Leonardo goes live with UK digital electronics factories

Leonardo is highlighting a ‘common data environment’ has gone live at its electronics sites across the UK in Edinburgh, Luton, Basildon and Southampton.

This article was posted on Jul 6, 2022

SiFive opens Cambridge R&D centre

SiFive has opened a UK R&D centre in Cambridge.

This article was posted on Jul 6, 2022

Foundry capacity to grow 14% in 2022

Foundry capacity will increase by 14% in 2022, says TrendForce.

This article was posted on Jul 6, 2022

Intel integrates eight-wavelength DFB laser array on CMOS wafer

Intel Labs has demo-ed an eight-wavelength DFB laser array integrated on a silicon wafer which delivers output power uniformity of +/- 0.25 decibel (dB) and wavelength spacing uniformity of ±6.5%.

This article was posted on Jul 6, 2022

Weebit Nano tapes out demo chip at Skywater

Weebit Nano has taped out demonstration chips integrating its ReRAM module at SkyWater.

This article was posted on Jul 6, 2022

WiFi 6e published

The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) today published “Wi-Fi 6/6E for Industrial IoT.

This article was posted on Jul 6, 2022

Arm aims latest processors at high-end phone gaming

Arm’s is claiming “up to 28% more performance and up to 16% power reduction across a range of workloads, such as gaming”, for the phone GPUs and CPUs announced in its ‘2022 total compute solutions’ (TCS22).

This article was posted on Jul 6, 2022

EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: Simon Betts

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today.

This article was posted on Jul 6, 2022

ESA selects Airbus Stevenage to build Earth Explorer FORUM satellite

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded a contract to Airbus in the UK to build its Earth Explorer FORUM satellite, due to launch in 2027. The deal is worth €160 million.

This article was posted on Jul 6, 2022

Renesas and Hailo hook up for ADAS

Hailo, the Israeli AI IP developer, is collaboratiing with Renesas on ADAS chips.

This article was posted on Jul 5, 2022

Ethernet controller for industrial applications

onsemi has announced a 10BASE-T1S Ethernet controller designed to provide reliable multi-point communication in industrial settings.

This article was posted on Jul 5, 2022

CML launches 28GHz 5G MPA

CML Microcircuits has launched the CMX90A702 28 GHz 5G Medium Power Amplifier, (MPA).

This article was posted on Jul 5, 2022

LoRa Cloud Locator service

Semtech has announced its SaaS chip-to-Cloud service, LoRa Cloud Locator, that uses Semtech’s LoRa Cloud Modem & Geolocation services.

This article was posted on Jul 5, 2022

GlobalWafers to build $5bn plant in Texas

GlobalWafers, the wafer supplier, is to build a $5 billion plant in Sherman, Texas.

This article was posted on Jul 5, 2022

Toshiba appoints activist shareholders

Toshiba has appointed two directors from activist hedge funds to its board possibly paving the way to a sale of the company to private equity.

This article was posted on Jul 5, 2022

Imec spin-off Swave Photonics raises €7m seed round

Swave Photonics, the Imec spin-off specialising in Holographic eXtended Reality (HXR), has raised a €7 million seed round.

This article was posted on Jul 5, 2022

Xeon D-2700 COM-HPC Server boards trade memory for size

Congatec is aiming at mixed-criticality edge servers with COM-HPC Server size D (160 x 160mm) board with Intel Xeon D-2700 (Ice Lake D) processors.

This article was posted on Jul 5, 2022

600V DC power relay for vehicle-to-home and vehicle-to-grid

Omron has launched a PCB power relay that provides bi-directional high power DC switching for home renewable energy storage batteries and electric vehicles wall boxes – for example, in vehicle-to-home and vehicle-to-grid charger systems.

This article was posted on Jul 5, 2022

Guerrilla sampling InGa ¼W linear PAs

Guerrilla RF is sampling the GRF5526 and GRF5536 ¼ W linear power amplifiers.

This article was posted on Jul 5, 2022

Yangtze Memory to bring new fab online

Yangtze Memory of Wuhan is hooking up equipment and expects to start running wafers at a second fab in the city by the end of this year, reports the Nikkei.

This article was posted on Jul 4, 2022

Zap closes in on fusion

Zap Energy, the Seattle fusion startup, has created the superheated plasma required for fusion and has raised $160 million from backers including Bill Gates.

This article was posted on Jul 4, 2022