Facebook's Ray-ban smart glasses ... ItalVolt resurrects Olivetti plant for battery gigafactory ... TI's machine learning for motor drives ... ST in digital twin buy

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

. Facebook moves into smart glasses with Ray-ban - video
. Space rover readies for competition
. Siemens launches autonomous driving digital twin startup
. OneWeb signs US distribution, antenna deals
. TI to add machine learning to codeless brushless motor drivers
. First 8x8 Time-of-Flight sensor for gesture recognition
. Low force mezzanine connector with 32Gbit/s for embedded computing
. Low power Bluetooth PIR module for occupancy detection
. ItalVolt to turn Olivetti site into battery gigafactory
. ST buys battery digital twin startup
. ABB, Stäubli team to electrify mining
. Semtech teams for monitoring rooftop solar power in Vietnam
. Dutch team looks to solar desert rally in Morocco
. Siemens shows 300kW fully autonomous robot fast charger
. £1.6m for AI drones checking wind turbines
. Kyocera teams for energy harvesting sensor buoy
. First electric car charging cable with integrated technology
. Gate drivers for wind power and light rail
. Infineon boosts current rating of 1200 V EconoDUAL 3 modules
. Dielectric film boosts capacitors to 150°C

First GaN logic process ... Silanna plans own USB-PD controller ... Battery gigafactory in Greece ... Immersive cooling tech

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 . Complementary GaN for logic integration
 . Silanna plans own USB-PD controller, wall socket design

 . Sunlight builds battery gigafactory in Greece
. Wittenstein sets up €5m foundation
. Philips completes sale of domestic appliances business
. Open RAN forecast up 50 percent to $15bn
. Telecom chip shortage to continue through 2023
. Molecular memristor for new low power computing architectures
. First 200MP adaptive image sensor
. Machine learning helps cut 5G power by half
. VisIC Technologies raises $35m for China GaN push
. Infineon, Panasonic team for 650V GaN chips on 200mm wafers
. Dutch startup raises €22m for fast charging pure silicon battery
. World's smallest supercapacitor powers medical sensor
. European tech for immersive cooling
. Analog Devices teams with German battery digital twin startup
. Continuous dry coating process for battery electrodes cuts costs
. Infineon combines IGBT and SiC for complete 22kW motor drive
. Power and ground-only VPX backplanes for high speed designs
. Open frame UPS for industrial designs
. 100W USB PD wireless charger reference design from Renesas deal

Latest GraphCore power figures ... onsemi buys SiC supplier ... II-VI plans 2500V SiC MOSFET

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 . GraphCore details power figures for Mk2 chip and AI system
. €6.7bn deal boosts European automotive electronics

 . Onsemi buys SiC-supplier GT Advanced Technologies for $415m

 . II-VI plans 2500V SiC MOSFET
. Microprocessor market to top $100bn in 2021

. Analog Devices completes acquisition of Maxim Integrated

. Xenergic, GF team for low power SRAM
. Fully automated depot has self-driving trams
. AI optical computer analyses Covid-19 X-rays
. From sapphire to SiC: GTAT deal highlights wafer consolidation
. Nespresso trials drone delivery of coffee capsules in Israel
. WiBotic sees passively cooled wireless charging
. Chinese wind turbine maker eyes Europe with largest system
. UK startup raises £10m for fast charging niobium cells
. UK looks to catch up in solid-state batteries
. Dialog, Xilinx team for AI System-on-Modules
. UK project for 800V battery packs that charge in 12 minutes
. PCB for 300W open-frame AC-DC converter is optimized for convection cooling
. 45W and 150W MasterGaN devices for power conversion
. ST, Xilinx team to power rad hard FPGAs
. Single chip USB-C hub with power delivery and HDMI