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Integrating thinned bare dies with inkjet printing interconnect
Technology News | June 17, 2022
DoMicro in Belgium has developed a wireless IoT demonstrator with a total height of 0.7mm by using inkjet printing technology. …
SGET boosts embedded module standard, launches design guide
Business news | June 17, 2022
The Standardization Group for Embedded Technologies (SGET) has published two important milestones for its Open Standard Module (OSM) specification. OSM…
TSMC shows 2nm nanosheet transistor plans for 2025 production
Foundry TSMC has detailed a new 3nm process technology and its plans for 2nm using nanosheet transistors. The 3nm Finflex…
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ST opens $244m SiC power packaging line in Morocco
STMicroelectronics has opened its latest silicon carbide power packaging line for electric vehicles. The…
Silicon battery with five minute fast charging
Technology News | June 15, 2022
Enovix in the US has shown a silicon battery with a long lifetime that…
imec shows backside power delivery with buried power rails
Technology News | June 14, 2022
Belgian research lab imec is making the first experimental demonstration of a routing scheme…
USB4 ESD devices balance of protection and performance
New Products | June 17, 2022
Nexperia has launched two Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) protection devices optimized for use with USB4…
650V IGBT for solar inverters
Magnachip Semiconductor has launched a 650V insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) for solar inverters. The…
40A digital point of load DC-DC converter
Flex Power Modules has launched a 40A digital Point of Load (Pol) DC-DC converter…
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High speed 32Mbit MRAM for IoT microcontrollers
Renesas has detailed an embedded magnetic memory test chip with fast read and write…
Roadmap to quantum dot qubit arrays using FDSOI
Researchers from France have highlighted a roadmap to building qubits for quantum computers using…
The five biggest microcontroller suppliers in 2021
Market news | June 16, 2022
In 2021, NXP in the Netherlands was the largest supplier of microcontrollers and slightly…
Nexperia charts route to $10bn
Interviews | June 9, 2022
Nexperia discusses details of its ambitious aim to achieve a turnover of $10bn by 2030.
Infineon lab slashes quantum processor test time
Technology News | June 10, 2022
Infineon’s newly opened research lab in Villach, Austria, slashes the time taken to test quantum processors from weeks to a…
£8m for UK smart farming projects
The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has announced £8m (€10m) for a Farming Innovation Programme. A feasibility projects competition was…
Siemens acquires UK predictive maintenance and industrial AI startup
Business news | June 10, 2022
Siemens is acquiring UK industrial AI startup Sensye to boost its predictive maintenance and asset intelligence services ...
Browser-based sandbox to evaluate cloud IoT alerts
Interviews | June 10, 2022
Percepio has launched a browser-based sandbox for developers to test out technology for monitoring remote nodes and sensor across the…
EU standardises on USB-C chargers, wireless
Business news | June 7, 2022
The European Union has agreed to enforce a common standard for charging consumer equipment using the USB-C format…
Siemens enters EV wireless charging market with WiTricity deal
Siemens is licensing wireless charging technology from WiTricity for new products alongside a $25m…
EU approves Telefonica’s solar panel joint venture
The European Commission has approved the creation of a solar panel joint venture by Telefonica and Repsol …
Gate drivers support back-to-back MOSFETs
New Products | June 7, 2022
Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage has added five products to its lineup of MOSFET gate drivers…
Solid state battery cell pilot line aims for production in 2023
Business news | June 6, 2022
Solid Power has completed installation of its pilot production line for EV-scale solid-state silicon…
Compact 200W medical grade GaN FET power adapter
New Products | June 10, 2022
TRUMPower has launched a 200W power adapter series based on gallium nitride (GaN) transistors for medical home healthcare applications …
USB-C PD3.0 sink controllers for charging designs
New Products | June 9, 2022
Diodes Incorporated has launched two high-performance USB-C PD3.0 sink controllers for home appliances ...
40W and 60W DC-DC converters with six-sided shielding
New Products | June 8, 2022
TDK has launched a series of 40 and 60W DC-DC converters with 4:1 wide input and six sided shielding …
Silicon optical interconnect runs at 400Gbit/s
Researchers in the US have demonstrated a silicon-based optical communication link with 400 Gbit/s bandwidth…
Mass manufacturing of quantum sensors on CMOS
A team of UK researchers has developed a way to use microring optical resonators as quantum sensors…
Lauterbach supports Fraunhofer RISC-V functional safety core
Lauterbach’s debug tool now supports the EMSA5-FS functional safety processor core developed using RISC-V …
ARM battles RISC-V at Renesas
Interviews | May 27, 2022
Renesas Electronics is looking to catch up in the ARM microcontroller and processor markets, but also looking at the emerging…
First 6nm WiFi 7 chips for Access Points and clients
Technology News | May 27, 2022
MediaTek has launched two chips for the next generation of WiFi that are the first to span access points and…
First acquisition for Python developer boosts AI
Business news | May 26, 2022
STX Next, Europe’s largest Python software developer, is to buy a local specialist in AI and machine learning software development…
Synopsys, ADI team on power models
Business news | May 23, 2022
Synopsys and Analog Devices are working together on model libraries for DC-DC converters and…
Britishvolt buys German battery maker
Business news | May 25, 2022
UK battery Gigafactory developer Britishvolt has signed a deal to buy a German battery…
Green power for Port of Kiel
Business news | May 27, 2022
Siemens is to build two electric charging power plants at the Port of Kiel.
Integrated switcher extends to 220W for USB PD3.1 chargers
New Products | May 26, 2022
Power Integrations has extended its InnoSwitch4-CZ flyback controller to support 220W USB PD3.1 charger designs Paired…
Infineon adds WiFi 6E to Jetson edge AI platform.
Infineon Technologies is working with Nvidia to add its high bandwidth WiFi 6E at…
Remote access development board supports multiple MCUs and peripherals
New Products | May 27, 2022
MikroElektronika (MikroE) has launched its eights generation universal development board supporting multiple microcontrollers and…