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

News this week by Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk


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

Graphcore's power figures .... driverless cars lose steering wheels ... quantum computers for digital twins

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk





The QSolid project is aiming to develop three quantum computers for data centre applications, including how to use them for digital twins



The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the US has issued a historic rule that allows autonomous vehicles without steering wheels…




Startup Space Forge is aiming to launch the first satellite from the UK later this year with a microgravity factory



Graphcore has detailed the power consumption of its latest AI processor, built with the wafer-on-wafer Bow IPU

Infineon has updated its Power Simulation platform (IPOSIM) for estimating the lifetime of power devices…





NI has acquired the Electric Vehicle (EV) Systems business Heinzinger Automotive in Rosenheim, Germany.





EPC, ADI team for 2MHz GaN DC-DC converter reference design




II‐VI is accelerating its investment in 150mm and 200mm silicon carbide (SiC) substrate and epitaxy plants in Sweden and the US




Moxa has launched an IEC 61850 gateway to simplify system integration and communication security in power substations networks …





Dutch power chip designer Nowi has teamed up with Murata and Deutsche Telekom on the world’s smallest energy harvesting NB-IoT module

Omron Electronic Components Europe has developed a 200V MOSFET relay …



Zepp Health has licenced ultra-low voltage SRAM memory from SureCore for wearable health monitor…



PragmatIC Semiconductor is leading a project to add radio tags to make plastic packaging resuable…





Lime backs Lattice for software defined radio board

UK EV charger architecture ... battle for the fastest phone charger ... smart grid AI

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

• UK EV charger maker Petalite targets electric aircraft
• Battle for the fastest phone charger
• OneWeb suspends satellite launches from Baikonur
• Sony, Honda team for new electric car company
• Qualcomm teams for the smart grid AI
• Configurable programmable power rack provides up to 60kW
• SiPearl backs Ansys for power sign-off of Rhea and Cronos chips
• Nowi teams for world’s smallest energy harvesting NB-IoT module
• MikroElektronika, SparkFun team for rapid prototyping
• Co-Packaged optics and FPGA for 800G data centre AI links