ST's STM32N6, its first AI microcontroller with NPU ... Henkel's materials lab in Silicon Valley ... ARM record revenues

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STMicroelectronics is set to launch its first microcontroller with a full neural processing unit (NPU). The STM32N6 includes a proprietary AI engine alongside an ARM Cortex M55 core




Mercury Systems has signed a deal with Lockheed Martin to collaborate on the development and manufacture of new sensor processing…



iSystem is now supporting the AUTOSAR Run-Time Interface (ARTI) and the popular storage-efficient binary trace format ASAM ARTI MDF (Measurement…




Chip shortage helps ARM to record royalty revenues: UK processor core designer ARM has seen record revenue in 2021, partly as a result of the chip shortage. The…




Henkel sets up $2m electronics materials lab in Silicon Valley: German materials company Henkel has opened a $2m Application Centre in California to support electronic product development in Silicon Valley. Henkel…

Interview with CEO of RISC-V International ... Vampire devices ... Rohm, Delta team on GaN

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Calista Redmond, CEO of RISC-V International, talks to Nick Flaherty about the challenges facing RISC-V ahead of a meeting in Paris …


Victim-blaming for vampire devices is no way to energy efficiency



Google’s first virtual battery at Belgian datacentre



German battery analytics startup Twaice has raised $30m for its digital twin development, including…



Rohm, Delta team for next generation GaN in power supplies



Epishine signs licensing agreement for printed organic photovoltaic technology


Iceotope teams for data centre cooling proof of concept

AMTE ramps up life testing for high power battery cell production

Video shows world record speed for autonomous car

Bosch snaps up Fraunhofer MEMS microspeaker spinout

Microchip has launched five families of 8bit microcontrollers with 65 new PIC and AVR…

First CAN XL analyser ... Living with supply chain stress ... Italvolt signs deal to start gigafactory construction

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Charging hub boosts access for EV drivers Technology News | April 22, 2022 UK startup ZipCharge has launched the design a hub to provide low cost and easy access for charging electric vehicles.

II-VI signs renewable energy contracts for global fabs Business news | April 22, 2022 II‐VI has signed renewable energy contracts for powering over 30 sites around the world, including more than two dozen that… Wind farm supports multiple wireless networks across the North Sea Business news | April 22, 2022 French IoT specialist Kerlink is supplying low power gateways on multiple networks for wind farms in across the North Sea… Lithography equipment in short supply through 2023 says ASML Business news | April 22, 2022 With the semiconductor industry plagued by shortage of components there is strong demand to build additional fabs and Dutch chipmaking…

Italvolt signs deal to start battery Gigafactory construction Business news | April 22, 2022 Italvolt has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to start construction of a battery Gigafactory… 600V IPM power module targets home designs New Products | April 22, 2022 Infineon Technologies has launched a 600V, 15A intelligent power module (IPM) for home appliances,… Fast charging for single cell designs with dual phase switched capacitor architecture New Products | April 21, 2022 Halo Microelectronics in the US has launched two fast charging chips using a dual-phase… Mitsubishi set to ship 2.0kV IGBT module for industrial use Business news | April 21, 2022 Mitsubishi Electric plans to ship samples of its 2.0kV insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) module… X-Fab adds BCD-on-SOI analysis Technology News | April 20, 2022 X-Fab Silicon Foundries has expanded its SubstrateXtractor tool to add analysis of its 180nm…

First oscilloscope for CAN XL analysis New Products | April 22, 2022 Keysight Technologies has launched the industry’s first oscilloscope for the CAN XL (Controller Area… Learning to live with supply chain stress Feature articles | April 20, 2022 The chip shortage is not going away any time soon, say industry observers on…

Schnieder, Omron targeted by malware ... Taking on MLCCs ... Quantum boost for lithium ion batteries

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Hon Hai Technology, the owner of contract manufacturer Foxconn, has acquired arQana’s Wireless Telecommunications business, including an RF design centre in Lueven …




Intel has announced plans to further reduce its direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions with an R&D consortium to reduce carbon footprint of fab gases



