Apple looks at e ink screen ... Supercapacitor for carbon capture ... CAN FD IP for PFGAs

News this week on eeNews Europe By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

Supercapacitor boost for carbon capture Technology News | May 20, 2022 Researchers in Cambridge have developed a low-cost supercapacitor that can selectively capture carbon dioxide gas while it charges.

World’s largest commercial drone deployment uses German tech Business news | May 20, 2022 Wingcopter in Germany is to supply 12,000 drones for the world’s largest technology deployment. Continental Drones, a subsidiary of Ghana-… UK semiconductor design house EnSilica raises £6m from IPO Business news | May 20, 2022 UK semiconductor design house EnSilica in Oxford, UK, is raising £6m ($7.4m, €7m) for expansion. The company is listing its… CAN-FD IP redesigned for FPGAs New Products | May 20, 2022 Arasan Chip Systems has redesigned its second generation of CAN IP for the CAN 2.0 and CAN FD specifications in… Siemens runs Profinet over 5G for industrial communication Technology News | May 20, 2022 Siemens has developed a technique to run the Profinet industrial protocol in real time via a private 5G network. The…

EENEWS POWER

Ion Energy sells its battery management hardware business for $40m Business news | May 20, 2022 Ion Energy has sold its battery management system (BMS) subsidiary Maxwell Energy Systems for… Wiliot signs Avery Dennison to make its second generation IoT tags Business news | May 19, 2022 Label giant Avery Dennison has signed a strategic deal to scale up production of… Performance and reliability data of 15V and 650V GaN power devices Technology News | May 20, 2022 Innoscience Technology is showing details of its 15V and 650V gallium nitride on silicon… Nexperia teams for GaN power modules Business news | May 19, 2022 Nexperia has signed a deal with Kyocera AVX Components in Salzburg for gallium nitride… EU pushes expansion of solar and wind energy, grid connectivity Business news | May 18, 2022 The EU is launching a programme to boost local manufacturing of solar panels as… Stashing algorithm cuts AI energy consumption Technology News | May 18, 2022 Researchers in Korea have proposed a new system to reduce the energy consumption in… Old fabs never die – Renesas reopens fab for 300mm silicon power Business news | May 17, 2022 Renesas Electronics is reopening its Kofu Factory, located in Kai City, Yamanashi, Japan, to…

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GlobalFoundries launches innovation lab Business news | May 20, 2022 GlobalFoundries has launched a programme for hardware innovation in areas such as photonics, quantum… Clicker 4 evaluation board for motor control New Products | May 19, 2022 Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage has launched a motor control evaluation platform using the… Apple looks to e-ink displays for foldable phones Technology News | May 19, 2022 Apple is testing out e-ink displays for foldable phones according to reports.

SiC wafers and fab in Catania ... Kontron's Rasberry Pi CM4 industrial controller ... Leadless SiC transistor ... 3nm universal processor design

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ST confirms integrated SiC factory and 200mm fab for Catania Business news | May 13, 2022 ST has confirmed Catania in Sicily as the site of its integrated plant to produce silicon carbide (SiC) wafers. The…

Kontron set to launch Raspberry Pi4 system New Products | May 13, 2022 Kontron is launching its Pi-Tron CM4 next month to tap into the Raspberry Pi developer community for industrial designs. The… Record growth in European semiconductor market but warnings of slowdown Market news | May 13, 2022 European distribution research firm DMASS reports Q1 growth of 43.5% in semiconductors and 35.7% in interconnect, passive and electromechanical components… Tachyum plans 3nm Universal processor Interviews | May 13, 2022 Tachyum has resolved problems with the IP for its 5nm universal processor and is developing a next generation on a…

Greek battery firm goes on a spending spree Business news | May 13, 2022 Greek battery maker Sunlight Group is to spend €450m on mergers and acquisitions across Europe… Trameto raises funds as it ships first universal PMIC silicon Business news | May 13, 2022 Welsh power management chip designer Trameto has raised a second round of funding as… 15kW data centre power shelf has 97% efficiency New Products | May 12, 2022 Advanced Energy Industries has launched a 15kW AC-DC power shelf to support to move… EPC cuts 100 V GaN FET on resistance to 1.7 mΩ New Products | May 11, 2022 Efficient Power Conversion has launched a 100V gallium nitride enhancement-mode FET with the world’s… Silicon power controller firms team for GaN designs Business news | May 11, 2022 Two silicon power controller chip designers have teamed up with separate suppliers of gallium… SiC suppliers position for automotive at PCIM Uncategorized | May 11, 2022 The PCIM show in Nuremberg this week is highlighting the increasing role of silicon… 6W DC-DC converter has 4kVdc isolation for medical designs New Products | May 11, 2022 Cosel in Japan has launched a high isolation 6W DC-DC converter series for medical,… Fourth generation 1200V SiC FET for 800V designs New Products | May 11, 2022 Qorvo has launched the fourth generation of 1200V Silicon Carbide (SiC) hybrid Field Effect… TI moves into solid state relays Technology News | May 10, 2022 Texas Instruments has launched its first solid state relays, aiming at automotive and industrial… Two team for first GaN data centre power supply over 100W/cu in Business news | May 10, 2022 xFusion Digital Technologies in China is using gallium nitride transistors from GaN Systems for… World’s first leadless 650V SiC MOSFET Technology News | May 10, 2022 onsemi has launched the first 650V silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET in a TO leadless…

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

This week's news on eeNews Europe by Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

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…