Solar-powered capacitor
Epishine, the Swedish indoor solar power specialist, and Nichicon, the Japanese capacitor manufacturer, have come up with a self-charging battery concept.
This article was posted on Jan 17, 2024SCALINX raises €34m in second funding round
SCALINX, the French fabless mixed signal specialist, has raised €34 million in its second funding round.
This article was posted on Jan 17, 2024US gears up for Chinese dumping of legacy ICs
The US is preparing for a tsunami of legacy ICs from China.
This article was posted on Jan 17, 2024EW BrightSparks 2023 profile: Jasmine Brittan, University of Warwick/ZF Automotive
Now in its sixth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly highlight and celebrate some of the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today.
This article was posted on Jan 17, 2024A step on the road to better eco-friendly thermo-electrics
Tokyo Institute of Technology has designed a material for thermo-electric generators without toxic materials such as lead (Pb) or tellurium.
This article was posted on Jan 17, 2024Long thin pixels boost spectrometer sensor sensitivity
Hamamatsu Photonics has launched a pair of linear CMOS image sensors with long thin pixels to increase sensitivity in spectrometers, without hampering resolution.
This article was posted on Jan 16, 2024CES: 77GHz automotive radar IC for satellite architecture vehicles
TI announced a 77GHz automotive radar for automated driving today at CES in Las Vegas.
This article was posted on Jan 16, 2024Milani nanosatellite moves closer to Planetary Defender role
After Nasa’s successful DART mission, to make a deflecting impact on an asteroid, comes the Milani nanosatellite, which is part of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) follow-up Hera mission…
This article was posted on Jan 16, 2024Millimetre-wave radar sensor for satellite radar architectures
TI has introduced a millimetre-wave radar sensor chip which it claims to be the industry’s first for satellite radar architectures, enabling higher levels of autonomy by improving sensor fusion and decision-making in ADAS.
This article was posted on Jan 16, 2024Si Box has $200m Series B; ramps chiplet production
Silicon Box, the chiplet packager founded by Marvell founders Sehat Sutardja and Weili Dai with Dr B.J Han, has raised a $200 billion Series B and is recruiting for 24/7 production at its $2 billion, 750,000 sq ft Singapore assembly plant.
This article was posted on Jan 16, 2024Siemens and AWS ease access to GenAI applications
Siemens and AWS are seeking to make it easier for businesses to build and scale GenAI applications by integrating Amazon Bedrock – a service that offers a choice of foundation models from leading AI companies via a single API, with Mendix – part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio.
This article was posted on Jan 16, 2024NXP steers a path for software-defined radar
NXP Semiconductors has announced an extension to its 28nm RF cmos radar one-chip SoC family at CES in Las Vegas.
This article was posted on Jan 16, 2024Bosch claims world’s smallest MEMS accelerometers
Bosch Sensortec says it has launched the world’s smallest MEMS accelerometers – the BMA530 and BMA580.
This article was posted on Jan 16, 2024JEDEC publishes new CAMM2 memory module standard
JEDEC has published a new JESD318 Compression Attached Memory Module (CAMM2) Common Standard, which defines the electrical and mechanical requirements for Compression-Attached Memory Modules.
This article was posted on Jan 16, 2024Memory prices surging
Q1 NAND and DRAM prices are set to rise significantly, reports TrendForce.
This article was posted on Jan 16, 2024Microchip gets Chips Act award
After BAe Systems got the first award under the US Chips and Science Act, Microchip has bagged up the second – a $126 million subsidy for its fabs in Oregon and Colorado.
This article was posted on Jan 15, 2024Capacity to top 30m wpm
Global semiconductor capacity is expected to increase 6.4% in 2024 to top 30 million wpm for the first time after rising 5.5% to 29.6 wpm in 2023, says SEMI in its latest quarterly World Fab Forecast report.
This article was posted on Jan 15, 2024650V super-junction mosfets
Central Semiconductor has announced five 650V n-channel super-junction mosfets in TO-220FP packaging.
This article was posted on Jan 15, 2024CES: LG to demonstrate driving automation computer
LG is to demonstrate a customisable cross-domain computer for automated driving and in-vehicle entertainment at CES – aimed at vehicles emerging in 2027.
This article was posted on Jan 15, 2024Earth Observation microsatellite business raises $44m Series D
Axelspace Holdings, an Earth Observation and microsatellite specialist, has completed a ¥6.24 billion Series D funding round, equivalent to $44.0 million.
This article was posted on Jan 15, 2024GPU compute on TI processor delivers ADAS
MulticoreWare and Imagination have enabled GPU compute on TI’s TDA4VM processor, adding around 50 GFLOPS of extra compute and demonstrating improvement in the performance of common workloads used for ADAS systems (ADAS).
This article was posted on Jan 15, 2024