Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories of the US have used silicon photonics to perform the quantum sensing technique atom interferometry, an ultra-precise way of measuring acceleration, which could enable a kind of quantum compass for navigation when GPS signals are unavailable.
This article was posted on Sep 5, 20243A bipolar transistors in 2x2mm DFN2020D-3 package
Nexperia has announced 20 bipolar power transistors in 2 x 2mm DFN2020D-3 packaging, half of them automotive-qualified.
This article was posted on Sep 5, 2024Nvidia compares Blackwell and Hopper GPUs on LLM inferencing
Nvidia has announced results for its forthcoming Blackwell GPU in the latest round of MLPerf industry benchmarks, Inference v4.1.
This article was posted on Sep 5, 2024lo temp co RF ceramic capacitors for comms
Kyocera AVX has released low-ESR C0G/NP0 dielectric RF MLCCs (multi-layer ceramic chip capacitors) “inspired by communications market demand for smaller RF capacitors that deliver repeatable performance”, it said.
This article was posted on Sep 5, 2024