Renesas spiking neural net chip ... Macron meets Musk ... Dutch quantum chip foundry

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk


Renesas is taping out a chip using the spiking neural network (SNN) technology developed by Brainchip - read the interview here. 

The president of France, Emmanuel Macron, has met the CEO of Tesla to discuss electric vehicles and battery gigafactories. Find out the background to the meeting here. 

UK electronics firms are being encouraged not to stockpile components as the chip shortage eases. This stockpiling has driven higher sales revenue in 2022 but promises a problem in 2023. FInd out the details here. 

Skills are a vital part of the electronics industry, and Siemens is launching a skills academy that will focus on technical up- and reskilling and is open to external partners. Find out more here





Rimac expands UK power R&D centre



Finnish startup raises €2.5m for cloud-controlled second-life Tesla batteries



GaN power semiconductor 2023 predictions from GaN Systems 



Kulr licenses battery safety and test technology



Mass production starts for 650V GaN on 200mm ceramic substrates



Battery-free methane detector project at AlbaSense in Scotland tackles global heating

Honeywell takes the Li-ion Tamer sensor to EVs

5G users hit 1bn in 2022

GlobalWafers breaks ground on 300mm wafer megafactory

Quantware launches foundry for superconducting quantum chips

Solar cell record efficiency ... CEO interview - Melexis ... GaN predictions for 2023

News this week at eeNews Europe by Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk




Record efficiency of 26.81% for large silicon solar cells

Chinese solar cell developer Longi Green Energy Technology is claiming a new record efficiency for its full sized monocrystalline silicon cell …





Leti, Intel look to quadruple hybrid bonding speeds

CEA-Leti in France has been working with Intel on a hybrid die-to-wafer process that could quadruple production speeds for chiplet-based assembly …





Marc Biron, CEO of Melexis talks the chip shortage and the EU Chips Act

Belgian fabless chip maker Melexis has been at the heart of the chip shortage, and sees no sign of it slowing for automotive …





Infineon Technologies is preparing to launch TSMC’s Resistive RAM (RRAM) Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) technology in its next generation of automotive Aurix microcontrollers …



GaN power semiconductor 2023 predictions




€2bn BMW battery plant for Hungary

BMW is building a high-voltage battery assembly in Hungary for its sixth generation battery pack for electric vehicles of…




Researchers at Microsoft have identified vulnerabilities in the software development kits (SDKs) of semiconductors are leaving electricity grids vulnerable to Chinese hackers…



TDK patents thermal sensing for modular 800W power supply

TDK-Lambda in the UK has developed a configurable 800W power supply that is half the size of its previous generation …




First long reach single pair power over ethernet for smart factory automation

Analog Devices has developed the first Single-pair Power over Ethernet (SPoE) Power Sourcing Equipment…




ABB E-mobility raises $200m as $2.5bn spinout delayed




IGBT module boost for 352kW solar inverters

Infineon Technologies has developed a single IGBT power module for 1500V inverters …




Compact industrial 15W DC-DC converters in metal cases

Traco Power has launched two isolated DC-DC converters in 16pin DIP metal packages …



ARM-based PDU for data centre power management

nVent has developed an ARM-based low profile power distribution unit (PDU) for intelligent control in data centres…



OpenLight launches electronic and photonic PDK

US spinout OpenLight has released its unified process design kit (PDK) for photonics chips ... 

Sony aims for lowest power IoT combo chipset

Sony Semiconductor Israel has launched a chipset for massive IoT networks with 5G, satellite and LPWAN connectivity …





Infineon, Fingerprints team for biometric payment cards

Infineon Technologies has signed a key development and commercialization deal with Swedish biometric card supplier Fingerprints …



A Novel Approach to Reuse Firmware for Verification of Controller based Sub-Systems using PSS

Researchers from Samsung Semiconductors in India and Korea demonstrate a novel approach to minimize the development time for complex blocks

ARM vs Qualcomm .. Real time deepfake detection ... Quantum satellites for Europe

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

Qualcomm steps up Oryon battle with ARM Business news | November 19, 2022 Qualcomm has stepped up its dispute with ARM, launching the name of its custom high performance core, Oryon.

Real time tool detects deep fake videos in milliseconds Technology News | November 20, 2022 Researchers at Intel have developed a real time tool to detect fake videos with 96% accuracy. FakeCatcher builds on open… electronica returns to Munich News | November 18, 2022 Nearly 70,000 visitors travelled to Munich this week as the electronica exhibition returned. 2,144 exhibitors travelled from 48 countries and… Europe agrees flagship €2.4bn quantum satellite programme Business news | November 18, 2022 The European parliament has agreed to back a €2.4bn programme to build a secure quantum satellite network for the region.