PsiQuantum has teamed up with Mercedes-Benz to find out how quantum computers can be used to speed up the development of lithium ion batteries …



LeoStella, a joint venture from Thales Alenia Space (TAS), has signed a deal for electric propulsion systems for LEO satellites …



BorgWarner, Wolfspeed team on 350kW DC fast charger



Schneider, Omron targeted by electricity grid malware



UK pilot plant produces first lithium from geothermal water



1200V SiC MOSFETs cut on resistance



UK’s first micro-punch sinter press boosts power module development



Hybrid supercapacitors replace batteries in solar TV remote for the first time



Panasonic takes on MLCC ceramic capacitors with long life solid polymer technology


NGK backs roll-to-roll perovskite solar cell startup

ATX3.0 power supply spec ... new FD-SOI roadmap ... energy harvesting PMIC chips ... Intels blockchain chip

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CEA, Soitec, GlobalFoundries and STMicroelectronics are working together on the industry’s next generation roadmap for FD-SOI (fully depleted silicon-on-insulator) technology…

Researchers from Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering have developed a 3D printed tile to boost the 

Digital twin software from Siemens is being used to develop an underwater greenhouse to grow fruit and vegetables ...

Intel has updated the specification of ATX power supplies after 20 years to handle the power requirements of PCI Express 5.0 ... 

e-peas in Belgium has launched three power management chips with constant voltage inputs for…

Nissan has unveiled a prototype production facility for laminated all solid state battery cells…

STMicroelectronics has developed a fully integrated Power-Management IC (PMIC) for AMOLED displays with the STMP30 PMIC …

Japanese conglomerate Yanmar has acquired a majority share in Eleo Technologies, a Dutch battery technology developer …

BatteryLoop in Sweden is to use new and second life batteries from Mercedes-Benz Energy for energy storage systems (ESS) …

Toshiba Electronics Europe has added four N-channel super junction 650 V power MOSFET devices to its range…

IAR Systems has added cross platform support with Linux to its graphical low code state machine developmnt tooll …

Quantum Brilliance, a German-Australian developer of quantum computing hardware and software, has announced a research hub for diamond-based room temperature quantum computers…

Intel has launched a chip to accelerate the use of distributed ledger blockchain secure systems…

Synopsys EDA cloud platform ... Toppan spins out mask business ... Stretchable battery is printed on clothing

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Synopsys boosts chip design with cloud platform


Toppan spins out its semiconductor mask business ahead of an IPO


First G.hn powerline embedded module for Industrial IoT


Nowi adds automatic MPPT to energy harvesting power chip


Stretchable battery is printed onto clothing – video


Semtech teams for self-powered energy monitoring system


Absorption boost for ultra-thin solar panels


Showa Denko starts production of 150mm SiC wafers

Gridspertise, ADI team for self-healing smart grids

GaN charger fits into smart sockets ... VC launches its own custom AI chip business ... Meta's European subsea cable ... £1.6bn plan for UK EV chargers

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Silanna Semiconductor is working with Dutch smart socket specialist Smarter Living on the world’s smallest 65W GaN charger that fits in a European power socket…


The UK government has unveiled a £1.6bn plan to increase the number of public electric vehicle (EV) chargepoints to 300,000…


A venture capital group in the US has launched its own ASIC design business to develop AI chips 


Facebook-owner Meta has completed its first subsea data cable using an aluminium conductor rather than copper in the Havingsten subsea cable…


UK startup Cambridge GaN Devices (CGD) is showing its first integrated power products …


Rohm has developed a new power supply technology that improves the load transient response…


Nvidia has launched a platform for creating scientific digital twins that accelerates physics machine-learning for farms of wind turbines …



STMicroelectronics has launched its first 50W GaN flyback converter using quasi resonant zero voltage switching …



Microchip has launched a range of high voltage 3.3kV silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs …

Arduino launches nine core module for edge AI

STMicroelectronics has launched a radiation-hardened digital-to-analog converter (DAC) that operates down to 2.5V for nanosat designs …


Field-wireable M12 connectors have cage clamp termination