EENEWS POWER

Cambridge GaN Devices raises $19m for mass production Business news | November 15, 2022 Cambridge GaN Devices (CGD) has raised $19m to start mass production of its smart… Ceres delays Chinese fuel cell joint venture Business news | November 17, 2022 A £20m (E25m) Chinese joint venture between UK fuel cell technology developer Ceres… Sakuu teams for solid state battery electrodes Business news | November 16, 2022 3D printed battery startup Sakuu has signed a deal with LiCAP Technologies for the… Diamond wafer startup takes on SiC Technology News | November 14, 2022 French startup Diamfab is looking to take on silicon carbide devices with its diamond… 750W 60kV supply for semiconductor and e-beam processing New Products | November 18, 2022 XP Power has launched a range of 1U high voltage power supplies for semiconductor… Hotswap MOSFETs double the safe operating area New Products | November 18, 2022 Nexperia has launched ten 25 V and 30 V MOSFETs optimised for 12V hotswap… 220W GaN power switch operates up to 140kHz New Products | November 15, 2022 Power Integrations has launched its latest generation of digitally controllable, off-line CV/CC Zero Voltage Switching… 60kW DC supplies see 6U power density breakthrough News | November 15, 2022 EA Elektro-Automatik in Germany has launched a range of DC power supplies with 60kW of… Top cooled MOSFET package for motor control New Products | November 15, 2022 Onsemi has developed a top-cooled package for silicon MOSFETs in motor control and DC-DC…

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Nexperia buys power management IC firm ... IBM sees quantum inflexion point in 2023 ... Pacemaker battery boost

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

Nexperia buys Nowi to move into energy harvesting Business news | November 11, 2022 Nexperia has bought Dutch energy harvesting power management chip designer Nowi Energy for an undisclosed sum.

Comau teams to simplify robot control with a single PLC Business news | November 11, 2022 Industrial automation specialist Comau in Italy is demonstrating the first results of its recent collaboration with Rockwell Automation on a… Cryogenic CMOS design for quantum chips on 22FDX Technology News | November 11, 2022 Semiwise in Glasgow has developed transistor SPICE models for cryogenic CMOS chip design and verification using the GlobalFoundries (GF) 22FDX … IBM sees 2023 as quantum inflexion point Technology News | November 10, 2022 IBM has launched its largest quantum processor with 433 qubits and a range of hardware and software technologies that it… AMD pushes CXL, chiplets with latest data centre processor Technology News | November 11, 2022 AMD has launched its latest data centre processor with up to 96 cores and support for the CXL1.1 memory interface.

Infineon to show AI-driven smart air conditioning system Technology News | November 11, 2022 Once dominated by Asian suppliers, global heating means more energy efficient air conditioning is… Energy boost for pacemaker batteries Technology News | November 11, 2022 Researchers at MIT have boosted the energy of nonrechargeable primary battery cells by 50%… Ruggedised micro data centre for edge processing New Products | November 10, 2022 Power giant Schneider Electric has launched a ruggedized micro data centre to put more… Semtech, Exeger show solar powered IoT sensor location Business news | November 10, 2022 Swedish solar cell developer Exeger is working with Semtech in the US for a… Navitas GaN FETs for tiny USB-C charger with OLED screen Business news | November 8, 2022 Australian designer Chargeasap has used GaN FETs from Navitas and graphene cooling for a… EU signs battery material deal with Kazakhstan Business news | November 7, 2022 The EU has signed a deal with Kazakhstan on supply of raw materials and… Verkor buys Siemens site for battery R&D Lab   Business news | November 7, 2022 French battery startup Verkor has raised more than €250m for its Innovation Centre in… 300W half-brick DC-DC converters for railway power New Products | November 8, 2022 TDK has launched two half-brick DC-DC converters for railway power systems with the TDK-Lambda CN-110B

SES signs deal to launch European quantum crypto satellite Business news | November 11, 2022 SES has signed a deal to launch a European end-to-end Quantum Key Distribution (QKD)… 0603 LED range for low current, low light applications New Products | November 10, 2022 Rohm has launched a series of 0603-size (0.6inch × 0.3inch) / 1608-size (1.6 mm…